*W MOWER COUNTY NEW9* AUSTIN, MINNESOTA FACE SEVgjT MONDAY, APRIL 4, 1921 Pruning Days Am Here Wandered Home SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE AND FAMILY -'1* From Pruning shears should be plied What has become of the old-fashioned cow that used to give sixteen steadily at this season in order to Slee. uarts of milk for a dollar?—Omaha have the task out of the way in time •vT.'.:.'.:! to prepare for the field work. Severe pruning of apples, encourages the PUBLIC SALE trees to make excessive wood growth, We will sell the "following described Since 1894 property on the first place north of and delays fruitig. Young trees need the Catholic cemetery on Wednesday, only sufficient trimming to keep the April 6, at 1:30 P. M. head well formed, and to clean out Ten head of good horses—These superfluous branches. All deadwood horses range from two to three years and about one-third of the surplus the Columbia Graphophone Company, old, six are good work horses, balance live wood should be removed the first are two and three year old colts.- year, if the trees are old or neglected. pioneer, leader and creator of the talkingmachine About ten head4tf cows, most of The pruning of an old tree should be these cows are fresh, some machinery industry, and owner of the fundamental extended to cover three years. and harness. Usual terms. Thoroness in spraying, according to patents, has been making the best specialists- of the United States ^Department Frank Hoffman, Owner of Agriculture, is absolutely Col. Albert Hopfe, Auctioneer W. E. sound-reproducing instruments in the world. essential, and from now until the buds Hopfe, Clerk, Austin National Bank. begin to swell is the time to apply March 31, April 4. theh dormant spray. Use commercial Today lime sulphur, 1 gallon of mixture Insurance Specialists to 9 gallons of water. The Montgomery County, (Md.) -I *r- the Columbia Grafonola is Farm Bureau Bulletin offers this advice Austin Insurance .Agency to the orchardist: "If you want E. Ray Cory, Manager the sum of all that has been apples do your pruning with saw and Babcock Building shears if you wan« firewood do it Here }rc six visible reasons at least why the famous R. and the new Secretary of Agric tiiturc, done so far by science to with an ax beginning about a foot AUSTIN, MINNESOTA Henry Wallace of Des Moines, la., were great personal friends. It is thqse six sturdy Wallace children, above the ground." three boys and three girls. Two of the boys and one girl art to remain in Des Momes and rtni thiJWw perfect sounds and harmonies. Farm papers while dad and mother go to Washington to live. Mrs. V\ allace and the gins atway* ud an of Come in and let us their own KfHteoiuA*1- REGAIN YOUR HEALTH play for you any Columbia FARMERS ORGANIZING Labor of Watering Stock Can Be Practically "BLUE SKY" CAMPAIGN Grafonola you want^to hear. Eliminated by Installing By Spinal Adjustment. Automatic Bowls. The war declared on "blue sky" Safe, Srue, Natural and Efficient salesmen and fake promoters by the FOR 1921 BRIGHT Many dairy farmers are still depending Minnesota Farm' Bureau federation A.*W. Bluhm Music Hoose Top Notch Ability Means 100 Per Cent Health Efforts on their hired help to lead the has spread into Clay and Nobles Consultation and Spinal Analysis Free X-Ray Facilities cows to the watering trough for water counties. Two township units of the Clay county farm bureau have voted during the times they are confined to R. L. Nelson, D. C. 412 No. Main Austin, Minn- for the immediate establishment of a their stalls, depending on the workman county "blue sky" committee of Farmers Expected to Be in to remember when a cow may farmers to examine every promotion Fields Tomorrow at Work Palmer School Graduate Chiropractor Lewis Building need water and requiring much of the scheme in which farmers are asked Planting Smal Grains—In-, man's valuable time in watering the Residence Phone Main 621-L. Austin, Minnesota to invest their money. The Nobles stock. crease in Acreage is Declared. county bureau has sent a call to all The labor of watering the stock can jits members to guard against the Assured be practically eliminated and at Hie "parasite" that tries to sell "bugless same time the milk production of the potatoes and logeless oats." Every Minesota farmers, favored by the! cow increased by installing sanitary member is being urged to require earliest spring in years, will be in the promoter to submit his proposition every automatic watering bowls. fields early today, under favorable! to the farm bureau for examination, Most dairy farmers realize the importance before investing any money in weather conditions planting the 19211 of an abundance of pure water it. crop of small grains, which promises', for the cow, but do not realize the cost of labor consumed in watering to equal in acreage that of any previ-j FINE DAIRY HERD NOW the cow, nor the importance of the ous year. Altho a two weeks' setback ON ACCREDITED LIST cow getting ber drink just when she was experienced because of the wants it, says Dairy Farmer. Blooming Prairie—Thos. P. Peterson's snow storm of last Saturday, the advantage About 87 per cent of the milk is excellent herd of Guernsey of an early spring will be had water. A cow requires 8 gallons of cows are on the accredited list having with soil conditions nearly perfect according water to produce 10 gallons of milk, been pronounced free from tuberculosis. The herd has been subjected to to reports gathered from besides the water she needs for her the annual tests required to become body. She requires 2% pounds of water every section of the state. qualified for the accredited list. Mr. for each pound of milk produced. Increased acreage is assured this, Peterson keeps from twelve to fourteen Why supply high-priced feed to Increase year. Land clearing operations in the} cows and is making money on in milk production and neglect to "N. his herd. He uses the milking machine northern section of the state will add give her sufficient water? with good success. to the tillable acreage in the state, In answer to letters sent to dairy in Beltrami county alone it is plan-1 farmers in 15 states using various Give the Dairy Cow Salt ned to clear 15,000 acres, a considerable makes of water bowls, which will allow Salt is required by alt animals. The portion of which will be under the cow to drink at any time, 65 dairy cow requires an ounce or more cultivation this year. Because of the a day, say specialists of the United States Department of Agriculture, absence of floods, due to the mild and while she should be given.all she vinter, farmers along the Minnesota needs, she should not be forced to •iver bottoms and In the Red River take more than she wants. It is best, therefore, to give only a small quantity alley districts will have available on the feed, and to place rock salt i,any acres of land which in other in boxes in the yard where she can ^ars have been idle because of iniility lick it at will. of the farmers to work the id in the early season. In some Sure, Close to the Supply The center of population may trek ^tions the recent rain and snow westward, but it's 6ur foolish notion °rm has caused the low lying lands that the center of intoxication will always under water, but it is thot this be found somewhere along the '-e fiiition will not obtain for long and Canadian border.—Buffalo Express. ci lands will be devoted to later All commercial and job printing done Fertilizers Increase Yields per Acre Ms' and per Man, Improve Quality, Crop Outlook Excelelnt Save Labor and Make Bigger by the News job department is based on se ndrew. Boss of the state farm Profits fsol and C. G. Selvig of the Northitem Every progressive farmer is interested in bigger and better crops provided the idea of giving the most service in Minesota Farm School at they can be produced at a profit. tokston, join in the opinion that Every bushel, pound or ton of outlook for thel921 crop is exflent. return for price charged. product sold off the farm, whether it Present indications are that be grain, vegetables, fruit, meat "or milk, contains elements of plant food: wheat crop this year will be about and sooner or later every soil will normal, with an increase in the acreage show the effect of this constant drain of oats, barley, rye and corn. Importance of Water Supply for Cows on its resources in decreased yields. In the northern and southern sections We give our customers the benefit of every good idea Is Realized by Many- Dairymen. Fertilizers supply the crops with there will be an increase in the those elements of plant food which amount of clover planted, anud a larger which may come to our knowledge, and deliver the work replies stated that there was a saving the soil, unaided, cannot supply, or acreage of sugar bets, which are of labor ranging from one^half hour those which are not supplied in usually planted about Ivlay 15 is indicated. with promptness^ The price is based on the Franklin to five hours per day. An approximate manure, or by the growth of legumes. average of these would be about 1% In Traverse county, 30 per ceAt ot The labor required to produce high Price List, which means a fair price to our customers the wheat usually sown in that county hours, depending upon the size of the acre yields is little more than in the was in the ground March 26, but herd. case of low acre yields: but the high experts are uncertain as to the condition and a fair return for our labor, yields are produced with less labor of the crops. Altho some seeding DAIRY CATTLE NEED SILAGE per bushel, pound or ton. By increasing had been accomplished in many the yield, fertilizers reduce sections before the last cold wave, the labor cost per unit of production. the work had not been fully under 8ucculence It Supplies Is Very Nece* The impression created by the letter head, folder or way. sary for Large Milk Production Average yields just about pay the One particularly bright spot, from —Cheapest of Feeds. cost of production. The use of fertilizer other printed matter you use is not to be ignored. People he viewpoint of the farmer is the in connection with other good condition of labor. All reports received Silage is the best and cheapest form farm practices points the way to .more judge by appearance. The class in which your printing show that labor will be employed in which to store succulent feed. satisfactory profits and to a higher by the farmers this year at a reduction Many forage crops can be made Into labor income. of from 20 to 40 per cent of the is placed, affects your standard also. CJieap printing can J. W. Hare has Swift's line of Fertilizer silage, but corn, where It can be $st last year. for your farm, lawn or garden. grown successfully, makes the best Andrew Boss, however, declared never be otherwise.' It pays to use them. Adv. 24-4-c. silage. tfiat this price will not obtain thru May His Due To Catarrh --58 the entire season. He expects the Good silage depends upon cutting cost of farm labor to increase about the crop at the right stage, fine cutting, ... v. -i 1 June 1. Good printing stands alone and even distribution, thorough The mucous membranes throughout Large Acreage Plowed packing and plenty of moisture in the -r the body are subject to catarrhal An unusually large acreage of cut material. When rightly put up congestion resultingin many serious is a representative of the house knds were plowed last fall and the and carefully fed, there should be complications. PE-RU-NA pen winter permited many farmers little if any loss through spoiling. be in the fields with tractors and Silage is well suited for feeding to or firm back of it. (lows when in other years the lands all live stock. Dairy cows need It rere snow covered. The work of perhaps ^more than other classes of •reparation for seeding began early WwHKnmwm mnd RmUmbf Coughs, colds, nasal catarrh, stomach his spring and had it not been for animals, because the euoculence 41 and bowel troubles among the he delay caused by the last snowstorm supplies Is very necessary for large most common diseases due to catarrhal the work would be at least milk production. It is a cheap and conditions, two weeks ahead of normal. economical feed for beef cattle, from A very dependable remedy after The southern section of the state, breeding cow to fattening steer. Sheep protracted sickness, the grip or Spanish according to reports received yesterday, like it, and it is well suited to their Flu. will give over a large percentage PE-RU-NA Ira good medicine to needs. Even horses and mules may of tillable soil to corn this season. have on hand for emergencies. Mower f^ounty Vews be fed limited quantities of good Altho the price paid for potatoes this it silage with excellent results. tabids Upi Sad Ewrywtai* season was not so high as in previous IN USB FIFTY YEARS years, county agents in the potato growing districts do not anticipate rvoted any appreciable falling off of acreage to this crop. ^3 FARMERS and GARDENERS &/>e House of Service A considerable amount of moisture wil be required this jrear. Because of v-• the lack of rainfall last autumn and We have a car of fertilizer from the American Chemical the light fall of snow the subsoil this spring does not contain the percentage Company. This is one of the best chemical fertilizers on of moisture required to produce the marekt—and the prices are right. thfl best results. Because of this condition r-1 farmers plan to rush seeding, beginnig Monday, so that as much of BURNETT ft THOMPSON vC the crop as possible may be in the ground when the warm spring rains arrive. CITY FEED STOREr ..•3r as/- The winter rye crop is generally Phone Main 100. AUSTIN, MINN. good, but the winter wheat crop is not considered above the average.