The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1925-11-26
DEPARTMENT FOR THE ACRICULTURISTS

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Two Judging Teams OFF to Inter
acknowledgements will have tw'
general livestock judging teams a
the international Livestock Exposi
ton which opens in Chicago on Sat
urday, November %, and holds ont
week. The team representing thu
College of Agriculture will be select
ed from tentative list of six men
namely, Henry Morrison, j. j. Cam
pion, and Dalton Long, all of St.
Paul; Carroll Blakeslee of Spring Val
ley, Morril Campion of Angus, anc
Harold Petersen of Franklin.
Accompanied by their coach
Prof. E. F. Ferrin, members of the
team have been doing practice judg'
ing at Iowa State College, Purdue
University, and the University Of II,
linois. The judging contest at the
International is scheduled for the
18th.
Charles ann John Chambers and
Wayne Jones, all of Steele county,
compose the team which will rep
resent the All clubs at the Interna-
tional. They, too, have been doing
practice work at the Iowa, Indiana,
and Illinois stations. H. G. Zav-
oral, livestock specialist, is their
coach. Both teams will judge mar
ket and breeding classes of horses,
beef cattle, swine, and sheep.
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SHOWS Time to Buy Good Farm"
-Warren-"Now is a good time to
buy a good farm" says DIR. G. F.
Warren of New York State College,
who will give several lectures at the
extension service school to be held
for extension workers at University
Farm, st. Paul, December Ia to 10.
DR.. Warren is known all over the
country as an authority on farm
economics. He is no stranger to
educators and farmers of Mime
sofa, for he has frequently visited
University Farm A few years ago
he entertained and instructed large
numbers attending the Farmers
and Homemakers' Week Short
Course.
But DR.. Warren says plainly that
it is not a good plan to buy a poor
farm, no matter how cheap it may
be. Though prices of farm land
for the entire United States were
reported last spring 38 per cent
above the five-year pre-war average"
he says, Getty real estate is more
than double pre-war prices. Any
man can draw, therefore, his own con-
illusions about whether this is al
good time to- invest in good farm
property"
275 Make the Grade In Ton-Litter
ter Race; Dakota County Wins
George Conzemius of Hastings, Da-
kota county, has won the 1925 Min
nesota ton litter contest with litter
of IA purebred Poland China pigs
which weighed 1880 pounds or
two and one-eighth tons at the end
of $50 days.
Clarence B. Kraft of Pennington,
also in Dakota county, who won the
Minnesota contest last year, is sec
ond this year with litter of 16 pure
bred Duroc Jerseys which weighed |
4,121 pounds at the end of six |
months. The secretary of the Ma
tional Duroc Record association says
that Kraft's litter is probably the |
heaviest litter of Duroc Jerseys ever
produced.
Two hundred seventy-five farmers
from 81 counties, enrolled in the ton
litter contest this yeear. Seventy
nine of them, hailing from 40 coun-
ties, produced ton or more of pork |
from one litter in $50 days. The
weights ranged from 1904 pounds
to 1880 pounds, the averages being
2,499 pounds and 11.3 pigs per lit
ter. In the first contest last year 215 |
Minnesota farmers from 43 counties
enrolled. Forty-three produced their
ton or more of pork from a single /!
litter within the required time. The
weights ranged from zoos to 3,1O2
pounds.
These facts are reported from the
office of H. G. Zavoral, a university
livestock specialist who has had
charge of the contest both years. 1t
is worth noting that J +. H. Seymour,
a junior club boy of Eyota, Olmsted
county, was third in the contest, hav-
ing brought litter of Is purebred /
Chester Whites up to 1886 pounds II
in 40 days. Edwin D. Olson, an L
other club boy, whose home is at |.
Worthington, Mobiles county, raised a
litter of IA purebred Chester Whites k
which yielded 3,131 pounds. He was
fourth. Still another club boy, Del [
mar Splittstoesser of st. Charles, Wi
1ona county produced $3.50 pounds
II pork. Grace Luchsinger, club
girl of Lake Elmo, Washington coun-
", fed littre which weighed up at j
',129 pounds. There were two lit |,
ers of more than two tons each, and
even filters of more than ton and a L
lalf each. II
Cash prizes aggregating about Z
ZOO, furnished by the Minnesota /
livestock Breeders association and K
'ther organizations, will be divided q
mong the winners. II
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