77" V' *'V Myfp'i, »'j otw' l"f\/py$ i?1"PiWI- kii'jMi SB 4. S i- MOWER COUNTY NEWS, AUSTIN, MINN. v: Page Seven 'onday, July 4, 1921. Designeddto Fou Mail Bandits UMBER OF HORSES INCREASING® DEHORNED CATTLE EASIER TO HANDLE a- Now Is Your MINN. DESPITE AUTO'S POPULARITY |Ll I ../v- W "W ""V Dehorning cattle makes it easier to handle the animals and insures each one a more equal chance at the feed )0,000 More Horses 6,000,000 Peat Acres trough. It renders animals less Than in 1910 dangerous to attendants and prevents In Minnesota Seen as them from goring one another the Reported. Basis for Big Industry feed lot or in transit to market. The practice of dehorning is almost universal so far as h'gh-grade beef 3 RAISE BETTER With approximately 6,000,000 acres steers are concerned. It is often desired of peat land in the state, Minnesota HORSES NOT MORE to dehorn the heifers as well has the possibilities of one of the '1 as the steers, especially when they greatest industries in the United 2 are to be fed in troughs for a part oi States, W. T. Cox, state forester, said rse Raising is Not Specialized the year. last night. Undertaking Says University To Get The Calves may be dehroned when a With the manufacture of peat products, Horse Experts. few days old by treating the undeveloped the timber situation would be horns with caustHc soda or Finest Minnesota today has approximately materially benefitted, and the rapidly caustic potash, taking care that it ),000 more horses than in 1910, acdlng decreasing supply of this product This new container car, fireproof and burglarproof, has been developed by does not wTash into the eyes. to the preliminary figures of would be enhanced, Mr. Cox said. Removal the New York Central railroad and is being tried out by the United States Post If the horns are allowed to develop, 1920 federal census. These fig2s of peat would permit the reforestation \Mice Department. It is expected to end postal thefts and holdups en route. it becomes necessary to cut them off. GAS RANGE will interest, if not greatly surse and reduce the demand The car holds a number of huge square steel safes, which cannot be opened Clippers made for the purpose may many farmers and horse breedwho now made on timber. while on the car, as it is necessary to move two levers, one of which is obstructed be used on the younger animals. With have been holding the opinion Peat canoe manufactured into composition by the side of the car. older cattle a saw is best, as it prevents it the total number of horses in board, railroad ties and crushing, and the friction Of nnesota would show a material debase chemicals, including wood alcohol, the blade causes the blood vessels to as a result of increased tracmotive acitated lime, oils and solids. flADE AT A percent cottonseed meal $29.25 Memphis clot and heal quickly. The work I SEMI-WEEKLY power on farms. Eventually railroad ties will be entirely white hominy feed $23 Chicago, should not be done in warm weather, J. P. Kuehn, secretary of the Minsota manufactured from peat, Mr. MARKETGRAM _j $22.75 St. Louis No. 1 alfalfa meal as the wound may become infested Horse Breeders Association Cox said. $18.50 Kansas City gluten feed with screw worms. Where there is Bed Rock Price th offices at University Farm, has The supply in the state is the greatest $27.50 Chicago, $31.21 Philadelphia. danger of flies, a fly repellent should en analyzing the preliminary figes deposit in the country. It runs HAY:—Receipts very lights only GRAIN:—Bullish crop news during be applied. six to ten feet deep. In many insances of the 1920 census and finds that nominal quotations available in a the week had little effect on values innesota ranks sixth of the states it reaches a depth of upward number of markets. Demand very account lack of outside speculation OLD POTATO BINS 3 the total number of horses on the of twenty feet. limited. Market generally dull except limited buying power. On the 28th. rms. Iowa, Nebraska, Illinois, at Chicago and Ne\y York where SHOULD BE CLEAN bearish sentiment over failure of "Today is that tomorrow of which yesterday insas and Texas are the only states Safeguard Health light receipts and a fair demand caused market to advance combined with porting a larger number of farm some strength to the market. we hoped so much. If tomorrow we would hedging pressure resulted in a drastic of Flock By Burning Every grower who experienced •rses than Minnesota, which now Quoted: June 29, No. 1 timothy New decline. On the 29th. export sales of not again be disappointed, we must act today." trouble with dry rot in his potato 932,794 horses as compared with Dead Poultry York $29.50, Philadelphia $22, Chicago 1,250,000 bu. wheat and reports of S house or cellar the past season—and 6,838 in 1910. The gain in Minneta, $23, Minneapolis $18, Cincinnati drouth on Russia, France, Argentina, there was trouble of this kind because says Secretary Kuehn, reprents $20, Memphis $25. No. 1 alfalfa Atlanta Roumania and United Kingdom caused of the comparatively warm winter— Accumulations of manure the about one-third of the total inease $27.50, Memphis $20, Omaha a sharp upturn. Trade light thruout JULY 1 st to 15th henhouse are objectionable upon is warned by A. G. Tolaas of University in Horses for the entire counas $18. No. 1 prairifc Minneapolis $16, the week and market easily influenced. grounds of sanitation, but not more Farm, chief inspector of the reported for the period of 1910•20. Omaha $13. Lower grades selling at At the close crop reports so than dead poultry. How often have potato seed certification department, heavy discounts under number one. bullish and blight feared account hot to disinfect thoroly all binds before you seen a dead chicken thrown into Breeders Awakening. weather. Country wheat offerings FEED:—Markets extremely weak. the road or trampled into the barnyard using them again. Either a solution "But the most significant thing," not large. Corn market unsettled on Demand unimproved. Stocks anJ manure? The disposal of these of formaldehyde in ten gallons of We will sell every stove on our floor at the following :ys Mr. Kuehn, "has been the genal the 30th. account elevator strike set offerings good. Bran and middlings dead bodies offers a problem for the water, or a solution of bluestone (copper remarkable prices: awakening and appreciation of for July 1st. and forecast for continued down $1.50 per ton. Linseed meal poultryman, the correct solving of sulphate) consisting of one pound ie breeding public of the value of fair, and warm weather in quiet and in fair supply. Stocks of which may in many cases become a of the bluestone dissolved in ten gallons $35.00 Gas Range for $31.50 arebred breeding stock. For exuple, corn belt. In Chicago cash market flaxseed 1,000,000 bu. larger in Minneapolis of water, should be used for this very important matter. This is especially in 1910 there were 1086 purered No. 2 red winter wheat $1.32 No. 2 than same date a year ago. §40.00 Gas Range for $36.00 purpose. true, of course, in cases of draft stallions used for breeding hard $1.39 No. 3 mixed corn 58c No. Supplies of cottonseed meal ample, death from contagious diseases, and $48.00 Gas Range for $43.20 arposes in addition to 2,214 grade quotations nominal, little inquiry. 3 yellow corn 58c No. 3 white oats Jud this includes a large proportion of Tunims. id mongrel stallions. At the presit Corn feeds easier particularly hominy 34c. For the week Chicago September Jud Tunkins says a mnn's "noblest poultry deaths. $52.00 Gas Range for $46.80 time all but 561 grade horses have wheat down i/ic at $1.23 September feed. Alfalfa meal dull. Quoted: and most philanthropic efforts often To throw a dead chicken on the manure sen discarded and the number of $58.00 Gas Range for $52.20 corn down 1% at 61%c. Chicago Bran $13.25, Minneapolis, $22.50 Philadelphia fail to attract as much attention pile or into the road is to invite urebred sires used has been increasby July wheat down 6%c at $1.24% linseed meal $28 Minneapolis, among his friends as the fact that he $60.00 Gas Range for $54.00 the spread of disease. Burying is approximately 50 per cent. In July corn down 2c at 60%. Minneapolis has bought a new hat. $31 Chicago, $36 Boston 36 not entirely satisfactory, because unless ddition to this, more farmer breedrs $65.00 Gas Range for $58.50 July wheat down 9%c at the grave is dug deep the carcass have bought purebred mares for $1.23% Kansas City July S^c at New Cabinet Chairs for Old Ones $70.00 Gas Range for $63.00 may be scratched up by dogs or other Dundation stock than has ever beare $1.13% Winnipeg July lc at $1.75%. animals. Furthermore, in the winter been recorded. The Percheron DAIRY PRODUCTS —The butter $80.00 Gas Range for $72.00 the ground may be frozen. Therefore, orse is still the most popular in market has continued firm the past $90.00 Gas Range for $81.00 specialists declare the best way to linnesota, altho the Belgian has been week with adVances of half cent dispose of dead poultry is to burn the aining much favor during the last nearly every day. Consumption holding $100.00 Gas Range for $90.00 bodies. tew years. up well and there is liberal buying Many town and city homes have "Raise Better Horses." for storage. Receipts moderate This includes the best makes of gas ranges manufactured garbage burners which may be used, stocks kept well cleared. Closing "The Minnesota slogan has been and everyone equipped with automatic lighter. but where this is not available some prices 92 score: New ,York 35%c Raise Better Horses' rather than The Eclipse poultry-men have hot-water heating Chicago 34%c Philadelphia 36%c Raise More Horses.' We have been systems burn the bodies in the furnace. 5 Boston 36 ^c. dvocaxing the use of high-class pureired This can not be done in the Cheese market slightly firmer and sires, and the time is here when summer, tho, so small crematories prices higher this week. At Wisconsin nly high class mares should be se"ected have been built on some poultry Just The Range You Need primary markets price range 1415%c for breeding purposes. The plants. Some of these are of concrete, while at eastern distributing greatest problem at this time appears he size depending upon the markets prices range $16-17 %c. The be the general lack of knowledge number of birds kept on the place, hot dry weather is having it's effect skilled feeding and management of and others are ordinary iron woodburning is the pioneer gas range equal to the best. A full line to on quality, and production is sonjewhat lorses by the average farmer of this stoves. A concrete crematory lower in some sections. select from, including single oven, double oven and cabinets tate. Horse raising need not be a will not be expensive, and with all enamel features. specialized undertaking, but Minneiota The Birds at Play. would pay for itself in safeguarding farmers should learn to grow Besting on the rail under the hawthorn the health of all the poultry. :oals into mature horses by the for a minute or two In early ?rowing-out process which is by no spring, when it was too chilly to stay Intelligent Fig Tree. means a fattening process. Blood long, I watched flock of rooks and A lines are strong factors in the production Fig trees are extremely sensitive to jackdaws ..soaring in the sky. Round of high class draft horses, but cold, the slightest touch of "Jack and round and ever upward they circled, Frost" being sufficient to kill the trees. skilled feeding and management are the jackdaws, of course, betraying Seldom do they bear or mature fruit just as essential to the best development their presence by their call up above the latitude of Louisiana, of the colt. toward the blue, as if in the Joy of J— writes George Parke in the American "In order to stimulate the breeding I their hearts they held a festival, happy Forestry Magazine. But a fig tree, of better horses the Minnesota Horse New cabinet chairs for President Harding's advisors being unloaded at the In the genial weather and the approach planted beside a mud-and-stick chimney Breeders' Association is aiming to revive White House executive offices. Every member of the Wilson--cabinet, with of the nesting time. This soaring I of a negro's cabin near Jackson, the local fall iolt shows, offering the exception of Secretary of War Baker, took the chair he had used, as a and wheeling is evidently done Miss., clung so closely to the warm $25 to each county holding a show souvenir, for which privilege they were obliged to purchase these new ones for recreation, like a dance.—Christian surface, passing round between the this year. By getting the horsemen for their successors. Science Monitor. side of the building and thence to the in each county together to talk over top, above which the shoots are seen their methods of feeding and management, NON-FERTILE EGGS like a crown of emerald. Thus the it is hoped that some eneourageement tree endured the frost and occasional BEST FOR SHIPPING will be given to the young Associated Insurance Agency •i snow of a severe winier, bore fruit farmers to start them along the •M* and thrived amid inhospitable surroundings. proper lines in helping to develop the Poultry keepers are advised by A. ALL KINDS OF INSURANCE horse industry of the state." C. Smith, chief of ttte division of O. Niebaii W. D«Buhr poultry husbandry at University M. H. KEN ASTON Farm, to kill their breeding males if Story of Minnesota Wheat they have young stock to take the Office Austin Nat. Bank Bldf. Phona Bridg* 802 RELIABLE place another season of the older birds or if it is planned to introduce new blood. If valuable breeders, the Wheat Losses by Rodents 6 Millions. males should be separated now from doubtful if the good that it does in Rodents levy an annual tax of more the flock, he says, and placed with consuming these pests balances its than $12,000,000 upon agricultural one female or two in a comfortable habits of eating wheat and other products in the United States. That and roomy pen. The mates should grain. This sphermophilid has also HAVE THOSE OLD of this sum of the wheat crop suffers have the same care as the females, been known to destroy large numbers GAS RANGES a variety of feed and a place to exercise. to the extent of $6,000,000 is a conservative of brooder chicks. Pocket gophers statement. Minnesota's They should also be kept free while not such grain eaters as spermophilids share of this may be $500,000. from lice and mites. The least development do consume some wheat and SHOES REPAIRED This estimate of state loss must be of the germ spot in the do much damage by making mounds regarded as only approximately correct egg means a relative deterioration in equipped with the wonder worker "Lorain," the oven in grain fields which interfere with NOW! since conditions vary in different keeping quality. It is evident, then, regulator that has revolutionized cooking. Better than a the knives of the mower besides covering parts of the state and in different that during warm weather a great and breaking down much grain fireless cooker and as easy to operate as your top burner. years, and it is impossible to obtain loss can be prevented by shipping These pests of wheat, except the Cut Your Gas Bills exactly correct data on this point. Reports only infertile eggs. pocket gopher, are easily controlled to this office from various county by using poisoned grain which may be agents give from $600 to $2,000 and Cut Your Hours In the Kitchen bought already prepared or may be $3,000 as the annual county loss on J. F. FAIRBANKS made by the farmer himself. Poisoned grain caused by "gray gophers," as grain is most effective when used they are commonly tho erroneously in many of our far western states.— From the book of many tempting menus furnished called, and the "striped gopher," so when green food is not available. Minnesota called. These animals are not true IWE ARE EQUIPPED TO DO with each range, select your dinner. Put in the oven set has never suffered and probably gophers but belong to a family of the "Lorain" and go out for the afternoon. At 6:30 your Dealer In YOUR WORK SATISFACTORILY never will suffer from rodents in gTOund squirrels known as spermophilids. dinner is done to a turn.- It's not an experiment—It's a its wheat fields to the extent observed AND QUICKLY. WE The only true gopher in Minnesota wonderful fact. Get your dinner ready in the morning COAL, WOOD, LIME, in many of our far western states. is the pocket gopher. The v^MAKE OLD SHOES LIKE and the "Lorain" will cook it for you. CEMENT, SEWER PIPE, spermaphilids work almost exclusively '(NEW. JULY 1st to 15th on standing grain, breaking down Value of Ashes. BRICK #AND WALL and destroying more than they really There isn't any fertilizing value In PLASTER. eat. coal ashes, as there is in wood ashes. When wheat is in shock, ,or stacks Yet they are often a great help in improving Delivered and connected Free where gas connection S in the field, field mice are extremely JENSEN & PHIFFER heavy soils. Sift the ashes ,t is already in kitchen. harmful and in places their great and get out the clinkers, and then Office' 301 East Bridge St. numbers mean a serious financial spade or plow them into the ground. Austin Gas Company There's practically no danger of getting loss. Phone: Main 32 The writer has seen the striped too much. If they contain some •tees, squirrel catching grasshoppers wood ashes, so much the better. Even gTOund ,f«* Austin, Minn. of which it seems very fond and it is a little sand worked into heavy soil Vi&if ''i also known to eat cutworms, but it is vill do much to make a better garden i# it •jk iiu.