1 rx W1 V* WfP^P^WW 4' *n 'f** */u .pfi^^f ^, tS ,J 4"J PAGE THREE f' MOWER COUNTY NEWS, AUSTIN, MINNESQTA IRON QBE T*X LEGAL IMENTAL nage tax laws, all expressed themselves CBEAMEMS butter and oil 12,059.98 DELIVER DAIRY GOODS CLEAN as satisfied, and opponents of Paid buttermaker's wages 1,705.06 any tonnage tax claim the opinion will tKs, Paid officers' salary 215.00 Wholesome Products Are Best Advertisements make a tonnage tax impossible this STATISTICAL WORK IN THIS SECTION Paid for coal 686.48 and Any Infraction Attorney General Holds Tonnage Tax session. of Rules Is Harmful. Sh$rp words passed before the Paid for wood 157.50 Legal In Opinion Handed Down house educational committee on a Paid for 2500 butter tubs $086.50 On Request of Solons. Of all the mediums of good sound hearing over the bill providing part Paid for salt 267.60 advertising in the dairy-industry there time education for children and adults. Paid for supplies, hauling, St. Paul—A tonnage tax on iron ore vestigating the cost of production of is not one which can excel that of Mrs. F. A. Kingsley of Minneapolis Red Oak Grove Creamery Business taxes, insurance, etc .. 1,104.34 in Minnesota was held to be constitutional WORK HELD UP SEVERAL "quality." farm crops and livestock and establishing said it'made a "fetish" of vocational Trinled in Last Ten in an opinion filed by Attorney Outstanding checks, SEASONS BECAUSE When we observe the methods of education. Dr. C. A. Prosser vigorously a sound basis upon which computations General Clifford L. Hilton. Mr. Hilton's Years—Bulk of Products to Jan. 8, 1921 ....$1348.99 OF WAR those who have really achieved in the defended the measure and said it can be made. In a recent opinion was sought by the tax Cash in sinking dairy business we will find In every would give wocking boys and girls a New Jersey address at University Farm, Dean R. STEELE COUNTY A CENTER committee of the House which is considering instance that success was made possible chance for training. fund 531.21 ,-,p W. Thatcher quoted Professor Carver the several tonnage tax bills The Red Oak Grove Co-operative through the application of common Favorable action on the BrooksColeman Cash in baak subject of Yale university a* saying that "the that have been introduced. bill giving state control of sense rules of cleanliness and association in their annual report, to Dec. check ....3071.73 Inventories Are Taken Every In his opinion, Mr. Hilton says: farm management studies at the University street railway rates is expected Soon sanitation. prepared by C. B. Christianson, secretary Total cash in bank Jan. Year—Job Not "I am of the opinion that the Legis of Minnesota constitute the Clean wholesome dairy products are by the senate committee on general shows a steady consistant lature has the power to impose arf occupation 8, 1921 4,951.93 Easy the best advertisements! and any Infraction most thoroly scientific and well legislation. Hearings on the bill ended growth. The association has tripled tax by providing for .the taxation and a subcommittee is drafting amendments of these axiomatic first principles grounded studies in agricultural economics Interrupted for several seasons by of those engaged in mining sub* its business in the last ten years and Total $1,041,119.19 will work to the dairyman's disadvantage to meet constructive criticism which have been produced in stantially as provided for in the submitted are shipping their entire output to the .world war, the gathering of data and render it difficult to repair of the bill as it stands. Amei*ica." bills. It is not restrained from one firm in Newark, New Jersey who from Minnesota farms on the cost of the damage wrought. Because chickens may scratch gardens so doing by any provision of the state producing field crops and livestock with impunity and there is no Dairymen are, as a rule, In the business buys the products as New York PASS CO-OPERATIVE MEASURE T1V\ or federal constitution." remedy, because they are taxable, to make a success of It, and there Extras. N. A. Tunding is the buttermaker products has now been prosecuted for The attorney general, however, holds Representative A. E. Nollet has introduced is no single factor that will promote a year by the division of farm management to whom a large share of the the tax should be in addition to all the Organization of a national co-operative a bill providing that they may business faster than the production of THE credit should go and has acted in this of the Minnesota Agricultural present taxes levied. selling agency to handle perishable be impounded and damages assessed a clean wholesome product. The opinion was interpreted by supporters Experiment station in co-operation capacity for twenty-five years. The farm produce may proceed under against owners of the fowls, in case IU4MUI1&' of tonuage tax legislation as with the United States department directors are: Nels Goodwin, president the co-operative bill, which became they scratch too freely. a CLEANLINESS OF IMPORTANCE making practically certain adoption of of agriculture. Prof. George Will Taylor, vice president C. law with the signature of Governor a tonnage tax schedule by this session Attention to Wringer. A. Pond of University Farm is in B. Kittleson, treasurer C. B. Christianson, Preus. of the Legislature. Utensils and Mangers in Which Calves To keep a wringer in good condition The bill, the first of the present immediate charge of the work. secretary and manager B. I. Attorney General Hilton's opinion Are Fed Should Be" Given' It should be oiled with good machine Legislature's co-operative marketing The new statistical routes were Ingvalson, Benhard Thompson and S. CLEAN MILK DURING WINTER given to the house subcommittee holds Close Attention. oil and the pressure screws loosened program to be enacted, was passed established last year. The first centers S, Ulland. as follows: when it Is not in use. by both Houses of the Legislature, about Owatonna, Steele county, Firs\—The tonnage tax as an occu The report follows: Strict attention should be paid to Much jCan Be Done to Exclude Stable the Senate acting last week. Copies pational tax is constitutional. Milk received, pounds 47,971 a section devoted to mixed farming, the cleanliness of the utensils and Filth and Dust by Using Plenty of the law were sent to local organizations Second—That the bill if passed mangers in which the calves are fed with dairy husbandi-y predominating Cream received, poupds 631,242 of Bedding. of the farm bureau. should make the tonnage tax a surtax, as well as to the box stalls in which and hogs, poultry, sheep, small grain, Average test of milk 4.66% The new law amends the provisions that is, a tax in addition to other Many dairymen consider that it Is they are quartered. The latter should corn and hay constituting other farm Average test of* cream ....! 21.58% of the co-operative law passed at the taxes now levied on mining properties _____ not necessary to take the same precautions be cleaned out at least once a week previous legislative session, extending enterprises.. Farms about Windom Butter-fat from milk, pounds ....2,248 and ore. and preferably oftener. in milking and handling milk the scope so that local co-operative Butter-fat from cream, in Cottonwood county were selected Third—The bill should be amended during freezing weather as when it is associations may federate in state or for the second route. Oats, corn and 'pounds 136,245% to provide for a deduction from the warmer. GOOD COWS ARE PROFITABLE intrastate bodies to sell their products amount of the tonnage tax, the adva* hay are staple field crops in that section, Total b,utter-fat, pounds ..138,493% It should be kept in mind that milk co-operatively. lorem tax levied on ores for the year beef cattle and hogs lead the Butter drawn by patrons, is a food—a very wholesome food The Farm Bureau Federation proposes Country Inquiry Acts as Prop Must Produce Milk or Butferfat of in which the tonnage tax is levied. livestock pursuits. There are twentyfour pounds 18,274 when it is secured from healthy cows to take advantage of the law in Trade—Best steers Yalut Over Cost-of Feed—Calf Cattle Fourth—The title of the bill should farms in each route. Professor under sanitary conditions, but a dangerous Butter shipped, pounds 151,742 at once by organizing a national selling and Manure Help. $7.50—Hogs go up—Top be amended to correspond to the suggestions agency to handle perishable farm Pond and members of his staff are food if it ponies from tubercular Butter retailed, pounds 448 in this opinion. Lambs $8.00 produce. The agency will be Modeled cows and is so carelessly secured now tabulating the data assembled A cow is profitable if she produces Total butter made,- pounds....170,464 Fifth—The Warner bill, which provides somewhat along the lines made and handled as to permit the entrance during the year from the two routes. (Special to Mower County News by milk or butterfat of value over the Overrun in pounds 31,971 for a constitutinal amendment famous by the California Fruit Growers' of stable filth and dust. U. S. Bureau of Markets and Minn. cost of feed. The value of the calf Job No Sinecure authorizing the levying of a tonnage Per cent overrun 23.08% association. Men who have made a careful study cow produces each year, plus the value tax and also the creation of a permanent Dep't. of Agriculture.) Statisticians employed on cost of Average price paid patrons for of tuberculosis in dairies state that, of the manure left on the farm, Is trust fund, into which half .the production projects have no sinecure. TUESDAY'S OPENING butter-fat 66.5 cents on the average of at least one in eight receipts from the tonnage tax are to be usually considered sufficient to pay for South St. Paul, Minn., Feb. The Mower County News receives the Inventories must be taken at the beginning Cost of making one pound of |of our dairy cows harbors the germs paid, does not violate any provision of her keej'. outside of feed. .15, 1921:—Cattle 1400. Killing dispatches of the United Press Association. and close of each year. Farms of tuberculosis and that these organisms butter 03.5 cents the constitution of the United States classes strong to shade higher, must be surveyed and accurate maps find their way into the manger stockers and feeders strong, Such trust fund may be made inviolable, Receipts and gutter. Dust from the feed or made. Every farm on the route must mostly 25 higher. Calves, 2100. Cash on hand Jan. 9, 1920 $3,667.76 the interest and income to be •from the manure, or small particles of Mostly 50 lower, top $8.50. Hogs All of European Origin. be visited at least every other day. used only for the purposes of such Received for butter 14,000. Market uneven, averaging the latter, may convey tfiese dangerous A dumpling is a good old English trust fund. Ownevs and statisticians must be in shipped* $87,949.37 10 to 15 higher, range $7.00 HIGHEST PRICE bacteria to the milk. dish, and comes from the word dumpen. fi full accord so that a complete record Received for butter to $9.80, bulk $8.50 to $9.60. Much may be done to lessen this that meant to throw down suddenly. can b3 kept of all sums paid out and DRAFT MINERAL LAND BILL Best pigs $10.25. Sheep 1,000 sold patrons 12,059.98 PAID FOR danger by using plenty of bedding, and the diminutive ending Market steady to strong, top received. Every hour of labor put Received for butter 'ling." The idea was a little cake feeding moistened feeds and a thorough Poultry Veal lambs $8.00, top ewes $4.00. and St. Paul—The committee on public in, either by hired help or members retailed 332.51 ihat was made by throwin raw dough wiping of the udder and flank Considerable improvement this domain expects to report a bill to of the family, must be recorded for all into boiling vrater. From Portugal iof the co*' with a damp cloth. A Received interest oh daily week in the demand for stock and restore the practice of leasing mineral Get Our Pr»c«s i-onies the word marmulade, which was the different farm enterprises. At covered pail is also of considerable balance at bank 80.90 feeding cattle over the very light lands to the senate next week. ••riginall.vji sweet preserve made from Before You Go. assistance. least once a month the route agent Received taxes refunded .... 28.67 A motion will be made to make the movement previously this year when 'iuin'e and lakes its name from mar•elo, Elsewhere Stable dust can be settled by must weigh all the hay and grain fed bill a special order, Senator John the outgo from market center of the L. fiie Portuguese name for that sprinkling the stable floor a short livestock. He must weigh and test Total $1,041,119.19 & Wold of the subcommittee which had It H. JOHNSON SON. country was .the lightest for several "ruit. Cruller is a good Ya'tlkee dlsb, time before the cows are milked. the milk, measure the hay and keep charge of the bill, said. The special PROVISION MARKET Disbursements years, has injected some life into the -hough it is from an oid German or Bacteria stick to wet surfaces, but accurate records of all yields of farm order probably will be asked for some Paid ..patrons by check $80,984.86 226 C. Mill StTMt 'Intel? word. *'knilief\" meaning little as they are free to float in the air cattle trade, most feeding cattle and day next week in order to give the crops. •iHed v.. Paid patrons by again as soon as the surfaces have commoner killing grades selling fully senators time to study the bill, Senator Furthermore, he must keep an accurate become dry, the floor should be kept 25c higher than last week's close. Wold said. account of everything used moist until after the period of milking. The bill, as introduced by the interim Whether or not this will prove to be in the home that comes off the farm. committee, has been amended a repetition^ of last week's market If all of the dairy cows were subjected Household expenses muftt be tabulated 1 by substituting a board for the state I when an early gain of125 to 50c was to the tuberculin test, the precaution to the last penny. auditor in charge of the sale of exploration lost before the close, remains to bte mentioned above would not The aim of the state and the federal permits and leasing. The seen. Packers are light buyers at be so important for the tubercular The entire board will consist of the state auditor government is to provide statistics cow could be identified and removed, present and appear unwilling to follow Sale held the attorney-general and state treasurer. on the cost of production and yet there are other bacteria in the any advances, claiming that no offering has concerning the general business of stable dust and manure which are in- The house committee on taxes recommended improvement can be expected until at farm the farm so that the financial status for passage a bill requiring there is matterial enlargement in demand of each and every enterprise may be been double warehousemen to file annually with for dressed beef and a betterment clearly shown each year to the end in heated assessors a statement of all personal in prices for hides and other that unprofitable enterprises may Jbe property stored in their warehouses. treated and by-products. abandoned or put on a remunerative Warehousemen from Minneapolis, St. building with One load of good beef steers, averaging Paul and Duluth were given a hearing basis. To discover and wipe out the Cholera 1120 lbs. and a load of baby is and protested against the bill, leaks and to demonstrate what lines good seats This committee also heeves, steers and heifers mixed, aver- recommended of farming will do best are objects for passage Representative Thomas aging about 800 lbs., topped the early Immune sought in collecting these statistics. Girling's bill exempting the heads of week trade at $7.50. A few sales State and nation thus uncfertake to families from taxation on $200 worth were made at $6.75 to $7.00, with assist the farmer so to organize his of personal property, provided they bulk of the butcher cows and heifers business that such arrangements of have more than two children under 16 from $4.00 to $5.25. Canners and DEAN ft WILDER SELL years of age. crops and livestock may be made as cutters are selling largely from $2.50 will give the largest net returns. to $3.75 and bologna bulls are moving 46 46 LEGISLATIVE SIDE LIGHTS Production Cost Studied BlgPoland-China Sows slowly at $3.50 to $4.25' for the majority., Cost of production studies were of this class. Best veals sold introduced nearly 20 years ago at the Voters, physically unable to get to Tuesday at $8.50. the polls could cast their ballot by agricultural experiment station by The sharp discount on heavy hogs mail undei* S. F. 500, sponsored by Prof. Willet M. Hays who later was last week brought about a wide range Senator J. H. Hall. Including 10 yearling and tried sows, consigned by Henry Slokman called to Washington to become assistant Members of the senate general legislation in prices, select lights selling today secretary of agriculture. committee refused to constitute from $9.50 to $9.80, light and handyweight At DEAN FARM Three different areas were selected themselves a board of musical experts butchers .frob $9.00 to $9.50, for the work—Northfield, which was Cow,s and killed two bills each advocating Qf Much Advant t0 wi 0(f good medium and heavy hogs mostly typical of the dairy districts Marsh-. „d „ks „s a state song for Minnesota. Ongtate Road Betwoon Rose Crook and Adams udder a Ra Before Milki $8.25 to $8.75, and heavy packers Mink", fisher and marten may be all, in western Minnesota, where gen- Operation. a largely $7.25 to $7.50. Pigs topped trapped only from Dec. 1 to March eral farming was in vogue with cornj l', at $10.25. Choice handyweight fed instead of April 1, as the law how leaders, and juri0lls the Mflfc beef cattle and hogs as t0 human system. & Thursday, February 24,1921. secured from cows free from tuberculosis, stands, if Representative Henry Spindler western lambs topped today at $8.00 Halstad, in the Red river valley re- with clean moist flanks and puts through H. F. 673. The restriction with a string of choice handyweight gion, where wheat and potatoes were is asked because of the growing udders, milked with clean hands into ewes at $4.00. the staples. A study of general sterile covered pails in dust free stables scarcity of these animals. farming costs, centering about Cokato and kept cold is a safe and Attorney General Clifford L. Hilton's The News, and your friends and i-osSi •_••• neighbors are interested in any newt in Wright county, was also carried welcome food. opinion on the tonnage tax bills seems HERD BOARS 3S that you might have. We would appreciate to have pleased everybody., Messrs. on several years. it greatly if our subscribers Welch, Bendixen, Warner, Trowbridge Professor Hays, who as station would phone any items they might and Wilkinson, who introduced ton- agriculturist was in charge of this "For Reference Only" have, great or small, to us for publi- GOOD DESSERT FOR COLD DAY work at the time of its organization, D's Pickett, a mighty good son of the famous $60,000 Pickett. ROW AN HCHT-WHEELED FIELD RUNABOUT was succeeded in 1905 by Prof. Andrew Brown Betty Is Sure to Make Hit D. S. Great Giant, a worthy son of Grant's Great Giant Boss, chief of the division of With Family if They Possess D. & S. Dunndale Pilot, a son of the Iowa Grand Champion. farm crops and management, who has Hearty Appetites. since had general charge of coslt These boars are mated with a choice lot of females—15 tried sows and yearlings, 2 winter gilts Some day this winter, after a light studies. Prof. Edward C. Parker, and 19 spring gilts. meal, try serving a Brown Be'tty with who was in immediate charge of these cheese for dessert. It is sure to make We are offering as good a bunch of sows and gilts as can be found anywhere They are by such studies at the start, was succeeded a hit with the family if they have NrM- boars as Orange Wonder by Hover's Orange Wonde? King Bob by Hather's Big Bob Mammouth Big by Prof. Thomas P. Cooper, now dean hearty appetites. The following recipe Bone Smooth Bone Wonder and other good boars. of Kentucky's agricultural college. for it has been tried out in' the home Mr. Cooper was followed by F. W. economics kitchen of the United States Send for our catalog and look over the breeding, but to really appreciate this great offering you Peck, who is now in charge of the Department of Agriculture. should see the animals themselves.: cost of production studies of the federal Brown Betty With Cheese.—Arrange department of agriculture. alternate layers of bread crumbs A well matured sow breji to a good boar is the best and surest investment a farmer can make at .and thinly sliced apples in a' deep Each incumbent, after Professor this time. Y*S- earthenware baking dish. Season with Hays, and including Professor Pond, cinnamon, also a little clove, if At the same time we will sell 15 head of good [Trade Shorthorn Cows and heifers due to freshen who is now in charge, was associated •'desired, and brown sugar. Scatter soon. Also 3 or 4 registered Shorthorn Bull Calves. Cows and Bulls will be( sold at 11:30 a. with his predecessor for a period of some finely shaven mild full-cream m. Sows to be sold at one o'clock. A hot free lunch will be served at noon. years, so that the same general pal cheese over each layer of apple. When icy has been followed from the beginning the dish is full, scatter bread crumbs ••TERMS: 6 to 10 months tiiiie will be given oh approved bankable notes. .w to the present time. Bulletins over the top and bakq 30 to 45 minutes, have been issued on production costs placing the dish In a pan of water DEAN & WILDER'S-m ROSE CREEK. so that the pudding will not burn. of dairy products, general farm products, If preferred, this may be sweetened farm living, hours of labor on This is one of the newest members of the well-known Pord 4 with molasses mixed with an equal family. It is the field runabout It is a strong-limbed boy—eight Write for Catalogue and plan to attend sale crops and livestock. amount of hot water and poured over wheels dividing the work done by four before. It is a tractor' which The department of agriculture of was Secretary of War Baiter much Interested in at the army Exhibit "the top, a half cupful of molasses being Auctioneers, W. R. Richie, Assisted by A. O. Austinson and J. M. Heimer. the University of Minnesota blazed In Washington. The broad caterpiller belt gives it a very firm tooting sufficient for a quart dish of puddine. the way, in the United States in in- undet All kinds of soil conditions. mi