The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1926-09-23
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ers took part in the annual dairy cat
tie judging contest ait the State Fair
and Northwest Dairy Exposition as
compared with only 13 last year. The
l.. ". Wilson cup, the chief trophy
for this event, was won by w. q.
johnson, tester for the Watonwan
county association.
The highest scoring judges in the
different breeds were Mr.. Johnson
for Guernsey's, Eugene Guggemos OF
Redwood for Jerseys, Orville More
land of W6nona for Holsteins, and
Frank Rcwley of Douglas county for
Ayrshires. The Farmer of st. Paul
gave copies of Eckles' "Dairy Cattle
and Milk Production" to the winners
of first places i'm the different breeds
and copies of Henry & Morrison'ss
"Feeds and Feeding" to winners OF
second places. The third and fourth
place men were awarded subScrlp-
lions to breed papers and to Hoard $
Dairyman.
The Minnesota Cow Testers asso-
citation voted to pay the expenses OF
Mr.. johnson to the Dairy Cattle Con-
gress ait Waterloo, Iowa, where he
will compete in dairy cattle Judging
with testers from other states. At the
annual election Of officers Arland
Anderson of whitman was chosen
president, Marion johnson of Nelson,
Douglas county, vice-presldent' ana
Harry White of Howard Lake, secre-
barry and treasurer,
:. How to Can Apples and Piums Tor
Pies-How shall I can apples for
pies? Answered by Mary l.. Bull OF
the home demonstration office of Uni
yersity Farm. She says:
"Pare, core and slice the apples ana
pack in jars as closely as possible.
Cover with boiling water or, a thln
syrup, one-half cup of sugar to one
cup of water. Place the rubber and
cover and process in hot water bath
Is minutes. ;.
"Plums may be scalded, cold dip
ped, packed close in pars covered with
boiling water or thin syrup, ana
processed 20 minutes in the hot water
bath. They make excellent winter
pie material.
"Another method of saving sur
plus fruit is by canning fruit juices.
Put the unsweetened boiling hot fruit
Juice in bottles, tie cloth over the
ton and pour paraffin over it. When
this is hard, again pour paraffin over
it or better, dip in paraffin. These
juices may be used in puddings, as
pie filings in mincemeat or made IN
to jelly"
Wadena County Team Wins Judg-
ing Contest-Teams of three farmers
each from five Minnesota counties
participated in farmers dairy cat
tie Judging corsest at the recent State
Fair and Northwest Dairy Exposition:
The Wadena county team, composed
of F. R.. Warden of Staples and
Newman F. Ireland and Boyd Conley
of Verndale, won the first honors and
a silver cup given by the management
of the Northwest Dairy Exposition.
Houston county was second, Wlnona
third, Kittson fourth, and ottertan
fifth. The high individual scores
were made by Mr.. Warden, 366 out
of possible 400; by MIR. Ireland,
who scored 343 points, and by John
H. Nahragang of Lewiston with 343
points. Medals were presented to
each.
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u. S. Foresters Open New Branch
Station Featuring the annual meet
ing, September 8, at Marquette,
Michigan, of the advisory committee
of the Lake States Forest Expert
ment station, was the formal opening
of a branch field station for the up
per peninsula of Michigan. This
new station. is development of the
work directed by DIR. Raphael Zon at
the Lake States Forest Experiment
station at University Farm, st. Paul.
The branch station is 20 miles east
of Marquette and consists of a large
acreage of virgin forest, CORES.
pondingly large cutt-over area, and
some swamp land typical of the re-
gion. The new Michigan station will
be used for working out problems
connected with northern hardwoods.
The Cloquet Stain in Minnesota is
used for the study of problems OF
pine propagation. A branch statlor
will sometime be established in Wis
consin, thus completing the link fol-
the three lake states, says DR.. ION !.
University Livestock Wins Cham.