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1 ^T" L-" 1. ft **'•~^r -^ris *%ir* w&sf -x i^^cfS^IS •f" M, -V s« MOWER COUNTY NEWS, AUSTIN, MINNESOTA PAGE THREK MONDAY, MARCH 28, 1921 .'<p></p>eSt ..<p></p>Assets Oak Dale Farms-- Sit I »(W :v="- ^.ij j.-, .:,•• '.' PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY J. M. HEIMER Live Stock and Real Estate Auctioneer recognition by others Oak Dale is Removed from the other buildings a good place for the fall pigs to Fertilizers Increase Yield* per Acre goes to town. These will be sold to the When a big: man with a big idea, working surely, carefully, unhurriedly. thrive. Specially Conversant with .and per Men, Improve Quality, men at as near cost as possible. Upstairs and yet close enough to be econom* and the, courage and liberality to back The main hog house, too, is heated Save Labor and Make Bigl«r will be the sleeping quarters together Pedigree work ically accessible is a splendid hog that idea to the limit, sets out to The foundation for the Holstein with steam heat: The floor is of hollow Profit®' with shower baths and a complete Phone 9001. Adams, Minn. barn, housing four hundred head of herd was purchased from Senator tile with a cement and cork brick accomplish big tilings, success is foreordained. toilet equipment. They'll have Every progressive farmer is interested Hackney's Arden Farms at St. Paul, pure bred Durocs. There are two high coating. Steam pipes were laid down all the comforts of a good home and in bigger'and better crops provided G. L.BAKER, M. D. herd bull being Kind Oak Segis class boars in service, and at present the length of the pens on either side all the attractions of the city without they can be produced at a profit. The big man is R. J. Thomson of Pontiac, a bull that represents"* the fifty brood sows are being man- and are fed by a main line running Physician and Surgeon stirring from the farm." Every bushel, pound or ton of 4 this city. The big idea is that the future The horse barn is a roomy, clean, product sold off the farm, whether it Office in Lewis Building prosperity of the dairy world well-ventilated, structure and is located, be grain, vegetables, fruit, m$at or Phones: Residence, Bridge 130 as can be seen in the milk, contains elements of plant food rests upon the breeding of ever better Office, Bridge 277 THE BULL BARN AT OAK plot herewith, with reference to convenience and sooner or later every soil will stock. The big thing he is setting put Austin, Minn. DALE WITH THE MAIN DAIRY to the shop, machine shedo show the effect of this constant drain to accomplish is to make the Oak Dale on its resources in decreased yields. and main drive. BARN IN BACKGROUND DONOVAN & GOSLEE Water is piped to this barn 1as well Fertilizers supply the crops with Farm the model dairy farm, the model as to all other barns on the farm from those elements of plant food which Funeral Directors hog farm and the model breeding establishment the dairy and power house next to the the soil, unaided, cannot supply, or and Embalmers in the state of Minnesota. I main dairy barn. This power house those which are not supplied inmanure, Day Calls—Phone Main 198 contains the farm electric light plant, or by the growth of le That, you will admit, is a mighty gumes. ithe boiler, from which heat is piped Night Calls A4 ambitious program for any man, or The labor required to produce high to the entire set of buildings except T. W. Donovan—Main 114-L. group of men, to map out for himself. the residences, a large sterilizing acre yields is little more than in the H. A. Goslee—Main 417-L. But the man and the men associated room and dairy proper, and the ice case of low acre yields but the high Motor and Carriage Service with him in this enterprise are equal I machine and refrigerating room. yields are produced with less labor to the task, if the record of achievements The main dairy barn is a model of per bushel, pound or ton. By increasing 4- CLIFFORD C. LECK, M. D. in other lines of endeavor may its kind. Equipped with fifty-two the yield, fertilizers reduce be judged by. Jamesway comf oi*t stalls and with several the labor cost per unit of production. Physician and Surgeon Every person in this country who cow and calf pens, adequately Hirsh Block, Austin, Minn. knows anything about chickens has Average yields just about pay the lighted and wonderfully ventilated, it X-Ray and Laboratory Equipment visited, heard about, or read about is an ideal home for the high class, cost of^ production. The use of fertilizer Assistants— Oakdale Farms at LeRoy, Minnesota, pure bred Holsteins that are making in connection with other good Ernest H.Morris, M. D. Illustrations used by courtesy of one of the largest poultry plants of a name for themselves in the dairy farm practices points the way to more Mabelle Moore, R. N. Barn Magazine. James any kind in this country and probably world. satisfactory profits and to a higher labor income. THE HOSPITAL CUNIC J. W. Hare has Swift's line of Fertilizer C. A. Hegge, M. D. for your farm, lawn or garden. O. H. Hegge, M. D. MR. R. J. THOMSON It pays to use them. Adv. 24-4-c. P. A. Lommen, M. D. AND BUYERS Miss Malinda Lewis, X-ray and Advertising is the father of goodwill VIEWING THE HOGS Laboratory assistant. v4 and confidence. IN THEIR PENS FOUNDERS AND SURGEONS to St. Olaf Hospital Surgeons. C. M. & St. P. R. R. SPECIAL ATTENTION given todiagnostic accuracy, clinical, microscopic, chemical and radiographic examinations accurately made. General Surgery— Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Glasses properly fitted. niiipm Office over Haugan's Pharmacy 400 N. Main St. KING OAK SEGIS Phone Main 222 Austin, Minn. PONTIAC, THE HERD SIRE GENUINE J. K. LYNDE AT OAK DALE -33s r3 BULL" DENTIST Office in Hirsh Block Telephone Main 117 AUSTIN, MINN. the largest and most famous plant PART OF THE down the center alley. The tile is devoted exclusively to the production CROWD OF 65,000 DURHAM laid with the open ends exposed to W.R.EARL FURNITURE Co. of high class Single Comb White Leghois, the pipes. Thus the floor of the hog POULTRY FANCIERS the plant that at a "Visitors' UNDERTAKING and house is kept at a Warm, comfortable Day" a couple of years ago entertained PRESENT AT OAK FUNERAL DIRECTION temperature. tobacco makes 50 65,000 enthusiastic chicken fanciers Auto Hearse Equipment DALE FARM ON And that is where the little pigs good cigarettes for from all parts of the country. VISITORS' DAY need warmth. Thelittle pigs live in a Prompt attention in Every Detail The same men who have made the Business Residence world six inches high. No matter how Oak Dale farm at Le Roy the foremost Phone Main 112 Phone Main 113 warm it may be in the hog house at 10c poultry plant in the country, AUSTIN, MINN. the height of a man, if the floor is some three years ago launched out into cold, the little pigs are cold. They the Holstein game. 1892 29 Years' Experience 1921 get no benefit from the warm air 'T4 Three hundred and twenty acres, DR. F. E. DAIGNEAU above them. And, the time is not far flat as the palm of your hand, were distant when, as Mr. Sarver says, Eye-sight Specialist bought in the gentle rolling country "Hog men will discover that it is Scientific Adjustment of PROFESSIONAL land six miles southeast of Blooming cheaper and better to heat hogs with GLASSES to all forms of DIRECTORY Prairie and the foundations of one steam heat than with expensive defective vision of Minnesota's best dairy farms laid. corn." 120 West Mill Street R. D. Sarver, a man of exceptional A. I. ARNESON, M. D. Mr. Sarver is an ardent advocate of A visit to Oak Dale is well worth best in Arden Farms breeding. With aged. The hog barn i& up to date in capacity and experience, a good organizer good ventilation for all stock barns. him and the excellent foundation cows while, both for the dairy man and the every way. Specialtist in Natural Therapeutics and an efficient executive, was He is firmly convinced that half the hog man. Oak Dale is a model plant purchased, Oak Dale now is working selected as Farm Superintendent and A long cement feeding floor on Using "Condensed Out-ofdoors," ills afflicting a dairy herd are due, directly in every way and there are so many to combine the five dominating under his energetic leadership the old, electrical, mechanical, ALBERT H0PFE the west side of the hog barn, flanked or indirectly to a lack of pure valuable pointers to be picked up that strains of Holsteins—the PontiacSegis-Piebe-Homestead-Fayne out-of-date shacks that cluttered the spinal and other Natural methods on the west by a long corn crib air, and that these ills could1 be prevented the time and mohey spent in a careful combination. in addition to Medical Treat place were replaced by modern, up-todate by providing the dairy herd study of this proposition would be and on the notth by a sun room, ttents. LIVE STOCK AND plants. with the clean, pure air that nature intended a dividend-earning investment. All the buildings on the farm are sheltered thus from the wind on every Piles, fissures, ulcers and similar Mr. Sarver laid out the entire they should have. arranged, located and equipped to side, gives the hogs a chance to put REAL ESTATE diseases successfully treated farmstead before a building was faciliate the dairy farm operations. on weight quickly and comfortably The feed rooms are conveniently located ADVERTISE IN THE NEWS. without hospitalization. erected. He planned not only for the AUCTIONEER Buildings and shrubbery are so arranged and with the minimum of feed. The to the dairy barn. Of a capacity Office over Austin Furniture. buildings that were immediately Advertising is the tonic which makes as to make as many "suntraps" sun room has a built-in self-feeder large enough to store the tons of feed ,Store. (Opposite Fox Hotel.L erected but also those that are to be business grow and prosper. as possible. and is heated with steam heat and is erected in the future as the growth that is bought in wholesale lots by the Apply early for dates, as I sell management, they are so arranged, of the herd will demand. nearly every day in the sale The plant at present comprises the that feeding may be done with a minimum residences of the superintendent and of effort. An electric elevator the herdsmen, several garages for the faciliates the handling of the feed AUSTIN, MINN. farm automobiles and trucks, a horse from the first to second floor, and stable, poultry house, machine sheds vice versa well-designed spouts prevent DRS. FENTON & MEANY and granaries, a bull barn with an outside clogging of feed and the forming of stale pockets. DENTISTS paddock, the main dairy barn Austin National Bank Bldg. -i" Office Phone: Bridge 103 Residence Dr. Fenton: Main 455-R Residence Dir. Meany: Main 564-R AUSTIN, MINESOTA DR.M. J. HARDY DENTIST Austin National Bank Bldg. Austin, Minn. (ss&P'i F. H. MAYER UNDERTAKING 4 Undertaker and Funeral Director ru*.t ip biiuu AUTO HEARSE tvrtUaioJ, jo AUSTIN IS A GOOD PLACE TO LIVE-LETS KEEP IT SO -H Day Calls, Main 677 .. Calls, Main 120 "Night j. ARTHUR WEST ALLEN, M: D. 0 Surgeon Occulist & There is only one way. First of all—paint saves the surface. Save the Surgeon C. M. Jk St. P. Ry. c. Surgeon Geo. A. Hormel A Co. surface—and you save ALL. .... ./•- r-:* -. DISEASES OF THE EYE Protect it—morally and physically. GLASSES FITTED From an'investment standpoint—you can always Dfc.1 fc- Office First National Bank Bldg. The physical appearance of our town is the borrow money on well-cared-ifor property. Phone Office fridge 75 "first impression" to all who visit it—-to those of A* Phono Residence—Bridge 499. :«r us who live here, too. Weather elements (chemically) are the same 1 OFFICE HOURS: in consuming powers as fire—in reality it is "slow 9 to 10 a. m.—2 to 4 p. m. reroute rtoo*. To protect it means p^int. There is no better By Appointment, 7:30 to 8 p. m. fire" to permit a surface to go unpainted. investment for individual owner, or community 0 AUSTIN CUNIC than paint. Perhaps never wers we better stocked to furnish -3371m Chas. F. Lewis, M. D. you *with high grade paints and oils. Had we the space here we could tell you one E. C. Rebman, M. D. with the power house and dairy and a M. One ingenious plan, among the Ckas. C. Allen, D. thousand reasons why you should PAINT-UP during test barn leading from it, and the hog Pure white leads mixed colors for all surfaces-— many adopted by Mr. Sarver, is worthy J. G. W. Havens, M. D. The men's dormitory was recently of special attention. The feeds for the clean-up season. our prices are always right. W. B. Grise, M. D. dedicated. the cows on test are all mixed for the -X- "We are going to make it just as DECKER BROS- day in the feed room and each portion General Surgery—•-..-Eye, easy for our men to stay out on the for each feeding is placed in a numbered Ear, Nose and Throat farm as possible," said Mr. Thomson. drawer corresponding to the Glasses fitted .. ,—- J-S' "We,.are going to provide them with cow for which it is intended. At the Surgeons— St. Olaf Hospital attractive, interesting surroundings appointed feeding hour the ajttendent and with more comforts than they simply takes out the drawers, places C. G. W. R. could have if they stayed in the city. them in a rack on the truck, feed -€~i' Geo. A. Hormel ft Co. The first floor of the dormitory will wheels the truck out of the barn and HorneT Milling Co. be divided into a dining room,louging distributes the feeds. Corner of Bridge and Chatham Babcock Bldg. Opposite P. O. and reading room, with good, comfortable "Quality—the World's Best" is the chairs, books and magazines, Oak Dale slogan. But it is more than a Phone Main 197 MV card and pool and billiard tables. Off mere slogan. It is a guiding principle, For Information Out 1 fW in one corner we'll have a cigar stand in everything Oak Dale buys and sells Of Office Hours Call that will be well stocked with all the and does. It is something to work to Any Of The Doctors little luxuries a man buys when he and to live by. And in working for its i^Mil 1