CORN AIDS BftTIQN FARM BUREAUS HELP1 MARKET LIVESTOCK 4 1 4 1 1 Ole Hippe leaves tomorrow for (BULL ASSOCIATIONS GAINING AUCTION DATES Edgertoiv, after spending a few weeks FACTS here visiting relatives and friends. In Count-Up foifLast Fiscal Year sm 2.—Horses, Wednesday, February As Producers Ignore Its Value Oie in company with his brother is a 57 Increase of Per Cent Is Noted Cattle, Hogs, Hay, Farm M&chinery, 2 Cheap And Nutritious Food,, tobacco grower, cultivating a tract of *VlhjK" —More In South. So Household Goods, etc. Sale begins ^V„ JT- 1---- ^V )t 14 acres last season. Tobacco market Specialists Assert H. at^lO:0O o'clock a. m. W. In the count-up of bull associations conditions as all others, have suffered Mart, Proprietor, 4 miles north for the last fiscal yearymade by the this season and Ole has not disposed With well-filled corn cribs on many Vz and mile east of Dexter, by dairy division of the United States Department COST OF PRODUCTION of the 1920 crop. In a good HIGH farms, and relatively low prices prevailing Ben King school house. of Agriculture, associations average year the net profit from an this year, it is time, says a are found all over the country. There Illinois Experiment Station Secured acre .of tobacco should bring $400 feeding specialist from the Dairy are now 123, where there were only DELCO-UGHT Reliable Figures From 680 he says.—Adams Review.» Division, United States Department 78 the year before. This is an increase Dairy Farms. of 57 per cent. Thirty of the of agriculture, that correction should Tht complete Electric Light and Local chicken men were very 48 states in the union are on the list. be made of the impression found in Power Plant There are various estimates on milk successful at the Poultry Show held Associations are not equally numerous Ask usr for a demonstration in certain localities that corn is not good production costs and they are likely at Osage last week. The classess were in all states, however, for four— your- own home. See for yourself. feed for dairy cows. Certain recent to be different under different circumstances. strong in numbers and the compete Alabama. Pennsylvania, Mississippi No obligation. Moreover, there is considerable inquiries on this ^ubjec^ indicate that tion was pronounced exceptional. J. variation in milk quality, also, as the^use of corn in the dairy ration is S. Schaefer won all possible rewards it ranges from barely three per cent not understood by all dairymen, and on his White Orpingtons and J. A. butterfat test to nearly five per cent. it is hoped that a correction of this Schneider took first exhibition pulllet, »«*7? However, none of the figures available {5^ impression may lead to a great utilization 2nd and 4th cockrel and 3rd -dark "V,-«^VV«.S/**:* *OF~ show that the producer of milk is ?_* of the large 1920 crop for "profiteering." pullet on six entries in one of the dairy-cattle feeding. Austin Electric Supply Co. In Illinois the state experiment station strongest classess in the, entire show. 121 N. Main St. Phone Main 39 secured accurate figures on milk "When it is fed for a definite purpose, —Adams Review. production costs from 680 dairy farms with a complete knowledge of with a total of IS,902 cows. Those figures its true worth, corn is one of the best OurroR sale ads showed the cost of all items entering and cheapest grains we- have that can into the production of 100 Bull Should Selected to A Be improve mi be' used for the economical production pounds of milk as follows: mi the Dairy Qualities of the Herd He "Will sell your of milk," says the feeding specI Grain, 44 pounds at $55 per ton. .$1.21 Is to Head. vT' ialist. "Some dairymen avoid feeding surplus shoats Silage, 1SS pounds at $6 per ton.. .56 and South Carolina furnish nearly 3 it altogether, on account of the misI Hay, 50 pounds at $30 per ton 75 half of the total. The numher of associations taken idea that it is not suited to a Other roughage, 39 pounds, at $10 found in each of these four per ton 19 cow producing milk. This is because states is as follows: Alabama, 7 Labor, 2y2 hours at 30 cents per it is so generally used for fattening Don't Fail to attend Pennsylvania, 21 Mississippi, 11 and hours .75 The American Farm Bureau Federation is making the came effort both hogs and cattle, and because it South Carolina, 17. Three of these to protect iu livestock growers as its grain growers. plan has has3 not been successful when used leading states are in the cotton belt. now been launched for a cooperative livestock commission operated Total cost per 100 pounds $3.46 alone for cow feeding." by livestock producers throughout the middle and southwest. Nebraska. Dairying is comparatively new in that W. W. BOWERS BIG DISPERSION SALE The cost is 3.46 cents per pound, or, Illinois and Minnesota are already operating. Plans are now I The function of*corn in the ration part of the country, and the men going taking 2.15 pounds, per quart, 7.44 nnderv.ay for Missoiyi. Colorado and Texas. The tipper picture shows into the business aee building on is to furnish the animal with material cents per quart. baby beeves raided by girl and boy calf clubs »iid sacrificed early the right foundations from the start. I for producing heat, energy, and fat to the market, as it does not pay to fatten them. Lower picture shows Of Big Type Poland Chinas One of the important foundations of Western H^rfords in pen at Chicago to be marketed by the cooperative but it is father low in protein and deificient EYE TEST TUBERCULOSIS FOR effective and lucrative dairying is cooperation, 'commissioners in the effort to reduce trie margin between animals in ash. When fed alone, it Feb. 4, ,1921—37 LOTS—Feb. 4,1921 and the extension work on the hoof and the puce paid fox tiiu&t Ly thu consumer does not supply largely the nutrients Used as Cheek Upon Olde^ Methods, carried on by the dairy division and which make bone, muscle, hair, and as it^Happens Occasionally Reactors by the various state agricultural colleges need exercise, yet should not be required the casein in /milk. Consequently, in Escape. has been the mejins of introducing At Austin, Minn. to withstand too much exposure. compounding the grain ration it is efficient methods at the outset For open heifer^ and dry cows necessary to add to corn some feed Farmers The eye test for detecting tuberculosis wherever dairying is taken up in the a cheaply constructed shed which provides Sale Held in Mower County Sales Pavilion in cattle has the approval of the South. which is high in this substance, such shelter from wind and storm Fair Grounds scientists of the bureau of animal industry, Pennsylvania „.l£ an old-established as bran," linseed meal, or cottonseed and a dry place to lie down and so ai'ranged United States Department of dairy state, but lias taken to the bullassociation meal. Bran is useful because it not ". Everything goes, nothing reserved. Forum as to ensui-e economical feeding, Agriculture The ophthalmic or eye idea in a remarkable manner, only lightens the ration, but helps to test is used as a check upon the older and has in fact the largest number is all that is necessary. These 3 HERD BOARS balance it. Corn and cob meal is methods, as it happens occasionally of all. animals should not be handled in piC PRICE, Jr., by BIG PRICE largely used in feeding dairy cows, that an animal that will not react to large bunches, but should be divided and it has one advantage over corn jBob Price by Big Price's equal, t£e Grand Champion Boar 1918 the subcutaneous injection or intradermal and grouped according- to size and meal in that it is more bulky, altho Capt, Liberator, by the Captivator, by Liberator. The dam of test will.react to the eye test. condition." Two tuberculin tablets are placed in not so palatable. Usually, when corn this boar is also the dam of Cold Field Gkmt, the South Dakota FAIRBANKS J. F. the conjunctival sac beneath the lower Grand Champion. gforms a large portion of the grain ration, SEED RECOMMENDED lid of the left eye and observations are 11 TRIED SOWS protein also should be supplied taken at approximately the third hour FOR SPRING SOWING 4 by Big Price's equal, 1 by Fashion Master, 2 by Big Chief* Jumbo, by feeding leguminous hay, sucli as 1 by Big Bob fonder, 2 by Blaclv Price, 1 by Major Jumbo, alfalfa or clover for the roughage in Dealer In Planting- time is a long way a'head, the ration. bred to Peter Pan, noted big type boar of the breed. The majority but it is none too early to be thinking COAL, WOOD, LIME ^f the tried sows are brecf to Big Price, Jr. and Bob Price. Since corn can be grown on most in terms of good seed for next CEMENT, SEWER PIPE, 4 FALL YEARLINGS dairy farms, supplies energy in a spring. Eased on tests made at the Plan Pig Club Work To Follow BRICK AND WALL By Big Price, Jr. Great big growthy-sows, bred to my Herd Boars cheap form, and is palatable, and Minnesota experiment station and for early litters." Up Clubs Started Last PLASTIIIi. since, when' it is made into silage it sub-stations over the state the last 19 SPRIKG GILTS provides the cheapest and most efficient three years, the following varieties of Year. Gilts by Winning Tim and Black Price, both champiorTboars. Three form of succulence, every the important farm cro]s ax-e reeommended_ The meeting- of the Mow\r County Gilts by Big Price, Jr. The majority of the gilts are bred to dairymen should hav©. the information for planting by the station Duroc-Jersey hog breeder^ at the Capt. Liberator for early litters. One gilt by Western Giant, that will enable him, to make men: Office SOI East Bridge St. bred October 24th to Peter Pan. Austin Business Mens rooms^January corn the basis of a successful ration Common Spring W^heat—Marquis. ,. 18, altho not largely attehded had for economical milk production. r- Phone: Main 3J Durum Wheat—Mindum, Minner Send For Catalogue To representatives from dif&rent parts Eye. Test for Tuberculosis Has Its sota No. 470. Austin, Minn. Farmers' Bulletin No. 743, The of the county that took real interest Best Use on Dairy Farm, Where Albert Hopfe,^Auct. W. W. Bowers, Austin, Minn. Oats—Iowa No. 103 for southern Feeding of Dairy Cows, contains a in the futui*e work of the Association. Conditions Are Best Suited. I and western Minnesota Victory, No. ,V discussion relative to the digestible The meeting was addressed by W. J. following and at frequent Intervals up 514 Minota, Minnesota No. 512 imprbved nutrients found in corn, and gives Corwin, one of the state county agent to 24 hours. Reaction to the test is Indicated Ligows, Minnesota No. 281 for oi samples of grain mixtures which leaders and J. S. Jones one of the by discharge and swelling. central and northern Minnesota and Business and Professional corn forms a large part. State Farm Bureau extension men. The bureau of animal industry is not on sandy lands. prepared to accept the evidence of the They pointed out that there was never Barlef-—Improved MOLASSES FOR DAIRY STUCK Manchuria, Minnesota eye test alone where cattle are Intended a greater need for good breeding No. 184. for interstate shipment. The test, stock than today and that the breeders Corn—Silver King and Murdock however, furnishes an additional safeguard Especially Valuable Where Cows Are of Mower county could well be Ex$rc!te— Not Permitted to when used with the older for highly productive soils in southern proud of the good quality of stock ReplaiesGreen Feed. method. Minnesota, and Rustler ^md Minnesota they have representing some of the The eye test Is not well adapted for No. 13 for soils less fertile very best blood lines of the Duroc One of the helpr- of the livestock use upon range cattle^ oix cattle In Rustler and Minnesota No. 13 for feeder which Is being used more generally breed. transit, because of the,, possibility for central Minnesota Northwestern every day Is the crude, or low dust setting up an irritation not related One of the interesting points of J. M. HEIMER »I l»l MMt Ml Otttf Dent, Minnesota No. 23, Longfellow grade, molasses from a sugar mill. to tuberculosis. It has its*Test use J. K. LYNDE H. MAYER ^the evening was the discussion of F. LIT* Flint and other flints for northwestern The value of the feed has been found Stock ud Rwl Estat* ori the dairy farm, where conditions e- 'plans for securing a futurity show to DENTIST to be not only in the actual-nutrition Auctioneer UNDERTAKING and north central Minnesota, and are such as to give sure results. he put on by the National Association Office la Hirsh Block content, as indicated by the analysis, Specially CoBvemat with the earliest vaFiet-ies such as Squaw,.. Undertaker aad Funeral Director The experts have observed that In at the Mower County Fair this fall. A Telephone Main 117 but because of its quality—not exactly Pedigree work. AUTO HEARSE by herds which are frequently tested Gehu, and Dakota flints for northeastern committee was appointed to try and succulency, but akin to Ahat-r-which AMST1N, MINN. Phone 9001. Adams, Minn. the subcutaneous method it is advisable Minnesota. Day Call 677, Both Phones makes It an appetizer. Especially Is get this fair nominated for a show. to apply the intradermal and the Night CaU 120. Beth Phones Marquis whe^at was hard hit by rust It valuable where the cows are not The plans^for getting sows to place iiiiu eye test. The combined test sometimes C. L. BAKER, M. D. last year, but it is recommended for permitted to run on pasture or where out among the boys who wish to engage detect reactors which have escaped W. R. EARL FURNITURE COl Physician and Surgeon general planting because it^is of high they are not permitted to'exercise. A. I. ARNESON, M. D. detection by other means. in the pig club work again this UNDERTAKING and Office in Lewi* Building milling value and also a good yielder The molasses acts both as a digester Specialits in Natural Therapeutics year was discussed and a committee FUNERAL DIRECTION and tonic and takes the place of green Phones: Residence, Bridge 130 when rust is not abundant. Using "condensed out of doors" and CRUSHED GRAIN IS FAVORED Auto Haarse Equipment of three consisting of R. L. Richardson feed which tends to keep the cows Offece, Bridge 277 other Non-surgical, Natural and 4 of Austin, H. Voss of Lansing MANURE SPREADER healthy and Increases all their normal Prompt Attention in Every Detail Sanatarium Xypes of treatment for Austin, Minn. and K. C. Iverson of Le Roy were Any 'Aid Given Cow in Digestion of functions, such as the milk producing all types of ^disease. COSTS $28 A YEAR Business Residence DONOVAN A GOSLEE to L. Food Will Show in Increased ppwers. Then, too, dairy cows which New and successful methods of asked make the required preparations Very few farm machines, says Phone Main 112 Phone Main 113 treating Piles, fissures, ulcers and Flow of Milk. are confined in small areas often lose Funeral Directors to put across this work. B. Bassett of the farm management AUSTIN, MINN. similar diseases without Surgery or their appetites, and when they do milk and E.7ibalmers division, Minnesota college of agriculture, 1892 28 Years* Experience 1920 loss of time from your business qr There is no animal harder worked production naturally drops off. By GIVE BEEF BREEDING have a greater annual depreciation Day Calls—Int. 198 N. W. 28: any Hospital bills. Examination free. than the dairy cow giving a large flow adding a little molasses to the ration HERO GOOD CARE Call or write about your case. than the manure spreader. The Night Call* of milk, and any aid given her fn digestion they will regain their appetites and besides DR. F. E. DAIGNEAU Office over Austin Furniture Livestock men at University Farm T. W. Donovan—Interstate 114-i annual depreciation is 10.25 per cent will show decided' increase In eat more than they did withdht Eye-sight Specialist Store, (opposite Fox Hotel.) N. W. 44frJ believe that winter care of^ the beef milk and in her condition. Some a year. With a $200 spreader this the molasses, which of course .increases H. A. 622-L Goalee—Interstate Scientific adjustment of GLASSES breeding herd deserves more careful grains are easy of mastication and digestion, amounts to $20.50 a year. The annual their tpilk production/ N. W. 1080 to all forms of defective vision but the usual ration of the study than most breeders give it. Under ARTKflJR WEST ALLEN, M. D. cost consists of this depreciation Motor aaid Carriage Servict corn belt is comprised mainly of wheat, 120 West Mill Street Minnesota conditions, the success and interest on the average investment, corn, oats, rye. and barley. All Of "sSSbu C. M. ft St. of the business depends largely upon amounting to 6 per ceijt to $6, CLIFFORD C. LECK, M. D. HIGHEST PRICE these grains will show up in the feces Surgeon Geo. A. Hennel ft Cat. the success of the system of management also insurance, housing and repairs, I ALBERT HOPFEii DISEASES OF THE EYE if fed whole and unless the cattle are Physician and Surgeon in winter quarters. A few fundamentals PAID FOR GLASSES Fit 1 ED about 1 per cent of the original value Hirah Block, Austia, Minn. followed by hogs-it is entirely lost. J. Offic* First Nations! Beak Biter are thus laid down by S. X-Kay and Laboratory Equipment of the spreader, or about $2 a year. Crushing grain Is. better than grinding Poultry and Veal. Montgomery of the agricultural extension It flrie, for the digestibility may be Assistants— LIVE STOCK AND This makes^ a total annual -cost of division. decreased due to failure to mix properly OFFICE HOURS: $28.50. Ernest H. Morris, ML D.'•'•«•• REAL ESTATE Gat Our Prices with the saliva. Beware of dairy 9 "Barns do not need to be as warm to 10 a. as.—2 to 4 p. Mabfcle Moore, R. N. "If a farmer has 20 acres to cover i- j: feeds to6 finely ground, for they may Before You Go By Appointment, 7t30 ts8p.a. AUCTIONEER or beef breeding animals as for dairy every year with manure," says Mr. contain filler and cannot be properly Elsewhere frows, yet should be built with plenty THE HOSPITAL CLINIC Bassett, "the spreader cost per acre digested. of light and have good ventilation. Apply eaiiy for dates, as I sell would be $1.43. If he spreads the R. H. JOHNSON & SON. "V. C. A. Hegge, M. D.* AUSTIN CLINIC V^alls, mangers, alleys and gutters I nearly every day in the sale manure at the rate of 10 loads an PROVISION MARKET O. H. Hegge, M. D. BEETS ARE EXCELLENT FEED should be of stich material as to permit A. Lommon, PI. acre the spreader cost per load would 226 E. Mill Street Chas F. Lewis, M. D. of thorough and easy cleaning/ Miss Malinda Lewis, X-ray and be 14 cents. If the spreader instead because of Labor in Harvesting and E. C. Rebman, M. D. laboratory assistant. AUSTIN, MINN. Well drained clay floors have many of covering 20 acres a year could be Chas C. Allen, M. D. Cost of Handling Are Not as good points in their favor. FOUNDERS AND SURGEONS Used for covering 40 acres, the per J. G. W. Havens. M. D. Gheap as Silage. to St.-Olaf Hospital. "A barn with two rows of tie stalls, TV. B. Grise, M. D. load and per acre cost ^enld be reduced DRS. FENTON & MEANY Surgeons, C. M. St. P. R.' R. facing a center feeding alley for the General Surgery*— materially. Sugar beets are an excellent feed SPECIAL ATTENTION given DENTISTS cows, and with pens for calves and for dairy cows, but because of the Eye, Ear, Nose aojl Throat "There are, of course, other features to diagnostic accuracy, clinical, Austin National Bank Bldg. labor in harvesting and the expense of Glasses fittod young stock directly back of the cows to be considered in purchasing 408 North Main Street microscopic, chemical and radiographic handling, are not as economical as corn Office Phone: Bridge 103 and next to the outer walls, is probably a spreader, the most important of Surgeons—St. Olaf Hospital examinations accurately of silage. They have a larger amount Residence Dr. Fenton: Main 4SS*R the most practical arrangement. made. R. which is perhaps the manure applied C. G. W. R. nutriment than mangels or rutabagas, REGULAR MEALS AT Residence Dr. Meanyt Main 864 This makes for a minimum of labi^r with a spreader goes further and as a General Surgery but it is generally held that the latter '&-&* G*0' Hormel ft Ca ALL HOURS Eye, Ear, Nsse and Throat. 7J AUSTIN. MINNESOTA in handling the calves. rule gives better results than when will yield somewhat more per acre ri Hormel Milling Co. ^Open Until Midnight (Glasses properly fitted. yard provided "Ample space should be to handle. Sugar P. and are less difficult spread by hand. The cost of machine Bahcock Bldg. Oppoelta Qt adjacent barn, for on the kidneys, but DR. M. J. HARDY to the the beets are not hard Good Coffee, Chops And spreading is of course less than hand t, Haugan'a Pharisry. 0 B?th Phones 197 Office over if fed in too large quantities ther^ is# cow herd needs plenty of exercise and 0 p. Main St. Steaks A Specialty 4 spreading, and the work of handling For Information Out I® DENTIST a tendency to scour the animals. This should be turned out every day for at Phone -Maia |SS the manure with the spreader is much Of Office Hours QsD is due to the high sugar content of A««tis Autftia National Bank Bide. least a few hours. Small calves also easier." PRICKS MLUTONABLB^ 'Any Of The Doctors the beet tJ