!f *238 c* *5 7**" s?Z f-W# -.:• JSkrWH*# MOWER COUNTY NEWS* AUSTIN, MINNESOTA THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1921 #AGE SIX LIVE STOCK TRADE ally yields- better than spring wheat precautions is placed in a clean, scalded, record being 85.2* pounds of butterfat with these grubs in 1921 says A. G. Ladies—Benson, Eva. Carroll, To Be Reunion Leader under the same conditions. Hardy dry cans and immediately cooled Ruggles, state entomologist. Land Plans have been completed for the for the month. Mrs. C. M. 'Hall, Mary Ett Hfcrstad, to 50 degrees F. or lower and kept Forty-one cows in the Pope county winter wheats merit careful consideration. which produced small grain or timothy county reunions of the Uiversity of Claudina. Hendrecksen, Ruth. th$t cold until delivered to the creamery, association produced 40 or more The best variety for Minnesota last year is likely to be infested. Minnesota Agricultural students McLear. Mrs. /Fr. A. Richardson, ON A WEAK BASIS it will give the buttermaker a pounds each of butterfat during February. is Minturki, Minnesota No. 1507. Farmers, particularity those in Daisy. Selix, Mary. which are to be held at intervals thruout Pope county association members This wheat is the result of across between raw material from which he can easily southern Minnesota, will be wise not the summer. .» These letters will be sent to the make the grade of butter that has have recently purchased^ four Odessa and Turkey Red winter to plant corn and potatoes this year Theodore Christgau of this city "DEAD LETTER BRANCH," April brought Minnesota its enviable reputation. pure-bred bulls and six registered wheat made in 1902 at the Minnesota on recently turned sod. will will be leader of the reunion at 11, 1921 if not delivered before. In heifers. One member paid $400 for a Experiment station. It is a bearded, •Rotation, early plowing the fall i'y Stewartville, July 24. calling for the above, please say "Advertised." Increase Supplies Prove Bearish smooth chaffed variety with kernels yearling Guernsey bull. and the right use of sod and pasture giving date of list. of the Turkey Red type. Influence—Cattle About The records of the Northfield association lands are the only known -effective 148 Cows on Honor GRUB TO HAVE HIS C. F. COOK, P. M. were exceptionally good for Other varieties which may be used control measures available. yrj- Quarter off in Two Days— Roll in University' 1NN1NG THIS YEAR the month. Sixty-one cows produced where Minturki cannot be obtained Hogs Sharply Lower :3~!" Testing Records ADVERTISE IN THE NEWS more than 1200 pounds each of milk are Minhardi, Minnesota No. 1505, PUBLIC SALE Every three years the white grub or 40 pounds of butterfat. another cross bred winter wheat developed We will sell the following described comes into his own and the cycle is By DON J. SLATER Prof. M. H. Fohrman of University at the Minnesota Experiment property on the first place north of now about to be completed. Farm, superintendent of official station, and Crimean, Accession No. RADIOGRAPHY the Catholic cemetery on Wednesday. TUESDAY'S OPENING In the adult stage the white grub $10 SENT 2,000 MILES testing in Minnesota says that February 845, which has given very good results. April 6, at 1:30 P. M. cm South St. Paul, Minn., March is the big black June beetle -which TO HELPLYON BUREAU I am prepared to do both was the biggest and best testing Red Rock, originated at the Ten head good horses—These :29, 1921—-Cattle 2,600, market flies by night and lays its eggs by Dental and Surgical month his department has yet Michigan experiment station, is not as horses range from two to three years .slow, killing classes steady to 25c Owners of farm lands are placing day in spring grains and grasses and X-Ray Work. known. Both the long and short time winter hardy under Minnesota conditions old, six are good wovfc horses, balance lower. Calves 2,900, market 50c weed covered areas. Grubs hatching a cash value on the fight of th§ farm divisions established new-figures for as the others and the grain DR. A. M. LEWIS V^' are two and three year old colts. lower, top $7.00. Hogs 8,500, 'from the eggs feed to some extent the bureaus against the Nolan bill, which Zl quality. "By the end of March," says shatters very easily. The quality of About ten head of cows, some machinery AUSTIN, MINN. market 35 to 50c lower, range would levy a one per cent tax on all first year on .the roots of corn and Professor Fohrmafb- "We will" have the grain is high. and Jiarness. Usual terms. $7.50 to $9.75, bulk $8.50 to land holdings valued at more than other plants, but cause no serious injury. done more testing in the nine months Frank Hoffman, Owner to $9.50. Pigs 25c lower, top$11.00. $10,000. Mrs. Mary Kimball, whose Late in the fall they seek sanctuary of the present fiscal year than was 01 Col. Albert Hopfe, Auctioneer W. E. Sheep 100, market home is in California, owns a farm in BETTER THE CREAM deep in the ground. The-following done in the entire fiscal year before." 4 Hopfe, Clerk, Austin National Bank. about steady, top clipped lambs spring—and this is the spring now Lyon County, Minnesota. She read BETTER THE BUTTER Forty-seven supervisors were kept in a newspaper an account of the here—they come up and take heavy March 31, April 4.. 5 $8.75. busy in Febi'uary and the following toll of plant life by feeding on the farm bureau fight against the bill, Increasing receipts of live stock at The difference in price between tests were completed. Late this fall they will go below 1 LIST OF LETTERS and an argument against it, written rootSi leading central markets this week are high and low butter makes it imperative One and two day tests 735 the plow line and next year will by Charles Qarlson, chairman of the jfeaving a depressing influence and for cooperative creameries of Seven-day tests 209' Remaining Uncalled for in this Office Lyon county farm bureau legislative come up .again to do damage. In the general trade tendency is toward Minnesota to produce a high scoring 30-day tests 8 for the Week Ending .committee. The next thing she did fall of -1922 they again go deep in lower levels. Dressed beef markets butter in order to make a success of HIGHEST CASH PRICE 60-day tests 2 March 26, 192fl was .to. send a check for $10 to the soil, coming up in the spring of continue sluggish due largely to industrial their enterprise*. Retests 7 PAID FOR 4923 to turn infcp the 'blundering conditions, which are slow Marshall, Minnesota, for membership Good butter can never be made Gentlemen—Andrey, Theo. DeBisschop, Verification tests 9 beetles. EGGS ±o show any betterment, and with in the Lyon County Bureau and the from poor cream. No matter how F. J. Engledo, Mr. Kleppe, Enough damage will be done by country demand for stock and feeding Minnesota Farm Bureau federation. skillful the buttermaker may be, he N. M. Larkin, William. Mauby, Total 970 Austin Colytic Egg Co: the grubs this year, say entomologists cattle below normal for this season can-never expect to place high scoring D.E. Miller, James, Miller, Henry. The yearly tests were divided at University Farm, to warrant precaution of the year, the cattle market is butter on the market if he must Nash, Henry. New Haven Beef Co. WHEAT VARIETIES among the various breeds as follows: in the planting of crops. weak with most kinds about a quarter churn cream which has been practically 114 E. MAPLE ST. Reynolds, Gail. Swigart, Herschel. FOR MINNESOTA Land that was devoted to any well lower than the close of last week. spoiled through careless handling. No. of Thomas, C. E. cultivated crop in 1920 or clover The exceptions are some of the Breed Heirds Tests total The department of agriculture of I Holstein 59 515 70.1 seeded in 1919, will not be bothered good to choicq yearling steers and It is not a difficult problem to keep the University of Minnesota recommends Guernsey 28 149 20.3 heifers—on the specialty order, and cream clean and sweet. Cows should for use only varieties of wheat 'Jersey 8 49 6.7 lologna bulls on which there is some be clean and healthy and stabled in a that, under systematic tests at the LEGAL NOTICES I Shorthox-n .... /2 13 18. ^outside competition. Best beef steers well ventilated, wel? cared-for barn. central experiment station and the ,r. in the eai'ly week's trade was a load Red Polled 1 4 .5 The milk should be drawn into clean, various substations, have proven CITATION FQR HEARING ON PETITION Brown Swiss 1 1 .5 of very good 1500 lb. offerings that scalded, dry pails. The small-top their superior yielding and.milling FOR PROBATE Ayrshire 1 1 .1 "brought $9.25, with a fair showing of pails are best. The strainer cloths qualities. OF WILL II sales at $8.25 to $8.85, and bulk of THRIFT should be thoroughly boiled and Spring wheat: The Marquis variety Estate of Grace Margaret Bacon. Total 100 735 100.0 tiiie beef steers from $6.50 to $7.50. dried. Then it is important that the of wheat is recommended as the best State of Minnesota County of Cood to choice cows and heifers are There were 148 cows, from 58 separator parts be clean, scalded and common spring wheat available in Mower, ss. In Probate Court. selling from $6.75 to $7.50, with herds, on the honor roll for February jiried each day quantity for seed in 1921. This variety In the Matter of the Estate of fralk of sales from $4.00 to $6.50. as against 100 cows on the roll in When cream handled with these has proved satisfactory over a Grace Margaret Bacon Decedent Canners and cutters are going to 1 January. To get on the honor roll a period of years, except for 1919 and THE STATE OF MINNESOTA TO packers largely at $2.00 to $4.00. cow must produce four pounds or Fertilizers Increase Yields per Acre 1920 when it was badly -injured by Alfred Moore Thorn Bacon, and Archie -with bologna bulls mostly from $4.00 imore of butterfat in two days, or at and per Man, Improve Quality, black stem rust. It is an early maturing V. Bacon, heirs at law of said -fco $4.50. Veal calf supplies are the rate of at least 60 pounds of wheat, however, and in normal Save Labor and Make Bifcger deceased, and to all persons interested The lesson of the mercantile business houses and coming in increasing numbers and butterfat for the month. The jump Profits years will give satisfactory yields of in the allowance and probate of the trades are trying to teach in Austin this week is -£he market has declined about $1.50 jfrom 100 to 148 honor roll performers excellent quality. Every progressive farmer 'is interested will of said decedent. The petitionof since early last week, with best lights is pronounced by Prof. Fohrman one of THRIFT. Ruby, which was introduced in 1920 in bigger and better crops provided Alfred M. Thbrn Bacon, being duly today selling at J7.00, or at the low­|as a noteworthy increase and one exI from Canada, is approximately a thejr can be produced at a profit. filed in this court, representing that est price in many years. Strictly ceeding anything heretofore reported. in other words, that the way to thrift is in the week earlier^ than Marquis, but it Every bushel, pound or ton of Grace -Margaret Bacon, then a resident choice heavy feeders sold as high as Of the 148 cows, 132 were Holsteins, saving of that which is already yours—maybe by vields less than Marquis and is not product sold off the farm, whether it of th# county of Mower, State $8.50, and the same quality stockers 13 Guernseys and 3 Jerseys. recommended except in those localities be grain, vegetables, fruit, meat or of Minnesota, died 5n the 21st day of an added investment to offset natural depreciation. are quoted to $7.50, with comnfon Elmira Hengerveld DeKol, owned where it has been found to do milk, contains elements of plant food JMarcl# 1921, leaving a last will and and medium kinds selling mostly 25c by the Ramsey County Home of North exceptionally well. Kitchener and and sooner or later every soil will testament which is presented to this telow last weeks' close, and tending St.'Paul, ied the Holsteins with a production Red Bobs wheat, also introduced in show the effect of this constant drain court with said petition, and praying Now our CLEAN-UP, PAINT-UP "and FIX-UP lower. of nearly 7 pounds of butterfat 1920, are on the doubtful list. Kota. on its resources in decreased yields. that said instrument be allowed as the Hog values have dropped rapidly in two days. Thirty-five cows story is short. That one word THRIFT tells it. a variety of common wheat originated Fertilizers supply* the crops with last will and testament of said decedent," the past week with today's average produced more than 5 pounds of fat in at the North Dakota experiment station, those elements of plant food which and that letters Testamentary be about $1.00 lower than at last week's two days. "TAKE CARE OF THAT,WHICH IS YOURS" has the advantage of being resistant the soil, unaided, cannot supply, or issued thereon to Alfred Moore Thorn opening. Price spread has shown Professor Fohrman's report for the —and that applies likewwise to your farm materials. to forms of~ black stem rust, those which are not supplied in Bacon, of Austin, Minnesota. some contraction from the unseasonably month of February shows that of the but does not seem to be well adanted manure, or by the growth of legumes. NOW THEREFORE, you, and each wide range of a week ago. Range 735 cows tested, the 148 producing to Minnesota conditions. All of these of you, are hereby cited and required "today $7.50 to $9.75, bulk $8.50 to more than 4 pounds of butterfat each other varieties are still under trial. The labor required to produce high Automobiles, farm machinery or any broken to show cause, if "any you have, before $9.50. Top pigs $11.00.® The lamb in two days constituted about 20 per Chief attention should be given to the acre yields is little more than iff" the this court, at the Probate Court castings or parts. -market is on a weak basis, best clipTied cent of the total as compared with Marquis variety. case of low acre yields but the high Rooms in the Court House, in-the lambs on early days this week 16% per cent making this production Durum wheat: The idea prevails yields are produced with less labor City of Austin, County^f Mower, WE CAN WELD THEM FOR imraght $8.75, with choice light and in January. that all Durum wheat varieties are resistant per bushel, pound or ton. By increasing State of Minnesota, on the 25th day linndyweight ewes at $5.75 to $6.00, Nine cows passed the 30 pound YOU AT A REASONABLE PRICE __ to black stem rust. This is not the yield, fertilizers reduce of April, 1921, at 10:00 o'clock A. -and choice yearling wethers up to mark in the short time division of the case. Many of the durums rust as the labor cost per unit of production. M., why the prayer of said petition •$8-00. seven-day work. A new mark was set should not be granted. v.,. badly as the common wheats. The best in the Junior 4-year-old class for the Average yields just about pay the variety of -durum wheat for Minnesota WITNESS THE HONORABLE, state by Piebe Korndyke Changeling, TOWNSHIP FARM BUREAU cost of production. The use of fertilizer is Mindum, Minnesota No. 470. Henry Weber, Jun., Judge of said second, wKo had a record of 29,879 GETS TAX CUT OF $8000 in connection with other good Other durum wheats,- which are on court, and the seal of said court this MOTOR INN REPAIR DEPT. pounds of butterfat or 37.35 farm practices points the way to more 28th day of March, 1921.^- trial, have not done so well as Mindum. Saving $8,000 in a single township pounds of butter in seven days, thus satisfactory profits and to a higher Among these are Acme, an HENRY WEBER, JUN., l*y fighting excessive tax assessments surpassing Ruby Karen Mercedes, the amber durum from'South Dakota: labor income. Probate Judge. is lie latest achievement of farm bujreau former class leader, by 2.32 pounds (COURT SEAL) Monad, from North Dakota, and still J. W. Hare has Swift's line of Fertilizer S Bridge 701-J.? Austin, Minn. members in Minnesota. of butter. The last named cow was for your farm, lawn or garden. J. N. NICHOLSEN, others. When farmers in Lakeville town"3hip, owned by the Ramsey County Home, It pays to use them. Adv. 24-4-c. Winter wheat: Winter wheat usu­ R. C. ALDERSON^ Dakota county, found their taxes but was sold at the national Holstein Attorneys for Petitioner. suddenly increased, while adjoining sale in June for $9,100. She was' a March 31—April 7, 14. ifeownships had escaped similar inhereases, champion then, but the people at the the farm bureau township GET READY Home have since developed a better smit "got busy." Assessing its members one in the Piebe Korndyke Changeling, $1 each to cover expenses, the second. Two-hundred nine sevenday unit appointed a committee of three records were reporte.d during -So investigate. P. H. Sullivan, chairanan February, 80 of which were more than For GOOD ROADS and SPRING WORK of the town board, A. L. Sayers, 20 pounds of butter each. There were anit director, and W. H. Westcott 26 records of 25 pounds of butter or for Increas- .vrere elected as committeemen. over, and 9 over the 30 pound mark. Milking honors in the seven day division "A certified copy of the assess"Tment roTls and tax lists of Lakeville go, says Professor Fohrman, to •township for 1918 and 1920 were obtained Neeltje Mercedes DeKol Homeland, Let us put your car, truck, or tractor in first class with 866 pounds. This is a state record from the county auditor," says condition -8ii final report made by Mr. Sayers also. This fine dairy animal is owned by C. D. Spaulding of Warren, st?d forwarded to the Minnesota Farm NOW Marshall county. Bureau federation. "This showed a and sav^ annoying and expensive delays In his monthly news letter for February, tjnmp in assessed value from $719,019 L. W.. Wilson, University in 1918 to $1,158,703, and earned ALL WORK DONE BY EXPERIENCED MEN Farm, state agent in dairying, says lakeville the name of 'The Million that February was also a big month _2D©liar Baby Township.' The county AND GUARANTEED. The Tri-State Telephone Company needs additional revenue for ..Minnesota eow testing associations. scammssioners approved an application A cow owned by Marlow & Randall to the state tax commission for to meet interest on its bonds and notes and make possible the We do oxy-acetylene welding, Machine work, of the Blue Earth county association -at 20 per cent reduction in assessed vulcanizing, radiator repairing, have facilities for refunding of notes and bonds as they fall due to provide ad-^ produced 97.33 pounds of butterfat valuation. testing and repairing all makes of starters, generators during the month. Two hundred "We think that for the first time ditions and extensions to its 'plant to pay a reasonable return ten cows were tested in this association 'in the state, this was granted in blanket and magnetos. Also carry a full line of on its investment 4o maintain an efficient organization and and 75 produced more than 40 form for the whole township," brushes and bearings. Charge and Repair all 1 pounds of butterfat each. A cow to give good service. 7 "Mr. Sayers' report said. "While this makes of batteries. owned by P. A. Lyngen of the Chippewa TManket form did not adjust the in-, county association produced. •equalities, it was preferred to a re-assessment The outstanding facts of the telephone rate situation are as We invite you to visit our modern shops. 99.9 pounds of butterfat during the which would be uncertain follows:— month. Another good producer was and would not affect the first year. from the herd of E. J. St. Martin of We were granted a reduction of University of Southern Minn. the Hennepin county association, her '$8,338.37 in our taxes." Holders of stock, representing a $4,519,000 investment,have received no dividends whatever, during the past five years. Its income has not been sufficient to pay in full the interest on When in trouble call Garage Phone Main 206-L. Good Tractor Lubrication I S its outstanding notes And bonds. 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