The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1926-11-18

Upstate Boy is Best Junior Club
Gardner-Elmer Wallace, up at Clo-
quet in Carleton county, captured
the state championship of the gar
den club project in Minnesota this
year. Nearly 2,400 club boys and
girls were enrolled in the project.
This is the first time this champion
ship has been won by northern Min
nesota club member. Heretofore, the
honors have gone to juniors in south
ern and central counties.
Elmer grew beans, onions, radishes,
cucumbers, corn, potatoes, cabbage
and pumpkins on his garden of two
town lots which measured exactly
one-ffth acre. He had "a bushels of
potatoes and large stand of cabbage
which averaged eight pounds to the
head. By many visitors his garden
was declared the best they had seen.
Honors in the garden contest were
awarded by T. A. Erickson, the state
leader, and his staff at University
Farm, South st. Paul has the cham
pion garden club and Cloquet the
next best. The district individual
winners are: Northwest, Fred Poehls,
Sabin, member of the Moorhead club ;
northeast, Ben Dysart, Deer River
central, Stanley Carlson, 2728 18th
Avenue south, Minneapolis; southern,
Genevieve Devine, Elysian, and
James Hanson, Lansing (tied for
first honors).
District champion club are: North
west, Moorhead; northeast, Remer;
central, Long Prairie; southern,
Mortified and Winona, another tie.
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Cottonseed Meal in Over-Supply;
Price Cut-The attention of dairy
men, beef cattle feeders, county
agents, and livestock and dairy spec
ialists is called to the fact that an
enormous amount of cottonseed meal
has been produced in this country
this year and that, because of the
large supply, the price is exceeding
ly low. Even at the prices that have
prevailed for several years, cotton
seed meal has furnished protein in
one of the cheapest forms of pur-
chased feed.
In a note to the agricultural extern
sion service at University Farm,
DR.. C. C. B. Smith, chief of the Of
flee of cooperative extension work
Washington, D. c., says: cat the
present price it may be advantageous
on most farms to feed more cotton
seed meal than has been fed in the
past. On other farms where this by
product has not been used the pres
emit low price may make it advisable
to include it in the ration. !"
Information regarding the feeding
value of cottonseed meal and methods
of feeding can be obtained by
addressing the Minnesota Experiment
Station, University Farm st. Paul.
University Men Work Out Feeding
Formulas members of the College
Feed Conference Board have been
meeting at University Farm, ST. Paul,
to consider feed formula based upon
repeated tests made at experiment
stations and worked out for the bene-
fit of the dairy farmer. The formu-
las are designed for use by dairymen
of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa and
South Dakota. DR.. C. H. Eckles and
o. G. Schaefer represented the Min
nesota station at the meeting; F. B.
Morrison came from Wisconsin and
Prof Earl Weaver from Iowa. South
Dakota was not represented. The
board will make no recommendation
as to mixtures of feed until the form
ulas have been further discussed by
correspondence and otherwise. 1t is
expected that eventually rations will
be recommended also for other classes
of livestock.
Care Counts for More Than Loca
ton, Breed-Summarizing years
reports of 81 Minnesota poultry re-
cords f1ocks in 10 counties, Cora f..
Cooke, poultry specialist with the ag-
ricultural extension service. Univer-
sity of Minnesota finds that one To-
cation is about as good as another in
Minnesota for keeping poultry; that
there is no one most profitable breed ;
that improved feeding more than pays
for itself in increased returns; that
good housing is essential to good re-
turns, and that Minnesota farm focks
are an asset to the farm business.
Also the records seem TO show that
increased annual net returns can be
expected from high egg production,
a low feed cost, and the selling of
poultry and eggs to advantage, es-
pecially for breeding purposes.
Six breeds are represented in the
81 focks. The average number of
eggs laid per hen was 1928 and the
average feed cost per hen for the
year was $1.95. The average net re-
turn per bird was 1888. In the ten
fiocks having the highest production,
the actual feed cost was $2.04 per
hen as compared with a cost of $1.86
in the ten lowest producing focks.
Figured in terms of dozen eggs, the
high producing fiocl1s did the best with
feed costs amounting to only Is. 04
cents per dozen eggs, while it was 25
cents dozen in the low producing
fiocks. The average was 10 cents a
dozen. In other words, it costs more
to produce more eggs, but the in
creased production brings greater
return.
Carpenters Reported Scarce in the
Country-Because reports have been
received at the School of Agriculture,
University Farm, st. Paul, to the eff
feet that there is "a scarcity of car
penters in the country districts of the
state, who are able to work from