The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1926-08-12
DEPARTMENT FOR THE ACRICULTURISTS

Chick Raisers Demand Improvee
Equipment-The growth of Mime
sofas poultry industry into bushes.
of $50,000,000 annually, in which
many thousands of farmers share, il
creating a demand for improved
equipment, and one item of equip
ment to which poultry raisers are
giving special attention is the broodel
house.
Many poultry raisers who have
been content to use make-shif1
buildings for brooding young chicks
have suffered such heavy losses that
they are now building or planning
to build houses especially adapted tc
colony brooding.
AS an aid in this movement the
extension division of the depart
ment Of agriculture, University OF
Minnesota, has issued bulletin on
the building of colony brooder
houses, prepared by A. c.. Smith
of the division of poultry hus-
bandry, Cora E. Cooke, division
of agricultural extension, and
a. b. White, division of agricul.
tural engineering, University Farm,
St. Paul.
This bulletin, which is for free
distribution, describes the type OF
colony brooder house best adapted
to Minnesota conditions and tells
just how to build it.
The time to plan for the housing
of next springs chicks is now.
Dorr Prizes Given Ag. School stu.
dents-Five students of the Central
School of Agriculture, University
Farm, St. Paul, were made happy
last week by the receipt of cash
prizes awarded for high scholarship
during the winter term of the school.
The money for the prizes was derived
from a fund created by the late Caleb
Dorr, a business man of Minneapolis.
The prizes awarded were as follows:
First, Miss Janella Gladen, La
Porte, Minnesota, freshman student,
$25.
Second, Miss Frances Hopkins,
Winthrop, Minnesota, senior, $40.
Third, Herman Nelson, Tyler,
Minnesota, intermediate student, $15.
Fourth, Ole Eugene, Caledonia,
Minnesota, intermediate, $40.
Fifth, Harry D. Anderson, Del
avian, Minnesota, junior, S..
intermediate students are those
who are taking fourth year OF
school work preparatory to enter
ing the College of Agriculture.
Farmers Short Of Hay Turn to
Trench Silo-Farmers who are facing
a shortage of good hay for winter
feeding this year are turning their at
tention to plans for the closer use
Of the corn crop. Farmers who have
silos will fill their silos to capacity
and those who have not silos of the
ordinary type are considering the
construction of trench silos as an
emergency measure.
AS guide to farmers interested
in trench silos, the extension division
Of the department of agriculture, Uni
versity of Minnesota, has issued new
edition of Special Bulletin No. 100 on
tTrench Silos in Minnesota" This
bulletin, which is for free distribution
tells just how to dig such silo. 1t
says:
'The drainage of the site of the
silo must be perfect for the silo must
be perfect as water running into a
silo will spoil the silage.
"In choosing site, convenience in
excavating, and in filling and feeding
should be considered.
"Such silo is best constructed in
a clay soil. The dirt is usually loos-
ened with a pillow and removed with
q scraper. A silo 8 feet in depth with
a width of ID feet at the top and 10
feet at the bottom and 45 feet long
will store enough silage to feed
herd of Is cows 1913 days."
The bulletin also describes the use
of explosives as an aid in trench silo
construction.
Tomatoes Are Good Winter
Health Food-Because tomatoes are
a good health food for use in the
winter months, in these days when
the tomato harvest is at it's height
foresighted housewives are canning
tomatoes.
Canned tomatoes contain the same
vitamins that are found in oranges.