The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-05-29
DEPARTMENT. FOR THE ACRICULTURISTS
BLUE VALLEY FARM SERVICE
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BLUE VALLEY FARM SERVICE
By M. A. Nye,
r. G. Penrose and Ed Bosshardt
north of Sank Centre have a two
man bull ring among themselves.
They each wanted the use of a
better bull on their herds. They are
close neighbors and live not over a
half mile from each other. Each has
herd of from 8 to IL cows.
They could each keep fairly good
bull of their own, but they decided
they could have a better one if they
bought one together. They pur-
chased pure bred bull from breed
er near Little Sank.
By having a bull in partnership
they get the use of a better bull at
cheaper cost. Their bull overhead
is cut down considerably considering
the number of cows. They find two
man bull ring profitable and practic-
al.
A block of four or five farmers in
some places own real good bull to-
gether. One man generally keeps
and cares for the bull and is paid so
much year for this, usually about
$4,000.
All farms for each bull usually
total from so to 60 cows. Neighbors
must be neighborly of course before
a thing of this kind is practical and
they must all agree on the breed and
the individual they select.
Bull rings give each individual the
use of better bull, meaning heav-
Ter producing future cows. They
give each individual this service at
a cheaper cost per cow.
Alfalfa Plots
The 25 Blue Valley Alfalfa Plots,
which were placed this spring, have
all been sowed except two and they
will be put out in June without a
nurse crop.
Several of the plots are up, and
good stands are shown.
ways. Paul Kruger and George
Grundman applied mari to their plots.
All plots were inoculated except
parts of some, which were left un-
noculated in order to shoy it's effect.
Seed beds were worked down diff
ferently. One or two were packed
with plank or roller. Most of the
plots were sowed on fall blowing, or
corn or potato ground disced.
Oats or barley were the nurse
crops used with most of the plots.
"TB" Barley Spread by Germs in
the Egg-The transmission of fowl
or avian tuberculosis through the
egg is negligible factor in spread
ing the disease, according to the re-
suits of extensive experiments con-
Quoted by DR.. G. P. Fitch, division
chief, and R. E. Lubbehusen and
Ruth N. Dikmans of the veterinary
medicine staff at University Farm.
The experiments have been running
about year and the experiments
have so far examined nearly 500
eggs laid by about 40 known tuber-
culous hens affected with various
forms of the disease. Many of the
eggs were examined by incubation
into the bodies of chickens and many
others have been cultured. None of
the birds, or a few animals so inocu-
lated, has as yet developed tubercu-
losis.
"These results would seem to indi-
cate" say the authors, "that tuber-
Gle bacilli are not usually transmit
ted through the egg and that the
danger in this manner is not great. !"
tuberculosis among chickens is
especially frequent in Iowa, Mime
sofa, North and South Dakota, and
Wisconsin. Close housing necessary
in winter months contributes to the
spreading of infection. tuberculosis
in farm focks becomes significant be-
cause of its relation to the tubercu-
losis of cattle, and swine. In Fl
out of 25 cases examined by a
Nebraska station veterinarian, it
was found that tuberculosis of swine
was contracted from barnyard fowls.
Experiments have also shown that
the skin form of tuberculosis of cat
tie may be produced by the fowl or
avian type.
gu" Men Demonstrate Stone,
Stump Reconnaissance April Fl A.
C. Wolff, graduate of the Mime
sofa College of Agriculture, of the
Minnesota College of Agriculture,
and A. F. Johnson, attaches of the
land clearing section of the univer-
Slty, have given az demonstrations of
the latest approved land clearing
methods in Is southern and south
western Minnesota counties with an
average attendance of % land own
ers and farmers.
In the prairie sections demonstra-
lions were given in stone removal, in
blasting excavations for planting
orchard trees, and in clearing up
remnants of old tree claims planted
in pioneer days. In other sections
the work was much the same with
the addition of stump blasting, many
stumps of trees planted in early days
by the first settlers being removed.
So much interest was taken in the
work of the university land clearers
that in several instances return
demonstration at an early date has
been requested.
Cattle Relieved by Bone Meal in
Ration-One hundred nineteen cows
given bone meal in their ration by six
farmer owners living in a part of
western Minnesota where, owing to
some deficiency, the disorder known
as "depraved appetite" has been
prevalent, came through the winter
of 1924 in good physical condi-