The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1919-03-06
During the month of February

During the month OF February
through the efforts of the Stearns
County Live Stock Breeders Associa=
ton and special breed associations, a
number of purchases of registered
stock were brought into the county. .
The Stearns County Guernsey
Breeders Association, which was Or
ganized on December 10, have taken
the lead in number of purchases made
during the past month. Walter
Kruger of Paynesville, secretary of
this association, in company with c.
L. Arnold of Watkins and Albert
Bork of Paynesville, all of whom are
breeders of pure bred Guernsey cat
tie, were delegated by their associa-
ton to visit some of the leading herds
in Wisconsin and Minnesota for the
purpose of purchasing a car load or
two of pure bred stock. After visiting
number of herds in the neighborhood
of Hammond, Wisconsin,, without
finding the type of stock desired,
twenty-four head of pure bred
Guernseys were purchased from the
herds of Doctor Graves and w. F..
Murphy at Aitkin, Minnesota. The
stock purchased is strong in the blood
of two of the well known famous
strains of the Guernsey breed namely
the May Rose and Governor of the
Chene. This stock should prove
valuable foundation stock as an adj
dition to the pure bred Guernseys
now owned by the forty members of
the Stearns County Guernsey Breed
ers Association.
The cattle purchased from the
Aitkin herds were divided among the
following breeders: c. L. Arnold of
Watkins, E. A. Welhier of Eden Val
ley; Doctor Sherwood of Kimball; R.
E. Cossens of Kimball; A. F. Kruger
of Kimball; F. Lang of Paynesville;
Charles Kruger of Paynesville; w. S.
Johnson of Paynesville; E. S. Kruger
of Paynesville; A. C. Bork of Paynes-
Vile; Carl Bork, of Paynesville; W.
o. and Walter Kruger, both of Pay
nesville.
The Farm Bureau office and the
secretary of the Guernsey Breeders
Association have received many calls
during the past few weeks for regis
tered young cows and heifers. An
other car load will be shipped in very
soon. All Guernsey breeders planning
on purchasing pure bred stock from
out of the county should correspond
with their secretary, Walter Kruger of
Paynesville, who has been very active
in the organizing Of the Guernsey
Breeders Association and securing the
large membership which this associa-
ton now enjoys. Mr.. Kreuger is
anxious to have Stearns county
recognized as one of the leading
Guernsey breeding centers of the
state.
H. H. Meyer and Henry Meyer of
Melrose, r. D. No. 8, purchased six
pure bred Holsteins from the Hack
ney farm at st. Paul. Mr.. H. H.
Meyer, in buying a grandson of King
Segis Pontiac Count, has brought in
to the county the first $4,000 Holstein
sire which will be used at the head
of his herd.
F. P. Minette of Sank Centre, who
is building up large herd of pure
bred Brown Swiss cattle returned last
week from Renwick, Iowa, where he
purchased from the S. B. Hefty &
Sons herd four pure bred Brown Swiss
heifers. Casper Zierden of New
Munich, Jersey breeder, who has in
his herd a number of registered cows
and last spring purchased his herd
sire, son of Lads Golde Y, the
champion Jersey cow in the University
Of Minnesota farm herd, has secured
from the Bracket herd of Mime
apolis two foundation cows with es-
pecially high official yearly records