The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-12-18

to $125, was won by Clarence B.
Kraft of Dakota county. A special
prize of $40 for the heaviest York
shire litter was won by Will G. Hunt
er of Northfield. Certificates of
award will be forwarded from the
University Farm offices Of the COM
mittee to the forty three.
D.
Third Dairy Course Will Open
January 5-Dairy school certificates
have just been awarded to % men
who took the short course for adj
vanced creamery operators at Univer-
sity Farm. This was a decided in
crease over the registration for like
course a year ago. Two Of the stu
dent operators came from Wisconsin,
and one each from Iowa and Montana.
The remainder were Minnesotans
The next and last course of the sea-
son, for beginners in creamery OPP
Grafton, will open January and run
until February IL, or six weeks. In
struction in all steps of creamery
work will be given. For further in
formation write the Dairy Division,
University Farm, st. Paul.
Farmers and Homemakers' Week
Short Course at University Farm De-
cember 20 to January 3. Mark your
calender and prepare to go.
Martin county extension people
say there is plenty of good seed corn
in their territory. If it is needed,
they say the county can furnish a
large amount of good seed to outside
districts.
Minnesota In Lead With Quality
Hogs II Minnesota and Oklahoma
have been waging a battle for lead
ership with fine fat hogs at the In
ternational Livestock Exposition in
Chicago for the last two years. To
date Minnesota has the advantage,
not only over Oklahoma, but over the
other great hog states.
Out of eight grand championships
and reserve grand Championships
awarded in the two years, Minneso-
ta's college of agriculture has won
five top places against three for the
Oklahoma institution. Two of Min
nesota's winnings were grand cham
pionships and three were reserve
grand championships. Oklahoma
won two grand championships and
one reserve.
w. H. Peters and E. F. Ferrin of
the division of animal husbandry di-
vision, Minnesota College of Agricul-
ture, just back from the Chicago
show, report that the Minnesota col
lege this year took thirty-five. prizes
with fat swine and nine with fat cat
tie. Many of these prizes were-ln
addition to grand championships, re-
serve grand champions, and cham
pionships- first and seconds.
In view of the fact that the show
of this year was perhaps the greatest
in the twenty-five years of the event,
the winnings were specially credit
able.
Biggest Rally Week of Year for
Farmers and Homemakers'
Week, December 20 to January 8, at
University Farm, ST. Paul, will be the
years greatest meeting week of Min
nesota livestock breeders and other
agriculturists. Many leaders of ma
tional reputation will give addresses.
The separate breeders associations
will hold their annual meetings We'd
nesday, December 81, and their par
ent society, the Minnesota Livestock
Breeders association, will meet the
following Friday. A. ]. Glover, edit
or of Hoard's Dairyman, and Ellis
McF arland, secretary of the Perch
.eron Society of America, have been
engaged as speakers for the big Fri
day meeting. The State Grange,
farmers clubs, fruit and vegetable
growers, flower growers, and poultry
raisers, will also hold annual meet
ings at the university station. Class