The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-06-14
GOVERNMENT HERD
GROUNDS VISITORS
BREEDING IDEAS
Experiment Plant Developing
Generations From Single
Sire to Study Results
BULLS TO FARMERS
Five Now Out Through Slope
Section; Agltating Ice Wells
on All Farms

The U. s. Dairy field station at
Mandan Is expecting q lot of visitors
next Saturday, when the eighth grade
school meeting takes place in the
Morton county capital, ana It wilt
have a big formal opening on the &C.
casion, A. l. watt. superintendent
announces. 49,.
The visitors will see q dairy plant
Of more than ordinary interest, - the
equipment Is not all Of 1t. Back Of q
fine herd Of ~f1olsteirls, up-to-date
dairy and horse barns and 800 acres
Of land used as pasture .afd hay
tracts Is the atmosphere Of expert
m~entatiorl. FOR the MandA11 station
is working out Q lot Of dairy prob
lens for the government, largely IN
the line Of breeding up dairy cattle.
Situated IN contact with the North.
ern Plains experiment station along
the Heart river, the dairy station In
a way fits in with that as though
they were connected. In fact,
the plains station has assisted In
equipping the dairy plant, chiefly In
starting shelterbelts and 4 young or
chard.
Stresses Ice Well
The dairy station also stresses an
innovation which should be Of great
benefit to all farms, whether dairy or
not. when II Is generally adopted.
This Il the ice well device for refrie.
Grafton out in the farm country. This
well can be constructed crudely and
will answer the purpose, but the Sta.
ton has built its well with some re-
gard to completeness. Over q 6-by-e
square excavation In the ground,
about 8 feet deep, has been built .
well house which shades the novel
refrigeration plant and protects II
from the elements. "A staunch bed
with Z trap door also covers the we'll
and serves Is floor Of the well house.
In this excavation, filled with gravel
and rock in the bottom 20 - to allow
seepage of water, snow Is placed 1t
the opening Of winter, water Ii poured
On this from time to time % the sue.
cessive pourtngs freeze, until finally
there is Z block Of Ice filling the hole
to within tho height Of . cream can
from the top. On this Ice the milk and
cream Of the station are placed and
kept sweet until they can 81 taken to
town and delivered to the creamery.
In the 1ons-distAnce farm country
such 4 we'll permits storing cream -
aSlto concentrate the quantity and
deliver It On fewer trips than . daily
run TO the creamery. The, idea has
worked finely. In this first experiment
under the auspices Of the federal
agriculture department. Last year
the Ice thus 4rosen into the we'll last.
ed until September 20.
lie Bulls In Herd
The station st present has IA bulls
Ia its herd, but five Of, these are
loaned out On farms free for breed.
ing purposes. while five others are
marc calves or yeAxlings. The head Of
the herd is King Paul Lillian Walker,
sire Of the other generations. He
weighs about a ton. Is q massive fell
low and has proved the wisdom Of
purebred stepping up Of dairy herds.
The latest addition to the herd Is
Q calf two weeks old by Q mother COW
producing sat pounds Of butter fat
when nearly u years old, or giving
- quarts Of milk = day. which q 70
-nDundM.
The record COW OF the herd IL
Kort1dyke Sadie Hero. with . mark Of
1900 pounds Of milk and 06S pounds
Of butter fat per year, on . test fin.
ished last May 20 and which covered
two years and four months.
Ono Cow 18th In National Togt
The station keeps . large record
sheet on which the data Of every
milking 10 entered. This sheet showed
that one Of the stations cows, Friend
Duchess eibyl, was eighteenth In .
national three-time milking test con.
Quoted By the HolStein- FrieSian as
ISOLATION, in which 145 cows finished.
The Duchess scored q mark Of 16,7o6.A
pounds Of milk and 677.7 pounds Of
butter fat. She will be four years old
In July, therefore Is still going Ia pro.
ductton.
Lend Out Balls
The big value Of tho station In
the improved breeding T.. progldes
for . Vide ARIA Of country Ia the
Slope section. It's bulls are kept
mainly fot lending than 70 farmers,
that they may breed up their dairy
herdS and thus put the industry On Z
paying bAsa1 such - only h1Gh-lTa6e
cows can assure It. The farmer got.
ting the loan Of q bull keeps records
from the time Of arrival and these
records are carried down the line o{
descent through tho sons and dAuth-
ters Of the sire and intoNth daueh.
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