Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1930-11-27
HOLSTEIN BODY
GIVES BANQUET.
Madison Hotel, Sandstone,
is Scene of Enthusiastic
Gathering.
Upward Trend of Dairying
is Prediction for
Year 1881.

The annual meeting and banquet of
the Pine County Holstein Breeders
association held at the Hotel Madison
in Sandstone, Friday evening, was at
tended by about 80 people.
Alva Gay from Arlone township, who
is president of the association, pre-
sided at the banquet and the business
session.
Dairy Expert Speaks.
The principal address of the eve
ming was given by VIM. E. Petersen
who is associate professor of the dairy
department of the State University,
his office and work being at the Uni
yersity Farm Mr.. Petersen spoke Of
the magnitude of the work carried on
by the State University at the main
campus, at the farm, and through
extension work, there being about
10000 students all told. He is one
of the instructors in the experimental
work. Mr.. Petersen stated that only
a few people are adapted to expert
mental work, they must have patience
and wait for results.
Speaking about milk fever in dairy
cattle, he said that calcium chloride
is injected in such cases and the cow
is then up in five minutes. The speak
er said experiments have revealed
that some of the mineral feeds sold
for taking care of cattle where there
is a phosphorus deficiency are worse
than nothing, some of them do more
harm than good. Others are all right.
The speaker went on to say that
the udder capacity is inherited and
that body fat to some extent becomes
butterfat. The manufacture of milk
in the COW is still dark secret. But
terfat has IA major parts and these
are divided into thousands, perhaps
millions of smaller parts. Z
To Dry Up-StOp Milking.
Mr. Petersen gave a real scientific
talk in which he explained expert
ments with udder, lung, and heart aft
er being removed from the COW. His
advice in drying up a COW was simply
to stop milking.
Experiments are being made for the
purpose of determining the economic
value of skimmilk being fed back to
the cow. Sooner or later, the speaker
said, milk will be marketed in powder
form instead of the large quantities
now being required with all the water
going along.
Born In Pine County.
Mr.. Petersen is a Pine county prod
uct. He was born and raised in Roy
alton township, southwest of Pine City,
and is a son of former County Com
missioner MatZ Petersen. He takes
a deep interest in his work and has
recently perfected and patented what
he calls ''reagent for the volumetric
determination of fat which is, ac-
cording to Dean Walter c. Coffey ''as
good as the Babcock test for deter
mining butterfat content of sweet
cream and superior to the Babcock
4. test in determining the amount of fat
going to waste in buttermilk."
HOlstein Dairy Cow Still Good.
Robert Geiger, secretary of the
Minnesota Holstein Breeders aSsocia-
ton, in speaking of the reduced prices
on farm products and the general con-
dition of business and commerce, said
that a good Holstein dairy COW is
still good proposition. The average
price is now from $50 to 500 where
as a year ago the average price was
l. Il hot hn re
1891 will commence to show an up
ward trend and that dairying is not
in a discouraging stage. Several more
county organizations of Holstein
breeders have been perfected in the
state during the past year-Freeborn
county with 90 members being one OF
the leaders. Mr.. Geiger stated that
the average price of butterfat for Oc-
tober in Minnesota was about 43c
and that when prices are lower. there
is still more need for having the bet
ter grade of cows-the $50 Founders
the area test, Mr.. Geiger stated that
there is now only about ten counties
i'm the state that have not had this
test.
County Agent Speaks.
County Agent w. F. Hammargren Of
Hinckley, stated that while the ares
test has not yet been put over in Pine
county. it is good thing for this as
ISOLATION to keep boosting for. Con
tagious abortion causes very grea
lOSSpS Said Mr. uamm arpren and his
advice was to continue boosting fol
cow testing associations and All clut
work which are important in the ad
vancement of the county agricul
turally.
Hjalmar Petersen. state representa-
tive-elect, gave a short talk on stat,
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