IHWIflWW1 J- •m MOWER COUNTY NEWS, AUSTIN, MINNESOTA PAGE SEVB9 MONDAY, MAY 2, 1921 ii H-| Minnesota Swine Breeders DO NOT SPRAY IN Scab is an example of a field disease SEMI-WEEKLY that causes severe depreciation Should Beware of Porcine Story of Minnesota Wheat BLOSSOMING TIME SILENT TOM MARKETGRAM in the value of a crop of potatoes, Abortion Say Farm Experts Fruit growers who apply lead arsenate says the United States Department of U. S. Bureau of Markets or other arsenical sprays to trees Agriculture. The presence of a few For Week Ending April 28 Swine breeders of Minnesota should in full bloom are accused by beekeepers scabby potatoes may lower ihe grade A SPANISH JACK be on the lookout for porcine abortion. HAY:—Market slow and draggy. of an otherwise fancy, lot. In some of causing a tremendous death "Piebe" enjoyed an exclusive position. NEW WINTER WHEATS Already in some states this disease Owned by Wallace F. Miller Increased receipts at Chicago and sections scab can be controlled by has become an economic factor rate of bees from poisoning. Francis FOR MINNESOTA USE This bull was bred by the Arden Cincinnati. Price lower except for seed treatment, but in many instances SERVICE FEES in swine production. Illinois and Jager, chief of the division of bee Farms, St. Paul, in whose herd No. 1 timothy which holds fairly careful grading will prevent scabby FOR STANDING' Missouri swine keepers have had their Allfto the yield pei* acre of wheat steady. New York and Minneapolis culture, University Farm, tells of a potatoes as well as those affected he spent his useful years and later COLT $12.00 losses from it for several years. In in Minnesota is as good as it formerly markets firm due to light receipts. with wire-worm, white-grub, nematode, thoro practical test made by W. was owned by the Arden Farms and some states, says Dr. C. P. Fitch, CALL OR WRITE Country loading light. April 27 quotations: and flea-beetle injury from was, the wheat acreage of the state chief of the division of veterinary Price, Purdue University, and reported the Minnesota Holstein Company at Wallace F. Miller No. 1 timothy New York reaching the market. has decreased. In order to keep our Austin. The death of this bull is a medicine at University Farm, abortion in a bulletin in which Mr. Price $31.50, Philadelphia $23.5t), Chicago has caused the loss of forty to fifty position as a wheat state it is necessary said: Bees work freely on sprayed loss to the Northwest Holstein and $22, Minneapolis $20, Atlanta $30 If you have too many irons in the percent of the pig crop. As it exists therefore to increase acre yields. fire, chances are none of them will No. 1 alfalfa: Chicago $23, Kansas trees in the open, even where there Phone Main 665-T-2 dairy* industry. in other states, he feels that it is City $22.25, Atlanta«$33 No. 1 prairie: get hot. There are two main methods by which bound to snread in Minnesota. are unsprayed trees about. The mortality Chicago $18, Minneapolis $17, the station plant breeders are attacking This belief has been strengthened was 60 per cent in the lime-sulphur-arsenate Minnesota Legislature Kansas City $15. of late by the fact that numerous inpuiries the problem. The first, breeding of lead and 40 per cent FEED:—Wheat millfeed market Improves County Agent concerning the disease have for rust resistant spring wheats, is slightly stronger. Offerings light. in sulphur-arsenate of lead dusted on and Farm Bureau Law been coming *to the vveterinary division Inquiry better. Prices firm to $1 DO YOU WANT THE VERY BEST? well under way, but is not yet solved. at University Farm from county dry. advance. Cottonseed meal steady, It will be the subject of a later agents and farmers out over the state. Reviewing the work of the recent THE ROASTED COFFEE THAT prices firm. Linseed meal weak. It is a favorite theory of wives that Abortion in sows has occurred for article. The second method of increasing Minnesota legislatux*e as it directly Offerings hominy feed light, demand their husbands are led astray by evil STANDS EVERY TEST? years in various sections, but. the yields is thru a larger planting slightly improved. Demand for gluten affects county farm bureaus and companions, but other men know that condition was not sufficiently prevalent feed light, price declined $2.50 of winter wheat, under conditions OOK BEST-CHADS county agents, F. L. Balmer of University such husbands are usually the evil WE KNOW YOU DO to prompt alarm until the fall per ton. April 27 quotations: Linseed companions. where winter wheat may be grown. Farm, state leader of county Then buy the celebrated Ferndell of 1919 and the spring of 1920. meal $32.50 Chicago, $30.50 The chief difficulty of growing winter Veterinarians agree that the disease r.genls, says that House File No. 260, Brand Coffees. Minneapolis cottonseed meal $36 IT'S A PAYING "PROPOSITION is of an infectious nature, that it is wheat has been the lack of hardy which became a law, is calculated to Atlanta spring wheat bran $16 Minneapolis, Every year farmers are applying The finest produced. in fact readily introduced into apparherds $20 Chicago, $25 Philadelphia Swift's Fertilizer to their coriuf varieties. improve and increase farm bureau ac-j ^"non-Infected Packed in tins and wax lined by infected hominy feed $23 Chicago alfalfa ground and those that do are growing Altho more than 200 new introductions, tivities from the fact that it permits cartons. sows, and that the boar may transmit meal $18 Kansas City, $22 Chicago. much more and a better grade of many of them from Russia, it. the state to apply $2,000 annually, instead Always fresh—always the corn than those that do not. It's a According to the scientists of the have been tried at che experimental of $1,000 as formerly, in large GRAIN:—Altho- prices advanced fact that the application of this balanced same. veterinary division at University the first half of the .week on brisk export station, no variety has been found plant food, brings your corn counties which have a real need for Farm, several gferms are the cause of www?" People's Service Store demand and light country offerings ahead ten days of that with no fertilizer. which contains all the characteristics two or more county agents in order abortion in swine. "No doubt there 1 1 the gains were more than lost Think wliat that means, in needed for Minnesota conditions. The that the territory may be adequately is some etiological relationship," says on the 25th. when sentiment turned addition to that the two succeeding Dr. Fitch, "between abortion in cattle Crimean group, commonly called Turkey served. No more than $1,000 of state bearish. There was a temporary advance crops will also be greatly benefitted and abortion in swine, just how wheats, mature early, thus escaping on the 27th. but political situation —Remember it is a plant food,and restores money can be applied to any one close and significant this relation may abroad caused a further slump. to the soil that part of plant rust. They excell in milling quality, agent in a given county. be is not clear. Veterinarians have On the 28th. there was a brisk export food that has been removed by constant but lack winter hardiness in Minnesota, "More than one agricultural agent, isolater an organism similar to the wheat demand Kansas City and cropping. The amount usually says Bang abortion of cattle from pig feti. altho they give high yields in or at least an assistant agent, Omaha reported best milling and export sown is 200 pounds per acre and Other germs which are believed to be demand for some time. Kansas prices are from $33 to $44 per ton seasons when winter killing is not a Mr. Balmer, "should be employed in causative factors have also been isolated. wheat Stocks April 16 officially estimated according to the crop-to be grown. 'factor. The Odessa variety from such large counties as St. Louis, Itasca, MR. FARMER 26,000,000 bushels, 5^)00,000 Potatoes and truck fertilizer •Russia excells in winter hardiness, but Aitkin, Beltrami, Marshall, Polk, "Quarantine, isolation of aborters. bushels more than a year ago. Domestic comes higher than corn fertilizer. is a low yielder. By applying the and good care or the breeding herd Ottertail, Stearns, and some others. and foreign crop reports favorable. J. W. HARE, THE SEED MAN are vital in the matter of control. Preof Liquidation on in corn HAS JUST RECEIVED HIS SUPPLY. Mendelian principles of heredity and The changes in the law also make pos-, .. p. vention must be along the lines bearish construction placed on Kansas Call and make arrangements by careful selection of progeny, a able more adequate financing where tation7 There is ... no estimate showing 63,000,000 for what you can use. Adv. 33-2-c. hygiene and sani new wheat has been developed by it is desired to employ a home demon- specific remedy—no more than for bushels corn on farms April 16, compared crossing Odessa with Turkey. This new ^tration agent or a county club leader abortion in _cattle. Breeding sows ADVERTISE IN THE NEWS with 10,000,000 bushels year wheat excells in winter hardiness and in addition to a county agent." should be kept in clean, disinfected ago. Export demand for corn slow. nr -a inens, and special care should be taken In Chicago cash market No. 2 red also produces a good quality of grain. Mr. Balmer further repots jn keeping the pregnant animal from winter wheat $1.37 No. 2 hard $1.40 In yields tests it has proven its worth. the law permits counties to appropri- jj source of infection. Animals No. 3 mixed corn 57c No. 3 yellow a It has been named Minturki and is ate pnnually up to $5,000, instead of which abort should be removed and corn 57c No. 3 white oats 36c. For SkwtPutina the week Chicago May wheat down now being increase.d A considerable $3,000 as formerly, for county agent! is?lated ITat^ v1 ®ssoci*ted .. with the abortion should be burned or quarter cent at $1.27% May corn amount of seed will be available in work. Counties having more than 1 cat 57 %. Minneapolis May wheat buried deeply the fall of 1921. Write the secretary 150 congressional townships may ap- "There is no direct experimental down l»4c at $1.19 Kansas City of the Minnesota Crop Improvement May unchanged at $1.19 Winnipeg propriate not to exceed $25,000. evidence as yet to show that the disThis OTtACE Association at University Farm, St. May down 2%c at $1.57%. provision applies only to one'ease is transmitted by feeding milk MYTCRV DAIRY PRODUCTS: Butter Paul, for full information. county—St. Louis. |£om aborting cattle, but we do know .. „-e that the germ of cattle abortion is prices have declined 8 to 10c the past Other wheat varieties are in nursery Do You Want To As to finances suppoit of county found jn iik, iso that the disease week and market is very unsettled. a tests and have proven more hardy With spring production increasing extension employees, the legislature 0f the transmission of this condition than Minturki. The problem is to and quality affected by seed flavors Drop in— appropriated $1,000 to each of the feeding. The possibility, therefore. Save Monev on and other seasonable defects trading of the transmission of this condition produce the hardiest possible wheat, counties now co-operating in the work consists mostly of small lots for immediate Let Us Show You to swine by infected milk cannot be which also excells in yield and milling $84,000. Only two coun- requirements. Closing prices or total of ignored. It would be much safer to quality. This work is now co-operative ties in the state, Grant and Douglas, HARNESS and 92'score: Chicago 34% New York The Battery feed pasteurized milk to swine. If between the Minesota Experiment 38 Boston 39 Philadelphia 40. are doing no county agent or farm only milk so treated was fed to hogs, Trading in cheese improved, with it would lessen the danger of tuberculosis, With A Two Station and the federal department of bureau work. COLLARS prices ranging 14% to 16c at Wisconsin which is becoming a matter of agriculture. Central and substation A $10,000 increase was granted in primary'markets. The holding concern among swine growers of Minnesota. Year Quarantee men are co-operating and before suport of agricultural extension work, up of retail prices is said to have many years it seems likely a variety checked the increased demand which and it is likely, says Mr. Balmer, that "Our department will co-operate IF YOU DO, CALL AND LET US SHOW YOU would have resulted from the lower that is even better than Minturki may with veterinarians, county agents and this will make possible a slight increase wholesale prices. The past few days WHAT WE HAVE, TO OFFER. farmers in studying porcine abortion be developed.—H. K. Hayes, division Pierce Battery Co. in federal aid being extended, trading has been more active than and working out control methods. We of farm crops and farm management, to counties. Regret is expressed by for weeks. will make blood tests of suspected University Farm, St. Paul. the state leader that the appropriation sows and examine specimens of feti You may have noticed that the JENSON & PHIFFER in behalf of farmers' institutes was and organs sent to us. When it is man who is always preaching discipline 112 E. Maple Street. Austin, possible to do so we will send staff VENTILATORS PREVENT HAY cut from $20,000, as it has been for never likes to be disciplined. Phone Bridge 301. Minn. men to infected farms or districts." FROM HEATING IN BARNS several years, to $10,000. In a report made at the beginning Hay, especially alfalfa or clover, is Another new law, House File No. of the year to the United States Livestock DELCO-LIGHT Association, Dr. A. T. Kinsley, likely to suffer damage thru heating 259, provides a simpler procedure a well known authority, said: in the barn. This can be prevented than has been known in the past for "The losses due to abortion varied, The complete Electric Light and by ventilation. To ventilate a hay amending articles of incorporation by in different sections of the country, Power Plant barn use lattice ventilators twelve to county farm bureaus. Still another from one to sixty per cent of the fall Ask us for a demonstration in pig crop of 1919 and the spring pig fifteen inches square and as long as act provides a method for accounting your own home. See for yourself. crop of 1920. In thirty-three counties convenient. These ventilators, which expenses and receipts of farm operations, No obligation. in one state there wag' estimated look somewhat like elongated crates, and imposes certain powers and to be 184,710 breeding swine, and are made with corners consisting of duties upon the commissioner of agriculture abortion occurred in five-sevenths of anv two by four scantlings slatted together and the county agent. This the breeding herds, in which there ^ras a total of 124,410 breeding animals. with narrow boards twelve to makes it mandatory upon the county In fifteen counties of olie fifteen inches long. They should be agent to make a survey among sat state the loss of the 1920 spring pig braced to prevent crushing least ten to 25 farmers as to the costs crop was estimated at 20,100 pigs. Austin Electric Supply Co. The ventilators are laid in the hay On one farm forty of the fifty-six of producing various farm products, breeding sows aborted in the spring ten to twelve feet apart horizontally 121 N. Main St. Phone Main 39 the amount received for them, the of 1920." Entire Line of Implements and far enough apart vertically so average profit, etc. The county agent that the distance will not be more is expected to compile all data secured than eight to ten feet after the hay and to forward them to the commissioner LOWER PRICES Now at FARMERS and GARDENERS has settled. The ends should come of agriculture, who is empowered out to the edge of the hay so as to to give out information and We have a car of fertilizer from the American Chemical permit free passage of air. This will reports which will be of use to persons permit the carrying off of steam caused interested in agricultural pursuits. Company. This is one of the best chemical fertilizers on In view of the recent reduction in the price of by evaporation and will preserve The legislature increased the the marekt—and the prices are right. the hay and prevent overheating. The steel, we notf announce lower prices for our entire amount of state aid for county poultry ventilators can be made of various associations for the next two 0URNETT ft THOMPSON line of farm machines and implements not covered sizes of material, and if strongly years from $30,000 to $40,000. constructed will last many years. by reductions previously announced. Luck means rising at six o'clock in CITY FEED STORE. the morning, living on a dollar a day "Piebe" I. Dead Phone Main 100. AUSTIN, MINN. if you earn two, minding your own All lower prices take effect at once Piebe Laura Gllie Homestead King business, and not meddling with other is. dead. His was a useful career people's. Luck means appointments spent in stamping his type and production you have never failed to keep, trains The reduction^) the price of steel com& alter all you have never failed to catch. Luck on some of the best Northwest means trusting in God and your own GET READY herds. He was a son of Oak De the material for the machines and implements we resources.—Max O'Rell. Kol Ollie Homestead, grand champion will sell this year has been provided, and will therefore at the National in 1917 and sire of sixteen A. R. O. daughters. BLACK DIAMOND have no bearing on the manufacturing costs of "Piebe" himself was a show-ring winner DEHORNING PENCIL of no mean degree, being made such machines. However, it does enable the Company senior and grand champion at Iowa in For Sale by Burnett-Thompson Co. to buy materials at lower prices for future and his get won first prize in 1917 rery pencil will dehorn 50 calves Let us put your car, truck, or tractor in first class the get of sire class at Waterloo and from i0 days to 10 months old manufacture, and in accordance with our announced condition the National Dairy Show in 1917, for $1.00 thus showing himself to be a sire of NOW policy we now quote those prices, the a forfeit of $5.00 on any calf it .the winning show type. Backed by a and save annoying .and expensive delays fails to dehorn Company taking the loss on machines already finished strong line of production, he was a sire of twenty-six A. R. O. daughters, Call and get one. ALL WORK D6N£ BY EXPERIENCED MEN and materials on hand. five with yearly records of over 20,000 Phone Main 100 AND GUARANTEED. pounds of milk, in which respect Full information regarding our lower prices on We do oxy-acetylene welding,,. Machine work, vulcanizing, radiator repairing, have facilities for binders, mowers, and «dl other harvesting, haying and testing and repairing all makes-of starters, generators TYLE i&SBT/amisflKiii'l and magnetos. Also carry a full line of corn machines, tillage implements, tractors, engines, brushes and bearings. Charge and Repair all and all other 1H farm machines can be dbtained makes of batteries. ERVICE from any International Dealer. We invite you to visit our modern shops. ATESFACTION iversity of Southern Minn. INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER COMPANY OF AMERICA CHICAGO S A [INCORPORATED] When in trouble call Garage Phone Main 206-L. KOBE'S CAFE {Branch Houses and 'Dealers in the United States 92 15i000 3P Electric and Battery Shop, Main 702-F