The Sauk Centre herald., 1921-09-01
ARTICLES OF INTEREST TO FARMERS
Edited by Huntmer County Agent Merose, Minnesota

After an inspection is made OF tn
pure bred dairy and beef cattle take
from Stearns county and neighborln
counties which will be shown at tn
Benton and Stearns county fairs dun
ing the week ending Saturday, Sept
3. the average fair visitor will mos
likely draw the conclusion that Il
conclusion that in Stearns county an
Central Minnesota generally, pur
bred stock is fast replacing or ha
replaced the stock of common or O
scrub breeding. However, IN cneck
ing over statistics compiled in bul
letin No. IA put out recently by th'
State Department Of Agriculture CIV
ing agricultural statistics of the STATE
for the year ending April 1, 1920, this
conclusion is hardly justified. Status
tics given in this bulletin were com
piled from records taken by town
Ship assessors throughout the stote
last spring. The report shows tna'
out of 1,OS3,6 cows reported OF
Minnesota farms only 22,9S2 were
pure bred. This means, 2.2 pei
cent pure breds of only pure breo
to every As cows of common breed'
ing. In Stearns county there is
total of 34,9O5 cows reported, 444 OF
which are pure bred. This report
places Stearns county even below the
state average giving one pure breo
cow for about II cows of common
breeding or about 1.2S per cent pure
breds.
Checking over the report on pure
bred sires, out Of total OF 72,32'
bulls in use in the state, 19,496~Mefe
pure bred, which would make about
81 per cent of the sires in use pure
bred or in other words, only ten pure
bred sires to every 27 common bred
This same report shows 2,126 bulls II
use on farms in Stearns county ou'
of which 1,760 are common bred ane
1866 reported are pure bred giving
ten pure bred bulls to every 4S com
mon bred or an average Of about one
pure bred bull to every five scrub o.
common bred.
Figures given in this farm census
report are perhaps as near accurate
as have ever been taken in the STATE
in choking up on pure bred and com
mon bred stock, and shows that ther
is still large field to be covered b!
both the pure bred sire and female
Some communities in Stearns coun
ty during the past few years hav
made very creditable progress in es
tablishing herds of pure bred ant
high grade dairy cattle but as ye
have very little to offer for sale il
the way of pure bred female stock
At the present there is a big call TO
high grade females as well as pure
bred. Two buyers from out OF tn
state and one from northern Mime
sofa called at the Farm Bureau offic
during the past week in the hope o
securing carload lots of high grad
or pure bred dairy cows. 1t is mex
to impossible to fill the orders com
ing in weekly for female stuff boti
high grade and pure bred from th'
limited number of herds offering
stock of this kind for sale.
The Minnesota Holstein Breeders
association has just given wide pub
licity to their pure bred bull cam
paign with the object in view Of plac
ing large number of pure bret
sires in northern Minnesota. The
bulls placed by the Minnesota Hol
stein Breeders association will b.
raffled off at the National Dairy
Show held at the fair grounds at st,
Paul October 8-15.
If we had had pure bred sires
crossed in every herd of common
cattle in Stearns county during the
past five years, we would experience
no difficulty now in selling all grade
produced as a result of this breeding
at good premium over prices which
can be secured for common bret
COWS. A we'll selected pure bred SIR
is without doubt a good investment
Several Stearns county breeders O
pure bred cattle now have a surplu
of young bulls which they are pricin'
within reason that should remain i
the county. An average of only on
pure bred sire to every five OF com
mon breeding is certainly not an ey
erage to be boasted of by one OF tn
banner dairy counties of the state
Every possible effort should be pr
forth during the coming year by fa1
mers, bankers and livestock men a.
sociations of the county to replat
the common sire with a creditab
pure-bred.
The dates have already been s.
of Josrxy ch n