The Sauk Centre herald., 1932-08-11
THE COUNTY AGENT
Lamb Grading Aug. 1916

The lamb grading and selections
demonstrations in Stearns County
will be conducted by E. o. Lenz-
meier, County Agricultural Agent
and Art Bayne, sheep salesman for
Central Cooperative Association
at South st. Paul on Aug. Is and 16.
The schedule of these demonstra-
tions is as follows:
August 15-1:00 p. NJ, w. R.
Rooney Farm. Raymond twp, IL
miles S. w. of Sank Centre.
August 15-3:45 P. M. Lawrence
Herzog farm, Melrose township N.
of Melrose, and due east of Sauk
Centre.
August 16-9:O0 A. M. c. L.
Rausch farm, Nuremberg township
about 21s miles N. E. of Watkins
August 16-2.OO P. M. Lloyd Av-
cry farm, Main Prairie township
near Kimball.
These demonstrations are part of
the county extension program in
Stearns county to improve the
quality of lambs marketed from
farms in the county. Last spring
demonstrations were put on many
farms in docking and trimming Of
lambs as the beginning of a pro-
gram in lamb improvement. The
packers and commission men on
the market are agreed that losses
of S1.00, S1.50 per cwt. in market
lambs are borne by the producer
because lambs come to market
without the proper finish. The
demonstrations scheduled on Aug.
Is and 16 aim to teach each pro-
ducer how to pick out the top
lambs that have good finish.
Mr.. Bayne who assists with the
demonstration has worked with
sheep all his life. He worked many
years in the sheep alleys at the
Sioux City stockyards. Later he
spent several years on the ranges
of Montana as producer and a
dealer in market lambs. He now
is the head sheep salesman for the
largest commission house at South
st. Paul, with all this experience
he can help producers pick out the
good ones and give valuable help
on the feeding of those that are not
yet ready to sell.
The demonstrations will be held
right out on the farms where the
sheep are. They will not be formal
meetings. Questions and answers
together with the handling Of the
lambs will be the order of the day.
Several groups of lambs of various
degrees of fatness will be selected
for the sheepmen to handle so that
they can ascertain the differences
between various groups. The DEM
onstrations are quite well scatter.
ed so folks from various parts Of
the county can attend without trav-
cling great distances. Anyone may
attend.
Stock Inventory Should Be Taken
The season is far enough along
so that every livestock producer
can take a rather accurate inven-
tory of the amount of livestock
feed that will be available for the
coming winter. While not all the
hay crop of the county is harvested
a farm operator can determine with
quite a degree of certainty what his
hay tonnage for 1882 will be. The
amount Of feed grain threshed is
now definitely known. Where the
grain was stacked the yield can
well be estimated by the man that
cut. shocked and stacked it. The
questions in the mind of many
farm operators will be:-Is there
enough grain and roughage to car
ry my present number Of horses
cattle, hogs and sheep until May
Is, 1893, when grass will again be
available?
Many farms are overstocked as
far as the feed supply is concerned
With this in mind the county ex-
tension service and the County
Farm Bureau are making every ef-