The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1925-11-19

prints: Their Place in the Dis
tribution of Butter" and "The Eff
cheney of Creamery Equipment. "
H. c.. Larson, secretary of the Wis
consin Buttermakers' association,
and Alexandria Johnson of the Min
nesota Cooperative Creameries' as
ISOLATION are on the Visitors Day
program, as well as several members
of the dairy division faculty.
Farm Account Course by Mail Now
Offered - Beginning next month a
correspondence course in farm &C
counts will be given by w. l.. Ca
vert, farm management specialist,
agricultural extension service, Uni
versity, of Minnesota. AS planned,
the course will consist of six lessons
designed to train farmer to keep
satisfactory records, as follows:
1. Preparing inventory and net
worth statements for home farm.
2. Summarizing the years records
to find the labor income or per cent
earned on the investment.
8. Keeping livestock feed records.
4. Calculating the returns that
livestock pays for feed.
5. Studying ones crop and live
stock records with a view to finding
places where the net income may be
increased.
6. Analysing ones records with
regard to size of business, diversity
and effective use of labor.
each lesson will consist of a
certain amount of home work and
material for study" says Mr.. Ca
vert. upon completing each lesson
the farmer student will send in
answers to a set of questions that
will indicate whether or not he has
acquired a good understanding of
the subject. The next lesson will
then be forwarded to the student,
with suggestions in regard to his
answers in connection with the pre-
vious lesson. This home study will
give the farmers who desire to learn
better methods of handling farm
records an opportunity to pursue sys-
tematic study during the winter"
Give Pigs a Running Start, Pleads
Evvard-Fall pigs intended for the
spring market should not only be
given a running start" but contin-
ually kept con the go" toward the
desired 200 to $50 pound goal.
This is the opinion of Prof. M.
Evvard, the "hog man of Iowa. as
given over the Radio Farm School of
the Blue Valley Creamery Institute.
The running start" is absolutely
necessary if the pigs are to enter
winter quarters at a good weight and
able to withstand cold and changeable
weather, he said.
"Good strong, husky, fall pigs at
narrowing time are highly to be de-
sired, because the better start they
get upon the day of narrowing the
bigger will they be when cold wealth
er comes," Prof. Evvard stated.
"FaH pigs that are very small at far
rowing time and which are fed poor
ly during the sucking period are
likely to be very small when the
wintry blasts arrive in our climate.
1t is not well to have fall pigs come
after October 1, but if they do every
thing possible should be done to push
the brood sows that are sucking these
pigs. The pushing process especial
ly should be applied Immediately to
the fall pigs that have not been
weaned and that do not weigh at
least around so pounds by the mid
die of November.
And this is how Prof. Evvard would
give the pigs the running START"
"Put the sows on full feed, giving
them all the corn they will eat two
or three times daily. If shelled corn
is available, put it in a self-feeder
for them, allowing few days to put