The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1922-09-28

Show and to return home at any
Time that they desire.
BIT sure and set Wednesday, Octo-
Der 18th, for your visit to the Nation
al Dairy Show and plan on going by
auto with the Stearns County boos-
Cers who leave st. Cloud at 9 o'clock.
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New Corn is Needed for the Sirup
! Bustness-That good cooking strip
can be made from sweetcorn stalks
ha been demonstrated by chemists Of
special appropriation from the legisla-
ture. The experiments were carried on
| an a canning plant at Wells, Mimi,
and were in the immediate charge of
Dr.. j. j. Willaman of the university's
division of biochemistry.
However, the investigation has
| made it clear that returns sufficient
to warrant the manufacture Of sweet
corn strip cannot be expected under
present conditions in Minnesota. Can
ners were hopeful that the strip could
be manufactured as a by-product Of
the canning industry. Farmers were
hopeful also that the project would re-
suit in the increased value of their
| corn in Minnesota use chiefly the va
| riety known as Crosby in their can
ner1es. The experiments at Wells
demonstrated that stripped stalks Of
Crosby and Golden Bantam weigh on
! ly about one and one-half to two tons
| to the acre. A ton Of stalks will yield
eight to ten gallons of strip Of stand
ard density.
1.-The commercial possibilities of
sweetcorn strip depend largely upon
| the variety Of corn grown by the can
ners," says DR.. Willaman, "Since Cros-
| by is the favorite variety Of Minneso-
not be expected. as the variety never
yields more than 25 gallons of strip
to the acre. A ton Of stalks will yield
! not be an economical proposition. 1.-The
development of dual purpose corn
one having high quality ears for can
| ming and large stalks of high density
! juice-would overcome present obsta-
cles. University plant breeders and
chemists can in time develop such a
variety" --.
Dairy Short Courses at ''U' to Open
Nov. 13-The first short course in a
series of five to be held during the
fall and winter months by the dairy
husbandry division at University Farm
will be for advanced creamery opera
tors, beginning Nov. 10 and continuing
two weeks. Prof. ]. r. Keithley will
be in charge.
This course is open only to those
who have had at least two years ex-
perience in a creamery, or one years
experience and term in the dairy
short course. Professor Keithley says:
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those things the successful creamery
man must know, but which are not
readily learned by practical work in
the creamery. In this class comes
creamery bookkeeping, calculation of
the cost of manufacture, overrun, and
similar problems.
1.-The scientific principle of cream
ripening, pasturization and starters
will be taught by experts In bacteriol-
ogy and dairy chemistry. The practic-'
al application of these facts will be
taught by some Of the most expert
buttermakers of the state"
Day Schools Offered State Cattle
Feeders-During October and Novem-
bar. one-day Cattle Feeders Schools
will be offered by the university to
counties that have goodly number
A. A. Dowell, livestock extension
specialist of the university, will give
instruction in the selection of feeders,
rations for feeding cattle and feed lot
management, while William L. Vavert,
farm management specialist, will give
instruction in the economic phases of
cattle feeding. This will include esti-
mating the cost of gains and the nee
essary spread between buying ana
selling prices under prevailing condi-
tons.
Other economic phases that will re-
ceive attention will be the usual seas
onal trends Of the market for feeders
and fat cattle and a discussion of the
question as to what farmers should
engage in feeding operations.
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Extension Meeting Dates Changed to
Nov. 13 and 14-The annual conference
of agricultural extension workers
which was to have been held at Univer-
sity Farm, Nov. 20 and q, according
to the original announcement, has been
advanced a week and will be held at
the farm Nov 10 and IA. The change
has been made in order to avoid
conflict with the dates of the annual
meeting of the Association of Land
Grant Colleges at Washington, D. G.