The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1925-12-03
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
BLUE VALLEY FARM SERVICE
By M. A. Nye
DID YOU KNOW

OuSHC TO nave an acre OF Alfalfa on
his place for every COW he has on his
place?
That building a herd through the
use of pure bred sires is the safest
and cheapest method of establishing
the dairy herd?
That the Illinois Dairy Husbandry
Department states that as a result
of a survey they found the farm Ia
Dor income yearly was $178.0O where
scrub bulls were used and that this
increased to $837.00 on those farms
where pure bred dairy sires were
used?
That recent figures gathered in
Minnesota showed certain farmers to
be getting 80 cents per hour for the
time spent with the cows, Others in
the same neighborhood were getting
as low as cents per hour.
That it takes two average Ameri-
can cows to produce as much as one
Holland COW? 1t takes three average
American cows to produce as much
as two Dannish cows?
That at least one out of every
three cows raised in our Dairy Herds
is found improbable when records
are kept?
That many cows are condemned as
poor mixers that have never been
given a chance Right feeds, enough
feed, long enough rest before calv>
ing, etc?
That the man who is using sire
of better breeding than his cows is
looking to the future?
That any farmer who means bust
ness and who is not content to work
long hours for little pay can keep his
own records, learn how to feed prop
erly, how to select good sire and
can have herd within few years
that will be source of both pride
and profit?
Mimi. Seed Potatoes First In Iowa
Test Early Ohio seed potatoes
grown in Kittson county have made
an impression at the Iowa Experiment
station at Ames. According to
County Agent M. A. Thorfnson of
Kittson samples under test from the
field of Martin Boraas of Hallock,
Minnesota, yielded at the rate of 237
, bushels of United States No. 1 size
per acre at the Iowa station, while a
second sample from the A. l.. Han
son farm at Kennedy, Minnesota,
yielded at the rate of BAL bushels
an acre. Of 100 samples under test
the Minnesota potatoes were right at
the top. Both men have been re-
quested by C. l.. Fitch of the Iowa
station to quote prices on 60 bushels
of their Ohios to be used in different
demonstration plots in Iowa in 1926.
Both Minnesota growers, says the
agent, practice the seed plot method
and have been diligent in hill select
ing their seed plots.
State Fair Managers Renew Club
Prizes-The board of managers of
the Minnesota State Fair has already
approved an initial appropriation of
$6,150 for boys and girls club ac-
tivities at the next state fair, Septem
Der to II, 1926. The advanced
premium list for the boys and girls
club department will be distributed
as soon as the special prizes offered
by outside institutions in conjunction
with the fair have been compiled.
Attendance upon the fair in 1925
was AL 1882, or the largest since 1920
which was one of the big years COM
ing at the close of the war.
Andrew Boss Services Drafted By
u. S. Dept.-Andrew Boss, chief Of
the farm management division, Uni
versity of Minnesota, and vice direct
or for many years of the Minnesota
Experiment station, has been granted
leave for three months, beginning
December 1, at the request of the bur-
eau of agricultural economics, Unit
ed States Department of Agriculture,
to make a study of and plan for the
development of investigation prob
lens of regional and national scope.
Professor Boss will make his head
quarters in Washington and will visit
experimental stations in various states
with the object in view of lcorrelating
the work of the department and such
states and bring about improved CO.
operative relations. This is the first
leave for Professor Boss in more
than 30 years, or the term of his SER
vice with the university.
Cutting, Milling of Small Trees
Studied-Does it pay the logger and
lumberman to cut, manufacture, and
market small trees?
In some forest regions, says DIR.
Raphael Zon of the Lake States For
est Experiment Station University
Farm, it has been proved by woods
and mill studies that operators actu-
ally lose money on every small tree
cut. DIR. Zon says this is important,
not only to the logger, but the forest
conservation as well, for if the oper-
ator finds it more economical to leave
the small trees standing, such trees
will form the nucleus of new forest
growth and at the same time perform
the important function of reseeding
cutover areas.
To ascertain comparative figures
in logging large and small trees,
members of the Forest Experiment
Station and the Forest Products La
boratory at Madison, Wisconsin, have
lately tailed logs and timed woods
operations at several mills in Mime
sofa, Wisconsin and Michigan. Def
mite conclusions will not be available
until after the 1926 field season.
Minnesota Editor to Speak at ~"
Course Several Of the best known
speakers of midwest states have ac-
cepted invitations to speak at Uni
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