amm ipwunawpsKSM -^Hip if ipf **7 "fc ^1- ^'v *-••'*''1 vf ,c» v,'*' i^,"/ ''''Xi ^N- I*?" ^'XK" ft fc.«* V. '/U, £..iOs. n® ,..i-.,j- ^r^MsSy.-vj' .itfim PAGE SEW MOWER COUNTY NEWS, AUSTIN, MINNESOTA MONDAY, MAY 9, 1921 PLANT VEGETABLE A hard thinker is never a soft waifcer. settled altho there is more general of this method of grafting will be sent FARM BUREAU NOTES FEEDING GRAIN TO feeling that prices are about as low as from this office upon request.—F.--L. Fanner* Want Fair Chance they will go for the present. COWS ON PASTURE Washburn, division.of entomology and An Effective Poison For Rats The average intelligent, patriotic By G. H. Ecklea, University Fans economic zoology, University Farm. By hitching a third horse to a twohorse farmer is not asking for Now when many farmers are cleaning SILENT TOM special privileges. If proper walking plow a man can plow at up around their buildings and ^oes it pay to feed grain to cows regulatory laws insure him a least a quarter acre~more land each the housewife is getting ready to SEMI-WEEKLY on pasture? The answer is that it depends free and open field for the exexcise day, say specialists of the United make yards for her baby chicks the MARKETGRAM largely upon how much milk of his ability, he will establish *A SPANISH JACK States Department of -Agriculture. a place in the commercial vital question arises, what about the U. S. Bureau of Markets the cow gives and how good the pasture Owned by Wallace F. Miffert For Week Ending May 5. This makes a difference of about 5 They Help Reduce Cost of world which will be not only eradication of rats. An effective is. SERVICE FEES acres in 20 days, or a saving of from Bringing Fruit Trees to Profit-bearing a source of credit and profit to poison has been recently recommended FOR STANDING: If a cow is producing less than a GRAINPrices trended upward Mmself but also to the country, two to three days' work—a big item Stage Various by Minnesota Agricultural COLT $12.00 pound of "butterfat each day, the necessary daring week due to good export demand, at large. All the American during a busy season, especially a Crops Recommended College. food can be obtained from a light offering strong cash market farmer wants, and has a right CALL OR WRITE. short spring. Poison by Barium Carbonate and small wheat stocks Chicago good pasture. If she produces more t©.:have, is an equal chance Wallace F. Miller One of the difficulties of fruit available delivery May contracts with with other business men, a fair Take 1 part of this poison and mix than this, some grain can be fed with price level too low to attract shipments It's as easy to run an ocean steamer growing, either as a main industry or and just reward for labor performed. with 4 parts of bait such as cheese, profit. This means that a Holstein from outside points. The only with a sewing machine treadle as it as an .incidental to general farming, Every man in every mashed potatoes, peanut butter, apple, should be able to get food enough decline was on the 4th. as result of Phone Main 665-T-2 it is to build up a business in the way business is entitled to a profit is the length of time that must elapse the heavy liquidation cash wheat by bacon or sausage. some merchants advertise. from grass alone to make twenty-five for the contribution he makes before the orchard begins to yield returns. Kansas producers account upturn and Cheese should be melted, the poison to thirty pounds of milk daily, and a to the sum of human happiness, belief by some interests that prices When, as in many sections stirred in and then allowed to harden. Guernsey or Jersey about twenty as happiness is represented in sufficiently high. Ingles' report shows this spring, a freeze destroys or greatly better living. Mix bait and poison thoroly, scattering pounds. It -will pay to feed grain to unfavorable crop conditions Oklahoma. FARMERS and GARDENERS reduces the expected crop, the loss small amounts of bait where rats Keen demand cash wheat seaboard. all giving above this amount as it is to many growers, including those who Oats damage reportg Oklahoma frequent and be liberal at first trying impossible for tlfe animal to gather expected to harvest their first fruit and Iowa. In Chicago cash We have a car of fertilizer from the American Chemical to get as many rats as possible. Remove sufficient feed in the form of grass. market No. 2 red winter wheat $1.52, in 1921, is likely to be serious. 'The Company. This is one of the best chemical fertilizers on rats every day and all baits To produce a pound of butterfat No. 2 hard $1.57, No. 3 mixed corn loss under some conditions can. be every three or four days, keep all 60c, No. 3 yellow corn 60c, No. 3 the marekt—and the prices are right. daily requires at least twenty-five partly offset and other benefits can white oats 37c. For the week Chicago openings to buildings closed. The pounds of dry material. Fresh pasture be gained by growing vegetable crops May wheat up 17 %c at $1.44%, poison creates an intense thirst and gross contains only ten to twelve May corn 2c at 59 %c Chicago July BURNETT ft THOMPSON between the rows of young fruit as a rule the rats die outside their pounds of dry matter in a hundred wheat up 9% at $1.15, July corn 2c trees, say specialists of the United retreats in 24 to 48 hours ^trying to at 62 %c. Minneapolis July wheat up pounds, making it necessary for a cow States Department of Agriculture. CITY FEED STORE. IM/ic at $1.21% Kansas City July obtain water. If rats should die to gather and digest from 200 to 250 Plant Vegetables Between Rows 11c at $1.09 Winnipeg July 10c at Phone Main 100.- AUSTIN, MINN. under a floor or wall chloride of zinc, pounds of grass to produce from $1.45%. Experienced orchardists frequently Ferrm Advises Good Pasture oil of tar or oil of cloves would be twenty to thirty pounds of milk. It HAY:—Market, continues weakwith find it advantageous to grow crops and Forage Crops to Cut Cost good de-odorizers. is clear from this that it is impossible prices somewhat lower in several between the tree rows until the trees of Producing Pork Eradication of rats calls for co-operation for a really high-producing cow giving markets. Receipts light and demand reach bearing age. After bearing GET READY very limited. No. 1 timothy quoted in removing rubbish, run-ways forty to fifty pounds daily to do so "One of the best means of cutting begins it is impracticable to "doublecrop" May 4 New York $30, Chicago $22, under granaries, corncribs and barns, long on grass alone. the cost of producing pork," says E. Cincinati $2$, Atlanta $29, Memphis an orchard. As a rule, intercropping A cow yielding a pound and a half old piles of wood and corn stalks. F. Ferrin, who is in charge of the hog $26.50 No. 1 alfalfa Kansas City $23, can not be practiced in a Clean up and use cement floors making of fat daily should receive about five Memphis $28.50, Atlanta $33 No. 1 section at University Farm, "is to us6 peach orchard after the third season Fgr GOOD ROADS SPRING WORK prairie Minneapolis $16.50 Chicago and pounds of grain, and about seven or rat proof buildings as much as good pasture and forage crops. This from planting. Six to eight years is $17, Kansas City $13.75. eight pounds of grain for two pounds possible, and then with Barium Carbonate usually the limit for an apple orchard,, practice is advisable whether grain be FEED:—Spot prices for millfeed the exact time depending on the variety, of fat. When not more than five rats should be easily eradicated. high in price or cheapj there is a decided firm in central and northwest but vigor and growth, and other pounds of grain is needed, it may be saving in either case. Pigs getting weak in south and east. Demand factors. Further, the trees will usually corn, barley, oats," or any combination green feed are more thrifty than Let us put your car, truck, or tractor in first class very light. Linseed meal and gluten shade the ground to much for the of grain that is cheapest. The grass those raised in dry lots, consequently feed lower. Cottonseed meal held Guards on condition growing of vegetable crops by the firmly at higher prices. Alfalfa meal supplies a good amount of protein so gain faster and make pork at a lower Trees Should NOW and hominy feed weak. Spring bran time the ages mentioned are reached. the danger of a shortage of this necessary cost. Be Removed quoted May 4 Philadelphia $24.50, and sav annoying and expensive delays In an "of year," with an orchard material is not serious. With a "Results obtained at University Chicago $19, Minneapolis $16 standard that was expected to come into bearing Wood veneer or paper placed about high-producing cow requiring more Farm prove beyond question that it is middlings Philadelphia $24, Chicago ALL WORK DONE BY. EXPERIENCED MEN for the first time, many fruit trunks of fruit trees in the fall to prevent than five pounds of grain* daily, a $18, Minneapolis $15 linseed a short sighted policy to neglect to AND GUARANTEED. growers will find it to their advantage injury from mice and rabbits meal Minneapolis $29, New York $37, small amount of bran, linseed meal, or grow good forage crops when pigs are Kansas City $31 gluten feed Chicago to plant crops of potatoes, corn, during the winter should be removed other high protein feed should be being raised. Blue grass and similar We oxy-acetylene welding* Machine work, do $26.50. Cincinnati $29.80, New soyabeans, cow peas, shell-beans, or in the spring. This is advised for two added. pastures furnish good feed in the York $34.12 cottonseed meal Memphis vulcanizing, radiator repairing, have facilities for sweet potatoes in States where they reasons. First, the bark needs sun These recommendations hold good $27, Atlanta $26.50. spring, but during summer are little testing and repairing all makes of starters, generators can be raised between the orchard only when pastures are good. In midsummer and air to ripen properly second, paper better than an exercising ground. DAIRY PRODUCTS:—Butter markets and magnetos. Also carry a full line of rows. The growing of potatoes, it will often be necessary tc or wood veneer left on trunks -if unsettled price tendency mostly Some one crop, or more than one, brushes and bearings.' Charge and Repair all however, in an orchard in the "northern downward during week. Trading not feed more grain to high producing trees during the summer affords retreats should be grown to give fresh succulent makes batteries. of normal, otherwise tone .of market fruit belt" is a doubtful practice, for injurious insects. cows or to give some silage or green green feed in summer and early would be firmer as there has been since the digging of them amounts We invite you to visit our modern shops. Still another reason for taking protectors feeds to help out the pastures.—C. H. fall. Dwarf Essex rape, alfalfa and temporary shortage some grades. Declines practically to a late cultivation of the off in the spring is the fact Eckles, chief of the division of dairy due to desire of trade to keep red clover are the outstanding top ground, and under some conditions stocks moving in anticipation of usual husbandry, University Farm, St. Paul. that young trees are rapid growers, University of Southern Minn. notch forage crops in the com belt. this might stimulate a late growth of increased spring production. Closing and before one realizes it the bark is Of these rape is by far the most suitable prices 92 score New York 36%c Chicago the trees, which would be undesirable. pressed against the wood veneer to for Minnesota conditions. The 30%c Philadelphia and Boston AIDS MILLS TO FIGHT In this way the farmer can utilize the point of injury. The continued 37c. cost of seeding is low—about five about half the space of his orchard GREEDY FLOUR MITES use of tarred paper on fruit trees is Cheese markets slow and business pounds of seed per acre is an average When in trouble call Garage Phone Main 2064* land without injury to the trees or not up to expectations following Monday's injurious. quantity—and in favorable season R. N. Chapman of the Minnesota seriously hampering the temporary decline on Plymouth, Wisconsin, Electric and Battery Shop, Main 702-F Field mice were not particularly destructive the crop it ready to be pastured six cheese Agricultural Experiment station has exchange. Prices on most crop. Tomatoes and other truck last winter, but the orchardist styles about lc lower than a week ago. weeks from sowing. If grain is fed been finding out ways to kill the flour crops may also be grown in the orchard. should examine trunks of young Undertone of markets somewhat un­ in reasonable amounts an acre of mite. The flour mite is a tiny pest, These are sometimes classed trees and should cover gnawed portions rape will carry from twenty to thirty found the world over—wherever as "catch crops"—crops planted for with grafting wax. The bark there is trading in wheat, flour, or growing pigs thru the season. a quick growth. will grow over a small inury in time, dried foods—and which levies an "White hogs, and sometimes black Where such catch crops are planted H1 but in case of complete girdling, either enormous toll on the world's food supply. and red ones, blister when'running in it is well first to make a hasty by rabbits or mice, bridge grafting Mr. Chapman has found that rap'e. There is nothing peculiar about survey of the operations of other should be resorted to. A description this crop which causes blistering the the best weapon against the world's farmers in the vicinity and of the 11111 |i 111111 11! I trouble results simply from the combination hordes of mites is heat. available market, since often where Mites in cereals, flour, or other of moisture, transferred similar conditions prevail thruout an from the rape to the hog, and a hot foods can be killed by raising the entire locality there is a tendency for sun. By keeping pigs out of the rape temperature from 68 to 120 degrees Own Skm/Atfiaa lit many farmers to enter on a certain patch until the dew or rain has evaporated Fahrenheit within five minutes. A line of temporary agriculture, with temperature of 176 degrees means from the leaves of the plants, the result that the supply far exceeds sudden death to them.^ The way to blistering can be prevented. the local demand. A little foresight clean up an infested mill or warehouse, "Rape can be sown as early in the may prevent disappointment: ntiAcr MTTERV therefore, is to remove and spring as the ground can be worked. The rows between the trees are The Minnesota State Prison is your factory, because, as a taxpayer, burn all refuse. After that, if possible, Even a small patch in a feed lot will you helped to build it. And for the same reason you somewhat more difficult to cultivate the building should be heated to save grain in raising pigs." than in the open field, and may require are entitled to your share of any benefits made possible by the a temperature of 120 degrees and industry carried on in this institution. The farmers of Minnesota considerable handwork, but in "Drop in— Fillmore Fair Grounds Improved kept at that temperature for several are saving thousands of dollars every year on agricultural many cases the crops which are planted The foard of managers of the Fillmore hours. If the place is* not tight enough Let Us Show You implements manufactured here—-and if you have not been getting^ yield a comfortable profit. county Agricultural society to be heated so, the floor and all your share pf these savings it is because you have not been The intercropping of young orchards The Battery met Saturday and laid plans for extensive cracks should be sprayed wit ha 15 buying the Minnesota Line of Agricultural Machinery. has an additional purpose besides improvements on the grounds. or 20 per cent carbolic oil emulsion. This saving has not alone been effected on the price of Minnesota the mere direct financial gain. With A Two Among these was the erection of a The storage of large quantities of machinery, but its lower price Jias been the means of keeping the prices It furnishes ^n incentive to keep lrage horse barn and moving the race of competing lines down. Yet the Minnesota Prison made goods are still Year guarantee flour, feed, or similar supplies should the orchard cultivated, and as a rule lower than any of the competing lines. track east one hundred feet. This will be undertaken only in clean dry this is highly desirable from the give ample room for the midway and YOU HAVE SOMETHING COMING TO T0U places, and then only when the moiscure standpoint of the trees. will also improve the looks of the content of the material to be stored When you purchase Minnesota Binder Twine or Machinery Opportunity to Prune Heavily Gocd Pierce Battery Co. grounds. The premium list was revised is less than 11* per cent. you are getting some return on your taxes, in the shape of An off year furnfshes a good time considerably and the books will be a saving on the original cost and the saving on repairs and to put the orchard in order by close An association of men opposed to a ready for distribution the latter part longer life of the machinery. pruning, such as the orchardist could farmers' co-operative enterprise can of the month. H. A. Derenthal of Wykoff 112 E. Maple Street. Austin, Minnesota Binder Twine a s&°o not easily afford if it meant reduction was chosen vice president to fill ot bring about its downfall very quickly Phone Bridge 301. Minn. in bearing surface! unless the farmers remain steadfastly the unexpired term of W. P. Young. buy it. Think of that. There will be at least 16,000,000 pounds of twine Profit may sometimes be found in manufactured. This is sold for 2 J^c per pound (wholesale) less than any loyal. Many co-operative organizations —Preston Republican. a sowed crop. Buckwheat is often other brand, which alone makes a saving of $400,000. Then freight, have failed thru the weakness of jobbers' profit, etc., -would make 2J^c per pound difference—altogether a good thing when sowed among members who could not resist the a saving of $800,000! young trees. The buckwheat may ATTENTION FARMERS AND Minnesota Binder*—1 temptation offered by a fraction of a high-grade product—as not pay to harvest for grain, but if ITllIUICSUla OU1UCI9 market— cave cent. When the opposition organization goo as any on the can mowed before fully mature it makes you quite a little money. The 7-foot Binder, for example, is just $26.61 puts out a bait to catch you, try lower in price than its nearest competitor. Can you afford to overlook an BREEDERS a good mulch, or if permitted to mature to remember it is only a lure to draw economy like that? The 6 and 7-foot Binders offer, comparatively, the enough grain may be obtained you from your own friends. Once same saving. to materially cut down the expenditure you have deserted, the bait is withdrawn. innPintft 17 A If A^»the 12-foot, 36-tooth size are just $8.44 a iviinnesoia ivaisea—jower for poultry feed. Buckwheat Stick to your friends if you in price than 6ther good lin? sold in the State of Minnesota—and their material and workmanship is can be sown in June or even in July expect them to stick to you. Realizing the shortage of good sires in this county I guaranteed. Remember this when you need a rake. and still make a satisfactory growth. MinnMAtA. Mnwprc many have have purchased the American bred Grey Percheron points of superiority, yet Field peas, cowpeas, and various other You can't make a No. 1 hog out of Minnesota mowers they sell for $13.00 less than any other Stallion, Francois No. 94862 and will stand the season crops that make good forage can be a No. 2 merely by selling it thru cooperative make of similar quality. 'For long service and general satisfaction you at my barn on Chatham St. $15.00 to insure with foal. used as occasion suggests, and the can't beat 'em. marketing. Quality and allround 1 have probably sacrificed a few pounds in weight to soil be improved thereby. honesty will continue to be the gain a lot of quality. There may be better sires in this The fruit grower should realize most compelling virtue of all rightthinking MINNESOTA locality but I doubt it. Come in and look him over q,nd that it is the abuse rather than the men and women. decide for yourself. use of double-cropping systems that The finest horn in the world is no The get of this sire can be seen at Harmony, Minn., may result adversely to the trees. good fit isn't blown. Neither is the and a better lot would be hard to find. I spent one LINE And again, an interplanted crop best advertising campaign ever planned whole day looking them over so 1 know what 1 am talking which is to be harvested and not used of any use if it isn't put into execution. about. entirely for soil improvement, should If you have kept yourself posted on the hone and be looked upon as a means of reducing of agricultural machinery is guaranteed by the State. It is tractor situation you can't help but admit thfct the horse the expense of maintaining the made of vthe best materials obtainable and manufactured BLACK DIAMOND is coming back to his own. trees rather than a crop which represents under the constant supervision of state-employed experts. DEHORNING PENCIL The more you work the horse the less he coat* you. a definite cash income. SAVE ON FIRST COST SAVE ON REPAIRS The more you work the tractor the more it costs you. For Sale by Burnett-Thompson Co. MINNESOTA STATE PRISON, Stillwater, Minnesota* The chief virtue of sandy soil is STOP! LOOK! LISTEN! E 'ery pencil will dehorn 50 calves that the roots of plants can pass thru You have often heard the remark "History repeats from 10 days to 10 months old it readily its chief fault is that it itself." Look- back over the last twenty-five years Tett one of the following dealer* you muet have Minnesota Maehinee for $1.00 dries out too quicl^Jy. Clay soil holds of the horse industry and decide for yourself.^ water well, but tends to pack and Your's for more and better horses. Austin—Austin Plow & Harrow Co. Waltham—Eggert Bros. a forfeit of $5.00 on any calf it harden. Both types of soil need Adams—N. P. Gorvin & Co. Sargeant—Winter Bros. fails to dehorn Brownsdale—C. M. Syck. E. B. CARTER, Rose Creek—J. H. Majerus stable manure—it loosens up clay and Call and yet one. Minn. helps sand to hold moisture. Phone.. Main 100 *'"3 The News is the buyers' guide. ,*£is -fcK 1 1 *.