The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1927-01-06

States Department OF Agriculture,
In only states-Nevada, Arizo
ma, Wyoming, Montana, and New
Mexico are enough foals born
every year to maintain, their own
horse population. In order to
keep up the present number of
horses in the United States it is
necessary to increase the animal
foal crop by IS per cent over the
entire country. In some States
this figure runs much higher. In
Illinois, for instance, 120 per cent
more foals are needed annually,
in Ohio 1876 per cent, in Indiana
215 per cent, and in Connecticut
1,190 per cent.
.. Fat in Beef
Yellow fat in a beef cut or
carcass usually denotes low-grade
beef from "a grass-fattened animal.
Firm white tallow in a beef cut,
with small veins of this fat ap-
pearing throughout the substance
of the meat, denotes beef OF a
superior grade and such meat is
usually tender and palatable.
Baby Beef
Under favorable conditions
there are several advantages in
producing young beef for market
rather than mature beef. Young
cattle make larger gains than cattle
on same quantity of feed, year
lings being able to make rs to 40
per cent more gain than mature
cattle on the same feed. Further
more, by raising and fattening
calves the money invested can be
turned over in a short time. Young
beeves offer greater choice ! in
the date of marketing because
they hold their bloom longer. This
is a decided advantage if the
market is unsteady or weak.
Cattle with inferior form and
poor quality are not suitable for
the production of desirable beef.
To produce young beef, grain
must be fed in considerable guam
titles from the time of roughage
no attempt should be made to
feed out calves. Calves to quail
fly for this purpose must have
quality and finish. One of the
beef breeds (Shorthorn, Hereford
Aberdeen-Angus, and Galloway
should be used in the production
of young beef.
The Profitable Pig
The profitable pig is one that
gains continuously from date of
narrowing until marketed. Dur
ing the sucking period the SOW
should be given feed that will stim-
ulate the production of milk.
Give her corn or ground barley
as the main feed, supplemented
by shorts or middlings, tankage OF
fish meal, or old-process linseed
meal. The corn may be fed on
the ear or shelled. The other
feeds may be fed dry or in
slop. The sow should have all
the feed she will clean up twice
daily in addition to pasture.
1t is very important that the
pigs make good gains during the
sucking period. If the hand-feed-
ing method is followed, the labor
of caring for brood sows and
their litters is considerable, but
where the self-feeder is used, sew
eral days or even a weeks supply
of feed may be stored in the hop
pers in a very short time.
Livestock Outlook as Analysed
by Boss
Discussing the farm business
for 1927 at the annual extension
conference at University Farm
Andrew Boss. vice director of the
Minnesota Experiment Station
said it was simply matter of re-
adjusting the proportions be-
tween the classes of livestock and
crops that go to make up that
business. Butter, hogs, wool, and
eggs should form the nucleus fo1
the operations Of the coming year
Expressed in few words, Profes-
sor Boss analysed the situation as
follows:
Dairy = Moderate expansion
justified in those sections where
feed can be provided.
Hogs Outlook is for good
demand for as many hogs as
were produced in 1895. Prices
may ride for a time at the tod
Of the cycle before the decline be.
gins.
BEEF cattle-Dust as much of a
puzzle as ever, with fair chance
that farmers who carry their feed
ers over cheaply on roughage and
then feed them out on grass, mar.
keting early next fall, will re.
ceive better prices for their fin
ished cattle. Advisable tokeep 9
reasonable acreage Of farm lane
in grass and forage to produce
beef cattle at low cost on chear
feeds.
Sheep-Room for moderate ex.
pansion. Many Minnesota farm
ers should invest in a few sheer
which will develop into fair sizee
farm focks.
Lumber States
The forests of California, the
largest user of lumber in The
Union, yield a total of about two
billion feet (board measure) o.
lumber annually, according tx
the Forest Service of the United
States Department of Agriculture
The annual lumber requirement.
OF the State are about four bill
hon feet. There is enough tim
Der in this state, it is estimated