The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-11-27
DEPARTMENT FOR THE AGRlCUITURlSTS
so to 80, which have read with
care, interests me particularly. The


care, interests me particularly. The
l4eeuoIm Iroln a marrow class preju-
dice and the broad public point of
view are such as are rarely found in
the treatment of such questions. /
believe the bulletin is sound in all
essentials. 1t is inspiring to see in
TINS monograph, as from other evil
dences, that there is wise leadership
and a patriotic spirit in the greater
part of the modern farmers move
ment.
This 112-page bulletin will be
mailed free from the office of the Di-
vision of Publications., University
Farm St. Paul, to those who are in
terested in cooperative marketing.
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Minnesota Near Top In Ton-Lit-
ter Work-Producing pigs by the ton
in other words, ton litter contests
lis gaining in popularity in the
United States. Minnesota is well up
among the leaders although it put on
its first real statewide contest this
year.
Forty-one Minnesota farmers will
receive certificates for producing in.
$50 days ton or more of pork each
from single litter of pigs. Tennes-
see reports 80 successful ton filters
and Missouri %. Results from other
states have not yet been learned. Ac-
cording to government figures for
1923, 80 official ton litters were pro-
duced in Illinois that year, 80 in
Ohio, SO in Indiana, % in Texas, II
in Wisconsin, 16 in Michigan, and 5
in Washington. These states and
many additional ones have been car
rying on the project this year.
According to the feed costs re-
ported by Clarence B. Kraft of Farm
ington, who raised the Minnesota
prize litter of 3,102 pounds, it cost
him $5.67 to produce 100 pounds of
pork. His litter was sold at the Min
nesota Junior Livestock Show for
$3.50 a hundredweight.
Litters weighing more than ton
and a half at $50 days are few and
far between, but recent newspaper
stories say that a Texas Panhandle
farmer broke all known records when
his litter of 1S0-day pigs was weighed
in at 1921 pounds. This was 1925
pounds more than the previous re-
cord of 3,898.5 pounds which was re-
pOTGSu law year 1IOil l. CAdcs
Below Normal Co-u Crop Predict
ed in 1925-The tendency to produce
a small crop of corn in the year inn
mediately following soft corn year
was emphasized by a recent speaker
at University Farm meeting. There
are, of course, exceptions, he said,
but the rule is fairly well established.
Presumably it is due to the poor
quality of the seed used, and the
speaker warned that unless extraor-
binary precautions are taken next
years corn crop will also be below
normal in size although it may easily
be larger than this years yield.
Cloverseed Will Be Scarce-Min-
nesota faces the greatest shortage of
cloverseed in it's history and the
farmers salvation is to grow alfalfa,
according to statement by the Blue
Valley Creamery Institute. The
statement is based on government fig
ures just made public which show
this years production to be the low
est on record.
Production was poor in 1928, the
total in the state dropping from 151,-
900 bushels in 1922 to 10000 bush.
ellis. This year the production is only
10000 bushels or 81 per cent of last
year.
In it's statement on the cloverseed
shortage the Institute says:
''The crop report just issued above
shows that the total production of
cloverseed in the United States this
year is estimated at $4,000 bushels
as compared with 100000 last year
and five-year average of 100000
bushels. Last year approximately
"a 10000 pounds of cloversead were
imported to make up the deficiency
in America but Europe has a short
age this year also and probably will
have little clover seed for the United
States.
cred clover seed prices already are
high and are likely to go higher. For
tunately, both alfalfa and sweet Glow
er have produced larger crops than
usual this year, alfalfa being one
third larger so farmers of the nation
are urged to seed with alfalfa. It
will be more economical than to prac-
tice thin seeding which is so frequent
ly done when cloverseed is scarce as
now.