The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-06-06
Farm News
rom the County Agent, St. Cloud !.

The Stearns county All clubs are
putting on three benefit perform
ances for the purpose of raising
funds to assist All club girl to
purchase an artificial limb.
Three groups Of one-act plays
and extra numbers are to be put
on. On June IL at the Kimball
high school auditorium the Rock
vile, Eden Valley and Paynesville
All clubs are to put on their one
act plays. Albany has been select
ed as the place for the second
group on June -. The perform
ance will be in the parochial school
auditorium. Sank Valley, st. Mar
tin and Albany Boosters Al club
will cooperate in putting on the
performance.
The last performance will be pre-
scented at the Melrose high school
auditorium on Friday, June 18th.
Raymond Ashley, Belgrade and St.
Rose All clubs are putting on their
,one-act plays. The Wildwood Climb
ers All club will give several num-
bers with their club orchestra call
ed the "Sunbeamers.
On June II a delegation of rs
members Of the Stearns Coopera-
tive Electric Association and Coun-
ty Agent E. c. Lenzmeier will
attend regional meeting for rural
electric cooperative representatives
to be held at Alexandria.
Information has been received
from the Rural Identification Adj
ministration at Washington which
indicates a contemplated expansion
program to be started soon after
July 1. Ralph Rice, from the Elk
amining Division Of the REA at
Washington, Steve Calder, from
the State Dept. of Agriculture, and
Director Paul E. Miller, Of the Agri-
cultural Extension Division at I'm
iversity Farm, st. Paul, will speak
at the meeting. Project superin-
tendents and members of boards of
directors will be asked to submit
estimates of expected requirements
for additional lines at this time.
There are now As local REA CO.
operatives in Minnesota. Approx
mately IS are in actual operation
and others were only recently or
ganized.
The time for using. sweet clover
and alfalfa for silage will soon be
at hand, according to the county
agents office, st. Cloud. # either
of these materials or any other of
the grasses are used for silage it
is necessary to add some material
to make good silage. Generally
speaking molasses or phosphoric
acid are the two best materials to
use. When molasses is used it is
necessary to use about 5 gallons per
ton of green hay. In the case of
phosphoric acid 2 gallons per ton
are sufficient but the material
should be diluted somewhat with
water before being run into the
blower pipe.
Where farmers find it impracti-
cal to use molasses or phosphoric
acid a more accessible material
might be used. For this purpose
corn and cob meal does a very
nice job. For each ton of green
hay put in the silo from 8 to
bushels of ground corn and cob
meal should be used. Probably the
handiest arrangement for this pur-
pose is to have corn and cob meal
ground in a wagon or truck box
close to the silo filler and occas-
ionally throw in several shovels of
corn and cob meal, aiming at all
times to get in about 3 to bushels
for each ton of green material us
ed. Grass silage unless put up
with some of these materials gen.
orally doesn't make a good silage
and doesn't feel as well as it should.
It is we'll to keep in mind that
grass and legume silages are more
expensive and less palatable than
either corn silage or well-cured
hay. While cows fed grass and
legume silage may give milk with
more vitamin A and other nutri-
ton factors, its use probably will
not pay unless such milk can be
sold at a premium. In view of the
fact that haying weather in some
years during the early part of June
is not as good as it should be, the
use of grass silage is often resort
ed to. This may be especially so
this year with corn allotments in
Stearns county where the acreage
of corn is kept in check. 1t is also
well to keep in mind that green
grasses put up as silage create a
greater pressure in the silo than
corn. For that reason with stave
silos of any kind or any other silo
that needs to be supported with
bands inside or outside it is neces-
sary that the bands be in excellent
shape or additional bands or hoops
be provided.
Breeders of grade and purebred
Guernsey cattle are urged by the
county agents office at st. Cloud
to make plans now to attend the
district Guernsey parish show at
Paynesville on June 13, beginning
at 1890 in the morning. These
folks likewise are urged to bring
exhibits Of Guernsey cattle to this
parish. The show will be held on
the shores of Lake Koronis on the
property of Mrs. w. I. Fisher, a
short distance east of the Assem-
bly, Grounds on the north shore of
the lake. About 10 counties in this
section of Minnesota are cooperat-
ing in putting on this show. While
it is primarily a Guernsey show,
other dairymen are also urged and
;puifod RI aftopd