The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1925-10-08

ticultural Society, which can boast
of the largest membership of all such
societies in the United States, will
hold its 50th annual meeting in the
city hall and court house in Minneap-
oils December /, 2, 8, and A. Secre-
tary R. S. Macintosh of University
Farm is now preparing the program
for the meeting.
Cow More Scientific Than Ford,
Henry Is Told-The dairy COW is a
more efficient worker than the auto
mobile This is the comeback of DR..
C. H. Eckles, noted dairy expert; to
the charge of Henry Ford that the
COW is an inefficient machine" which
lie hoped would be displaced by a
scientific cow giving synthetic milk. I"
DR.. Eckles is chief of the division Of
dairy husbandry of the University of
Minnesota and a lecturer of the Ra-
dio Farm School of the Blue Valley
Creamery Institute.
"a comparison of the dairy cow
and the automobile will show that the
dairy cow is really the more efficient
machine" states Dr. Eckles. 81 am
told by engineers that the automobile
jogging along under ordinary road
conditions, only Is per cent of the
actual power of gasoline is used. Even
poor cows return more than Is per
cent of their food in milk"
Mr.. Eckles doubts that Mr.. Ford's
suggestion of a scientific COW giving
synthetic milk will ever be realized.
"The most skilled chemist cannot
make any of the half dozen food con-
stituents found in milk" he says.
GAN of these are absolutely necessary
to the human diet. AS far as history
goes back, some 5000 years, milk has
been one of the chief foods of man.
kind, and there is no reason for be-
ieving that it will not continue to
be equally important in the future F."
f.
Pick Minnesota Champion Dairy
Calf Club Member-Harvey Kucken-
baker, of Owatonna, is the Minnesota
champion dairy calf cclub member
this year and winner of the prize ed
vocational trip to the National Dairy
Show in indianapolis, October 10 to
II, offered by the Blue Valley Cream
cry Institute, it is announced by G.
l.. Noble, executive secretary of the
National Committee on Boys and
Girls work. Kuckenbaker who was
the choice of T. A. Erickson of the
Minnesota University Farm School,
state club leader, will have all his
expenses in connection with the trip
paid, a check for the amount having
already been sent him.
The prize trip won by Kukenbaker
is the second annual trip offered by
the Institute, according to Mr.. Noble,
last years winner being Victor Uhlig,
of Backus, Kukenbaker together with
the champion dairy calf club members
from thirteen other Middlewestern
states, will travel in company with
the state club leaders and winners of
judging teams, and will be housed
with the other state champions on the
show grounds and take part in all the
events planned for the club winners.
Trips are contemplated to dairy
farm, points of interest in Indianapo-
lis such as the "Soldiers and Sailors
Monument" and the homes of James
Whitcomb Riley and the late Vice
President Thomas R. Marshall.
Calf clubs from 80 states with
their calves, vocational school boys
from ten states and college student
judging teams from rs states, will
help to make the boys and girls de-
partment of exceptional interest this
year. E. L. Hall, of Purdue, is sup
erintendent Of the department, and
M. L. Hall, also of Purdue, is the
camp director. The committee in
charge of the boys and girls work
consists of T. A. Ericsson, of st.
Paul, G.. L. Harrington, of Knoxville,
Tenn, and E. G. Jenkins, of College
Park, Md.
Younk Kukenbaker is happy over
his success in dairy calf club work
and plans to spend a good bit of his
time at the show in studying the new
est methods employed in raising high
cows.