sr'ft mw *t -*'*•„. A«C tff i: '", ~±W^^:hT- '*w I A *4 rli ^-t^MifJil 2g- $*' PAGE TWO MOWER COUNTY NEWS. AUSTIN, MINNESOTA THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1921 HOGS GAIN MIT Price On Head Of The Barberry ECLIPSE CORNER The common barberry bush is going Are You Interested in A Larger to have hard sledding in the good RIGID FRAUD LAW Potato Yield from Your Acreage year of 1921. The Minnesota state Weekly Shavings Edited By Vol 8(1 legislature seeihs likely to appropriate Thursday, March 17, 1921 Splinters $25,000 or thereabouts for fighting the barberry, and now W. Mel-, L. NOW WE CAN BUILD AGAIN! FIRST AID HINTS "Mr. Potato Grower, are you interested or alfalfa is not available, some pro ander of University Farm, in charge You've waited and longed for a It's a good plan to keep your buildings AMENDMENT STRIKES AT in getting a larger yield from Conditions Surrounding Trade home of your own for oh, ever so tein concentrate sueh as cotton seed of anti-barberry scouting over the long— "out of the hospital." First aid ALL "BLUE SKY" Very Bearish—Cattle Absorbed your acreage, as well as a better or linseed meal should be added to state, is advised that the Spring repairs will prevent leaky roofs, and PROMOTERS Now You Can Build Again at Steady to Weak grade of stock?" asks R. G. Rose, the ration. One or two pounds daily Wheat Crop Improvement Association busted sid£s. All the materials needed potato specialist with the agricultural will be sufficient. A little of such Rates—-Lambs $9.50 thru Bert Ball, manager of LUMBER PRICES DOWN— for quick repairs right at the FftKER FLEES WITH (128,000 extension division of the state university. concentrates will sometimes pay plants, has obtained $1,000 from the Eclipse yard. First aid repairs prevent Recent price adjustments have By Don J. Slater "If you are, then why not join even when alfalfa or clover is fed, if American Steel & Wire Company to paved the way for home building in building despairs. TUESDAY'S OPENING the movement to maintain potato seed the cows are thin in flesh or are milking be paid out as bounties on the head, this country. Prices of most lumber South-St. Paul, Minn., March Single Family Bilked of $26,000 plots and develop high grade seed heavily. If the silage carries a used in the construction of homes A HARDWOOD FLOOR as it were, of the common barberry 15, 1921—Cattle 2,400, market have about reached the actual cost in Fake Oil that has a record for production and fair amount of corn, no other grain is uneven, standy to weak, some in this state. Counties in the Red Costs no more than a good durable of production. The nation is short Scheme 25c lower. Calves 2,900, market carpet of quality. The carpet will necessary. If not, a little grain freedom from disease. Just remember river valley, says Mr. Melander, aVe more than a million homes—every active, steady to firm, top $10.00 wear out and the jpolished floor, properly should be fed to the cdws which are that good seed will always give good to be checked in the farm survey in town needs more homes, every farm Hogs 11,500, market' fully 25c cared for, will grow mellower in St. Paul, March 17—More money nursing calves. needs better buildings. returns under favorable conditions, the United States next summer. The lower, some 50c lower, range tint and richer in lustre as time goes is being stolen from the citizens of while poor seed is always uncertain." $8.50 to $10.65, bulk $9.50 to sum of $5 will be paid for the first °n. Besides the expense and labor Go ahead now with the buildings Minnesota every day by fake promoters $10.50. Good pigs mostly $11.50 of taking care of a carpet is much Time Nears For Bringing Out Bees Mr. Rose points out that the average that have been delayed and postponed planting found in a county, $3 for Sheep 500. Market slow about greater than of keeping a hardwood so long. than is stolen by thieves and highwaymen It will soon be time, says G. C. yield of potatoes in this country the second, $2 for the third, and $1 steady, top lambs $9.50. floor in condition,—to say nothing of in an entire year. That was Matthews of the division of bee culture is around 93 bushels an acre, while in For those who are not sure just each for the next twenty. The campaign the sanitation and healthfulness of Judging by the opening cattle market the statement of G. B. Brubaker, examiner at University Farm, to set bees what style or plan they prefer, we offer Great Britain and Germany the average will be put on in every county. the smooth, germ-free surface. this week this branch of the trade the services of the Eclipse Building for the state securities commission, out of the cellar again. If they have yield is about 200 bushels an is being supplied at present with about Department. The entire experience AN ODD JOB FOR A SPARE HOUR made today in endorsing a plenty of honey and are quiet, acre. Several things may contribute of our organization, covering as much stock as can comfortably be nothing is to be gained by setting campaign begun by Minnesota farmers Building your good wife a swinging to this disparity in yields, but Mr. years in the building and material absorbed at prevailing prices. Any shelf in the cellar for storing them out early. But if they are to put a stop to "blue sky" swindles business, is placed at your disposal. Rose is positive that differences in killer offerings that come in compe fruit or, if more room is required noisy and spotting rthe hives they in the state. methods of propagating and handling build her a cupboard with ample shelf tition with the feeder trade are practically may as well be set out on a warm "We don't hear of a tenth of the room. seed are the greatest factors. Growers steady, but others are weak to day, tho there is always some danger, actual cases in which Minnesotans are of potatoes across the big pond ONE PIECE Off A CttRLOAOj/ J. J. CLEMENS 25c lower than last week's close, poorest swindled in fake promotion schemes of course, of losses by Jbad weather. are usually very careful about their grades of stock and feeding cattle When the bees are set out they and worthless stock games," he said. seed. American growers, on the other showing similar loss. Demand for frequently drift from some hives Phone: 47 Local Manager "People are ashamed to admit that hand, are rather lax, relying too much stockers and feeders continues fairly into others. Drifting is the greatest they have been stung. The money on bin selection, .seed treatment and active, showing renewed faith in the when the bees are set out in the We Begin Where taken in Minnesota every year by blue spraying to control diseases. These market, but there is a feeling in the morning. They are excited by handling sky promoters runs up into the millions. methods are all good, as far as they n. Bridge trade nevertheless, that any considerable just before flight. Therefore, PMii* |/rillPTnil "mMmim m. go, but they do not reach all the imadiuh M.m 6s».r increase in receipts would probably they should all be set out the night One such promoter took $128,000 seed borne diseases and weaknesses tend to bring about some decline. before a quiet bright day is expected. out of one Minnesota community and which may be present. Best steers in load lots here early this REAL ESTATE AND INVESTMENTS Drifting is also bad when hives not one of his victims complained until What contributes good seed? Mr. week were some 1225-pound offerings are set close together in a straight he had fled with his spoils, Charles As we do it, the writing of Rose replies that high grade seed City and Business Properties. Rentals and Iniwanre from a Minnesota feed lot that row. All hives look alike and the J. Andre, executive officer of the your policy fires the first gun should be of a high yielding strain of sold at $9.25. These were bought Office with Niehuis A DeBuhr Laad Co. confused bees drift against the breeze commission, said. Dozens of schepies in our Broadside of Service. a standard variety which is vigorous for feeders, being shipped to Wisconsin and enter the hive in front of which AUSTIN. MINN. now being worked are beyond the Austin National Bank Bldg. and free from diseases. In building After that you become the target most bees are flying. The odor attracts for further feeding and finishing. reach of the law, he said. up a high grade stock the unproduc of our constant attention. them. Therefore the hives A few lots sold from $9.00 down to One Family Loses $26,000 tive strain should be eliminated just Your mind will notjte burdened should be placed in pairs with entrances $8.50, with bulk of sales from $7.00 "Since sales of stock must be licensed as the boarder cows are cast out of with details which'are rightfully alternating south and east, thus: to $8.25. Best grades of butcher in Minnesota" he said, "the improved dairy herds and the slacker to attend to. our cows are selling from $7.00 to $8.00, fake oil promoter has begun to sell hen is removed from the best produc wtih bulk from $4.50 to $7.00,. Canners 'units of interest' in oil land leases. ing flocks. When a question pops up in and cutters continue at $2.50 to The average oil lease costs 50 cents The general maintenance of potato TO THIS The pairs need to be about eight or $4.00 for the bulk, with most bologna your mind about some angle of to $1 an acre and the promoter sets seed plots will, in the opinion of Mr. EAT SHOP ten feet apart. The farther they are insurance, shoot it right along. bulls selling at present from $4.25 to out to sell it again for $50,000 or Rose, gradually increase the average h! THERE'S NO apart the less drifting there will be. $5.25. Veal calves topped Tuesday If we can't answer it, there is more to persons who know nothing production in this county. "Minne ONE IN TOWN at $10.00. Good to choice heavy something wrong with us. Have about oil and who don't stop to investigate." sota potato growers," he says, "are Going To Plant Oats? Read This. THAT CAN feeders are selling readily from $?»50 our man &e you. advantageously located for seed Experiments have shown, say farm SATISFY ME to $8.50, with similar grades of stock "A man and his wife came to us a plots, and it should be the' aim of crop investigators of University LIKE steers averaging from 750 pounds few days ago," said Mr. Brubaker. every progressive grower to improve .".*s Farm, that early varieties of oats appear down going largely at $7.00 to $8.00. "They lad been picked for $26,000 in his seed production by the seed plot to be best suited to southern A. C. PAGE Conditions surrounding the hog KOBE'S CAFE the stock of an oil company that had method. Not only the grower of table and western Minnesota, and that for market were decidedly bearish Tuesday, been refused a license. Austin, Minnesota. stock, but also growers of certified central and northern Minnesota and prices dropping back fully 25c "Three men in the last few months seed, should have special plots for on sandy land the medium maturing on the average, and in some cases as raised $36,000 on a Kentucky oil improving their seed. A seed plot varieties have given the best yields. much as 50c, more than wiping olit lease in another small Minnesota should consist of about one-twelfth IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE IN THEMOWER COUNTY NEWS Iowa No. 10 is an early variety which the gain scored Monday. Range Tuesday community, and split $22,000 of it of the entire acreage to provide is strongly recommended. Two other was $8.50 to $10.65, with bulk among themselves. Promoters sell- enough seed for the following year. varieties which appear promising are from $9.50 to $10.50. Desirable pigs ing interests in a lease on oil land in If impossible, it should be on land that Sixty-day (Minnesota No. 674) and sold largely around $11.50 with a few Wyoming that had been turned down has not grown potatoes" for at"least Iowar. Fo|u medium maturing varieties at $11.75. Best lambs here Tuesday by the state geologist, got $23,000 five years. Victory, No. 514 Minota, brought $9.50, with a few select light out of citizens of Hennepin county. "Medium size tubers are preferred Minnesota No« 512 and improved weight ewes at $6.00. One of the same men who promoted for seed. Large ones are not economical, Ligowa, Minnesota No. 281, are recommended. the $36,000 deal in Kentucky oil and the planting of small ones .• ADVERTISE IN THE NEWS leases picked up $50,000 last year in involves the danger of increasing the another oil game.'* proportion of degenerate plant's in make the Would Strengthen Law the stock, as weak plants generally In other promotion schemes, the produce small bulbs. The ideal size commission has .learned, subscribers of seed potatoes is froin five to eight spring dean-4 have paid hard cash for a privilege DODGE BROTHERS ounces. As an Additional precaution guaranteed under the United States against such diseases asi, scab and constitution. They have purchased black scurf, the seed ought to be ing thorough—rreplace for two years the "privilege" of buying, soaked in a solution of corrosive sublimate 4DOOR SEDAN merchandise for, their farms. (4 ounces in 30 gallons of In an effort to drive the fake promoters water) for an" hour -and one-half." the from the state, the Minnesota The seed plot should be carefully Farm Bureau federation has begun a inspected at least twice during the campaign to organize "blue sky" com* growing season, the first inspection old "cook mittees in every county, to investi at blossoming time and the second gate promotion schemes in which residents just before the plants die, and all of the county are asked tb in The simple explanation of its great varietal mixtures and diseased and sto?e" with vest. The federation also is backing weak plants removed. popularity Is that the Sedan deserves an amendment to the securities commission Results are not apparent so quickly all the good things that are it of law, to provide state regulation The old rusty dirt-catclung range with the seed plot methods considered anew does more to detract from the beauty for schemes now outside state in the foregoing as in the of your fresh, clean kitchen than anything In addition to its good looks and the control. Under the-proposed amendment, tuber-unit or hill method. However else. now before house and senate, the latter method requires much protection it provides, the car has Copjer-CIad, the "Range Jfeautiful," Copper-Clad— state licensing and state regulation more labor than the first. Anyone interested will bring you ''Range Happiness" an unusual reputation for consistent would be provided for the seller of in it will find it described in and go a long ways in making tho serv^pe "any contract by which, for a consideration kitchen cheerful. Come in and see detail in Minnesota Agricultural Extension one. to be paid in advance, the Bulletin No. 50. AUSTIN FURNITURE CO. issuer agrees to furnish to the purchaser of such contract, service in the WINTER RATIONS purchasing of goods, wares or merchandise." FOR THE COW HERD With a feed of thirty to forty The gasoline consumption is unusually low The amendment is aimed at no pounds of silage daily, says J.S. Montgomery, The tin mileage Is unusually Ugh sound corporation, but only at fake livestock specialist with the promotion schemes over which the agricultural extension division of the state now has no control, federation McGRATH MOTOR CO. state university, the addition of officers said. twelve to fifteen pounds of alfalfa or clover hay will provide a satisfactory County to be Represented ration for beef breeding cows. Oat Mower county will be represented straw, shredded corn, stover or other Austin, Minn. Phone Main 15 at the meeting of the Minnesota Federation cheap dry roughage should be provided of Fair secretaries, at the in outside feed racks. If clover Radisson Hotel, Minneapolis, Friday and Saturday. The meeting is called SIGNS REPAINTED for the purpose of offering suggestions Insurance Specialists 9 for the betterment of county fairs, also for a general discussion. Austin Insurance Agency J. TV. Hare, secretary of the Mower E. Ray Cory, Manager {•, county association will attend the Babcock Building meeting. Other members,of the association AUSTIN, MINNESOTA will probably attend. Window-Cards 1 ^Writing Cartoons 0 a DELCO-UGHT Galling Garde FARMERS! The Electric Light anrf Invitation Letters' Power Plant Ask us for. a demonstration in Free Hand Work We are in the market for your own dome. See for yourself. cream. No obligation. Our proposition will interest .. ... ...... .. JOSEPH M. BRITZ you. :t£:t BRING IN YOUR CREAM Pen Artist AUSTIN DAIRY PRODUCTS COMPANY Austin Electric Supply Co.^ GALL. UNION HOTEL •V Successors to Dibble Dairy 'by 121 N. Main St. Phone Main 89-%