The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-01-30
COCOANUT BUTTER
NOT GOOD ENOUGH
Expert Urges Farmers Not to
Substitute Oleomargarine
for Butter
HERALD Is ENDORSED
Speaker Says 20 Per Cent of
Substitute Sold is Used in
Agricultural Sections
Park Region Echol

Ozark Region EcnO)
More than four hundred farmers
tended the Dairy Day at Brandon
Monday, sponsored by John Kor-
kowski, the implement dealer, with
a program furnished by the Inter-
national Harvester company. Four
hundred is all the village hall holds
and about one hundred farmers
who wanted to hear the talks were
unable to get in the hall.
The feature of the meeting was
a talk by T. p. Kuhre, dairy expert
for the corporation. Mr.. Kuhre
r was born in Denmark and educated
at one of the famous Danish agri-
cultural schools and after learning
thoroughly the Danish methods OF
dairying, came to this country 2S
years ago. For a number of years
he was manager of the large Ira
J. Mix creamery at Elgin, Ill. He
speaks with very little accent and
gives a thoroughly interesting as
well as informative talk.
Three topics were covered in his
address: The value Of contrasting,
of alfalfa and silage, and the need
to cut down the consumption of
oleomargarine.
The farmers, themselves, who
should be most interested in get
ting a good price for butter have
made the mistake og buying ole for
their own use until so much of it
is consumed on the farm as to re-
place 100000 pounds of butter
just the amount of the present sur
plus. If the farmers hadn't bought
any ole, he claimed, there would
be no surplus today. He suggested
that each dairy farmer who wants
a better price for butter should put
sign on his front gate or near
his mailbox reading: 1--WE use our
own dairy products and buy no
substitutes" If all of them live
up to that motto, there will soon
be no surplus. Seventy per cent
of the oleo manufactured is con-
sumed in the agricultural sections
of the country, he said.
eff every dairy farmer" said Mr..
Kuhre, would support his own
COW instead of the cocoanut COW,
which is his worst enemy, butter
prices at this time would be II
cents per pound higher than they
are"
Experiments by DR.. McCullom, a
nationally known authority, with
oleo fed to rate, guinea pigs and
rabbits disclosed the fact that the
animals lost their vitality rapidly
because. of lack of vitamins, in
their diet until they lost the pow
er to reproduce. After a butter and
skimmilk ration was substituted
for ole, the animals quickly put on
fat and regained their reproductive
power. Dairy products have been
found by experiments made in
Denmark to be the one perfect
food for strong bones and good
teeth and liberal use OF dairy pro-
ducts not only prevent but also
cure eye disease and prove to be
one of the best representatives. of
colds.
Discussing cow-testing, Mr.. Kuh-
re said, a testing association in
Illinois discovered that the profits
from their best cows equalled the
profits from forty of the poorer
cows MIXED. The pioneer cow
testing association at Cedar Falls,
Iowa, which was started twenty
two years ago, sent 149 cows to the
butcher in one year as not worth
milking. Their best cows average
$40 pounds of butterfat and they
have found that production costs
begin to be reduced after the 200
pound COW is reached and from
then on real profits start. There
is only $11 difference between the
cost Of feed for 200-lb. cow and a
349-lb. COW, but the latter more
than doubles the net profit from
the feed and care.
He also gave interesting figures
on the value Of silage as compared
to grain, pointing out that the
Ohio experiment station learned in
an experimental feeding that the
profit per cow per month on a
grain ration was $2.46 while on ST.
lage it was $3.50; the same cows
being fed in each test.
At the Illinois experiment sta
ton alfalfa and bran were COM
pared by feeding one lot of six
cows alfalfa and another lot bran
for a nine-week's period. The al
falfa-fed cows kept their produc-
ton over the bran-fed cows thru
out the nine weeks. Then the feed
ing was reversed and the lot which
had been getting bran but now got
alfalfa jumped up 40 pounds in
production and passed the lot
which had led them the first nine
weeks.
Mr.. Kuhre also stressed santa
ton, pointing out that il all Of the
farmers followed sanitary methods
It would be worth $40,O00,000 a
year to them. SO score butter al
ways sells readily for higher prices
and very little of it goes into stor-
age. It is the lower grade butter
made from cream that has not
been carefully handled that has
gone into storage and made the
slump in price.
Summing up his remarks he
pointed out that the way to inn
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