The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-12-11
COW TESTING ASSN.
REORGANIZED DEC. /
FARMERS SOUTH, EAST AND
WEST OF SAUK CENTRE RE-
SUME MOVEMENT
HERMAN MEIER, TESTER
o ORGANIZATION SHOULD PROVE
VERY PROFITABLE FOR THE
DAIRYMEN AFFILIATED

|, The Sank Centre Cow Testing AS
ISOLATION was recognized Monday,
December LIST under the name of the
Sank Centre-Meire Grove Cow Test
ing Association at a meeting held at
the latter place at 200 o'clock Mon
day afternoon. The association start
ed with membership of % and it is
expected the full quota of members
will be secured within a short time.
The following farmers were affiliated
with the association at the start:
Mat Jensen, Mat Jennison, Chris
Huismann, T. Beck, Herman Meier,
A. C. Meier, Meinulf Meier, Henry
Meier, Joe Meier, Joe Luetmer, w.
Primus, John Yanke, Henry Nietfeld,
Alloys Schmiesing, F. j. Minnette,
D. Caughren, Dubois & Reese, Paul
Winter, John Ebensteiner, Parker &
Dean, Elbridge Cass, Paul Dold and
F. Peschek.
The following officers and directors
were elected: President, Frank Pes
hex; Vice President, Toney Beck;
Secretary-Treasurer, Harold Dean.
Directors, Matt Jennisen, H. w.
Parker, Gus Meier and Earl Moore
Herman Meier, Jr., was selected
as official tester and started work
Immediately after the meeting. The
gentleman has had considerable eX-
perience in official testing and is
fully competent to handle the work.
He will receive $500 per month
and furnish his own Transportation.
Members of the association are
charged fee of $500 per month per
tha
the full quota of members it will hav.
a surplus of over 5000 which the as
ISOLATION expects to. use next year, if
necessary, to carry it over the rocks
when reorganization is effected. If
the surplus is not needed the MEM
bership fee will be reduced to $3.50
per month next year.
A COW Testing association was or
lganized in Sank Centre and was &C
FtlYe in 1928. Elbridge Cass was tester
and everything went well as long as
he was retained. He was compelled
to give up the work in few months
and Harold Batchold assumed charge.
When the association held its meeting
Jan. 1, 1924, to reorganize, to the
promoters disappointment, they dis
covered the organization had gone on
the rocks because of lack of interest.
There were some good herds
(which showed a lower average test
than herds of equal or even a lower
merit, on account of herdsmen taking
out low testing cows and replacing
them with fresh cows, which was
against the rules, and caused dissatis-
faction.
Only cows making 40 pounds of
butterfat per month or more will be
published in the Herald. Some facts
brought out by members of the as
ISOLATION, who had finished one years
work, was that some of the herds in
January and February produced but
terfat as low as 16 cents per pound,
while for other herds in the same per-
iod the cost ran as high as 80 cents
per pound. Where silage, alfalfa or
clover hay was the main ration, and
the cows were of high dairy type the
cost of production was most econom-
ical. When timothy or wild hay was
fed the cost was relatively high.
In one average herd the lowest cow,
returned a net profit of $50 and the
highest cow $119, difference of APP
proximately $50, while there was very
little difference in the cost Of feed
and labor for both cows. The aver
period, has been around 9A, while
the average test for another cow of
the same type and breed was a "
per cent.
The tester calls on every member
once month and takes evening and
morning samples of each cows milk,
which is weighed and tested for but
terfat. The feed is all checked up
morning and night and all recorded
in a book which the state furnishes
free of charge to every member. The
book has two pages for each cow
tested. The pages are properly
spaced to receive the days record as
follows: testing day, number of days
in testing period, pounds milk daily,
average test, pounds of butterfat
price and total value of product.
Succulent roughages, dry roughage,
concentrates, days on pasture, cost
of pasture, cost of roughage including
pasture, cost of grain, total cost of
feed, value of product above cost of
feed, value of product below cost of
feed. Some parties dispute the ac-
curacy of one day per month test
ing, but the state has made several
check-ups, and found it within 2 per
cent Of being accurate on the aver
lage.
The Herald of next week. will pub.
I ish more interesting data in connec-
ton with the Cow Testing Associa-
ton work.
HIGH SCHOOL BASKET BALL
The first conference game for the
Sank Centre High School basket ball
team will take place tomorrow night
Tl,. MoI,,co +aoy, uy;1l he the on