The Sauk Centre herald., 1927-12-22
Agricultural Notes

AxIlCl11IUk0l a lNOlcS
OF the 13S million acres of Ma
rional forest lands, exclusive of
Alaska, the United States Forest
Service estimates that approx
mately 90 million acres are suitable
for the grazing either of sheep or
cattle. q
In poultry raising, the incubat-
or has the distinct advantage of
Matching a few or several hundred
chicks at one time, and with the
use of the coal-burning brooder
the problem of reproducing the
focks from year to year is mater
tally simplified.s
'The law of supply and de-
mand," says w. B. Greeley, head
of the Forestry Service of the u.
S. Department of Agriculture, sis
working steadily to create timber
values which in large portions of
the United States will pay fair re-
turns on forestry as a business"
The use of good homegrown 1e-
gume hay and silage is the basis
of economical feeding of dairy
cows. The cost of the grain por-
ton of the ration will depend
largely upon the quantity of these
roughages available. A dairyman
who has several stacks or a barn
full of legume hay and a silo full
of silage need not worry about
the winter feed bill. Every cow
should have these roughage feeds.
When weather conditions along
the New York Chicago air mail
route are favorable, insuring the
arrival of mail in New York early
the next morning, a days interest
can be saved by sending securities
by air mail. This sometimes
amounts to large sums. 1t is the
practice of business houses in Chi
cago to call up the Weather Bur
eau each afternoon to learn what
the prospects are. If unfavorable,
the securities are sent by ordinary
fast rail mail as this is more de-
pendable in bad weather.
Glass l railroads expended
$186,291,000 in 1926 for the di-
rect purchase of about Is per cent
of the total timber cut of the
United States. Indirect purchases
brought the railroads 1926 con-
sumption of forest products up to
approximately rs per cent of the
country's entire output. Because
of those huge expenditures the
railroads regard fire prevention as
of utmost Importance.
Onions like some other veget-
ables and fruits may be cooled
somewhat below the freezing point
without actual freezing taking
place provided they are not in
any way disturbed. Under COM
mercial conditions it sometimes
happens that onions are inadvert-
emily allowed to be exposed for
some time to temperature below
their freezing point (about 80 de-
grees F.) Under such conditions
q wise precaution is to warm the
onions gradually to a temperature
somewhat above their freezing
point before attempting to move
or otherwise disturb them.
In a study of the marketing of
milk and cream in New England,
economists, of the U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture visited many
milk and cream stations supplying
the Boston market with milk.
They found too many competing
stations in which the volume of
milk handled daily was too small
for economical service to the pro-
ducers. Because of the advantage
Of carload over less than car load
freight rates, the lowest operating
costs for a station are obtainable
only when the station can ship
car load of from 220 to $50 40
quart cans of milk daily. This
means a minimum supply of from
1000, 900. to 100000 pounds
yearly, and a supply of 10000
900 pounds is more desirable be-
cause it permits a full car ship
ment even in the seasons of light
est supply. Much the same ap-
plies to dairy stations in other re-
gions than New England, particu-
larly" in areas where the principal
market is a large city with a
heavy demand for fluid milk.
A good quality of skim milk