The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1925-06-04

says to be submitted for the thirty
500 scholarships at educational in
stitutions Of college or university
rank has been extended by the Maria
Sanford Biography Committee to
June 10. All essays mailed before
midnight at that date will be eligible
for the scholarship. The contest is
open to any girl graduate of 1925
who will submit $50 to 500 word
paper on what benefit the young
woman received from reading the life
of Miss Sanford. For details address
Estelle Holbrook, executive secretary
of the committee at HOS Nlcollet
avenue, Minneapolis.
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Beef Producers Sign Up for New
Contest-Entries in the new carload
lot baby beef contest, started by the
agricultural extension service of the
University of Minnesota, now number
score or more, with about two
months yet to go. Martin and Red
wood county beef producers have en-
tered six carload lots each; LeSueur
has entered two lots, and Mobiles,
Kittson, Stevens, Kandiyohi and 9th
er counties one each. Assurances are
given that Mobiles county will have
three or more entries. Entries are
also promised from Winona, Houston
and Faribault counties-at least two
from the last named.
| What to Feed, How? Steers to Give
Reply-Sixty Aberdeen-Angus baby
beeves, now nearing the end of a
long feeding trial at the University
of Minnesota, will be paraded be-
fore livestock men and other visitors
attending the fifth annual Cattle
Feeders Day at University Farm, st.
Paul, June rs.
Is there any profit in feeding dol
lar corn to baby beeves that sell
when finished at $3.50 to $40 per
hundredweight?
Does shelled corn surpass corn and
cob meal in fattening beef calves for
market?
Shall we give baby beeves full
feed of grain or is it more profitable
to limit the grain allowance to some
degree?
When 85 per cent of full feed
of grain is given, together with corn
silage and alfalfa hay, is the rate of
gain less than when a full feed of
grain is given?
What happens when beef calves are
fed 70 per cent of full grain al
lowance through the feeding period
These and several other important
questions will be answered on June
25 by the 60 black calves now near
ing the finish of their marathon race
at University Farm.
Animal husbandry~ men of the uni
versity are now arranging program
of exercises that will be full of help
for the Minnesota farmer who feeds
cattle as a straight business PROPOSE
ton for the profit there is in it.
Pig Ton Litter Race Enteries Show
ing Gain-Wth several counties yet
to report Minnesota swine growers
have entered ZIG filters in the second
annual pig ton-litter contest. Martin
county has entred % filters and
leads by large margin. Winona
county is second with 13 filters, and
Freedom county third with IL. Mob
les has IL, Lincoln 10, and Dakota,
Scott, Olmsted, and Yellow Medicine,
each. H. G. Zavoral of University
Farm, who is directing the contest es-
Inmates the number of litters at 24O
when reports are in. This will be a
substantial gain over 1924 when 215
lltters were enrolled. But for short
corn crop last year, entries in the
1925 ton-litter race would have in
creased one-third, he says.
Il
Grow Better Chicks Without Water
or Scratch Feed-Chicks will grow al
most twice as rapidly on diet of
milk and mineral mash than on wat
er and scratch grains, according to
the Blue Valley Creamery Institute.
The Institute, after reviewing data
covering over a hundred feeding eX.
perm nts, finds tn milk mineral mash
method the best feeding method fol
quick growth and full bodily develop.
ment.
The growth-promoting, disease-re'
sisting qualities of milk were shown
says the Institute summary, in one
experiment at the N. j. Agricultur.
al Experiment Station when it wa!
found that &C milk-fed pullets at tel
weeks of age weighed as much as 10(
pullets of the same age without milk
in their diet. 1t was further fount
at the Wisconsin College of Agricul
ture that chicks generously supplied
with skinned milk were grown fa1
better on home-mixed dry mash
consisting of 80 parts yellow corr
meal, 20 parts wheat middlings,
| parts raw bond (about so per cen