The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1925-12-24

BLUE VALLEY Warm CSERVICE
By M. A. Nye
Merry Christmas everybody. This
department extends to you the Sea-
sons Greetings.
When we think of poor families
about Christmas time and big baskets
of groceries and eatables being given
them to make their Christmas a mer-
ry one, we can't help but think of a
lot of cows that would like to see q
Christmas basket coming their way
filled with good old alfalfa hay. Hays
are not hays when alfalfa is present
1t is head and shoulders above any
of them, aes hay for dairy cows.
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Pure BREEDS In Demand
Dairy farmers are realizing more
and more every day the great value
of a good pure bred bull to head theil
herd.
It is well said that scrub bull is
all of the herd and good pure bred
bull is half the herd. How can we
have heavier producing cows in the
future if we are not today breeding
up our herds with good pure bred
bulls?
Bulls, cows, heifers and calves all
sold well the other day at the Black
and White sale on the Meyer Farm
just south of Metre Grove. Several
good bull calves were sold that will
grow into their places as herd sires
Sank Centre breeders generally
have some pretty good bulls for sale
Any Sank Centre Dairy Farmer who
is looking for herd bull or bull cali
would do well to get in touch with
Sank Centre and neighboring pure
bred men.
Make your herd bull the best pos.
sfble, one that is giving you heifel
calves that will out do their mothers
in test and in amount of milk.
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Carl Pauley is getting in some
good ticks on his Is acre farm on
the west bank of Mccormick Lake
southeast of Sank Centre.
The poultry business is his main
source of income and he has four
good cows that pay good dividend
right along.
Mr.. Pauley has developed his
poultry business until now he has
several hundred White Leghorn chick
ems and quite an investment in mod
ern poultry equipment. His eggs
are shipped direct to a special mar.
ket in st. Paul.
Home grown ground alfalfa is part
of the daily poultry ration on the
farm. Alfalfa is also the cow hay
Five of the 1S acres on the place
are in Alfalfa. Mr.. Pauley cured
quite lot of his alfalfa in the cock
this season and it has a very fresh
dark green color, excellent quality.
OF the four cows on the farm each
one is a real COW. Each one will
give plenty of milk and butterfat for
the year to net tidy profit above he1
feed, labor and other expense for her
ownr. AS Mr.. Pauly stated, ''The
cows cost pretty good price but
they are well worth the money. One
has a 400 pound butterfat record to
her credit made by her former owner
in Wisconsin.
George Schurman, who lives on the
Schurman farm on the Sank Centre
Melrose road is fast getting settled
on his new place.
A new barn has recently been
finished with silo mostly enclosed.
This makes convenient arrange
ment. The silo can be braced very
good, and there is much less danger
of frozen silage. The barn is made
roomy and convenient. Drinking
cups have been installed.
Mr.. Schurman made some Alfalfa
hay this summer on this place. He
has some of an old stand left that has
been seeded on the place for quite a
while
Alex Botz, southwest of Sank
Centre, is an old hand with the short
horn breed around Sank Centre. He
has sold great many head of pure
bred Shorthorn bulls and cows and
heifers in this community.
He has two bull calves for sale at
present.
Mr.. Botz farms on big scale and
believes strongly in good cattle, es-.
pecially Shorthorns. He believes
every farmer should have good pure
bred bull at the head of his herd
This is the only way to build for the
future.
Freakish Summer to Boost Alfalfa
Acreage
The splendid showing made by al
falfa during the freakish weather
that characterized the past crop sea-
son is likely to result in an increasing
acreage of this legume next spring,
according to DR.. w. L. Burlison. In
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