t' ,v ». Vr 4 tfSMvg&tiasm, ^vteimwwum'risftoxtn*-?*, jr^ «*& £.V "f fllV -f V/C MOWER COUNTY NEWS, AUSTIN, MINNESOTA PAGE SEV09 DNDAY, APRIL 25, 1921 5%c at $1.21%, Kansas City May ITS A PAYING PROPOSITION* PREVENT DISEASE OF CALF SEMI-WEEKLY 6%c at $1.18%, Winnipeg May 9%c Leading Cow in Yearly Division Produces Every year farmers are spplyisg MARKETGRAM at $1.59%' Kansas City milling and Swift's Fertilizer to their Improper Feeding or Insanitary Condition# export demand good, No. 2 hard U. S. Bureau of Markets ground and those that do are groi $1.31%. or BptR Are CaiiM off —. More Than 7J*&ids Botterfal in 2 Days much more and a better grade of the Farm Bureau DAIRY PRODUCTS:—Butter markets Many Ailments. HAY:—Market continues dull and corn than those that do^ot. It's a very irregular the week fact paBt inactive. Only better grades find that the application of this balanced with general price tendency downward. (Prepared by the United States Department ready sale. Receiptsa light but equal plant food, brings your coos Ninety-two score butter now of Agriculture.) to limited demand which is principally •ahead ten davs of that with no fertilizer. 45% New York 45 Chicago 47 Philadelphia what that means* fm local in most markets. Prices" steady Think Most calf ailments are due to Improper third in line was Princess Aaggie 46% Boston. Receivers by F. L. L1EBENSTEIN, Official testing of cattle herds in on top grades. Quoted April 20: addition to that the two succeeding: feeding or insanitary conditions, desire to keep stocks cleaned has Polkadot DeKol, a senior four-yearold County Agent, Mower Co. No. 1 timothy New York $30, Philadelphia up crops will also be greatly benefitted Minnesota continues to gather force, or both. Keep the calf out of kept market nervous. California butter $24, Minneapolis $19, Atlanta —Remember it is a plant food,and tb~stores owned by H. P. Fischer of Shakopee. and encouraging as was the report of cold rains In winter as much as possible in fairly liberal quantities Danish $30, Memphis $26.50, No. 1 to the soil that part of plant' More test work was completed and provide a dry, well-bedded M. H. Fohrman of University Farm, butter also available on eastern markets. food that has been removed by constant alfalfa Omaha $20, Kansas City $20, Treatment of Seed Potatoes. the first nine months of the present stall at night. superintendent of official testing, for cropping^ The amount usually Memphis $26, Atlanta $32. No. 1 The farmers are now getting ready Cheese markets dull and inactive Provide Nature's tonics—exercise, fiscal year, Mr. Fohrman reports, sown is 200 pounds per acre wmM prairie Minneapolis $15.50, Kansas February, his report for March is plant their potatoes for this season following declines averaging l%c at prices are from $33 to $44 per sunshine, pure air, abundance of fresh City $14.50, Omaha $12.50. than during the entire previous year even better. The number of cows Plymouth, Wisconsin, cheese exchange according to the crop to be growic- 1 many inquiries have come to the FEED:—Market continues draggy. water, and a variety of feeds—and A healthy increase is shown all on tlu honor roll has increased from100 on the 18th. Better trade expected Potafoes and truck fertilizer" Eastern markets not following stronger ^e for the treatment of potato around. later in week. Present iir January to 148 in February comes higher than corn fertilize*-.. feeling manifested by western ases. The following is the best prices Wisconsin primary markets: J. W. HARE, THE SEED MAM mills. Linseed meal up $2 at $33 to 162 in March or 20.7 per cent of tment for seed potatoes: Twins 17c Daisies 17% Double HAS JUST RECEIVED HIS SUPPLY". Minneapolis because of better demand COMFORT OF COW IMPORTANT the total number of cows, 782, under Daisies 17% Young Americas 17% Call and make arrangements •'otato Scab, Rosette-or Little PotaS and limited production. Quoted: test. Any cow put on the honor roll Longhorns 16% to 16%. for what you can use. Adv. 33-2-e. April 20, Philadelphia $39, Kansas Blight, etc.—Use corrosive subte, Roominess, Cleanliness, Sunlight, must produce four pounds or more of City $37.50. Cottonseed meal up it gets them all. FormaWe~i Freeh Air and Proper Food Are Do your shopping first in The Do your shopping first in The 50c at $25 Memphis. Quoted Kansas butterfat in two days, and Superintendent is good for scab only. Scab is Some of Essentials. City $30. Spring bran quoted $23.50 News—You will be better satisfied. News—^ou will be better satisfied fohrman says that with more Philadelphia, $25.50 New York, $16 best known and least serious di1 than one-fifth of the cows- on yearly Minneapolis spring middlings $15 Of Importance is the comfort of the we have. test producing at the rate of sixty Minneapolis, $22 Philadelphia gray cow. This Is often the only reason c^solve 4 ounces of corrosive sub-,e shorts $18.50 Kansas City, $22.50 MR. FARMER pounds of butterfat a month or better, for constructing a bam, notwithstanding in 4 gallons of hot water. Af- Memphis alfalfa meal $18 Kansas there is every indication that the fact that there are other considerations. Slissolving, add 26 gallons of cold City. some excellent long time records will The comfort of the cow GRAIN:—There was more friendly r. This makes 30 gallons in all. requires roominess, cleanliness, sunlight, be hung up withip the next year. feeling to buying side of market the zipping Tank.—Make it of wood" fresh air and feed. The barn past week and all grains closed higher. The 162 honor roll cows represented lit 2 feet by 8 feet by 1 foot high with a wing extending to the southward Bullish factors were settlement fifty-nine herds. consider it part of your farm ma- providing two rows of stalls and British strike, passage of emergency "Once more," says Superintendent tariff bill by House, freezinz weather Jry. with windows In either side is a* type and .blizzard, and reports some damage Fohrman, "several new herds broke still very much In favor and has much I-ery commercial potato grower in winter wheat belt. On the It Is Easier t^Prevent Disorders Calf into the selected list of five-pounders, to commend It. In this style of barn Id make and keep on hand a po- 21st. 30,000 barrels flour sold at seaboard, Than to Cure Them. It Is easy to adhere to the modern and we have them coming in from all dipping tank made of wood. (Do 5 for export. Country offerings standard of "six square feet of glass parts of the state now. Forty-five wheat not large. Exporters still after put this solution in a metal conIsr.) there will be little need for medical per cow." This may appear to be a corn. Illinois and Indiana offering Holsteins and one Guernsey piled up attention. It is better to prevent the It is easily filled, potatoes large proportion of glass, yet It la more corn to arrive as result of upturn occurrence of disease than to be under more than five pounds of fat in two shoveled out and when solution none too much. in market. In Chicago cash the necessity of curing it afterward. day. These animals are in twenty-six scarded it is easy to tip it out on market No. 2 red winter wheat Observe the calf at all times. If it different herds. Aground, one end sloping to start $1.36%, No. 2 hard $1.40%, No. 3 STRIVE FOR SANITARY MILK should appear drowsy, feverish, stiff, mixed corn 57% No. 3 yellow 58 %c, dling out. "A new Guernsey state class leader or sluggish, act quickly. Reduce feed No. 3 white oats 38 %c. For the week irst batch—soak 1 Vz hours. finished her record on March 4. Farmer Must Realise^ That Cows, Do You Want To at once, and the disorder may be in Chicago May wheat up six cents at 1 ond batch—soak 2 hours. Machere Procris owned by D. D. Should ,Be Kept Out of Mud— large measure prevented. Keep salt '$1.27%.' Minneapolis May wheat up faird batch—soak 2% hours. Good Drainage Will Help. 5%c at $1.21%, May com 4c at before the calf at all times. An abun-1 Tenney of Crystal Bay, produced Save Monev on 59 %c. Minneapolis May wheat up -urth batch—use new solution. dant supply of fresh water should be 17,921 pounds of milk and 832 If wholesome and sanitary milk and available always. 1 fefore shoveling the potatoes out pounds of fat in a year, which places ANKENY ROYAL cream are to be produced the farmer Some of the commoner ailments can the solution well because the scum her at the top of class A. She thus ARN E S S and should realize that the coVrs should be treated by following instructions 1 valuable part of the solution rises displaces Starlight's Contrast as the be kept out of the mud as much as which arecontained in various bulletins' like cream, will stick to the potaoes premier Guernsey fat producer." 17074 possible. Conditions in and around and publications of the United COLLARS as they are lifted out and weaken the barn can in many cases be greatly States Department of Agriculture. In I Fifty-three supervisors were employed he solution for the next batch. Improved b^ draining and grading. case of serious illness, consult a competent in March as against 47 -in February. Corrosive sublimate is poison to veterinarian at once. Do not The tests aggregated 1,106 IF YOU DO, CALL AND LET US SHOW YOU Shire Stallion, weight 1900, is a .drink, but it is harmless otherwise. delay. MILK AND CREAM IN WINTER in March as against 970 in February. good horse, sound in every way, Treat before cutting as it takes less WHAT WE HAVE TO OFFER. New herds were entered in March as and a sure breeder. STERILIZING MILK BOTTLES solution, although there is no harm to Precautions Must Be Exercised In follows: H. Bue, Northfield R. F. SERVICE FEE $10.00 Cool Weather If First-Grade Product treat after cutting. Frisby, St. Charles A. B. Johnson, for Standing Colt. Is to Be Delivered. Highly Important From Health Point Have a glass of solution ready so JENSON & PHIFFER New Richland William Nettleton, Will stand at City View Farm of View That Containers Be when you cut out a rotten or diseased Lewiston F. Schindler, Chaska HILDRETH & MEACHAM Cooler weather should not mean less Thoroughly Cleaned. potato you can dip your knife to Schindler & Olson, Chaska, and A. L. mile north and mile west of care In the handling of milk and prevent spreading the disease to the Austin. Sheldon, Grand Rapids. The leading cream. Even though the weather is (Prepared by the United States Department healthy potatoes. Treat the sacks. of Agriculture.) cooler, summer precautions are necessary cow in the yearly division was Piebe Too much emphasis can not be given Spraying the Orchard. If a first-grade product is to bo Korndyke Changeling 2nd, owned by to the fact that only thorough washing, delivered. Now is the time to have the orchard the Ramsey County Home of North You Save Money— steaming, and drying produces a sterile St. Paul. She produced a trifle more sprayed. The common treatment container for milk and that milk Swift's Fertilizer increases the than seven pounds of butterfat in two consists of three sprayings of yield and hastens maturing of all should not be allowed In any other days. Miss Netherland Piebe, owned crops. We have fertilizer for corn,! lime-sulphur and arsenate of lead. than a sterile container at any time, .Why Not Save Labor grain, potatoes, harden and Lawn.1 by H. W. Schroeder of Owatonna, Mix one gallon commercial limesulphur and particularly If the milk has been I J. W. Hare, Seed Man. Adv. 33-2-c pasteurized or otherwise heated. was second, with 6.5 pounds of butterfat. to 40 gallons of water, and The washing. and sterilizing of returned Two other cows, one owned by For machinery price reduction and add to the diluted mixture at the rate empty milk bottles to a city DeLaval service day see McEnaney& St. Olaf college of Northfield and of two or three pounds of arsenate of milk plant constitutes a big problem. Erickson's Ad in this issue. Adv. By using one of the New EASY Electric Vacuum one by C. Graham of Rochester, produced lead to 50 gallons. 33-1-c. Bottles are received in varying conditions Washing Machines more than six pounds of butterfat First spraying should be given before of cleanliness and from the Father may not be boss of the home in two days while under test. the buds open. many and varied sources of collection, but he never admits it. Second spraying should be given and it becomes somewhat of an accomplishment Mr. Fohrman reports that seven just after .the petals fall. to make them sterile day work showed a marked increase Third spraying should follow two to containers for milk. over the previous month. Of 257 BLACK DIAMOND Tiie inoculation from the empty bottle three weeks later. seven-day records reported, 101, or DEHORNING PENCIL can be reduced to a minimum by In case plant lice are present use approximately forty per cent were thorough washing, steaming and nicotine sulfate (Black Leaf-40) 1 over twenty pounds of butter, fortythree For Sale by Burnett-Thompson Co. draining, and as this is possible and part to 1000 parts of water (1 part to were over twenty-five pounds highly Important from a health point E rery pencil will dehorn 50 calves 125 gallons of water) to which should of butter, and fifteen produced more of view no other method shou'.d be from 10 days to 10 months old be added 3 pounds of soap in solution. than thirty pounds of butter in seven tolerated. iu —liiil for $1.00 Apply just after buds begin to Placing pasteurized milk in a bottle days. The leader in March was show green. which has not been sterilized just a forfeit of $5.00 on any calf it Molly Veeman Segis Pontiac,. owned previously lessens the efficiency of the fails to dehorn by J. M. Hackney, St. Paul. Second ••*£o'^tv a* yg 3 pasteurizing process and helps to defeat to Molly was Lizzie Pietertje Ormsby, Dairy Marketing Call and g|t one. its purposes. a senior three-year-old, owned by E. Congress is Called Phone Main 100 Boeckman of White Bear, and the To Meet May 3 SUCTION HAVE YOU ORDERED YOUR II CORN FERTILIZER? Now is the St. Paul, April 21.—Minnesota time to get it. It pays to use it. J. dairymen and milk producers are W. Hare, Seed Man. Adv. 33-2-c FARMERS and GARDENERS keenly interested in the fourth national For machinery price reduction and marketing congress called by DeLaval service day see McEnaney& We have a car of fertilizer from the American Chemical the American Farm Bureau federation Erickson's Ad in this issue. Adv. to improve the process of distributing Company. This is one of the best chemical fertilizers on 33-1-c. & staple foods. the marekt—and the* prices are right. A man may lick his wife, cut up Dairy farmers and creamery interests something scandalous with the girls, from all parts'' of the United play poker until dawn, shirk his job BURNETT & THOMPSON States will be represented in a National and drink hard licker, but if he always pays his debts by the tenth of Dairy Marketing conference, the month nearly everybody will have CITY FEED STORE. set for May 3, in Chicago. Development a good word for him. of co-operative creameries and Phone Main 100. AUSTIN, MINN. co-operating marketing in which Minnesota DELCO-UGHT farmers have taken the lead, will feature the discussions. 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