The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1926-10-14


Prices Certain-The honey crop, like
various other kinds of crops in the
middle west, is spotted this year, and
the yield in Minnesota will be not
more than 60 per cent of the normal,
as compared with "a crop of $50 per
cent of the normal in 1925, says
Francis jaeger, chief of the division of
bee culture, University of Minnesota.
While quantity is short, quality is
above the average, he says.
The shortage was caused by the
spring and early summer drought
which prevented white clover from
getting Ia start. Even now while de-
mand is improving, prices for honey
are holding about the same as last
year. AS production for the country
at large is below the average, honey
producers look for stiffening prices
as supplies begin to diminish.
Usually a seasons honey flow in
Minnesota lasts from six to eight
weeks. This year there We're places
in Minnesota where the flow was only
ten days.
Take Cholera Farms off the Visit
ing List-The most dependable pre-
cautionary measure against hog chol-
era, which is now epidemic in parts
of Minnesota and i'm states as far east
as Ohio, is immunization of herds
with antilhog cholera serum. I'm
fortunately there has been shortage
of serum because its manufacture lis
ON such small margin of profit that
the storing of large supplies is not
warranted in business sense. How
ever, the serum test limits made 10y
government decree been shortened
from 80 to Is days, and it is conf
IDENTIFY expected supplies will soon be
ample to meet the present serious sit
uation
Farmers whose hogs have so far
escaped the disease should maintain
a strict quarantine against infected
herds, says DIR. C. P. Fitch, chief cd
the veterinary medicine division at
University Farm. They should not
visit farms on which diseased hogs
are TO be found. They should also
insist that their neighbors stay out
of their hog lots, since the hog chol-
era virus may be carried on the shoes
of humans. The infection may also
be spread from farm to farm by dogs
or by movable objects such as farm
implements.
Lurking places for the germs off
hog cholera should be cleaned up
and kept clean by the use of disin-
fecta1ts and direct sunlight when it
is available. Outbreaks of the dis
east should be reported promptly to
the State Livestock Sanitary Board,
Did Capitol, st. Paul.
Minnesota Farmers Lead in Fall
Plowing-Minnesota farmers lead all
others of the United States ip the ex-
tent to which they pillow their lands
in the fall. More than so per cent
of cultivated areas in Minnesota are
fall plowed, says A. C. Army of the
farm crops division at University
Farm. Mr.. Army believes the prac-
tice should be continued on an even
larger scale. Fall blowing permits
of early wheat sowing in the spring,
and wheat sown early is almost an
variably better crop than the late
sown. The same rule holds good as
to oats and ito some extent as to
barley.
Swine Feeding Studies to be Re-
ported Oct. 2O-Protracted feeding
experiments with nearly $50 pigs
will be reported by w. H. Peters, E.
F. Ferrin, and M. A. McCarty, Of
the animal husbandry division, Uni
versity of Minnesota, on Swine Feed
ers' Day, October 20, at University
Farm. Results of these experiments
summarized. from carefully kept
records will bear upon
The necessity for protein supple
ments IN feeding growing pigs.
A comparison of lard and bacon
types of hogs.
Feeding Duroc Jersey, Pc;and
China, and Yorkshire pigs for the
purpose of studying the values of the
carcasses produced.
Full feeding compared with limit
ed grain feeding of growing pigs.
Methods of watering pigs and The
effect upon gains.
Two addresses of much more than
ordinary interest will be given at the
afternoon session beginning at 1870.
f. B. Morrison of the University of
Wisconsin will discuss New Fac
tors in Feeding" and Mr.. Ferrin will
describe 'Tlhe Danish System Of