The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-11-01

DEPARTMENT FOR THE ACRICUL TURISTS
(By P. w. Huntemer, County Agent)

represented at the Junior Livestock
Show at South st. Paul, November
14th-16th. AlfIe ed Lindsay, st. Clouc
Route No. 2, LIE Sank Township, anC
Marie A. Kunkel of Kimball in Pearl
Lake Township, by being awarded
first and second places respectively or
their entries of baby beef calves
placed at the Benton county fair last
August, are entitled to exhibit at the
JUNIOR Livestock Show, which foi
club members enrolled in Junior
Livestock work is the annual live.
stock classic of the state.
At last years show, fifty-six grade
junior yearlings and fifty-five grade
calves were exhibited by boys and
girls club members of the state who
had been awarded either first or Sec
ond prize at their local show. Prac-
tically all of the show calves, both
grade and pure bred, entered in the
Junior Livestock Show, are sold at
public auction on the last day of the
Show. These calves are usually
bought by various Twin City bust
ness concerns at prices often rang
ing from SIS to $50 per hundred
pounds for the prize winners in the
different classes.
Prizes offered in the grade yearl-
ing and grade calf class range from
$25 for first down to SO for sixth and
all under. The same prize money is
offered for the pure bred calf class.
Other classes are also made for the
grade in each of the beef breeds, in
Guiding Hereford yearlings and
calves, Aberdeen Angus yearlings
and calves and Short Horns. Each
exhibitor who has placed either first
or second in the local county show, in
addition to having an opportunity to
compete for the prizes in their re-
spective classes, can enter his calf in
the sale. Railroad fare to St.. Paul
and return is paid for all contestants
by the Minnesota Livestock Breed
ers Association.
In Stearns county Alfred Lindsay
was awarded first place at the local
show on a grade Short Horn calf
which he purchased from the Leslie
Smith herd. Alfred's calf will be
shown in the junior grade calf class
as well as in the grade Short Horn
calf class. Second place in the local
show of Stearns county calves shown
at the Benton county fair was taken
by a grade Hereford yearling shown
by Marie A. Kunkel of Kimball. In
writing up her club record, Marie
states that her calf weighed six hun
dred pounds at the time of starting
her record in the spring of 1928.
On August 25, 1928, when the record
was closed, it had increased in weight
to 795 pounds, showing gain of
1875 pounds during the feeding period.
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Governments Poultry Chief Visits
'sU" Farm-Dr. Morley A. JUL, the
new chief of the poultry division of
the United States Department of Ag-
riculture, looked over the poultry
plant and work of the University of
Minnesota on Saturday, Oct. 20, and
consulted with A. C. Smith, the uni
versity poultryman, and N. r.
Chapman and Miss Cora Cooke, ex-
tension specialists in poultry. 1t was
his first official visit to University
Farm.
"You have many fine quality birds
on the Minnesota station and your
plant is in good condition." he said
at the close of his inspection. eff
anything, would wish that the plant
were larger. Breeding and feeding
are the principal lines of work pur-
sued at the government station at
Beltsville, Nd, near Washington.
Forty-eight agricultural colleges or
stations are also doing investigation
al work, and I am swinging around
the circuit to ascertain what their
problems are with the purpose of
eliminating duplication of effort so
far as possible. We are hopeful that
our work at Washington will be both
a direct and indirect service to the
people of Minnesota"
DR.. JUL is now visiting the stations
on the Pacifce coast. Later he will
90 to Arizona, New Mexico and
Texas. In the south he will study
the possibilities of turkey investiga-
tional work.
Most ~" Colleges Continue to
Collegiate registration at the
University of Minnesota reached 81
725 at the end of the third week of
college, according to a report made
to President l.. D. Coffman yester-
day from the office OF X. M West,
registrar. The principal increase
since the first registration announce
ment of $500 has been in the grad
uate school, where 440 now are regis
tered as compared with less than 100
at the end of the first week.
Outstanding increases are in the
college of science, literature, and the
arts, college of education, and the
school of business. There were
small decreases in registration in the
school of mines and the college of
agriculture. The law school increased
over last year after having lost in
enrolment the year before. The COLI
Iege of dentistry, which was smaller
at the end of the first week than it
had been the year before, now shows
an increased enrolment. The college
of education and the medical school
each gained 10 per cent in enrolment
the school of business, more than 10
per cent.
Comparison of Registrations
The.following table shows total
registration on Oct. 13 in the first
column and in the second, reglstra-
tion on Oct. IA a year ago:
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