Mower County news (Austin, Minn.) 1920-1947
June 30, 1921 · Page 6 of 8
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jF7 Mj^fr'J^h -ym ^0ffff v-v* .? f15*. fllW Page Seven MOWER COUNTY NEWS, AUSTIN, MINN. Thursday, June 30,1921 CATTLE MARKET VEGETABLES ARE RURAL HOUSEWIVES ARE TAUGHT MILK BUILDS UP timothy quoted New York $28, Pittsburgh moderate and stocks of all kinds keep $20.50 Chicago $22, Cincinnati cleared. Closing prices, 92 score: BODY ADDS ENERGY TO APPLY BUSINESS PRINCIPLES DULLEST IN YEARS $20 Atlanta $26, Jacksonville New York 35c Chicago 34%c Philadelphia CHEAP FOB FOOB $26.50. No. 1 alfalfa Kansas City 35%c Boston 36c. A little four-leaf folder, prepared $18, Omaha $18, Memphis $20. No. 1 Cheese market holding barely by Lucy Cordinqr of the office of extension prairie Minneapolis $16, Omaha $13, steady with buyers seeking goods at work with women and issued Lack of Stocker, eeder Kansas City $14. inside prices. Hot weather already dairy section the agricultural by the of influencing quality and production Demand Stagnates FEED:—Further weakness developed .extension divis'on of the Uni- veisdy Particularly Valuable Are Those slackening in some sections. Prices in wheat feed market, as offerings of Minnesota, carries a wealth Trade. on most styles range from 14 to 15 %c from southwest became more oi condensed and well displayed information Available During Spring and in Wisconsin primary markets. plentiful. Bran in poor demand, as to value of milk in the Summer Seasons. flour middl ngs and Red Dog firm. Ev DON J. SLATER. the hv.man diet, particularly the diet Gluten feed and hominy feed steady, Tuesday's Closing'— of growing childi'en. Milk is a complete hominy fefd in better supply. Cottonseed Cattle 1500. Market closing food because it contains all the J. F. FAIRBANKS SMALL PLOT IS SUFFICIENT meal and linseed meal unchanged. dull and weak. Best yearlings materials needed in normal nutrition. Alfalfa meal weak. Offerings $7.75 to $8.00. Best heavy steers Miss Cordiner summarizes the of all feeds ample, demand and $7.10. Grass cattle largely under growth and health values of milk, and movement light. Quoted: Bran $14, Garden Truck as Source of Mineral $6.00. Calves 2,400. Market declares that at 15 cents a quart it is middlings $14, Minneapolis gluten closing mostly 75c lower. Packer Matter and Proteins Is Much Dealer In as cheap as meat at 35 cents a pound feed $27.50 Chicago, $31.21 Philadelphia top $7.25, seconds $4.25. Hogs More Important Than Many or eggs at 38 cents a dozen for body white hominy feed $24 Chicago, 7,300. Market about 25c higher, building. "Three glasses of milk People Fully Realize. COAL, WOOD, LIME, $23 St. Louis bran $18.50 Buffalo bulk $7.75 to $8.00, top $8.40 daily," she says, will furnish a child linseed meal $29 Minneapolis CEMENT, SEWER PIPE, Sheep 500. Market weak. Good of school age with protein for growth, (Prepared by the United States Dep&rtment 36 percent cottonseed meal $29.2-5 of Agriculture.) lambs $8.50 to $9.00. with sufficient lime for teeth and BRICK AND WALL Buffalo linseed meal $29 Minneapolis The old adage, "an apple a day A comsuch South St. Paul, June 28bination bones, and with the 'protective vitamine' 36 percent cottonseed meal keeps the doctor away," might quite as of bearish factors PLASTER. which develops resistance to $29.25 Memphis No. 1 alfalfa meal as well have read "a carrot or ai extremely dull dressed markets for Kitchen. disease." Home Demonstration $18.50 Kansas City. onion a day," and probably the result beef further accentuated by continued use of practical demonstration rather would be about the same as regards (Prepared by the United States Department Forgotten or unexploited since .-hot weather, .and a lack of stocker DAIRY PRODUCTS:—Butter prices Office 301 East Bridge St. ot Agriculture.) than the lecture or text book. early in the eighteenth century, valuable reducing the doctor's bill. Vegetables and feeder demand, has produced advanced 1 to 2 cents the past Home demonstration work, though The most successful home demonstration surphur ore deposits have been of all kinds are necessary in the diet, about the dullest cattle market here week and market is firmer today. comparatively new, is looked upon as re-discovered in Eastern Finland. agents, according to the circular, Phone: Main 32 but particularly valuable are those in years, in the opinion of the trade. With an active demand for higher permanent, so beneficial have been aim to train local leaders who, available in the spring and summer, The first good yearling steers to ar- Mower county famers harvested grades for storage lower grades are the results obtained by borne demonstration by putting the bert prectlws Into th«lr ,s say specialists of the United States Austin, Minn. riTe 0TCr week 8o]d Tuesda keptr well cleared by movement into agents working in rural 14,487 acres of wheat in 1919 or Department of Agriculture. trade, eight of these averaging «95 consumptive channels. Receipts only homes. The fundamental purpose of 132,462 bushels. larger numbers of women. At least Value of Vegetables In Diet. pounds going to city butchers at 'this work, according to a report just two-thirds of the agent's time is spent Without going into definite figures I $8.00. Twenty-five head out of .an Issued by the United States Department SEMI-WEEKLY with farm women in their homes, discussing it may be stated that the food value offering of thirty sold at $7.75, averaging of Agriculture, is to assist the the varied problems of housekeeping of vegetables, such as beans, peas, potatoes, MARKETGRAM 717 pounds, with the five cuts rural housewife ito apply business and other matters in which sweet corn, beats and carrots, averaging 632 pounds at $6.75. The principles to her dally tasks for the farm women are interested. Aside HAVE THOSE OLD Is very high. When considered from best heavy steers were a half load purpose of making the farm home as from interesting women in better GRAIN:—After a week of alternating the standpoint of the food value of that sold to packers at $7.10. The efficient as the farm, thereby producing home management, modern conveniences, higher and lower prices, Chicago the crop that may be produced on a bulk of the beef steers including a more satisiactory and permanent food production and preservation, given area of land, beans, beets and July wheat closed at $1.28, a dry feeds and grass went from this type of rural life. The report better food for the family, home SHOES REPAIRED carrots are ahead of almost any oth«r net gain of 5%c for the week, and price down to $5:50, with a few of the referred to Is Department Circular nursing, and the selection and making garden crop. One-tenth acre planted Chicago July corn at 61 %c, a net decline commonest ones as low as $5.00. 141, which deals with the results of of clothing, the agents are devoting NOW! entirely to carrots will yield about of l%c. With the exception of to $6.50. A few choice cows and home demonstration work in the 33 their efforts to promoting community a ton, and In energy this would be weakness in stock and cotton markets heifers sold from $5.50 to $6.50, with northern and western states. enterprises. equal to about 370 pounds of average on the 20fh news was bullish but the 1 bulk of the butcher she stock going Became Co-operative Movement. Three types of such enterprises are beef. One-tenth acre of beets would market lacked buying support and I from $3.25 to $5.50 Canners and developed: The economic type which The work actually begun in August. also yield about a ton and be equal to prices did not" respond. Dry weather cutters range from $1.00 to $3.00, boI includes food preservation, the hot 380 pounds of average beef. One-tenth 1914, when an agent was appointed reports being received from wider logna bulls from $2.75 to $3.75. school lunch, co-operative laundries, In Erie county, N. Y„, on state funds, acre of lima beans would yield about area in North Dakota and Minnesota. co-operative buying and selling asso Best light calves to packers landed at 120 pounds of dry beans, equal to In 1910, it became a co-operative Visible supply of wheat 10,060,000 $7.25 Tuesday, seconds $4.25. Good to ciations, labor-saving devices, and salvage about 220 pounds of beef. movement supported by federal, state bushel, a decrease of 1,220,000 bushel choice heavy feeders are quotable up shops. The soeial type is concerned and local funds. During that year As sources of mineral matter and for the week. Country corn offerings around $6.00, hut practically all offerings with such things as recreation proteins needed by the body, vegetables four agents were appointed. In 1919 to arrive moderate corn crop news on hand are of the common centers, civil improvements, and rest are much more valuable than the number had grown to more than WE ARE EQUIPPED TO DO continues generally favorable. Visible and medium grades selling from $3.00 rooms. The educational type embraces 600. mien war emergency funds were corn supply 24,830,000 bushel an increase YOUR WORK SATISFACTORILY to around $5.00, with some of the cut off, and in the following year the farm home tours, libraries, and of 1,087,000 bushel for the AND QUICKLY. WE commonest kinds almost unsalable. number dropped to 286. Although in magazine circles and the like. week. In Chicago cash market No. Hogs advanced about 25c Tuesday, this one year the force of workers Local Aid Needed. MAKE OLD SHOES LIKE 2 red winter wheat $1.38 No. 2 hard range $7.25 to $8.40, bulk $7.75 to A county organization in extension as well as state and federal funds $1.42 No. 3 mixed corn 60c No. 3 NEW. work which desires the appointment $8.00, best pigs $8.75. Sheep and were reduced nearly one-half, the appropriations yellow corn 60c No. 3 white oats 36c. of a home demonstration agent should lamb trade is dull, good grade native made by the local people For the week Chicago September first communicate with the extension lambs $8.50 to $9.00, culls $4.00 to for home demonstration work nearly wheat up 3%c at $1.23% September service at the state agricultural college, $4.50, choice light ewes $3.00 to doubled, and agents were retained in corn down 2c at 61 %c. Minneapolis $3.50, good heavies $2.00. direct response to requests from the or with the agricultural agent in July wheat down 2c at $1.29 Kansas JENSEN & PUFFER It people whom they served, according the county, the circular suggests. City July up 2Vfec at $1.18% Winnipeg Farmers complain that at the present to the circular. is necessary for the local organization July up 7%c at $1.81%. prices of hides a carcass isn't or county to give some financial Home demonstration agents afford HAY:—Demand very light only worth skinning. The shoe men still support to the home demonstration an avenue by which the state agricultural high grades wanted. South and hold that the public is, however. agent, though the greater part is supplied colleges and the United States southeast using local fqr age, jpripc by the state and fe4eral^rundsr Department of Agriculture offer the Make pally. Receipts light. Some.slight your wants known in the To supply that share which is required practical results of their research and Mower County News Market Place. price changes have occurred. No. 1 of the local organization, there experiments In home economics to have been organized within die past housewives of the country. These two years in the majority of the 38 agents encourage the rural housewives to bring from their store of northern and western states what is practical knowledge and experience popularly known as the 'family" or Jf the lessons they have learned in home "new" farm bureau. This is an association Vegetables Furnish Considerable Portion management that will be valuable to of people interested in rural of Needed Mineral Substances other women in the community, and affairs, the membership of which comprises and Vitamlnes in Diet, Beside Bulk. so help to make this Information available men, women, and young people to all. The home demonstration who generally pay a uniform membership many people realize. Also they supply Is agent a teacher who makes liberal fee of $1 a year. roughage, whiA is believed to keep the body In good working order. Mower county farmers harvested The one beautiful thing about not In the course of nature, human beings 102,466 acres of oats in 1919 or 2,674,- having any money is that you have as well as some animals seem to have 494 bushels. I so much company. so developed that they need a certain amount of roughage, which is best supplied by the coarser vegetable foods. During recent years there has 3*7 4 been a growing tendency to reduce the roughage In cereais and some other A health-building foods, and, In order to offset this, Bread for growing an extra effort should be made to supply plenty of vegetables and fruits. In youngsters UA addition, fresh vegetables are among the best sources of what, for lack of a better name, have been called vitamines. Nobody has ever been able to stand a vitamine up by itself, or a group of them by themselves, so that we could look at them, but it is known that they are present just the same, because of the action that they have upon the human body. Eat More Vegetables. Too much cannot be said In favor of a larger proportion of vegetables in the diet of the American people. The English are considered a nation of meat eaters, but it has been shown $1635 that Americans eat more meat per capita than do the English. A certain amount of meat in the diet is I highly desirable, but this should always be balanced by a sufficient supply Even before the price reduction on June 7th, our five-passenger of yegetables. THERE ARE MANY One of the reasons that many people "Glenbrook" model was conceded to be the greatest dollar-tor* have to a great extent cut vegetables dollar value of all light six motor cars* REDUCTIONS IN PRICE OP from their diet is that they have been unable to get fresh vegetables and do not relish stale ones. Now—with the price reduced to $1635—it must be evident that FEDERAL BAKERY GOODS The individual home vegetable garden opportunity is knocking at the door of every man who knows an planted either in the back yard, or a convenient piece of land, not only Federal Products 1 unusual investment when he sees it* solves the problem of supplying the vj*.- family with vegetables at low cost The new price is amazingly low* It will appear absurd after you and In abundance, but guarantees their freshness. have had one ride behind me motor that accelerates from five to baked in our daylight ovens right twenty-five miles per hour in nine seconds fiat. CARE OF HEATER IN SUMMER in plain view of the public assures 1" you of the utmost in cleanliness, i| A^d remember, pleAse, the "Glenbrbdk"is a distinctly product—not new Avoid Danger of Rust by Cleaning In Spring and 8toring in Thoroughly purity and invigorating Bread, Biscuits ah old model repainted and re-christened with a 19?" Dry Place. label. It is a splendid investment now and will be a spf and Rolls. "lis There Is danger rust a of when Investment one year from now*' stove or furnace stands unused for] Our lunches will delight you as well as time. should bej some Smokepipes Michigan PAIGE-DETROIT MOTOR CAR CO., DETROIT, j. £T t* down 1 taken In the spring, cleaned and! save you time and money Mamufachtrmn Pail* Can J' i' 1 in a The stored dry place. doors] of Motor a*4 Motor TVaidb be .% r, should left open to keep the in-' 1 '"I *l!|f 1 dry. terior A lump of unslaked limei ^5' l' grate on the will collect the moisture' MOTOR INN and thus prevent rust, home economic FEDERAL SYSTEM of BAKERIES specialists in the United States De-| partment of Agriculture say. Leave the boiler of a steam or hot-waterj heater filled with water up to the1 V,. tit I tsfilfi 1 safety valve, during the summer.