The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1914-10-30

working out OF rations for dairy cows
at university farm. st. Paul, and of
the building up of the dairy school of
the College of Agriculture, by which.
largely, Minnesota has won twelve
out of fourteen championship ban
ners at the national creamery butter
makers convention.
Extension Division Man On Program.
w. A. McKerrow of the extension
division OF the Minnesota College of
Agriculture was on the program OF a
conference of men In charge OF cow
testing Associations. He had some
striking figures TO present from Min
nesota. He said there were ten as
sociations I'm Minnesota with 5000
cows under test. Associations at work
more than two years have shown sn
increase in pprofits between the first
and second years of s13.66. II this
kind IF thing could be done in all
of Mihnesota's dairies IL would mean
gain OF s13,00o,000. in their total
annual income.
Mr.. McKerrow gave a surprising
argument I'm favor of the silo. Cows
in silage-fed herds gave an average
product of 215 pounds of butter fat;
cows in herds not fed silage aver
aged ia pounds. The difference of
IL pounds at an average price of 80
cents a pound for butter fat, means a
difference of $3.50 to the COW.
Feature of the Day.
A feature of the day at the show
was an address by ID. T. Houston.
United States secretary of agricul-
ture. More thar 1000 gathered in
convention hall to hear him. He said
the advance of agriculture lay at the
very root of national development,
and that II was n matter of supreme
Importance to make agriculture more
efficient and rural life more COM
Portable. He insisted that there was
more in the problem than simply
making two blades of grass grow
where one had grown before. He saw
promise i'm the fact that while
Americans did not gather as much
product from an acre of land as did
Europeans in par, they did harvest
more to the man.
Among the prominent Northwest
ern folk present at the show are T.
l.. Hacker, L. w. Major, w. A.
Mckerrow, A. ]. Mcclure of the
Minnesota College of Agriculture; w.
F. Schilling, Northfield: w. s. Mos
Grip. Lake Elmo; DR.. Graham, Ro-
chester; ID. E. Willard George Fox,
and l. +. Bricker, OF the Northern
Pacific railroad: Dan Wallace, edi-
tor OF Farmer; c. Larsen of the Col
lege of Agriculture of South Dakota;
A. p. Ryger, South Dakota's Dairy
Commissioner; Charles McCaffree,
South Dakota's immigration Commits
sioner. W. F. Shilling is in charge
OF n booth for the Holstein .Friesian
association of America.
From Tuesdays Daily.
Detection among many old-time
supporters of Congressman w. s.
Hammond is reported from the Sec
ond district. where not only repub-
lican but democratic friends of Mr..
Hammond are leaving him on ac-
count of his stand on the liquor ques-
ton, says the Fairmont Sentinel.
Alex Grant of Fairmont is an in
stance and he is said to stand for a
number OF Martin county democrats
who have been fighting brewery domi-
nation. Mr.. Grant Is secretary of the
Martin county democratic committee
and alderman at large for Fairmont.
He has written to the democratic
state committee that he cannot give
his support TO the head of the state
ticket this fall.
The state committee sent Mr.. Grant
a supply Of Autographs and campaign
literature for distribution.
"Mr. Grant wrote the committee"
says the Fairmont Independent, that,
while he had for years been a demo-
crat, and had always supported Mr..
Hammond Loyalty as a candidate for
congress. he could not support him
for governor, owing TO the position
that Mr.. Hammond had taken on the
county option question, and as he
did not expect to vote for him, II was
hardly consistent for him to be dis
tributing the literature