The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1922-01-12
ARTICLES OF INTEREST TO FARMERS
edited by Huntmer County Agent Melrose

and Leonard Larson. Second cham
pion honors in the state were award
, ed to the Mankato Garden club wit
!, Clarence Nelson and Violet Kaufma
as representatives to the state GRO
| show. Other winners by districts, al
Of whor1 won the free trip to tn
twin cities Northern, Tony Zal
!, ar of EEeleth; North central, Doroth
4 johnson of Glyndcn; Southern, vii
lard Weeks CT Winona; South Cen
j tral, Theodore Keller of Sank Rapids
!! The Dest Clubs IN the various dis
tricts, and their representatives t.
the big state crop SHOW, were: Nor
thern, Greenfield club of Itasca coun
! ty, Harold Olson; North Central
Mora club, John Erickson; Soul ern
Blooming Prairie club, Melvin c
Bray; South Central, Grand Meadow
Club, Alleen McDonough. The state
champion gardener and various other
winners viii be announced later.
Thirty-six Students Taking "U'
Creamery Course : Laying special
emphasis on efficiency of operation
and creamery accounting, SO students
at University farm are registered in
the creamery operators short course
which began Jan. 2 and will end Feb.
II. While the course is given pri-
nlarily for beginners, according to
Prof. J. r. Keithley, who is in charge
many of the students have had wide
experience in creamery work. With a
large amount Of new equipment in
stalled, students will have an oppor-
tunity in getting practical experience
with latest and most modern machin-
cry.
The course will be devoted entirely
to instruction in creamery work, and
will include cream grading, pasteuri-
cation and ripening;> use of starters
in producing desired flavors; proper
methods of making butter in order to
control its composition with reference
to moisture, fat and salt; proper
treatment and preparation of butter
containers to eliminate mold and pre-
vent shrinkage; and the importance
and relation of accuracy in weights
and tests to the success of creamer-
les. The demand for well trained men
in creamery work is greater than the
supply, according to Prof. Keithlcy.
Following the close Of the present.
course the cheese plant operators
short course, which begins Feb. Is
and ends March II, will be given.
Corn "Hogging" Advised Follow
ing Experiment-The cost of gather
ing corn is practically saved by hog
ging it down, E. F. Ferrin and l.. A.
Jessup of the animal husbandry di-
vision of the University Farm say,
following a corn hogging experiment
just completed. Where it cost $500
to produce 100 pounds of gain by the
dry lot method, the expense of pro-
ducing the same gain by hogging
down methods amounted to $2.58 and
$3.50. The experiment; which was
begun Sept. 26 and ended Nov. 3, was
conducted to determine the practicali-
oility of hogging down corn from an
economical and feeding view point.
Three lots of Is hogs each were
lsed. In the first lot the hogs were
allowed coin and tankage at will. The
hogs in the second were given stand
ng corn from one acre in size and
With an estimated yield of 62.S5 bu-
shells, supplemented with tankage fed
n a self feeder. In the third lot the
hogs We're given standing corn with
IN estimated yield of 57.57 bushels
measuring approximately one acre,
ind containing rape sown at the last
Tankage was also fed.1
While less feed was used to produces
LOO pounds of gain in the dry lot, the
cost in producing the gain was 80
tents more than for the second lot,
Il cents more than for the third. The
difference was due to the cost of |
which amounts to six cents
4 bushel
"Hogging down corn is successful
md economical method of producing
pork" says Mr.. Ferrin and Mrs. Jes-
sup. "Hogs are efficient corn har-
vesters. The method eliminates the
cost and loss of corn storage. The
manure is conserved and distributed
evenly over the field"