The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1922-07-20
ARTICLES OF INTEREST TO FARMERS
tied by W. Huntmer County Agent Melrose Minnesota

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Martin Falkner has. arranged for
a Sunday afternoon visiting day to
be held at his farm, about half a
mile east of Albany, on Sunday at
ternoon, July 23rd.
The Falkner herd will be kept up
for inspection on this date and an
invitation is extended to all Holstein
breeders of the county and dairymen
to meet at the Falkner farm on this
date. Short talks will be given by
Robert Geiger, secretary of the Min
nesota Holstein Breeders Associa-
ton, and County Attorney Paul
Ahles of st. Cloud.
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Developing the Dairy Calf
By August A. Meyer, Meiere Grove
If calf is worth raising at all, it
is worth raising carefully and by
hand. Few calves on the best dairy
farms receive much, if any, whole
milk after the first week and very
few are allowed to nurse their Dam.
Skim milk and buttermilk, Whey'
grain, roughage, or some other sub
stitutes for whole milk are all used,
some more successfully than others.
The change from whole milk diet to
these substitutes should be made
gradually. 1t is important that feeds
which properly nourish the calf
should be fed. Of all the ailments
which tend to check the growth and
sap the vitality of calves, more than
half can be traced directly to inn
proper feeding and most of the others
to unsanitary surroundings. The
sooner the calf is removed from the
dam after it has received the colos-
trum milk for day or so the better
and the easier it will be taught to
drink. The calf Of ordinary vitality
can be put on skim milk diet when a
week old but the change to skim
milk should be made gradually sub
shutting one pound of skim milk for
a like of whole ilk daily ntil it is on
a straight skim milk diet.
The stomach Of young calf is
small and therefore cannot handle
large quantities of milk. From eight
to ten pounds of milk per day is the
proper allowance for a young calf /.
Frequent feeding is necessary for
the young calf but three or even two
times day is sufficient as it grows
older and in any case the amount at
each feeding should be equal. Avoid
feeding excessively or using unsani-
tary pals and see that froth is al
WAYS SKINNED off the milk before
feeding.
A good grain ration, plenty of fresh
straw, sanitary surroundings and
plenty of fresh air and water will
make a healthy and growthy calf.
A good grain mixture for young
calves consists of so pounds OF
whole oats, 80 pounds Of wheat bran,
10 pounds of corn meal, 10 pounds OF
oil meal. Mix these feeds in this
proportion and feed according to size
and age of calves.
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Hardy Winter Wheat Seed Soon
Available seed Of Min
turk, MINI. No. 1907, a hardy wheat,
will be available in quantity for seed
ing in the fall of 1922, according to
experiment station men at University
Farm.
This wheat was developed by the
university plant breeders by crossing
Turkey and Odessa, the original cross
being made in 1902, and the new va
riety, Minturki, being first increased
in 1919. This information is given in
Special Bulletin No. SO, entitled zap
proved Varieties of Grain and Corn for
Minnesota" written by Prof. A. G..
Army, DR.. H. K. Hayes, and T. E. Cd
land of the university division of farm
crops and farm management. The
bulletin says:
"More than 200 varieties of winter
wheats from forgein countries and va
rious sections of the United States
were put under test at University
Farm in the course of this investiga-
ton, 1t was found that Turkey winter
wheat excelled in seed characters, but
was frequently injured under severe
winter conditions. Odessa is red chat
fed, beardless winter wheat obtained
from Russia. 1t natures later than
Turkey, produces moderate yields
and is quite winter hardy"
Minhardi, Mimi No. 1905, beard
less white, smooth chaffed wheat, was
also developed by the Minnesota plant
breeders by crossing Odessa and Tur-
key. At University Farm it has yield
ed about as we'll as Minturki, but the
station men agree that it does not
seem so widely adapted to Min
nesota conditions as Minturki, and
that it produces grain of somewhat
less desirable quality.
Cows Need Spraying AS Well As
Trees "Four factors about to APP
pear will cause decline in the flow
of milk" says w. E. Peterson, sup
erintendent of official testing in Min
nesota. "These are, decrease in the
amount of pasture, decrease in the
na1atahility of pasture, increase of