The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-09-25

ments not only in the United States
but in Canada, European, and other
foreign countries, and discuss the
principal factors affecting the grain
market.
These reviews should be of partic-
ular interest to the farmers at this
time. They can be obtained by
writing the Grain Market News Ser
vice, U. S. Bureau of Agriculture
Economics, Washington, D. c..
There is no charge for this service
and it will be furnished upon receipt
of request from any paper desiring
it.
New Building, New Facilities,
New Man for Ice Cream Course
Students registering for the dairy
short courses at University Farm will
have the advantage of fine new
building in which to work, new mod
ern equipment with which to work,
and a new but thoroughly trained
and experienced man to work with.
The course will BE given in the lab
oratories and class rooms of the new
dairy hall, with w. B. Combs, pro-
fessor of dairy husbandry and head of
the section of dairy products, in di-
rect charge.
The first course will be given No.
vember II to 26 for ice cream MAX
ers and will consist of 80 lectures
and eight laboratory periods. The
laboratory work, says Professor
Combs, will include the testing of
milk, cream, butter, and ice cream
for butterfat; the calculation and
preparation of the ice cream mix,
pasteurization, homogenization, and
aging the mix. Every student will
have opportunity to learn the opera
ton of the freezer and the effect of
the use of butter, powdered milk, and
improvers on the quality of ice cream.
The second course will be for adj
vanced creamery operators December
/ to 10. The course for beginners in
creamery operation will run for six
weeks, from January to February
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Ask u. Farm for New Marketing
Bulletin-SiXteen weighty problems
which local cooperative marketing
companies have thus far been unable
to solve are discussed at the outset
in Bulletin 211, entitled "Co-opera-
tive Central Marketing Organiza-
tion," of which John D. Black and
H. B. Price of the division of agri-
cultural economics, University of
Minnesota, are authors.
It is the conclusion of the authors
that properly organized and man.
aged overhead or central marketing
organization could help greatly in
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grains on Minnesota products. from
eight of the most important improve
ments in the marketing system, or in
production at is relates to marketing,
are given rank in the following order
of Importance: Stabilizing produc-
ton, improving the organization of
the locals, improving the quality of
products, controlling flow to market,
better sorting and grading, better dis
tribution of product, advertising and
developing markets, and price con-
troll.
In probable gains for the next ten
years better sorting and grading is
given first rank, and improving quail
ity third. "The probable gain in the
next decade from the eight sources
mentioned" say the authors, "will
probably range for the various pro-
ducts from less than per cent to
more than 10 per cent, with an av-
erage of less than 5 per cent.
That there is no magic formula
that insures success, no royal road, is
the conclusion of the two university
economists, who agree that 'devel-
oping successful cooperative market
ing methods in the central market is
slow, hard process, as it has been
in the local market.
Free copies of the bulletin can be
obtained on request from the Divis-
ion of Publications, University
Farm, st. Paul.
$4,000 to Improve Junior Stock
lShow-Business interests of South
| ST. Paul are spending $4,000 in en-
| larging and otherwise improving
buildings and equipment for the an
nual Minnesota Junior Livestock
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