The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1925-11-05
COW TESTING ASSN.
ELECT OLD OFFICERS
SAUK CENTRE MERE GROVE
ORGANIZATION CLOSES THE
YEAR IN FINE CONDITION
WILL HAVE NEW TESTER
ORGANIZATION FINE INVEST
MENT FOR MEMBERS-ONLY
ASSOCIATION in COUNTY

ASSOClATlON In COUNTY
The annual meeting of the Saul
Centre-Meire Grove Cow Testing
Association was held at Metre
Grove Saturday Oct. 31st, 1925
President Frank Peschek presiding
The Secretary-Treasury's report
showed a successful year of testing
nearly completed and good balance
in the treasury. Twenty-four herds
were on test during the year. The
names of the owners are as fallows
Tony Beck, Elbridge Cass, Paul
Dold, Reese & Dubois, Matt Jennis-
sen, G.. J. Jansen, Joe Leutmer,
Meinulf Meyer, F. J. Minette, w.
j.. Primus, Herman Meyer, ]. H.
: Nathe, Henry Nietfeldt, A. C. Meyer,
Henry Meyer, Joseph P. Meyer,
Fred Plowman, H. S. Welle, Alloy
ious Schmeising, Frank Pescheck,
w. H. Parker, Harold Dean, j. p.
Winter, Chris yHuisman.
Members were signed up for tie
coming year. The rate of 81 90 per
month per member was continued. 1t
being voted to divide the surplus
among the members at the end of the
year 1926. A set of rules and regu-
lations were adopted for governing
the association for the coming year.
Earl Moore presented his resigna-
alton as tester to take effect at the
end of the testing year. His cattle
business has developed so as to re-
quire all of his time. He has shipped
a good many carloads of good dairy
cows and breeding stock here from
Wisconsin and there is still a good
market for good dairy cattle. Test
ing cows for butterfat production
makes good farmers want good
stock as they find it pays.
A competent tester will be secured
to carry on the work for the coming
year commencing Dec. 1st. The
members have found cow testing a
great help in developing their dairy
herds. This is the only cow testing
association in Stearns county and
there is a lot of room for more.
The association officers are: Frank
Peschek, president; Tony Beck, vice
president; Harold Dean, secretary
treasurer. q3.
The manifold advantages to the
dairy farmer of cow testing as
ISOLATION are explained by Robert
Hannay, member of the Dodge
County Cow Testing Association, as
follows: !,
Somebody speaks of the advan-
tages of being a member Of cow
testing association, and you think at
once of the problem of knowing the
exact amount each individual COW
gives YOU in return for your money
and labor invested in her. This can
only be definitely figured out blythe
Cow Tester-for he has made study
of the different feeds and their re-
lation to animals of each breed and
type, and equipped himself as care,
fully to be an expert in the specla!
thing as the achitect who plans and
tells you just what your building will
cost you when it is completed. But
few of US have time or money to
stop and study out all those laws and
forces which must be taken into con-
sideration to find out exactly what
a particular COW in our herd costs US
in feed and labor-whether we had
better keep her or get something in
her place which will pay us better for
our time and labor, to say nothing
of feed. Then, too, our own good
Judgment may be spoiled because
that special cow is favorite with
us for some one or more reasons, and
we pay out good money, needed some
where else about the farm to board
our pet. The wise money-making
dairyman therefore employs a cow
tester for advice about his problems
just as he goes to a lawyer for legal
advice.
"The thing beyond all this which
has most impressed me as the results
of some of our neighborhood belong
ing to COW testing association and
advising with competent tester is |
the difference in feed grown and |
provided for the cows. Eight years
ago when I came to this community |
and took up a practically abandoned
farm. flax, wheat, oats and barley |
were, the mainstaysj little corn and
some buckwheat, but few acres OF
corn compared to now. Soybeans,
cow peas, sweet clover and
other legumeS were hardly seen. NOW
these legumes are being grown right
here land will be from now on) be-
cause they. have proved to be good
for all three-the cow, her calf and
the pocketbook of their owner. In
this respect the COW tester has serv-
ed the public as well as the members
of his association, because he has the
means of creating healthy competi-
lion among all the farmers OF the
community to vie with each other for
better crops and more profitable re-
turns from their herds.
an these present times of bank
stringency every farmer should know
whether he is working with herd of
COWS which the testers records show
him are constantly sinking him deep
q in the hole to feed or whether he
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