Raise More And Better LIVE CO. FARMERS. Crops, Marketing and Pure Bred Livestock Farm Bureau Notes. Would Reorganize sary, to make the prison machinery plant a real competitor with private Duroc Jersey Hog Some Aspects of the firms and carry out the intent of the TYLE Association Here law. Farmers' Problems Efforts Ho reorganize the Mower Steele County Opens ERVICE Lower Prices Necessary Count^,"Duroc Jersey Hog Breeders' Pure Bred Sales at "Farmer Delegation association will be made at a meeting Owatonna January 24 ATISFACTION to be held at the Farm Bureau office Says. mrv By BERNARD M. BARUCH at 2:00 p. m. Monday. According to County Agent F. L. Steele county pure bred sales activities Prices of farm machinery manufactured Liebenstein, many breeders have expressed will start January 23, when at the state penitentiary their wishes to reorganize. John Hartle & Sons of Owatonna, (Reprinted from Atlantic Monthly) KOBES' CAFE must be reduced, representatives of will sell forty bred sows. Twenty of Crop Insurance is the Minnesota Farm Bureau federation the sows are bred to "Orion's Superior told the state board of control at Conference Topic Sensation" and twenty to "Pathfinder's puTfiTnot seasonaircomplain that they (Continued from last issue.) a recent conference. Improver I Am." find themselves at a disadvantage In II the marketing of their productions, The farmers' dollar isvworth only The offerings consist of fifteen fall Washington, Jan. 19.-—Insurance Let us, then, consider some of the especially raw milk, because of the 61 cents in comparison with the price gilts and twenty-five spring gilts. of crops as a method of stabilizing farmer's grievances, and see how far high costs of distribution, which they of products he has to buy, the fairm Boy Scout Demonstration, They are reported to be in good condition. prices of farm products is expected they are real. In doing so, we should must ultimately bear. bureau representatives said. Prosperity to be one of the many suggestions remember that, while there have been, cannot be restored until the (Continued in our next issye.) Colonel Albert Hopfe and "Colonel put forward at the National Agricultural and still are, instances of purposeful cost of machinery and other commodities Joseph Fisher will cry the sale. conference which opens here on abuse, the subjebt should not be approached CREAMERY PLANS Thursday the farmer must purchase is January 23, for inclusion in a permanent with any general Imputation brought down somewhere near the national farm policy. Discussion to existing distributive agencies of deliberately News advertising brings results. UP AT MEETING value of the things he has to sell, within the conference would intentional oppression, but they declared. The penitentiary, a be expected to develop whether the rather with the conception that the Eve., Jan. 19,1922 public institution serving the whole J. F. FAIRBANKS marketing of farm products has not proponents would recommend that state, is now supported entirely by been modernized. the insurance be carried by the far Grand Meadow Farmers the farmers^ Machinery prices should An ancient evil, and a persistent mers co-bperatively, by private com be cut, officials said, and all citizens, one, Is the undergrading of farm products, Would Receive panies or thru government aid. 8:00 O'CLOCK P. M. if necessary, share the expense of with the result that what the Benefit. Dealer In maintaining the prison. The machinery farmers sell as of one quality is resold Love doesn't amount to much unless plant was established originally High School Gym as of a higher. That this sort of it makes a lover believe things COAL, WOOD, LIME, to compete with private manufacturers chicanery should persist on any Important Efforts to organize a co-operative that aren't so. and compel them to charge CEMENT, SEWER PIPE, scale In these days of business creamery will be made at a meeting A poor man likes to think that reasonable prices, the farmers pointed integrity would seem almost incredible, of farmers to be held at Grand Meadow the rich have more troubles than he BRICK AND WALL but there is much evidence "has. out. A drastic price cut is neces- Saturday noon. EVERYBODY INVITED ABSOLUTELY PLASTER. that It does so persist. Even as I A committee has been investigating COUNTY COMMISSIONERS' PROCEEDINGS write, the newspapers announce the co-operative creameries in this FREE suspension of several firms from the vicinity in order to ascertain their (Continued from page 6.) New York Produce Exchange for exporting Office 301 East Bridge St. business methods. The committee will to Germany as No. 2 wheat a report at the meeting following a chaser shall not be obliged to see to the application of the purchase money whole shipload of grossly inferior wheat Phone: Main 32 of said bonds, and the proceeds of said bonds shall be placed in the proper cafeteria dinner to be given by the mixed with oats, chaff and the like. funds and used only for the purpose of paying the expenses of locating, constructing Grand Meadow Commercial club. Another evil is that of inaccurate and establishing the said Ditch as above specified. Austin, Minn. Come and listen to the report of the past nine months It is believed that a co-operative weighing of farm products, which, It The motion for the adoption of such resolution being duly seconded by creamery will provide a better market, Mr. J. J. Gjerness, it was put to a vote and all being in favor thereof it was of this wonderful organization and see with^your own Is charged, is sometimes a matter of better butter and secure a higher so adopted and so declared. MORE dishonest intention and sometimes of eyes some of the results accomplished. price for consignors tributary to protective policy on the part of the Bids were then received for the purchase of the Twenty-Five Thousand MONEY Grand Meadow. Four Hundred Ninety-Eight Dollars ($25,498.00) Ditch Bonds dated January local buyer, who fears that he may 1st, 1922, issued on account of Judicial Ditch Number Seven (7), located in James Rasmussen, representing the "weigh out" more than he "weighs In." Mower County, Minnesota. The following bids were received. State dairy and food commission and If You Ship Us Ypur A greater grievance is that at present Name of Bidder— Amount Bid— This space contributed by HIDES-FURS F. L. Liebenstein will speak at the the field farmer has little or no Minneapolis Trust Company.. .Par and Premium of $245.00 for 4%% Bonds meeting. control over the time and conditions Write IJi FIRST For Schanke & Company 240.0ft DECKER BROTHERS WW Special Information Minnesota Loan & Trust Co.. of marketing his products, with the 220.00 DEAL DIRECT with tlw LARGEST aai OLDEST Minnesota Farmers Drake-Ballard Company .. 200.00 HOUSE IN THE WEST. result that he is often underpaid for HIGHEST PRICES and IMMEDIATE CASH Wells-Dickey Company 765.00 5. or his products and usually overcharged Ask Co-operation in RETURNS. 157.00 4%% Bonds Write lor price list, tags and (nil information for marketing s&rvice. The difference Merchants Trust Company.... 91.00 5 Bonds D.BERGMAN OD. Regulating Market between what the farmer receives S The following resolution was offered by Mr. A. Hotson, who moved its and what the consumer pays adoption: S T.PAUL -M INN. often exceeds all possibility of justification. Advertisements in the News Bring Results^ Minnesota farm organizations have Whereas, The County Board of Mower County, by its duly passed and To cite a single illustration. adopted resolutions has heretofore authorized and directed the issuance of carried their fight for effective stockyards Twenty Five Thousand Four Hundred Ninety Eight Dollars ($25,498.00) Last year, according to figures attested regulation straight to Presi- Public Drainage Ditch Bonds of Mower County, Minnesota, for the purpose by the railways and the growers, dent Harding. As interpreted by the 1 of defraying the expense incurred and to be incurred in locating, establishing Georgia watermelon-raisers received I United States department of agriculture, and constructing Judicial Ditch Number Seven (7) in said County, and, on the average 7.5 cents for a melon, Whereas, Due notice of the time and place of sale of said bonds has the new federal stockyards control the railroads got 12.7 cents for carrying been duly published as required by Jaw, and, act would prevent the state from Whereas, The County Board of said County deems the bid of the Minneapolis It to Baltimore and the consumer continuing its present public weighing Trust Company, Minneapolis, Minnesota, to be the most favorable, paid one dollar, leaving 79.8 cents for which bid is par and accrued interest and a premium of Two Hundred Forty of livestock, and virtually aboliish the service of marketing and Its risks, Five Dollars ($245.00) for bonds bearing interest at the rate of Four and all state regulation. as against 20.2 cents for growing and three-Fourths (4% per cent per annum. The federal act is much less drastci transporting. The hard annals of Now Therefore, Be It Resolved, That the bid of the Minneapolis Trust Company for the Twenty Five Thousand Four Hundred Ninety Eight Dollars than the present state law. Farm farm-life are replete with such commentaries ($25,498.00) Public Drainage Ditch Bonds of Mower County, Minnesota, on the crudeness of present association representatives united in to be issued on account of Judicial Ditch Number Seven (7) and to be dated practices. an appeal to the federal government January 1, 1922, be and it is hereby accepted and the County Treasurer of 1HE.VMVERSAL CAR Nature prescribes that the farmer's to permit the state to continue its said County is hereby authorized and directed to deliver said bonds to the "goods" must be finished within two Minneapolis Trust Company upon its paying to him the amount of its bid weighing service. which shall not be less than par and accrued interest and that the purchaser or three months of the year, while They contend that the fees charged NEW PRICES shall not be obliged to see to the application of the proceeds of said bonds. financial and storage limitations generally for weighing are more than repaid The motion for the adoption of said resolution being duly seconded by compel him to sell them at the Mr. S. D. Thompson, it was put to a vote and all being in favor thereof, it in the protection and service furnishJed same time. As a rule, other industries was so adopted and so declared. are in a continuous process of finishing the farmers by state regulation, J. H. KREBSBACH, goods for the markets they distribute and that the livestock shippers would Attest: Chairman of County Board. as they produce, and they can O. J. SIMMONS, have' to pay the entire cost of private (F. O. B. Detroit) curtail production without too great County Auditor. weighing indirectly if state control injury to themselves or the community Henry Schnorrenberg presented a petition to the County Board representing ends. but if the farmer restricts his that he is the owner of the S. W. of Section No. 1, Township 102, $285 output, It is with disastrous consequences, Chassis Range 17, located in School District No. 82, and asking to be set off with his both to himself and to the If you are hungry and eat sufficient said lands from said School District No. 82 into District No. 115. community. food, the hunger ends, but you On motion, it was ordered that the hearing on said petition be had at The average farmer Is busy with can't satisfy a money-hungry man 10:00 o'clock in the forenoon, January 24th, 1922, and the Auditor was instructed production for th£ major part of the with money. to give due notice of said hearing according to law. $319 year, and has nothing to sell. The Runabout There appearing to be no further business to come before the Board at bulk of his output comes on the market this time, on motion the meeting adjoured sine die this 20th day of December, AUSTIN MARKETS at once. Because of lack of storage 1921. facilities and of financial support, J. H. KREBSbACH, Quoted by Peoples Service Store.— the farmer cannot carry his goods (Official Seal) Chairman of County Board. $348 Dairy butter 30 Touring Car through the year and dispose of them Attest. Eggs 25 O. J. SIMMONS, as they are currently needed. In the Potatoes, per bu 1.25 County Auditor and Ex-Officio Clerk of Board. great majority of cases, farmers have Beans, per lb 5% to entrust storage—in warehouses and Flour—Retail, 49 lb. sack 2.10 $430 elevators—and the financial carrying Truck Chassis POULTRY of-their products to others. Farm products are generally marketed Quoted by Smith-Wright Co.— Mount Vernon Duroc. Sow at a time when there is a congestion Heavy Hens 15 of both transportation and Light Hens 12 $580 SALE finance—when cars and money are Stage .11 Geese 12 scarce. The outcome, in many Instances, Spring Chix 15 is that the farmers not only Roosters ..08 Albert Lea Minn. sell under pressure, and therefore at Eggs 23 a disadvantage, but are compelled to $645 HOG MARKET. take further reductions in net returns, in order to meet the charges for the Medium and Butchers .7.45 service of storing, transporting, financing, Packers $5.00 to $6.45 JANUARY 25th, 1922 and ultimate marketing—which Veal, Sheep and Lambs charges they claim, are often excessive, Fat Lambs $6.50 to $8.50 bear heavily on both consumer Veal 3.50 to 6.50 To be held at the Fair Grounds, one mile north of the and producer, and are under the control Sheep ...1.50 to 2.50 of those performing the services. city, beginning promptly at 1:00 o'clock Cattle It Is true that they are relieved of These are the lowest prices of Ford Cars in the history (he risks of a changing market by Fat Steers $4.00 to $5.50 of the Ford Motor Company. Cows and Heifers $3.00 to $4.00 selling at once hut they are quite willing Bulls $2.00 to $3.50 40 Head Choice Tried Sows to take the unfavorable chance^ Canners and Cutters $1.00 to $1.50 Orders are coming in fast, so place yours promptly to if the favorable one also is theirs and they can retain for themselves a part and Gilts insure early delivery. of the service charges that are uniform, ^he cod for thinners in good years and bad, with Two-thirds of this offering bred to my new herd boar Austin, Auto Co. high prices and low. UNIQUE, ORION SENSATION, a son of the twice While, in the main, the farmer must SILYEBXSH sell, regardless of market conditions, world's champion, also a litter mate to Unique Sensation—the at the'time of the maturity of crops, world's Junior Champiofi—and the balance he cannot suspend production in toto, to the son of Big Bone Giant. -H "... .• -vr. •. He must go on producing if .he is to go Best for the money. Authorized on living, and if the world is to exist ENTIRE HERD CHOLERA IMMUNE The most he can do is to curtail production FORD SALES AND a little* or alter Its form, and For Catalog Write to SERVICE that—because he is in the dark as to III. J. DOWD, Ellendale, Minn, the probable demand for his goodsmay be oply to jump from the frying Ask your Dealer Auctioneer, H. J. McMurray^l V, pan Into the fire, taking the consumer with him. .Eies. the. dairy formers, whnsfi oiil-