The Sauk Centre herald., 1923-03-08

them along the lines OF size, feHne-
ment of bone and capacity of jaw,
heart, stomach and udder until in Mel
ba 18th he had great animal, that
not only made the worlds record for
both milk and butterfat for all breeds
on two milkings day, but after calv
| ing regularly went on the next year
and made the worlds butterfat record
for all breeds, regardless of number of
milkings day.
The best yearly records of other
dairy breeds in butterfat production
! are:
Holstein-F -Friesian = English, Kir-
hill Flo 1,27S lbs.; Canadian, Bella
Pontiac 1889 lbs; United States, May
Walker Ollie Homestead 1918 lbs.
Guernsey-Countess Prue 1,103 lbs.
Jersey-Land's Iota 1,048. Darling
Jolly Lassie expected to finish Feby.
II, 1923, with about LIPS lbs.
Red Polled-Jean Duluth Beauty
S91 lbs.
! Ayshire-Lily of Willowmoor 955
lbs.
Brown Swiss-College Bravura End
1913 lbs.
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With linseed meal at around $50 a
ton and bran at about $50 dairy farm
ers Of Stearns County are beginning
to turn their attention towards in
crease of legume culture in order ito
reduce their feeds oats during the per-
lods when these commonly used con-
centrates reach such values, which
has income common during the past
| few winters. Bran and oil meal are
excellent concentrates to be used In
forming part of the ration of a dairy
herd, but at their present selling price
it is doubtful if they can be fed at a
profit to the average dairy herd.
Good alfalfa, clover and even soy
bean hay furnishes source of pro-
tein, which is the one ingredient CIV
ing a value to our concentrate mill
feeds. 1t is generally admitted that a
ton of good alfalfa hay is practically
, equal in feeding vaiue 70 ton Of
bran. Several Stearns county farm
ers have succeeded well in growing al
falfa. Red clover and alfalfa clover
also compare favorably with alfalfa
: hay although not quite as high in pro-
ern Minnesota farmers are also max
ing good use of soy beans, which is
another form of proueln roughage
which can be successfully grown in
Stearns county.
| With mill feeds at their present
values, any of these leguminous hays
could replace largely the mill con-
centrates required to balance ra-
ton for a dairy herd where non-ni-
trogenous hays, such as timothy, or
binary run of meadows, red top and
upland hays are used. Savings of
from $40 to SIS in feed costs per cow
during the average winter feeding
season can often be made by dairy
men who have at their command good
grades of nitrogenous hays rather
than the ordinary run of prairie and
meadow hays of on-nitrogenous ma
ture.
| Success in alfalfa culture depends
on several factors, such as season,
condition of seed bed, acidity of soil,
quality of seed and incubation. Gen
uine grimm seed has proven it's value
over varieties. Although commanding
considerable higher price per pound
wherever certified grimm seed can
be secured, it is a master of economy
in the long run to purchase grimm
seed. Several growers of grimm al
falfa seed during the past few years
have made practice of using nothing
but certified grimm seed. Whether
the alfalfa is seeded with a nurse
crop or alone, the seed bed should, in
all cases, be well prepared, and, if
planted on a bed where alfalfa or
sweet clover has not been previously
grown, incubation should be prac-
| ticed. Bulletins on alfalfa culture can
be secured by writing TO the Farm
Bureau Office at Melrose.
Soy beans, as legume crop, can
be used as part feed for the dairy
herd and planted in rows with corn,
harvested with corn and placed in the
silo or planted in rows by themselves
and worked in with corn at sileage
filling time. or planted closer together
in rows and used as hay crop. The
feeding value of the say bean seed is
| equal to our best concentrates, lin
seed and oil meal, and often yields
from three to four bushels of seed
are produced from the beans grown
on an acre when planted with corn
for sileagel
The white sweet clover, as well as
medium red and alsike, is also le-
gume which can be used to good ad-
vantage either for hay or pasture
crop.
D.
Railroads Cut Rates to Junior Short
Course-The thirteenth boys and
girls week short course will be held
at University Farm, St. Paul, at the
close of the School of Agriculture the
last of March. A conference and
training school for club leaders will be
held two days of the week.
Boys and girls between the ages of
10 and 20 and from any part of the
state can enroll in this short course.
The forenoons will be given as usual
to class work. the afternoons to sight
seeing trips about St. Paul and Min
neapolis, and the evenings to after
Moons to sieht seeing trips about st.
Paul and Minneapolis, and the eve
nings, to picture shows and club pro-
grams in the University Farm audi
torium. Two outstanding features
will be Judging contest of dairv and
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