Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-02-09
PINE COUNTY
DAIRY TOPS
Askov Cow Testing Associ-
alton Leads State With
% Herds that Have An
nual Average Production
of 800 Lbs. B. F. or Over.

Pine county dairymen score again.
The AskOv cow testing association
leads all other associations in the
state in the number of members who
have brought their dairy cows up to
an annual average production of 800
lbs or more of butterfat. There are 20
such dairymen in the Askov organiza-
ton as compared with 81 in the Bar
mum association in Carlton county, 10
| in the Dakota county association
(north), and IS in the Clarissa asso-
citation.
The facts have just come to light
in the annual awards of the National
Dairy association which show that
names of owners of 661 Minnesota
dairy herds have been added for 1926
81 to the National Honor Roll of the
association in recognition of the
achievement of developing a herd of
not less than five cows to yearly
production average of 800 pounds or
more of butterfat. -
Six hundred sixty-one handsomely
engraved diplomas have been for
warded to . the offices at University
Farm of E. A. Hansen and c. c. Ged-
des, who are in charge of cow testing
in Minnesota, and will be distributed
to the master dairymen through coun-
ty agents or cow testers. Mr.. Hansen
suggests that local meetings be called,
if feasible, for the presentation of the
diplomas.
d. Thygesen of Route 1, Askov,
| tops the Pine county lists with aver
age production from five grade Hol-
stems of 1885 pounds of butterfat.
H. -Mortensen of-1rssste 2, Askov, is
second in the Askov association with
421.7 pounds. Another in the 400
class is Chr. Sorensen who had aver
age production of 4O2.7 pounds from
nine grade Holsteins.
Others near the top were N. B.
Miller, 1891 pounds; B. Jorgensen,
1874; H. Henriksen, 3S1.5; Emil
Christensen, 1865; Magnus Hansen,
1884; Aage Molby, 1907. Others MAX
ing up the list of 30, all from Askov,
are: w. E. Jacobsen, Harold Christ
ensen, Petersen Brothers, Chr. Flint,
Chris. Frederiksen, Wilhelm Nielsen,
Einar Jensen, C. P. Nielsen, A. P.
Jensen, AXel Brus, J. P. Madsen, J..
B. Jensen, Louis Elkjer, C. Sebald,
Jens Arnbal, Andrew Jensen, Carl
Thinesen, Martin Brandt, j. Greger-
sen, and Johannes Juhl.
Pine county has four COW testing
associations. The Pine City associ-
alton was organized so recently that
its records could not be considered
when the Honor Roll for the last
fiscal year was made up. The North
ern Pine association, centering at Ker-
rick and also taking in dairy farmers
of Carlton county, has Is members on
the Honor Roll, as follows: ]. E. Moss
berg, Jordan Nelson, Gorton Brothers,
A. ]. Birno, j. w. Nystrom, Andrew
Johnson, E. E. Schmidt, william Abb
bolt, Harry Tague, Al Thompson, Nels
Lundbeck, John Cunningham, John
Benson, Ole Anderson, and D. HAM
marquist.
Of IL members of the Sandstone as
ISOLATION who raised their butterfat
production to more than 800 pounds
per COW, John Golf of Hinckley, leads
with average production of Apps
pounds Others on the Honor Roll
| in their order were Gerda Wheeler,
Sam Gordon, A. Degrendle, G. E.
Hendricks, E. B. Griffith, M. B. Brown,
Anton Anderson, Aug. Vanderschagen,
E. G. Stream, John Clark, and John
Nieboer
H. A. Dilley's herd of Holsteins in
the Dakota county association (south)
led all testing association cows in the
state with average production for the
1862 year, ending June 3d., of $40
pounds per cow. w. H. Eddy's herd
of Jerseys in the Waverly-Howard
Lake association was second with an
average per COW of sos pounds.
For the fiscal year 1924, Mime
sofa herds on the National Dairy as
sociation's Honor Roll numbered 222.
In 1924-25 that number increased to
1888, and in 1925-26 to an even 500.
In the 661 honor herds for the last
fiscal year there are S,91S cows as
compared to 6,735 the year before.
The roll becomes more imposing
every year because dairy farmers are
learning to develop more productive
herds, say dairy specialists of the
University of Minnesota. Gains cor
respond to the increase in the number
/ n
there were but 43 associations, says
Mr.. Hansen. Today there are 106
with a good prospect of 10 by early
spring.