The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1925-06-11
DEPARTMENT FOR THE ACRICULTURISTS

boiled eggs mixed with bread crum-
bled into sweet milk, and the mixture
squeezed dry and fed in a crumbly
form.
Keep turkeys free from lice. Black
head is believed to come from the
turkey flock being allowed to feed
too much on new grains.
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The Breeders Problem
Keeping record of every cow in the
herd brings new and useful informa
ton. No matter what COW testing
association or what group of associa-
tions is studied, it will be found that
if the work is carried on properly,
there is a constant increase in pro-
duction of the herds until the average
production reaches at least over 800
pounds fat The Bureau of Dairying
in compiling the figures of four COW
testing associations shows that the
first year the herds averaged 249
pounds fat, and the seventh year 315
pounds. Each year intervening be-
tween the first and seventh years
there was slight increase in the
production of fat. Instances can be
recorded where COW testing associa-
tions that have not produced an av-
erage of 200 pounds fat per COW
have, after several years Of testing
and eliminating the poor cows, reach
ed over $50 pounds fat. When an as
ISOLATION reaches this production it
is met with new problem; that is,
the selection of bulls capable of trans
Jo,rx, to1anf fhof will ooy,.u
the herds beyond the average of
$50 pounds.
We find records tobulated by the
Bureau of Dairying, including 1,024
dairy cows, that after the cows reach
ed production of 400 pounds fat
their daughters only averaged 375
pounds and where cows averaged $50
pounds, their daughters went down to
425 pounds. This brings clearly be
fore every thinking dairy farmer and
breeder the necessity of selecting
bulls which have proven themselves
capable of transmitting high produc-
ton.
Breeders in the future will be call
ed upon to supply more animals OF
proven ability than they have in the
past. There are breeders already
VINO are not raising any calf unless it
comes from dam capable of making
at least 400 pounds fat in a year. We
consider a herd that averages 800
pounds of fat as doing commendable
work but we know there are herds av-
eraging 400 and a few 500 pounds
fat. This character of work requires
much skill in breeding, feeding, and
handling and the greatest pains must
be exercised in the selection of bull
capable of perpetuating such high
dairy talent. -Hoard's Dairymen.
Three Committeeman Given Minr
u Under the New Purnell Act-Dr.
J. D. Black, chief of the agricultural
economics division at University
Fam, represented the University De-
partment of Agriculture at the first
meeting at Washington, D c., of com.
mitteemen under the new Purnell act
for educational research in agricul-
ture. The Minnesota station was
signally honored by the assignment
to it of three committee places. DR..
L.. s.. Palmer of the division of bio
chemistry was appointed on the Wit
amin committee and Dean w. G.. Cof-
fey and DR.. Black on the marketing
and SURPRISES committee.
At national meeting of directors
OF experiment stations at St. Louis
April 20 and FL, four general pro-
jects, national in scope, were agreed
upon for research and study under
the Purnell act. These were, first,
marketing and SURPRISES; second, the
vitamins in human nutrition; third,
rural social problems; fourth, beef
production and quality in meat. Each
station director was asked to outline
projects which his station was pre-
pared to attack and to recommend
specialists who would serve as COM
mitteemen in the four fields outlined.
The Purnell act, passed by the last
congress, appropriated an additional
$4,000 for each agricultural expert
ment station in the next fiscal begin
ming July 1.
Iowa Expert to Speak Cattle Feed.
er's Day-Rex Beresford, beef cattle