The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1925-08-27
DEPARTMENT FOR THE AGRICULTURISTS

string of cows that will average above
the 800 pound butterfat per year
mark. This high an average has been
reached with hundreds of dairy farm
ers. It has not been reached on still
greater hundreds of dairy farms.
Don't forget your bull is half Of
your future herd.
The man whose costs are lowest
can sell a. the lowest price without
suffering loss and on the other hand,
make the biggest profit when prices
are high.
Pete Pierson, Ed Bosshardt and R.
G. Penrose have regular alfalfa row
out there around the upper end OF
Sank Lake. They all have a good
acreage of fine looking alfalfa.
Renewing" First Step In Poultry
Campaign-More and better poultry
houses is the motive for campaign
which will be waged September Ia to
October by poultry specialists of
the agricultural extension service,
University of Minnesota, cooperating
with county agents and egg associa-
ton officials
The renewing ,enlarging, furnish
ing, improving, and constructing OF
poultry houses will be featured as the
campaign advances. Leaflets bearing
on each subject and posters advertis-
ing the campaign will be distributed
by the extension service.
Renewing-'This means putting
the poultry house in as good sanitary
condition as when built" says N. T..
Chapman, poultryman. EARN Flocks
to be profitable must be maintained
in the best possible state of health:
The poultry house should be cleaned
often and thoroughly renewed at least
once year. Nothing helps more to
control diseases. All the furnish
ings and fixtures of the house, walls,
floors, hoppers, windows, and roof
should be thoroughly cleaned. Every
poultry house in Minnesota should be
renewed during September"
Bumper Honey Crop and Good
Prices, Too-Thanks to wonderful
white clover bloom, Minnesota honey
producers have bumper crops this
year. They are also assured of good
prices. Francis jaeger, chief of the
bee culture division of the University
of Minnesota, says the states honey
crop is $50 per cent above the aver
age yearly crop. He believes that
good prices will prevail because Cal
ifornia's honey crop, which normally
is one-fifth of the total for the Unit
ed States, is a failure. In July Mr..
jaeger visited most of the honey maxi
ing sections of the state and was
everywhere impressed with the i'm
provement shown by beekeepers in
handling their colonies.
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State u Offers News Engineering
Course-Beginning with the college
year 1925-26 the University of Min
nesota will offer four-year technical
course in agricultural engineering
As approved by the board of regents,
the course will be administered by
the College of Engineering and
Architecture in cooperation with the
College of Agriculture, Forestry and
Home Economics. Students who fin
ish the course will receive the degree
of Bachelor of Science in Agricultur-
al Engineering
To turn out engineers qualified to
work with and for the farmers is the
object of the new course, instruction
in the specialized lines of which will
be given at University Farm, says
William Boss, chief of the agricultur-
al engineering division. While the
course will deal with the entire field
of agricultural engineering, upper
class men will have opportunity to
specialize in farm structures, farm