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Mower County news (Austin, Minn.) 1920-1947

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MONDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1920 PAGE THREE FARMER IS KING OF DOMAIN IN SELECTING FARM 4 STORAGE] SERVICE I AUGTIONEEP LOVELL FARM WOODLAND IN THE BATTERY^ [STATION SCAN IT CAREFULLY Farmer's NORTH. SAYS GONG. SIDNEY WINTER STORAGE Talk with people 1 have Farm woodlands amount to N I When you are ready to put two-fifths of all forested lands. cried sale* for and those that Idle Land May Be Liability Instead Forum There are about 53,000,000 your car away for the winter, have had other auctioneers ard acres of woodland. of Asset. call the Pierce Battery Co?, to decide who you want to make In New England more than S your sale. 65 per cent of all forested land take care of your battery, 112 a Believes Remedy For Rural Unrest Lies In Economic Not Political In Is on farms, and Ohio, Indiana, Action—Advocates Organizing Farmers—Says Political Avoid Large Areas Without Utility on Secure your date E. Maple street. Phone Bridge Illinois, and Iowa from 80 Parties Cannot Ignore Farmers Aecount of Streams, Swamps, or to 100 p^r cent Phone Main 909 SIXTY HOLSTEINS 301. Rough, Stony Places Not Suitable The Income to farms from I AUSTIN, MINN. READY FOR SALE Even for Pasture. timber products is estimated at Farming today is largely a decentralized national governments can and should NEXT MONTH about $162,000,000 yearly. and individualistic business. do much to remedy the conditions In selecting a farm often too little The farmer is king in his domain. He and to make the task of organization Headed by a 31 pound cow, owned attention is given to the condition of is proud Jf his economic independence easier. The government can remove but it is an independency by M. Heckler of south St. Paul, the the soil and the lay of the fields with AGENTS HELP IN MARKETING the restrictions which today make organizations which he has maintained at tre^ KEEPING WELL MEANS only animal consigned from outside reference to ease of cultivation. Crop of this kind difficult and mendous cost and loss to himself in land in itself is of little value unless of Steele County, the pure bred bull dangerous to those who attempt it dealing with the highly organized and Various County Representatives Have A CONSTANT FIGHT it is so situated that it can be made if not in fact impossible. It can give and heifer salue of Steele County centralized purchasing power of Done Much to Assist Organization such organizations a legal status to yield profitable returns through the Holstein Friesian Breeder's association manufacturing and distributing industries of Associations. which will facilitate carrying on AGAINST CATARRH use of labor and machinery. A farm of the country. will take place at the fair their business and put them on a of 160 acres valued at $100 per acre Hundreds of thousands of farmers grounds November 11. Sixty animals .plane with industrial organization. It Work of exceptional value to farmers may be a much better bargain if practically selling their products as individuals can help them secure a world-wide have been selected for consignment. has been done by various county all of the land can be put to in small lots without regard to the information as to the conditions and agents in connection with the organisation Arranged as a move to distribute some profitable use than another farm cat^rarhy condition. Coughs, colds, nasal condition of the market and its power influence that affect prices, markets a to of live-stock shipping associations catarrh! bowel disorders are just a few of the very common ills due •of 160 acres purchasable at $50 per to readily absorb these products are and the ability of the consuming pure bred, holsteins to the various and live-stock auction sales. The acre of which large areas are practically at a tremendous disadvantage in meeting public who absorb the products of a ltl~ Fight catarrh with a remedy of assured merit a remedy which has farms of Steele County which are not shipping associations have heen especially reputation for usefulness extending over half a century— a the organized purchasing power the farm. It can by wise regulation, without utility owing to streams, identified in the pure bred industry, successful in Minnesota, Michigan, of marketing and distributing agencies, iDR. HARTftlAN'S of industry with its machinery for swamps which cannot be drained, or the sale will include a collection of prevent the use of unfair practices Wisconsin and Oregon, as well asj ascertaining the factors that influence rough, stony areas not suitable even the local herds. The committee completed prices and the power of the and devices which are so frequently In several states in the South. The for pasture. and so justly the objects of country to absorb these products its work of inspection last live-stoek auction sales have been developed It is essential, therefore, that not from day to day. Not only is the complaint on the part of the producer. in California on an Australian week and selected the sale animals the total area as conveyed by the deed farmer at a disadvantage but (his model which was Introduced by a from various herds.—Peoples Press. method of marketing his products as or contract be considered, but the area This sort of legislation, the farmer Tablets or Liquid county agent who had been engaged mold EvtSrywherm an individual invites, without intention may very properly seek, for it available for profitable use. Any additional In agricultural extension work in New on his part, the very condition is not only in the interest of the farmer land may be really a-liability CO-OPERATIVE HOUSES South Wales. The value of the stock against which he justly complains— but in the interest of the entire instead of an asset, since very often marketed through these auction sales Closing Out Sale excessive speculation and unnecessary country and he will be wise if he the returns are not even sufficient to ON BUSINESS LINES |ln California amounted to $1,790,330 costs of storage, rehandling seeks it through the medium of the pay the taxes. A great many mistakes land increased returns to the farmers transportation and distribution, all great political parties of the country, are made on this point alone, the buyer of which implement themselves jby $166,946 over prices which the as other reforms have been sought frequently thinking that he can crop against the price which he receives or (stock would have brought had the auction and accomplished from the very beginning the land in one way or another, but Quite Necessary to Secure the the price which the consumer pays. sales not been held. of party government in this later finding that conditions are such On account of selling the farm and leaving I will sell to the highest bidder Causes Prices To Fluctuate Greatest Results. 10 at auction, nothing reserved, on the farm miles southwest of AUSTIN country. No political party ,, can live that it is more profitable to permit it Again, on the day when the market 4 miles south and one mile west of Oakland, and 6 miles northwest of Myrtle to grow up to brush or woods than to and ignore the just demands of the will absorb 2,000,000 bushels the farmer known as the John Mareen Place, on attempt to cultivate It farmer. No great party deserving of having no means of knowing what Experts of Bureau of Markets Cite Farmers' Bulletin 1088, "Selecting Tuesday, October 19th every other farmer is going* to do, being charged with the pflwer to run Two Instances to Substantiate Assertion brings in 10,000,000 bushels and in a Farm," gives many valuable suggestions this great government of ours can belong the day when the market will absorb That Each Member to the prospective buyer. The unmindful of the needs of the 10,000,000 bushels he brings in 1,000,000. Must Be on Equal Footing. bulletin may be had free, upon request, Keep the pigs growing every mlnIute. SALE STARTS AT 10 O'CLOCK SHARP FREE LUNCH AT NOON greatest basic industry of the country. This makes the fluctuations of the United States department of 87—HEAD LIVE STOCK,—87 in prices and frequently results in To secure the greatest results, cooperative D. G. agriculture, Washington, 60 60-T-16 extra good milk cows, fresh by time of sale or will be CATTLE, prices and frequently results in prices marketing enterprises must in near future. 8 heifers coming 3 years old, all with calf. 5 steers, coming. below the cost of production and consequent There should be purebred live stock 1 3 years old. 24 head heifers and steers, coming 2 years old. 7- calves. be organized and operated along sound Poultdy Notes losses to the farmer. The influence jon every farm. 22—22 extra good shoats. 22 HOGS, on business lines, say experts of the bureau of the individual farmer 5—1 Black Mare, years old, 1600 pounds. dapple gray 5 HORSES, 9 1 a haphazard the market under this action is of markets, United States department FORESTRY INCREASES THE Give pigs shade, water and pasture mare, 5 years old, 1500 pounds. 1 Bay Mare, smooth mouth, 150O pounds. one and uncertain and results of agriculture, who cite two instances FARM INCOME BY— 1 Gray Mare, smooth mouth, 1500 pounds. 1 mare oolt, 2 years old. jlf you want them to thrive. a in requiring the farmer to accept to prove their point. HAY AND FEED most part the price made for the by A sweet potato co-operative marketing Any good grade, wholesome feed 50 acres of corn in field. 50 tons hay in barn, and stack. 1. Making waste lands yield rather than influences of consumption Worms in swine have- no commercial association was formed In a New MACHINERY—1 Deering Binder. 1 Rock Island Hay Loader. 1 Hay will grow chickens If fed rightly. for the farmer a profit by growing timber on those of production, is value. Discontinue raising them. Rake. 1 Van Brunt Drill, 18 disc. 1 Fountain City seeder, 14 hoe. 1 Mexico county that boasted of seven ever, position to protect seldom, if in poor soils, steep slopes, rocky Smith & Johnson Drag, 5 section. 1 Spader Disk. 1 Single Row Cultivator. sweet potato warehouses. Six of these incident to market himself from losses Oyster shells and grit should be cupplied lands, wet lands, unused corners, 1 Sod Plow, 14 inch. 1 high wheel Wagon, with triple box. 1. influences which are warehouses were Ignored in organizing conditions and to the fowls at all times. gullied or eroded lands. Hay Rack. 1 Two seated buggy. 1 Stewart Hard Coal Heater. world-wide in character by frequently the association. The owner of the 2. Furnishing paying employment TERMS^-One year's time on approved notes at 8%. All sums under $10.00. LOVELL'S DATES methods which are "the devices and seventh warehouse was permitted to cash. Nothing removed until terms are complied with. for men and teams during Clean the house and yards at regular and practices familiar instruments in 51 hold per cent of the stock. With organized the winter. intervals and so render them sanitary. industry. 19—A. Lee, Tuesday, October O. such a monopoly, this gentleman was |A. 0. LEE, Owner. 3. Utilizing timber better on There is no magic political formula southwest of Austin, 10:00 o'clock able to control the business of the association, the farm and avoiding waste be hy which these conditions can with the result that all the Adv. 1-29-c They are the by cutting low stumps and small changed or remedied. Red mites can be eliminated entirely sweet potatoes were stored In his AUCTIONEER LOVELL. "result of economic not political laws tops, using substitute woods in ART SORENSON, Clerk by painting the roosts and any other warehouse, and the other warehouse* and they can be changed and improv«d construction, treating non-lastIng Infested places with equal parts of •IIIIBMHIIIIBIIIIBIIIIHIIIB men faced the threat of being driven only by economic remedy. Government woods. gaa tar and keroseno, out of business. However, the seventh ownership and operation of 4. Increasing crop yields by the means and facilities for the marketing, warehouse owner was finally Greg's Cafe planting forest-tree windbreaks. manufacture, and distribution made to see the error of his ways, ADVERTISE IN THE NEWS 5. Growing more and better of the products of the farm, means and through the assistance of the field ESSEX timber on the farm through protecting AND GET RESULTS consumer rather than farmer control marketing agent of the United States 408 NORTH MAIN ST. the woods from fire and of these means and facilities. It means Regular Meals At All Hours department of agriculture the association the injection of the uncertainty in efficiency, overgrazing selecting for cutting has been reorganized upon a MDTDR bureauocracy and loss of initiative the mature, defective, overcrowded Why Pay More Open Till 12 Midnight truly co-operative basis. and responsibility, which inevitably and inferior kinds of Good Coffee, Chops and Steaks a Specialty attend public operation of In the adjoining county were two CARS trees, and leaving the straight, private industry into the marketing men who had made a considerable fortune for a business course by correspondence, Prices Reasonable thrifty and better kinds planting and distribution of farm products. It in sweet potatoes, largely through when your home institution to fill up openings In woodlands. A. GREGERSON, Prop. means prices fixed not by the cost of their ability to store their potatoes in offers a better course, in residence production but by political influence their own warehouses. The other 6. Marketing the higher at $95. Call on us or write and the farmer is politically in the sweet potato growers were able barely 8 grades of wood products direct for our catalogue. minority as the last census only too L. A. M0TT to eke out a small profit, because they clearly demonstrates. to consumers at fair prices in vm were compelled to sell their produce UNIVERSITY OF IIBI1! IIIIEIII!1! the form of saw logs, poles, Remedy Economic Not Political 1*- Immediately. The two warehousemen SOUTHERN MINNESOTA The remedy is in economic not in Carlson's Garage piling, cooperage bolts, handle finally were prevailed upon to interest political action by the farmers. bolts, posts, pulp wood, firewood, IIIIBIIIII themselves In the formation of a cooperative It consists of co-operatioin, of economic spoke blocks, tannin wood association. The association organization, of the selling and bark. power of the farmer, of combining was thereby enabled to negotiate a BfEiarazraraamzraanuaraEia^^ MAKE YOUR WOODLAND that selling power as the buying power loan from the bank £or the construction PERMANENTLY PROFITABLE. of industry is combined through of a warehouse to take care of corperate organization. the pooled produce. This was such Economic organization based upon an encouragement to the farmers that the realization by the farmer that he it was soon necessary to construct another as not only a member of a class but building because of a considerable also a member of a community, a state, and a nation, which imposes reciprocal increase in crops. duties, responsibilities and HARDING The two leading sweet potato men privilege upon all its members, can In this association did not hold a majority alone accomplish what is absolutely of the stock. The organization COOLIDGE necessary to the maintainance of a ts a co-operative one In the full meaning proper balance between agriculture of the word. Each member Is on and industry, namely a condition under an equal footirig with every other fUl'O'PEp which there will be the same regard MormePs member. At a recent meeting of the for the same investment 'of association it was announced that money, energy and genius on the through the combined efforts of the farm as in industrial enterprises in Auction Sales 1 DRY MASH JL the center of population. farmers $40,000 in additional profits When the farmer is so organized las been secured, with all the seed that he can offer his produce in such sweet potatoes yet to be sold. quantities and at such times and under such conditions as the market A. O. Lee requires, when he can avoid oversupplying MR. FARMER (West of Oakland) or undersupplying the market, Moulting time is the time that a hen needs assistance. It is the Having sold his farm A. O. Lee he will be able to bargain on the price off-season in the life of the hen. will dispose of all his personal property of his product and to fix that price in If you are retiring from the fann Flour I! Think of the amount of a hen's energy, vitality and red blood at his farm known as the John the same way and to the same extent and intend to locate in Austin, it Mareen place, one mile west of Oakland, that's required to reproduce a thousand feathers 1 (which is only as the prices of the article which he will be to your' interest to see us on Tuesday, October 19, beginning has to buy are fixed. an average plumage.) at 10.00 o'clock. 87 head of before buying. We have a large Organization Has eBen Triad Before A mfoulting hen needs good health, good appetite and digestion. livestock are listed, including 5 horses list of well selected homes at reasonable This is not new, it has- been done 60 cattle and 22 hogs hay and feed It pays to hasten the moult and prepare your flock successfully in the case of onions, prices on easy terms, J. E. Crippen, lot of good machinery, etc. Usual a citrus fruits, prunes and many other for laying early in the fall when eggs soar up in price. terms. A free lunch will be served Austin National Bank Bldg. farm and orchard products. It is a difficult, This can be accomplished only by feeding the proper at noon. Auctioneer Lovell Art Adv. 3-33-c. but by no means an impossible Sorenson, clerk. feed. Full-O-Pep feeds will bring you results quicker task. It is a task that cannot be accomplished than any other feeds and we guarantee them. so long as farmers permit themselves to be mislead into Feed the laying mash for eggs and if you are not satisfied seeking a cure for unfavorable economic conditions in political nostrums. we will refund your money. This is an eggmaking I do not wish to be undesrtood IN THE DRIVING RAIN feed, the same as a dairy ration is a milkmaking Unquestionably the best. that the government is powerless to feed. Our made-to-order auto top3 help in this matter. Both state and keep you dry and snug, because Full-O-Pep laying mash is fed dry and other grain Ask the housewife who uses ii. i5 feeds fed only once a day. The more egg-making they are weather-tight and weather DELCO-LIGHT mash they eat, the more eggs. Feed for eggs. It will proof. Made of the very pay you. best auto roof and side materials, The complete Electric light and Power Plant and the workmanship cannot Betters living conditions. Keeps 1SIB be excelled even in the the boys and girls contented on J. W. HARE the farm. largest auto top factories. Get our prices. HORMEL MILLING CO. THE FEED MAN Auto Top & Auto Painting Company carries a full line of these Full-O-Pep feeds, that are Clarence W. Rosenthal guaranteed to increase your egg production. Ph&ne Main 381. R. H. GRAY, PROP. Austin, Minn. 406 S«. St.-Paul Phens Main 666-L