LX1 ^1 HIiiiwwiwiiiiiwiwi«iMiimiMW Hum iMimn I jiuy "jk a: 1 1 1 Ml MOWER COUNTY NEWS, AUSTIN, MINN. Page Seven !'K,t 'SMtwl Monday, Aug. 15, 1921, Crops, Marketing and. LIVE AGRICULTURAL NEWS OF INTEREST AND VALUE TO MOWER CO. FARMERS." Raise More And Better *ig Farm Bureau Notes Pure Bred Livestock ztt MINNESOTA CROP YIELDS REPORTED 350,000 lbs., compared with 101,455,000 "Why I Put Up With Rats for Years,"^ SEMI-WEEKLY FRUITS AND Writes N. Windsor, Farmer. lbs. a year ago and the five-year MARKETGRAM average of 95,569,000 lbs. 92-score "Years ago I bought some rat poison, LOW, CREDIT IMPERATIVE POTTER which nearly killed our fine prices August 11: New York 43%c, watch dog: It so scared us that we Chicago 40%c, Philadelphia 44c, Boston GRAIN.—Wheat prices slumped the suffered a long time with rats until 44c. first two days of the week under selling my neighbor told me about RAT' Cheese markets weak, prices ranging Poor Prices and High pressure. Strong cash demand. Active SNAP. That's the sure rat killer and and then 'marketing the livestock. Under a full cent below a week ago. Dull a safe one." Three sizes, 35c, 65c,$1.25. export trade and good flour de- Freight Rates present conditions, this is impossible •. trading incident lutiucni to LU recent lectin l, advances Sold and guaranteed by Pooler mand. however, caused prices to rise .. .. ,, without additional extension of »_ made declines inevitable and even at Drug Co. Advertisement 9-9-p. are Cause. for the ba ance wee Week!lower Prices business remained slow, credit." ump occunng on August 10 Week Reports from the wheat harvest, Wisconsin market Au LEGAL NOTICES closed with wheat again advancingi _._. /Qu„ n,*„£L Mr. Potter said, show that spring gust 11: Daisies 19%c, Double Daisies SAYS SITUATION and a strong undertone apparent. wheat is running about eight to ten 19c, Longhorns 21c, light trading in IS DESPERATE Country offerings small during week-!0ther styles. CITATION FOR HEARING ON bushels to the acre, and promises only FINAL ACCOUNT AND FOR Corn prices generally followed wheat rnTTHM' about half of a good crop. Oats is DISTRIBUTION i„ their fluctuates Cosine higher on running from 15 to as high -as 40 bushels \lternative is to Feed Grain to Stock ot STATE OF MINNESOTA, County last day of week under strong export] „/9c York Octo- to the acre, he said, but is light and to Market the Livestock—Must ing at per Mower, ss. In Probate Court. demand and liberal buying. In Chicago and poor in feeding value, with an unusually ber futures up 11 points at 13.23c. Have More Credit. cash market No. 2 red winter In the matter of the estate of heavy growth of stcew that Nathan Friend, decedent: wheat closed at $1.25 No. 2 hard at Same Old Story But A Good One. makes harvesting more expensive. By NEIL H. SWANSON. THE STATE OF MINNESOTA to $1.27 No. 3 mixed corn at 57c No. 3 Mrs. Mahala Burns, Savanna, Mo., "The cam crop alone showers pro-, Lena Fredman, P. H. Friend, Addie St. Paul, August 15.—Minnesota's yellow at 58c No. 3 white oats at 33c. relates an experience the like of which Meyer, and Oscar Friend, and to all spects of more than a normal yield," harvest fields are yielding little better has happened in almost every neighborhood For the week Chicago September persons interested in the final account he said. "The hay crop is good. But in this country, and has been than "half a crop" this year in wheat up three cents closing $1.24% and distribution of the estate of said this condition only means that with a told and related by thousands of others, some of thee state's most important September corn dropped half cent decedent. The representative of the large of corn and a large, as follows: "I used a bottle of *.(lines of production, L. E. Potter, president carry-over closing at 57*4c. Minneapolis September above named decedent having filed in fresh supply of feed there will be Chamberlain's Colic and Diahorrea of the Minnesota Farm Bureau wheat up five cents closing at this Court his final account of the administration Remedy about nine years ago and it neither good (.demand nor good prices." federation, said here today. Mr.-Potter, of the estate of said decedent, $1.32%. Kansas City September wheat cured me of flux (dysentery). I had together with his petition The outlook for the potato .crop is has visited almost every section up three cents closing at $1.14%. Chicago another attack of the same complaint praying for the adjustment and allowance even less optimistic, Mr. Potter said. of the state during the last few *eeeks. December wheat closed $1.27% 3 or 4 years ago and a few doses of of said final account and for Stock for ieeding, Mr. Potter said, I "The farmers are facing an actually December corn at 56 ^4 c. Minneapolis this remedy cured me. I have recommended distribution of the residue of said estate desperate situation, Mr. Potter^ said. is not availalsle unless shipped in -from it to dozens of people since I December wheat closed at $1.32%. to the persons thereunto Entitled. first used it and shall continue to do so The farmer "not oily is getting a the range country, with high freight Kansas City December wheat closed Therefore, YOU, and EACH OF YOU, for I know it is a quick and positive crop good, enoug*1 enable him to rates as a serious obstacle. to at $1.18%. are hereby cited and required to show cure for bowel troubles. Advertisement. pav off His obligations, but jhe is eon-^otited "Any expectation of a general liquidation cause, if any you have, before this HAY.—Timothy prices advanced $5 with 3he necessity of folding from -.the country is dsHmed &s Court at the Probate Court Rooms in :fct Not Too EarJy to Begin Planning to and Can some of Dry Your Garden during the week at Chicago and $1 at the Court House in the City of Austin, 'further credit j:'f he is to get ever the to disappointment. The farmers want1 (Crop—The Photograph Shows Suitable Equipment fer Canning and Some Minneapolis and Cincinnati because of "Rat-Snap Beats the Best Trap Ever in the county of Mower, State of Minnesota, cost of production out of some of Jiis business revival and liquidation just •of the Attractive Results. light receipts. Eastern markets Made," Mrs. Emily Shaw Says. on the 6th day of September, as much as anyone else, but .crop CTOpS." steady but unchanged. Southern 'My husband bougut a $2 trap. I 1921, at 10 o'clock A. M., why said" (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) Would Not Force PricesThe prospects now hold out little hope in markets still rather inactive with but bought a 65c box of RAT-SNAP. The petition should not be granted It is particularly desirable to can or dry the fruits and vegetables raised necessity of getting additional the agriculture sections." trap only caught 3 rats but RATSNAP few price changes. Alfalfa in poor WITNESS, The Judge of sai& •cm the farm, as the raw products can be gathered and treated when absolutely credit, instead of .liquidating, Mr. Potter "The average farmer literally lias killed 12 in a week. I'm never demand. Prairie stronger at Chicago Court, and the Seal of said Courts fresh and at just the proper stage of ripeness and tenderness for best results. without RAT-SNAP. Reckon I couldnot said, does not .mean that the farmers no money with wfiich to buy," he said. this 1st day of August, 1921. but barely steady at other markets. The average farm family probably cans annually more than 150 quarts of raise chicks without it.' RATSNAP want to hold their crops from the "Business dealings among farmers HENRY WEBER, JUN... Quoted August 10: No. 1 timothy fruits aod vegetables, the greater part of wiiieh is fruit. Canning clubs have comes in cakes. Three sizes, market and force prices up. have been reduced to the old methods New York $32, Philadelphia $25, Cincinnati been instrumental in stimulating interest in canning on the farm. The drying Judge of Probate.. 35c. 65c, $1.25. Sold and guaranteed "Low prices for .coarse grains, together of barter and exchange. There must $22.50, Chicago $25, Minneapolis (COURT SEAL) of fruits and vegetables, an old farm art until recently on the decline, has been by Pooler Drug Co., Advertisement, with high freight rates and a be a liberal, intelligent extension of revived quite generally within the past two years. This process offers a good $19.50, Atlanta $26, Memphis $20. 9-9-P. A. W. WRIGHT flack of demand," he said, "leave the credit to the agriculture of the northwest M. A. NELSON 4&* means of preserving perishables without entailing expense for containers, as No. 1 alfalfa Memphis $21, Atlanta producer only one means of getting to bring it back to prosperity. Attorneys For Petitioner. $27, Omaha $16.50, Kansas City $23. in canning. LEGAL NOTICES even the cost of production out of his Liquidation on any broad scale is out File No. 4136. No. 1 prairie Minneapolis $15, Omaha August 8-15-22. ,crop, that is, feeding the grain to stock of the question." $11.50, Chicago $18, Kansas City tening coop for about five days and disqualifies four-toed breeds, and less 9973 $11.50. The News—$2.50 a year—worth "softened" or the quality greatly improved It, than five for others. HORSES, COWS AND CHICKENS WILL STATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY FEED—Markets show fair activity. The equipment may be used All birds of good shape and color of Mower. In District Court. Tenth Quotations generally easier because for many years and prove a good investment for the breed and variety must be Judicial District. of heavier offerings. Bran and middlings BE ALL DRESSED UP IN BEST BIB very carefully examined for these disqualifying State Bank of Sargeant, a Corporation, market dull. Receipts and Plaintiff, marks. LIVE STOCK PRICE movement light. Linseed meal selling ,vs. All white varieties should be washed TUCKER AT MOWER COUNTY FAIR George Weibrands, $2 and old crop cottonseed meal $1.50 before exhibiting. Legs of all George M. Churchouse, and —4 lower than last week. Alfalfa birds should be free from scale-mite TRENDJSUNEVEN Josie A. Churchouse, Defendants. meal firm and demand light. Corn and body free from lice. SUMMONS. feeds in good supply tho producton is THE FATTEN YOUR THE STATE OF MINNESOTA, TO somewhat less than normal for this biggest style show of the year THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: time of the year. Quoted August 11: COCKERELS FOR AN Show Much Irregularity is scheduled at the Mower County News Notes from Bran $13.75, middlings $14.25, flour Fair, Austin, August 23 to 26, according EARLY MARKET. in Both Cattle and You and each of you are hereby middlings $20, Minneapolis white to Secretary J. W. Hare. Mower county produces a large summoned and required to answer the hominy feed $24.50 St. Louis, No. 1 alfalfa It isn't to be an exhibit of women's Hogs. the Farm Bureau I amount of poultry every year and it complaint of the plaintiff in the above meal $19.50 Kansas City, linseed gowns, hats or hosiery, but the display entitled action, which complaint has furnishes a good side income on nearly meal $39 Minneapolis, gluten feed of fine livestock. been filed in the office of the Clerk of every farm but this amount could By DON J. SLATER. $30.50 Chicago. said District Court, at the City of There'll be big draft horses of all be appreciably increased if we took South St. Paul, August 13.—Pursuing DAIRY PRODUCTS.—Butter markets Austin, in Mower County, Minnesota, breeds with their "manes in a braid," a little extra time and extra pains to the course followed in the dressed barely steady and about two and to serve a copy of your answer to FREIGHT and MERCHANDISE by F. L. LIEBENSTEIN, 1 a la Sis Hopkins decked out in ribbons handle the poultry. Prof. N. E. Chapman -beef trade during the past-week, bettr said complaint on the subscribers, County Agent, Mower Co. cents lower than a week ago. Lighter TRANSFER of all colors and all ready for gives us the following suggestions Catherwood & Nicholsen, at their office grades of cornfed cattle have sold demand and more favorable conditions the show ring. which if carred out will mean in the City of Austin, in said to good advantage and are closing SERVICE that is prompt, producing sections principal factors EXHIBITING STANDARDBRED county, within twenty days after service There'll be dairy cows with polished more of the badly needed cash for our steady to 25c higher, while common influencing present feeling. Preliminary reliable, careful—and economical. of this summons upon you, exclusive efforts. horns, big udders filled with pails of POULTRY. and medium grades of beef cattle consisting cold storage^ report shows of the day of such service and if Minnesota has about five million milk, and hoofs all manicured by hovering largely of grassers have declined Call Main 188-1 Many of Mower county poultry raisers butter holdings on August 1 of 82,- you fail to answer the said complaint cockerels on her 170,000 farms and it attendants. 25c to 50c on a very uneven are planning to show some of within the time aforesaid, the plaintiff would be one of the most profitable CITY DRAY LINE Hogs all scrubbed up with the market. Good cornfed cattle have sold in this action will apply to the Court their birds at the fair and at other scrubbing brush and rooting around in operations on the farm to fatten a few from around $8.00 to $9.00, one load for the relief demanded in said complaint. fairs and shows this fall. The following cockerels as an experiment in poultry pens filled high with clean straw, will making the latter price today. A suggestions and statements by production.- CATHERWOOD & NICHOLSEN, interest everyone. S L. YOUNG string of 1300 pound Dakota grassers Prof. Chapman may prove of value to B. E. HUGHES, All the equipment required is a fattening Sheep all trimmed up with backs as brought $8.35, with bulk of grass these poultry men. Attorneys for Plaintiff, 217 E. Mill Street coop, 2x2x8 feet with slatted flat as a table will please young and steers this week from $5X)0 to around Everybody rearing standard-bred Aug. 1, 8, 15 Austin, Minn. bottom and front to allow the droppings old. $7.00. Best grass cows and heifers poultry in Minnesota will have an opportunity to fall and the birds to put their "Livestock worth thousands of dollars are bringing from $5.50 to" $6.50, with to exhibit the best specimen heads thru to eat. The coop should will be exhibited at the fair this bulk of the butcher she stock from of their breed and variety at our year," announced Secretary Hare today, be placed on horses about three feet Associated Insurance Agency $3.00 to $5.00. Canners and cutters county fairs and poultry shows. Each from the ground and located under a "and it'll be in the finest of shape are selling mostly from $2.00 to $3.00, county has one or more fairs and shed for protection from heat and too. There won't be a person at the bologna bulls largely $3.00 to $4.00. eighty-one counties receive state aid rain. The birds eat from a trough fair who will be dressed as correctly ALL KINDS OF INSURANCE Closing top on veal calves to packers for poultry shows. or with as much style as the horses, which is made of one-half inch boards $7.00. There has been a fairly broad O. Niehuia J. W. DaBnfcr Exhibiting will greatly encourage or galvanized iron extending the cows, hogs and sheep exhibited there." demand on the part of shippers and M. H. KENASTON the officers, advance the poultry industry length of the coop. Supports at the Forty extra hog pens are in the country buyers for stackers and feeders in the county, and stimulate, interest end and center hold up the trough for Offica Austin Nat. Bank Bide. Phon* Bridge #02 course of construction to accommodate and better grades are 25c to 50c ixi one of the basic industries of feeding. the boys and girls in their club up for the week, but commoner, kinds the North Star state. The coop should be filled with cockerels are closing steady to weak and as work. Not only may liberal premiums be of about the same size and All club members making entries of much as 25c lower. won, but very effective advertising weight from three and one-half to livestock will receive their entry tags Sharp rises and drops have featured JO. KENASTON may be done and orders received for four and one-half pounds of the larger Residence Phone Bridge from Prof Lutz on the fair grounds the week's trade in hogs, with stock and eggs for future delivery. breeds as Rocks and Reds, and August 23. Miss Jessie Partridge, in prices closing a little higher than a 802 In the placing of awards, judges birds of the smaller breeds as Leghorns, charge of the girls' canning demonstration week ago. Range $8.00 to $10.50, bulk Main*59-R WELDING. must follow the instructions in the weighing from two pounds upwards. .work will have the entire $8.50 to $9.50, good pigs around $10 REAL ESTATE and INVESTMENTS Standard of Perfection, and there are Ten days has proven to be south wing of the Floral Hall for her to $10.25. Sheep and lambs closing certain instructions to be followed by the most profitable period of fattening steady to 25c lower, best native lambs City and Business Properties. Rentals and Insurance exhibits. the exhibitor in selecting exhibition for the larger breeds and fourteen We can fix any size, shape or The new grandstand is completed around $8.75 to $9.00, good and choice birds. days for the smaller breeds. design of broken parts. Bring Office with Niehuis & DeBuhr Laad Co. and will seat 2500 additional and the light ewes $3.50 to $4.00. As "shape makes the breed, and color In experiments extending over three seats are comfortable. Booths have AUSTIN. MINN. them to us. We can make them Austin National Bank BM*. the variety," there is a distinctive years, it has been found that the larger Hunger, the Best Sauce. been placed underneath and are being like new. Sauce is used to create an appetite shape and color for exhibition birds. cockerels will gain from one to one rented out for concessions. People of ii. or relish for the food. Thelright way Rocks are shaped like a "book," and a third pounds in the ten day period Mower county will have a chance to is to look to your' digestion. When you MOTOR INN Rhode Island Reds like a "brick," and and the smaller breeds about one •V. see the greatest horse races ever staged have good digestion you are certain Good Tractor Lurication Wyandottes and Orpingtons like an pounds in fourteen days. at a county fair. The purses are to relish your food. Chamberlain's inverted "derby hat." All the Mediterranean large and attracting the best horses The following ration has proven to Tablets improve the digestion, create Repair Department essentia breeds have about the same be the most economical and gives the a healthy appetite and cause a gentle in the northwest. The stock show and shape of body which is more or less Advertise- movement of the bowels, A. H. ANDERSON, parade .will be larger than ever and best results. like a "wedge." v? merit. will tax our housing capacity. Oatmeal. 36 pounds Tractor 03 Disqualifications. The Nat Reiss Shows will be on the Cornmeal 36 pounds IS JliWELfil grounds the 22nd with the finest line Shorts 18 pounds The exhibitor- -must examine his ESSENTIALLY ft Beef scraps 10 pounds of shows and rides that Mower county birds for. disqualifying marks that people ever saw. There will be eighteen may show impure breeding. Beginning Buttermilk or sour skimmilk should events on the track every day. with the comb, one should examine be used and mixture should be thin Each day will close with the grand carefully each section of the bird enough to pour from a pail. The birds For Engine*: "For Gear* (if Enclosed:) spectacular display of the Battle of to the end of its toes. should be fed sparingly at first and Pyramid Tractor Oil Transmission Oil. grr Pyramid Jutland. Combs—side sprigs, or points on the amount increased until on full Special Tractor Oil Pyramid Transmission WATCH REPAIRING Remember the gate admission for side, of all single comb varieties, lack feed. They should be fed three times Universal Tractor Oil Grease. day is 50c and night after six o'clock We guarantee Satisfaction at For Cup* and Wheel Bear- For Open Gears and tor^y- of spike on end of all rose-comb birds, daily—early morning, noon and night, ings: Gravity Feed Lubrication, is 25c. rose-comb falling over to hide the eye, reasonable prices all that they will consume in about 20 Pyramid Cup Grease. Pyramid Harvester OiL- ly c. or lopped single combs, except in females. minutes. The trough should be removed JONES AUSTIN ROUTE 6 after each feed and cleaned up Color—white in face of Mediterraneans, to keep sanitary. The coop may be 412 N. Main St. Austin, Minn. 1 Buy Now—your supply Pyramid Oil and be prepared for an-S il or red covering more than darkened by burlap to compel the JEWELER early Spring. Write for prices and information as to our plan—':" The James Nelson and William one-third of surface of ear-lobe of the birds to rest between feeding. we save you mony.. y, Coogan families joined Peter Rosenthal •f same. Positive white in ear-lobes of It has been found that about six in a picnic in Brooks grove Sunday. Rocks, covering more than one-fourth pounds of this ration will produce one All enjoyed a fine dinner and Service that is thoroly skilled Daily Trips the Country—Phone Bridge 37 in Reds, or more than one-fourth in HIGHEST PRICE: pound of gain on the smaller birds in every branch of BATTERY the afternoon was spent socially and Wyandottes. Deformed beaks, crooked in fourteen days, and about one to one WORK—service that besides in taking pictures, and at five o'clock backs and wry tails disqualify all and one-third pounds in a ten day period. PAID FOR'" •f being ^skilled is honest and ice cream and cake were served. breeds. Squirrel tail disqualifies also From-ten to fifteen cents worth moderate in cost. That's OUR Poultry and Veal Threshing is delayed in this vicnity except in 'certain bantams. Clipped of feed will produce a pound of food Use Pyramid BATTERY SERVICE. -, 'Gasoline and V'/Ai' on account of the heavy rain last B, wings disqualify and more than one worth twenty-five cents on the market. Escape experimenters, guessers, week. Auto Oils §|§. 'Use Pyramid ts black feather in wings or tail of Barred Gat Oar Pric«« -v This is a good business proposition, etc., that waste time and PA NY sr Rocks. Feathers on the shanks of and if it pays to fatten veal, Bafora You Ga money. Come here. ... And Grease-' "Kerosene :o News items from ail sections of this any breeds except Asiatic, or stubs lambs or pigs, it will certainly pay to Elsawkara a. territory are wanted by The News. e*i between toes will disqualify or white University of fatten -cockerels' and sell them while W- 1 Send them to us by mail, tell us personally, A fi R. H. JOHNSON SOI*. Minnesota. colored legs in Amercan breeds, or the prices for milk-fed poultry is high or call Main 460. Southern Minnesota yellow legs in the English breeds. and in great demand. Not only may PROVISION MARKBT iThe Motor Inn. Erdman's Garage Asiatic breeds must have feathers on cockerels be fattened, but old hens The rainfall around the Caspian sea' 2M R. Phone Main 702-F legs and toes. Morq than four toes is only ten inches a years and roosters may be put into the fat­ •M & 311 Jt