The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1928-01-05
Agricultural Notes


learned to clean her sewing ma
chine and put it in good running
order. Then she made pin money
by overhauling the machines of
her neighbors.
For the past two seasons of
trapping, the fur catch in thil
country has declined at an alarm
ing rate. The 1885 catch was
20 per cent less than in the pre-
vious year and in the 1926-27 sea-
son the decline was even greater.
Federal-aid road projects COM
pleted during the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1927, increased by more
than $500 miles, the mileage of
improved roads in the Federal-aid
highway syttem, and brought the
total length of roads improved with
Federal assistance up to 64,209
miles. +ft.'
A student of home economics
has calculated that dishwiping in
an average family is equivalent to
wiping al much space as a three
acre field. Proper scalding and a
good dish drainer saves this use
less work and allows an average
of 20 minutes a day of leisure for
the housewife who follows the cas-
Ter method.
If the dairy herd Is culled intel
ligently on the basis of individual
cow records, if the remainder are
fed according to known produc-
ton, and if only good purebrei
sires are used, almost any dairy
herd, regardless of it's condition at
the start, will eventually be raised
to a plane of good production
Successful dairying depends on
many factors. Among these, Gull
ing is one of the most important.
Among the succulent roughages
pasture and silage are of mcst i'm
portance. Dairy cows always do
better in early summer when the
grass is plentiful and green. Be-
cause of the nutriments and sue
culence that it provides, silage is
the mcht economical winter substi-
tute for pasture grass. Good cows
will produce more and therefore
cheaper milk if given silage or
some other succulent feed during
the winter.
A daily ice service was inaugu-
rated last spring throughout the
Ohio River Basin by the U. IS.
Weather Bureau. 1t includes the
larger tributaries or the Ohio, the
Missouri River east of Kansas City
and the Mississippi River from the
mouth of the Missouri to the mouth
of the Ohio River. The informa-
ton received and the forecasts is
sued will be broadcast by radio,
published in river bulletins, wealth
er maps and newspapers, and tele-
phoned to lock masters along the
Ohio River. Special reports of the
formation of ice gorges will be
made.
If a complete water|upply sys-
tenn for the farm home is not with
in reach it is possible to tighten the
housewives burden to a very ma
terial degree by installing an ele-
waited barrel system at small ex-
pense. This barrel is placed on a
shelf or platform somewhat above
the level of the. kitchen sink. The
water is supplied to the barrel by
a pipe from the force pump at the
we'll. The water from the barrel
flows into the kitchen by gravity.
If complete water supply system
cannot he installed at once, rural
engineerti recommend the "steplby
STEP or one-unit-a-time plan of
installation in which one unit is
purchased one year and added to
the next.
Reports on gasoline taxes show
that the District of Columbia and
all but four of the States levied
gasoline taxes in the first six
months of this year ranging from
1 cent to as high as 5 cents gal
Ion. The total of taxes collected
after allowing for refunds was
slightly more than $100, 000, 600
collected from useU of nearly a.
900, 900 gallons of gasoline. The