The Mankato free press., 1922-07-14
H|GH-GRADE cow
BRINGS IN $500
PRIZE MARROW RANDALL
ANIMAL WAS SOLD
TAKEN TO SIOUX FALLS
Blue Earth County Product
Purchased By the Savings
Bank In That City

F. H. Johnson, president of the
Sioux Falls Savings bank, and F.
w. Schaeffer, manager of the Live
Stock Extension Department of-tsis
bank, were at Mankato and closed
a deal with NARROW & Randall for
the FIVE year old Holstc.n cow, De
kol Korndyke OrIhsby ii. that had
just finished a year record with
1000 pounds butter and nearly "a,
900 pounds milk, the purchase price
being $500 cash.
This COW was first prize - r
last fall at the Dairy Cattle l.
two daughters which are still in
the Mankato Holstein Farms Herd,
were winners of First Prize show
ing in a group as advanced registry
cow with two OF her offspring. The
daughters will be retained in the
NARROW 4 Randall herd.
Two weeks ago the Sioux Falls
Savings bank purchased a young
calf from NARROW & Randall, paying
81 900 cash and signing a contract
TO pay $500 more II tae dam of the
calf finishes her yeaIs record at the
Mankato Holstein Farms of 1900
pounds butter. She has made over
500 pounds butter the first seven
months on year test, which is an
average of over 180 pounds butter
a month and she will only have to
average eighty pounds butter a
month for the next FIVE months to
make the 1900 pounds butter for the
year.
The Sioux Falls Saving bank is
he I1l At
campaign in the state of South
Dakota. 1t is shipping many car
loads Of high grade cattle into the
state each week, and these are De
ing placed on the farms of South
Dakota farmers who are being fl
nanced by this firm through their
200 correspondent banks.
The bank has $4,000 acres in
farms and the cattle purchased here
at Mankato> are being placed on
the fine farm two miles out Of
Sioux Falls, where they are devel-
oping a high class herd of Regis
tered Holsteins.
Much dairy development work
has been going on in Blue Earth
county for the past four or FIVE
years, and considerable improve
ment can now be seen in the vari-
Gus herds throughout the county
However, there is much work still
TO be done, and it is hoped by the
Blue Earth county dairy commit
tee, which is composed of bankers
and breeders of Blue Earth County
that much greater results may be
obtained In the next few years than
has been brought about in the past.
1t is easy to see that when Blue
Earth county has four or five
hundred herds of purebred dairy
cows In this county, the surplus
stock being sold at the good prices
which are being received for high
class registered cattle that the A.
nances of this community win be
greatly increased through the sale
Of purebred stock. And by the in
creased use of better sires and sew
eral hundred herds of high grade
dairy COWS the dairy products sold
should then be at least $4,000 900
where it is s1.5oo,OOO now.
1t is pleasing to note that out OF
the 10000 registered Holstein herds
in the United States and Canada.
the Mankato Holstein Farms herd
stand in thirty third place in the
Soon pi itLCs "nlCn are OelnS put up
by the National Holstein Breeders
Association, there Delng but thirty
two herds in the United States and
Canada that won more money for
high production than this we'll
known herd in Blue Earth county.
Everyone should keep in mind
the slogan which the National
Bank of Commerce has been using
Let's All Boost For Better Live
stock" and make Blue Earth county
noted for its fine herds and focks.
and dairy county that will stand
out as the greatest in the United
States.