The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-05-29
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versity men. The county agent at
tended to the distribution and made
observations from time to time and
now corroborates the report made
by Mr.. Becker.
A cow in another herd which was
suffering from abnormal appetite
was slaughtered and samples of the
blood and parts of the skeleton sent
to the University Farm for an
alysis and study by the university
scientists.
Steers Will Star at Cattle Breed
ers' Day Sixty Aberdeen-Angus
baby beeves which have been used in
experimental feeding tests. will be
paraded before livestock men and
other visitors attending the fourth
annual Cattle Feeders Day at Uni
versity Farm, St. Paul, June 49,.
The 60 husky babies will be- there
to demonstrate to- visitors just how
six different rahons, which they have
been fed for 224 days after having
been divided into six lots of ten
each, compare in gains, finish, and
profile.
The calves will be exhibited by H.
w. Vaughan and A. L. Harvey, who
will report the results of the feeding
experiments. w. H. Peters, chief
of the animal husbandry division of
the University, will open the fore
noon program with a talk on Ode
velopment During the Year in the
Beef Industry" At the afternoon
session, w. H. Tomhave of Pennsyl-
vania State College will speak on
"Hints From the East to the West
ern Cattle Grower and Feeder" and
o. M. Kiser of the Northwest Exper-
iment Station, Crookston, will dis
cuss "Wintering Stock Cattle" A
corn fed roast beef meal will be
served in the college cafeteria at
noon.
MARI Will Furnish Calcium for
Hogs-That mari can be used in
place of air slaked lime or ground
limestone in a mineral mixture for
hogs is indicated in an experiment
recently completed at University
Farm. The mari used in the trial
came from near Backus and con-
tanned 88 per cent calcium carbonate,
the remainder of the analysis show
ing mostly fine sand and clay.
"a mineral mixture composed of
80 per cent mari and 20 per cent
salt was fully as satisfactory for
growing fattening pigs as stand
ard mixture of 40 per cent slaked
lime, 40 per cent bonemeai, and 20
per cent salt" says E. F. Ferrin,
professor of animal husbandry
"For feeding month after month to
breeding stock the mari and salt
might not be as satisfactory as mix
ture containing bonemeal which
supplies phosphorus. 1t is reason
ably certain even with the limited
data at hand that mari will supply
calcium just as well or possibly bet
ter than limestone or slaked lime.
The small amount of earthly mater
ial in the mari is no particular dis
advantage. So little is eaten that
no harm can come from this source"
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Forest Facts to be Gathered and
Sifted - AS an important step
toward the conservation and restora-
ton of the forest areas of Mime
sofa, Wisconsin, and Michigan, in
order that the wood-using industries
may be kept going and the people
of the middle west supplied with
lumber, the advisory committee of
the Lake States Forest Experiment
Station, meeting in Duluth last
week, adopted definite program for
the uncovering of facts needed as a
basis for better forestry throughout
the lake states.
Dean w. C. Caffey, Department of
Agriculture, University of Minneso-
ia, was made chairman of the COM
mittee, which was appointed by H.
C. Wallace, secretary of agriculture.
DR.. Raphael Zon, director of the
Lake States station, outlined the
problems of the region and present
ed tentative program which was
adopted.
The program calls for a painstak-
ing study of the whole forest fire
problem; of the best methods of re-
forestation indicated by the exper-
fences of the three states; of the
present and possible yields of second