muwak uium i' NEWS, AUSTIN, MINNESOTA PAGE THREE MONDAY. FEBRUARY 28, 1921 cash invested. I am going to quit E. S. Selby was called to Cali-^v. Is Alfalfa Hay A Desirable Course E this is my last year of slavery." American Farmer Is Progressive and fornia Tuesday by the illness of his If letter not because We reproduce this youngest son. In The Menu Of Brood Sows good or bad, of any lesson, in Keeps Abreast of the Times. •'-•fu-'i because Warren Tryon has returned to hia! farming which it offers, but a home in Des Moines, Iowa. ,• of bad lesson in bookkeeping being fed in the same way as a matter Italic 18 pt. box head. Farm Page. which it contains. It is of course impossible, of experiment, altho their feed requirements By GEORGE W. HORTON, Alabama Planter. Is alfalfa a desirable course in the William P. McGovern, who has been' from the bare figures presented, differ to some extent menu of brood sows? In parts of visiting at the home of his niece. Clarks Grove Co-operative to judge whether this farm from those of brood sows. The gilts, Nebraska, Kansas and other states, Mrs. M. J. Keenan here and sister, at Creamery Has Found Lucrative was efficiently operated or not The city man's notion that tHe American farmer is a mossback is being in the growing stage, require where alfalfa has developed into a Mrs. John Eagen of Red Rock has Way to Dispose of least it was diversified, with cream, mistaken. A German scientist, who visited America before the war, was more feed in proportion to their returned to Milwaukee. staple, it has long been used, and This By-product gtain and livestock to sell. But the weight than do the older animals. authority for the statement that the American farmer 25 years ahead apparently with success, in the feedof wao difficulty with this statement is that ADVERTISE IN THE NEWS A second experiment by the hog hogs. An experiment now being (BenxW. Rieke) of his time in efficiency. the records are only half kept, and section is being made for the purpose conducted at University Farm by The Clarks Grove Co-operative In his treatment of the problems of attacking the insects and pests the tragedy of it is that the owner of of comparing linseed meal and tankage Prof. E. F. Ferrin, in charge of the Creamery closed a deal Thursday, this farm evidently decided to quit on which prey upon his crops, the American farmer has made use of the most as hog feed. Pigs which were farrowed swine section of the animal husbandry whereby it is to install a newly invented the result of a year's statement which advanced scientific methods. He uses more tractors and power-driven in September will be fed until division, is to deter ^ne the benefit, machine known as a "Rapid actually tells him nothing. they weigh at least 200 pounds each, farm machinery, owns more automobiles in proportion to his numbers if any, of alfalfa in Minnesota. Vacuum Circulator," which changes Farm Accounts That Don't Account STRIKE which is considered a good marketable brood sows have been Eighteen buttermilk to solid food for human than any other trade or profession and more American farmers are graduates The first thing that one notices is weight under present conditions. three lots. The first lot divided into consumption. The machine is put of agricultural schools or students at experiment stations than the that he charged up to the year's expense This is a self feeding experiment except is fed equal parts of corn and oats out by the Farmers' Consolidated Distributing "new machinery, $840." If earth tillers of any other country. for buttermilk which is hand with one-tenth of that amount of company and its representative, he had charged for this machinery, The average American farmer produces about three times as mufch fed. This lot gained 11 pounds tankage. J. C. Branson, was here to as he should, only a legitimate depreciation cigarette The first lot is given a ration composed as the farmers of European countries. With the use of the antiquated per head in 30 days. The second lot is complete the contract. say of 10 per cent, its of shelled corn, wheat middlings, fed the same ration with an additional machinery of Europe the output of the American farms would be about book expense for last year would have The machines are put into certain tankage, and buttermilk. The 10 per cent of alfalfa hay. This lot one-third of what it is today. The American farmer is progressive and been only $84, and he would have creameries by the company on its own gain for the first 30 days was 1.04 gained an average of 23 pounds in 30 $756 more to add to his balance, because expense. Only twenty of tlie machines keeps abreast of the times. pounds per day for each pig. The days. The third group is fed the same will be installed in Minnesota. he must still have the machinery. second lot is given the same ration as feeds in smaller quantities than number Then his balance at the end of Mr. Branson said his company is Railroad attorneys arguing before the first except that linseed meal is one, but with an additional feed HAVE GOOD PUREBREDS ONLY the year would be $781 instead of working up a market* for the buttermilk the house committee on railroads substituted for tankage. The gain so of 30 per cent alfalfa hay. The pigs $25—and perhaps with that figure as the machines prepare it and against the full crew bill, told members far was .9 of a pound per hog each in this group lost one and one-half it was no time to pass the bill Pedigrees Don't Amount to Much Unless before him, at the end of a bad season, it is necessary to have an absolutely day. The third lot, which was fed pounds each. The experiment will run even though- it- were a meritorious Daughters Are Better Than he wouldn't have decided to quit high grade product, hence the selection shelled corn, wheat middlings, tankage for 90 days, and should have considerable measure. One railroad attorney said, Their Dams. the farm. Of course, he hasn't of country creameries. It was Its toasted "a vote for this bill is. a vote against and linseed meal made the best bearing on determining the charged depreciation on his old Freeborn county's well known reputation reduction ot railroad fares." No stock-raiser should be satisfied gain of all, or 1.09 pounds per pig a place of alfalfa should have in the machinery but the purpose of this as a good creamery county until he has the services of purebred day. long ration. Three lots of gilts are which decided the company to try one comment is not to show that our correspondent Origin of Popular Confections. sires his farm not merely a pure* for, made more than he thinks of our creameries. Nobody seems to know what muffin bred, but a productive purebred. Pedigrees MINNESOTA DAIRY CATTLE HERDS cafne from, but it was probably derived he did, but dimply to show by his own The company contracts to buy all don't amount to anything unless the buttermilk the creamery produces from the word muff, and it can a sire can produce daughters better statement that he doesn't know how be Imagined that it migDt have been than their dams. much or how little he made. and pay for it at the rate of four RECORDS IN TESTS due to some similarity between the This is obvious when we consider cents per pound, after the buttermilk warm cake and the hand covering. the second major deficiency in this is reduced to powdered form. To Fritter is from an old French word statement, namely, the lack of'an inventory show what this will mean to the C001D HMDIY EAT ANYTHING ONTO. HE USED DC DII.NA meaning to fry or a dish of fried fish, at the beginning and end of creamery in dollars and cents, we which conies directly from the Latin Rowans FMMD IT woaovw. mcaE 1 l\U IW pounds of butterfat during the the year. Without such-an inventory need only call attention to the fact frictus, the past participle of the verb ASSOCIATION REPORTS month. Second to her was a cow it is impossible for a man to tell where that this year the creamery is selling frlgere. Waffle comes from wafer and "I «u weak and tired and conld hardly eat anything until I CONFIRM TESTS belonging to Marlow & Randall of wafer comes from the German word he stands. It may be that his inventory its buttermilk on bid for $600 per used Pe-ru-na. Soon my appetite wa» good and myatrengtb returned. I told my neighbor* and every one of them found Mankato, with procuction of 93.71 wabe, a honeycomb or a cake of wax. AT "U" would show a loss, with the year. Under the new plan, the same Its wonderful medicine. You can always get a doae of Originally wafers seem to have been pounds. A cow owned by Knud Pe-ru-na st my houae no matter what the war tax. great depreciation in values during amount of buttermilk, will net the Ms. T. N. Wtesom hot cakes like modern waffles. The CITES INDIVIDUAL RECORDS Lund of Tyler, produced 87.6 Box 25, Bragg City, Mo. the past year but it may also be that creamery $3,397. association of the word wafer with pounds following her was a cow Catarrh of the stomach and bowels is among this man sold 300 bushels of wheat The machine will not be installed pxTrpni« tHnness is of modern origin. the many forms of catarrhal diseases from owned by W. M. Rose of Northfield^ and is still holding the greater part until next September, as that is as Cow Testers Say January which a large number of people needlessly with a record of 85.65 pounds of of his wheat crop for higher prices— early as the machines can be delivered Best Month In suffer. Fifty years of usefulness is the guarantee butterfat for the month. Still another at least, the statement offers no evidence LIBERAL FEEDING URGED and the necessary marketing arrangements behind History good record was made by an either way. Just these two completed for putting the PE-RU-NA The results of good care and animal in the herd of Kratzke Bros, items—too much "new machinery" powdered buttermilk on the market. Dairy extensionists and authorities of Watertown, 81.3 pounds of butterfat. propei- feeding are shown in the brilliant and too little inventory—make this TheA product will be sold to bakers at University farm, St. TMtsirUpH MIEwjrtM performance of many Minnesota statement, as a record of his success Paul, Minn., are agreed that a and the manufacturers of prepared The Carver County Cow Testing dairy cattle herds during the policy of liberal feeding with or failure last year, absolutely foods of many .kinds, and, according association reports that January was dairy cattle is profitable and month of January. These reports valueless to himself or to anyone who to Mr. Branson, there is an unlimited the best month it has ever had, 105 should be pursued wherever circumstances have been received and summarized may read it. market if it is properly worked up make it possible. eows producing better than forty VILLAGE FARM HAMPSHIRE at University Farm, seat of the Minnesota and a high grade product furnished. We do not quote the above letter The importance of adequate pounds each of butterfat, and twentyone college of agriculture, and This company also' makes an ice to draw attention to this particular feeding has been shown time herds out of thirty-three averaging make an impressive showing. case—except to hope that our cor« cream powder from unsalted butter and time again. In .one instance more than twenty-five pounds of M. H. Frohman of University and has a big market for the product respondent may go over the figures which may now be cited, butterfat per cow. Fifty-three cows Spring GUIs by Minnesota Giant, by Merkleys Farm, superintendent of official testing in the southern states. The company feeding costs were increased in again and may find something that of 160 in the Blue Earth County association Giant. Bred to R. J's. Lad and He by in Minnesota, reports that of 669 a year from $53 per cow to $83, will also buy butter from the creamery wijl persuade him to remain on the produced more than forty Laddie. Prize winning Boar of 1919. cows in the yearly testing division, but the income from each cow for such manufacture. For some farm—but we quote it to draw wide pounds each of butterfat. Of 310 110, or 16.5 per cent, produced more increased from $129 to S218 in Some tried Sows by Lookout Leader by attention to faulty methods of bookkeeping years, various companies have been cows under test at Faribault during the same interim, so that for than four pounds of butter fat in Boy Bred to Minnesota Giant by Esterville which are all too common on manufacturing prepaid "powders" the month, fifty-four, or about the an extra expenditure of $30 two days. This list is longer than Merkley's G'ant. Sire of show Winner of the farm. Ask your county agent or from milk, tHe same tMie sold where profits were increased $89 per ratio of one to six, made more than any preceeding month. Eighteen 1917. V"' your Farm Bureau Secretary to get it is difficult to buy sweet milk. Such cow. forty pounds of butterfat each. cows produced more than five 3 Registered, Anxiety Hereford Bulls, ranging you one of the new farm account products have, attained a wide sale. pounds of butterfat in two days. books prepared by the American Buttermilk, however, has also been in age from 6 to 22 months. 1 Forty-three supervisors, working in A Lesson In Farm Bureau Federation and approved used almost altogether for stock food WILL COCHRAN January, completed the following by the Secretary of Agriculture purposes, and as such has been a byproduct HIGHEST PRICE Good Bookkeeping tests: and the Secretary of the Treasury. which has brought but little One and two-day tests 669 It costs only a few cents, and PAID FOR income to the creameries.—-Albert LANSING, MINN. 7-day tests 197 fr VILLAGE FARM. Lea Tribune. it will enable you to keep accurate Veal 7-day tests (8 mos. after) 1 The other day we received from Poultry and farm accounts and your income-tax 30-day tests 4 one of our readers in Stearns County, Retests 9 statement as Well. Minnesota (we won't print even his Reward of Patience. Get Our Pric*i Verification tests 9 initials) a letter containing a financial Check tests 26 Jackson. O.—Mrs. Almarle Hiehl Before Yoi^ Go Yesterday is dead—forget it. Tomorrow statement, which letter has two was married the second time to William Elsewhere 915 has not come—don't worry. Nace. She had been a widow for elements of tragedy in it, says The The yearly tests were divided, R. H. JOHNSON & SON. Today is here—use it.—Anonymous. 37 years. She was married the first Farmer in its February 26 issue. It says Superintendent Fohrman, among eld time when she was sixteen years PROVISION MARKET is tragic, in the first place because died three various breeds as follows: Hjvery person interested in religious and her husband of fever 226 E. Mill Sim* of the hopeless situation in which No. of education is urged to attend the weeks later. he sees himself. It is tragic, in Breeds Herds Tests Total Education Conference at the Central Closing Out Sale Presbyterian church Friday, February Holstein 61 448 67.0 the second place, because his 25. Adv. 15-2-c. Guernsey 29 148 22.1 own financial statement shows Jersey 8 51 7.6 how little he really knows (or reveals) Trifles make perfection, but perfection Shorthorn .... 2 13 1.9 We ask you to take just one of what his situation actually Red Polled 2 4 .6 is no trifle. 4 .6 Brown Swiss 1 is. The second is worse than the Having rented the farm for cash and in order to dissolve partnership, we demonstration in the new Paige .2 Ayrshire 1 1 first, and it is typical of a great many will offer all our personal property to the highest bidder at the farm 1% miles west and mile north of Austin on farmers today. We quote the entire "Lakewood 6-66" and judge it 669 100.0 Total ... 104 Wednesday, rtarch 9th letter here: "The amount of seven-day testing," J. F. FAIRBANKS from the standpoints of power, "I have decided to quit farming as says Mr. Fohrman, "took a decided I cannot make anything at it. My speed, acceleration, spring suspension jump upward, and along with Sale Starts at 10 o'clock Sharp receipts this year for products sold A BIG ROAST VEAL LUNCH WILL BE SERVED AT 12 O'CLOCK the increase of numbers we had improvement are as follows: Cream, $1,600 300 and general motor 6 HORSES—1 team of Gray Geldings, 10 years old, weight 2800. 1 team in quality. Of 197 records bushel wheat, $595 300 bushels rye, Dealer la Bay Mares, 6 and 10 years old, weight 1150 and 1450. 1 Bay Mare, 5 years $360 1,000 bushels oats, $320 40 finished in January, eighty-one efficiency. old, weight 1200. 1 Black Mare, 7 years old, weight 1300. hogs at 8%c, $680 10 two-year-old COAL, WOOD, LIME were over twenty pounds of butter. 45 CATTLE—32 Milch Cows, 14 fresh, balance will soon be of this steers at 5c, $500 10 cows (shipped) CEMENT, SEWER PIPE, This is forty-one per cent of the number 24 are high-grade, high producing Holsteins, rest are well bred $320 22 veal calves, $264 fruit, Shorthorns and 1 Guernsey. 1 three-year-old Heifer. 4 Yearlings. 5 total, or close to half. There are $74 poultry, $33—total receipts, BRICK AND WALL Get the /acfs—actual lapsed Calves and a few Sucking Calves. 1 registered Holstein Boll, 3 years old. $4,746. nineteen records of more than twenty PLASTER. 21 HOGS—These are very good Duroc Registered Brood Sows. 2 Tried "My expenses during the year were time of the tests—and make a pounds of fat in seven days. The Sows, in pig. 3 Gilts in Pig. 1 Sow, with pigs by side. 15 Fall Pigs these as follows: Hired help, $1,300 are not registered. Minnesota cow certainly demonstrated threshing, $295 twine, $45 new machinery record in your notebook. Then 51 SHEEP—50 Ewes, some with lamb by side. 1 Buck. $840 repairs, $72 oil, gas, her true ability and worth during CHICKENS—400 Good Plymouth Rock Chickens. 4 Turkeys. 2 White etc., $156 car and truck repairs, take a second demonstration in January Indications are this is but Ducks. tires, etc., $110 interest on balance Office 301 East Bridge St, the beginning of a series of brilliant FEED—200 bushel Oats. 600 bushel Corn. 15 tons Hay. 15 bushel Seed due on farm loan $960 taxes, $269 any other car—at any price— Corn, picked before froist. records. Phone: Main 33 insurance, $32 other expenses, wire, MACHINERY—2 wide-tired Wagons. 1 Grqin Box. 2 Combination Hay "Attention should be called to the paint, repairs, $642—total expenses, and compare the results. That Austin, Minn. and Hog Racks. 1 Milk Wagon. 1 Bob Sled. 1 Set of Buggy Runners. $4,721. record recently completed by Brookings 1 Set Light Bobs. 1 Corn King Manure Spreader. 1 Walking Plow. 1 "That leaves m'e $25 all I have for is all w.e ask. County Maid, owned by Dr. H. Emerson Sulky Plow, 16 inch, breaker attachment for same. 1 Defiance my work and for interest on $26,000 Gang Plow. 1 Monmouth Disc, 6 foot. 1 Smith & Johnson Drag, 5 section. Rasmussen of Tyler, Minnesota. She 1 Drag, 2 section. 1 Hayes Corn Planter. 1 Avery Corn Planter., 1 Tower began her record in another, state, Corn Cultivator. 2 Cultivators, 6 shovel. 1 Deering Corn Binder. 1 THE NEW SIMMONS 6-66 Laktwood 7-Passenger Touring Car passed thru a sale, was shipped to Hocking Valley Corn Sheller. 1 McCormick Binder, 6 foot. 1 Emerson 6- 6 6 Lankmont 1 1 as Sport Tyler by her new owner and put in Standard Mower. 1 Minnesota Hay Rake. 1 Massey Harris Tedder and 6 6 6 Pa up Side Delivery. 1 Sanwich Hay Loader. 1 Pole Stacker. 1 Barrel Sprayer. 4-66 charge of an old Dane. Dr. Rasmussessen Stten-Pattenger Sedan ....... CONTINUOUS AIR SPACE 1 DeLaval Cream Separator. 10 Milk Cans. 2 Sets Heavy Harness, 1 Set says it was necessary for All model« will be exhibited at Automobile Practically new. 1 Set of Medium Harness. 1 Buggy Harness. 1 Pair Shone throughout the country her to acquire a knowledge of Danish, Horse Blankets. 1 Oat Sprouter. 2 Water Fountains. 1 Queen 550-Egg, as the old man could not speak Incubator. 2 Buckeye, 240-Egg Incubators. 1 Trusty, 120-Egg Incubator. BUILDING BLOCK 2 Standard Colony Brooders, 1,000 chick capacity. 1 Swill Cart. 1 Wheel English. She stepped right along PAIGE-DETROIT MOTOR CAR CO., DETROIT Barrow. 1 Tank Heater. 1 Milk Tank. 7 Hay Slings. 150 feet -inch despite these obstacles and finished Rope. 1 Grindstone. 1 Olson Sling Pulley. 1 Shoveling Board. 1 Mnujmetunre of Paige Itotor Cart and Motor Tntcha a yearly record of 8l2 pounds of Scraper. Grain,Bags. A bunch of Small Tools and other articles too numerous The latest and best material for building construction. 'Mt butterfat. Her adaptability is said to mention. c-S- Makes two walls 2 inch dead air space thereby THREE SPECIAL PRIZES FREE to be due to the college environment MOTOR INN, h- Three $5.00 Gold pieces will be given away at the close of the sale. The making the rooms dry at all seasons of the year. Choice in which she grew up." only condition is that'you must be at the sale at its close and have your name of finishes for outside. Can be plastered, waterproofed, Reports of Minnesota cow testing E. D. Hopfe, Prop. plainly written on a ticket. It will entitle everyone present to an equal *y Pebbledashed, kellastoned, or Krogstone finish. associations for January to L. V. chance at one of the three prizes. We respectfully invite everyone to be with us sale day whether you want to buy or not. Start the year right, build with cement blocks and Wilson of University Farm, state TERMS:—Alt sums of ten dollars and under cash On sums over that amount enjoy solid comfort. agent in dairying, United States department a credit of nine months time will be given on approved notes bearing 8 per '•fA of agriculture, go to confirm MAX W. MULER MFG. CQ. cent interest from date of sale. No property to be removed until terms are all the records of performances complied with. ifr-«- *!&»• Handke & Heimer: Owners cited by Superintendent Fohrman. A BEAUTIFUL CAR. lit AMERICA THE MOST did Foundry Building. ^Austin, Minn. dairy 'queen, owned by Stensrude Bros, of Montevideo, produced 107 Cols. Hopfo It Heimer, Auctioneers, W. W. Walker, Clerk. }^s -'M-J YvXik*. M, Mi