The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-06-05
VISITING DAIRYMEN
WERE ENTERTAINED
SAUK CENTRE BUSINESS MEN
HAVE INFORMAL LUNCHEON
:, AT PALMER HOUSE
THIS SECTION PRONOUNCED
IDEAL FOR DEVELOPMENT
y OF DAIRY INDUSTRY

The luncheon given by the Sank
Centre Community Club in honor of
the visiting pure bred Jersey breed
ers at the Palmer House Tuesday af-
ternoon of this week, was a very en-
joyable affair.
The outing was arranged and is
being conducted under the auspices
of the Minnesota Jersey calf club
the purpose of which was to visit the
annual meetings of three county as
sociations, the first to be held at Park
Rapids, Hubbard county, Wednesday
afternoon; at Alexandria, Douglas
county, Thursday afternoon and to-
morrow, Friday afternoon at Paynes-
vile, Stearns county.
The visitors were Mr.. Schafer, As
sistant Professor of Dairy Husband
ry at the Minnesota Farm School; j..
E. Grathwold, ST. Paul, Vice Presi-
dent Liberty State Bank; Frank Aast-
worth, field man, American Jersey
Cattle Club, N. Y, with headquarters
at st. Paul; C. R. Bracket, Mime
apolis, F. w. Love, Minneapolis; N.
J. Holmberg, Commissioner Agricul-
ture, St. Paul; F. R. Angel, st. Paul !;
Frank White, Marshall; George Ray
Ter; G. w. Taylor, Forest Lake and
Leslie Wilson Extension worker farm
school.
Following lunch, M. A. Nye, farm
expert of Blue Valley Creamery
Company very efficiently presided
and introduced Mayor VIM. Parker
who gave brief but most cordial
welcome. Mr.. Angel, head of tn
40 IL
a gracious response. He said the OBJ
ject of their organization, while pri-
marily to improve the breed of Jer-
sey cattle, was to promote the best in
terest of dairying in Minnesota, to
influence as far as possible the keep
ing of better cows and pure bred
Sires.
Mr.. Asstworth regretted the fact
that there were no ladies present as
they were of material assistance in
the developing of the dairy industry.
He went on to show how farmers who
persisently and intelligently followed
dairying were much better off than
grain farmers of the northwest. He
reviewed the experience of Wiscon-
sin and showed how that state had
progressed in thirty years since it
first became interested in the dairy
industry until at the present time
it is one of the very strongest states
in the union in agricultural prosper
ity. To prove this he cited that in
the grain growing sections of the
country, there were $50 bank fail
ures in the last fourteen months, with
only two in Wisconsin, the heads of
which Iuora both habipd tho horc Tho
speaker said he came from Missouri
where they raised the poll-and-china
cows. This was cow propped up
with a pole, and gave a china cup of
milk each day, but these cows had
been bred up from 100 pounds to
287 pound cows by the use of pure
bred sires.
Mr.. Schaefer has judged live stock
at the Stearns County Fair several
times. In his short talk he called at
tention to the fact that Minnesota
produced one-seventh of all butter in
the United States. However, many
states were much higher in
butterfat production per cow than
was Minnesota. He said Sank Cen
tire was we'll known in the dairy
industry. He emphasized the fact
that the farmers of this community
were especially fortunate in their
market condition. He also said that
the soil conditions around Sank
Centre were ideal for dairying. He
congratulated this community on
owning the champion COW of the
world for her age; Believe, Brown
Swiss of Farview Dairy farm. He in