ty%f 14t v* p" T"^ '-Z "----p^P MOWim COUNTY Pfl Ajtrsm HON PageSei Thursday, Jan. 26. W:, R. '•&•' '•'V.-- .*- •. "Poorly gaypft rr -,"Mj Crops, Marketing Rai$e More And Better ®B0 Farm Bureau Notes* Pure Bred livestock World's Most Powerful Light and bulk of beef steers selling from ing at Rochester. $5.50 to- $6.25. February 3 Community meeting Aspects of the at 8.00 p. m. at Walthanu Best offerings of light and handyweight February 4 Community meeting young cows and heifers sold at 2:00 p. m. at Elkton. readily from $5.50 to around $6.50, February 11 Special farmers, with bulk of the butcher she stock meeting at Rose Creek. Potato selling from $3.25 to $5.25. Canners specialist. and cutters moved at strong rates, Specialists of Department of Agriculture February 16 —. Horticultural society going for the most part from $2.25 to meets at Austin. Recommend Its" $3.25, a few old shells $2.00. Bologna February 21 Annual creamery By BERNARD M. BARUCH More Liberal Use. bulls were in active demand, selling meeting at Lyle. from $4.00 to $4.50 for the most part, only a few light weights at $3.00 to (Pr«pared by the United States Depart-' $3.75. Veal calves held steady, best (Reprinted from Atlantic Monthly) ment of Agriculture) lights selling largely at $8.00, a few Skim milk, though often wasted, is a very economical food material, in the up to $8.50. Stockers and feeders lake and rail transportation, its ocean opinion of specialists in the United. found a ready outlet, bulk going at (Continued from last issue.) vessels, Its by-product coke ovens, Its States Department of Agriculture, and WAXER BOTTLE $5.00_to $5.75, some of the better offerings IV blast furnaces. Its open hearth and could be more generally used, in cookery, Now, what is the farmer, asking? on the fat cattle order on up Bessemer furnaces, Its rolling mills, its as human food. Without trying to catalogue the remedial to $6.25 or somewhat higher. tube mills and other manufacturing Whole, milk, as everyone knows, is_ measures that have been suggested The processes that are carried to the highest Hogs continued in strong demand, an indispensable food for the young, in his behalf, the principal proposals Handiesi degree of finished production compatible selling today strong to 25c higher. and even in the diet of the adult it is that bear directly on the improvement with the large trade It has Bulk of good hogs averaging 190 lbs. desirable. For cooking purposes skim First Aid of his distributing and marketing built up. All this Is generally conceded and down to $8.75, a few $8.85, bulk relations may be summarized as sYou can havc^ to be to the advantage of the consumer. good 200 to 280 lbs. butchers $8.35 follows:— Nor does the steel corporation in the house First: storage warehouses for cotton, to $8.65, heavy packers $6.50 to $6.75' Inconsiderately dump Its products on wool, and tobacco, and elevators good pigs $9.25. the market. On the contrary, it so All for grain, of sufficient capacity to meet acts that it is frequently a stabilizing .Prices, the maximum demand on them at the influence, as Is often the case with other Farmers' Meetings peak of the marketing period. The large organizations. It is master of farmer thinks that either private capital Its distribution as well as of Its production. This "chemical arc," the world's most powerful light, has just been completed 7 0 WOLD must furnish these facilities, or the January 27—Frankford. II. J. If prices are not satisfactory by Elmer A.. Sperry of Brooklyn. It give? a beam of 1,400,000,000 candlepower, state must erect and own the elevators Lockwood's home. the products are held back or production rotated In the form of a cone., According to Mr. Sperry -this light has and warehouses. January 28 Annual creamery is reduced or suspended. It is not been seen 30 nilles at sea and it will not only revolutionize lighthouse practice DRUG COMPANY Second: weighing and grading of meeting at Racine. compelled to send a year's work to the for navigation purposes, but will be of great service to aviation in making night agricultural products, and certification January 31 All day farmers market at one time and take whatever yflying safer. Established 1866 AUSTJHF thereof, to be done by impartial and meeting at Rac!ne. Talks by it can get under such circumstances. disinterested public Inspectors (this is Bridge and Main Sts. soils specialists. It has one selling policy and its own already accomplished to some extent SHEEP AND LAMB export department. Neither are the February 1 and 2 Southern cold weather, a higher market at Chicago, by the federal licensing of weighers Minnesota Horticultural meet­ grades and qualities of steel determined and a continued broad demand and graders), to eliminate underpaying, at the caprice of the buyer, nor does PRICES SOARING from the country for stockers and overcharging, and unfair grading, the latter hold the scales. In this single and to facilitate the utilization of the feeders were all bullish influences in Integration of the steel corporation stored products as the basis of credit. this week's cattle trade, resulting in is represented about 40 per cent of the Third: a certainty of credit sufficient strong to 25c higher prices on opening steel production of America. The rest Fat Lambs at $12.75, top to enable the marketing of products in mostly In the hands of a few large days. Market toppers were some In an orderly manner. companies. In ordinary, times the Ewes $7.00 Cattle yearling beeves which sold at $7.25, Fourth: the Department of Agriculture steel corporation, by example, stabilizes with several loads of shortfeds of a should collect, tabulate, summarize, Strong. all steel prices. If this is permissible and regularly and frequently pub-*" medium grade bringing $6.50 to $6.75 (It is even desirable, because stable lish and distribute to the farmers, full market on account of tke extremely and fair prices are essential to solid information from all the markets of By DON J. SLATER. and continued prosperity) why would the world, so that tliey shall be as well it be wrong for the farmers to utilize Tuesday's Glosing— Informed of their selling position as central agencies that would have similar Cattle 1700. Market strong to buyers now are of their buying position. Corn Chowder Is an Excellent Way in effects on agricultural products? CHATS WITH 25c higher than last week's close. Which to Utilize Skim Milk. Something like that Is what they are Calves 1800. Market steady. Bulk Fifth: freedom to Integrate the business 'YOUR aiming at. best lights to packers $8. Hogs milk Is very satisfactory, although it of agriculture by means of consolidated Some farmers favored by regional 10,000. Market strong to 25c iacks the valuable food constituent, GAS MAN selling agencies, co-ordinating compactness and contiguity, such as the higher, bulk $8.35 to $8.65, top butterfat. There is left, however, in and co-operating In such way as to cltrus-fruit-raisers of California, already $8.85, good pigs $9.25. Sheep put the farmer on an equal footing the skim milk, not ouly all of the have found a way legally to 6000. Market strong to* 25c or with the large buyers of his products, sugar, which amounts to about 4^ Many of the accidents merge and sell their products Integrally and with commercial relations In other parts in every 100 and most of the more higher, top lambs $12.75, and in accordance with seasonal attending the use of gasheating Industries. mineral substances, but also most of fed ewes up to $7.00. and local demand, thus Improving appliances reported When a business requires specialized the proteins. The last-named class of their position and rendering the consumer talent, it has to buy it. So will the substances are important, because, besides each winter are due to cheap, a reliable service of ensured South St. Paul, Jaffi. 24.—Scarcity farmers and perhaps the best way for supplying muscle and tissuebuilding quality, certain supply, and reasonable of available supplies and a fairly unfit tubing. This is sold, them to get It would be to utilize some material, "they also serve as and relatively steady prices. They Back of Every Meal— strong demand for sheep and lambs of the present machinery of the largest for the most part, by persons fuel for the body, as fats, sugars and have not found it necessary to resort established agencies dealing In have combined to bring about a soaring starches do. to any special privilege, or to claim whose intentions may be farm products. Of course, if he wishes, market on these classes. Best fed any exemption under the anti-trust Rich in Protein. honorable but who have no the farmer may go further and engage largely responsible for its success or failure, lambs reached $12.75 today, best natives legislation of the state or nation. Without Since the nutritive part of skim milk in flour-milling and other manufactures special knowledge of the requirements removing local control, they have $12.50^ and good and choice fat your kitchen range. consists very largely of protein, it is to is of food products. In my opinion, built up a very efficient marketing of good gas ewes sold from $6.00 to $7.00. be classed with such food materials as however, he would be wise to stop agency. The grain, cotton, and tobacco Thousands of prudent owners of eggs, meat, fish, poultry and cheese Generally light receipts, which short of that. Public interest may be tubing. farmers, and the producers of (though It Is more delicate than those promise to continue at. the local opposed to all great integrations' but, Cheap tubing is a false hides and wool, because of their numbers foods), rather than with such substances in justice, should they be forbidden to and the vastness of their regions, and dangerous economy. To as sugar, which serve.only as the farmer and permitted to others? and for other reasons, have found fuel. Two and a half quarts of skim AUSTIN MARKETS The corporate form of association cannot save a few pennies, the careless integration a more difficult task milk contain almost as much protein now be wholly adapted to his objects though there are now some thousands purchaser deliberately and yield about the same amount of Quoted by Peoples Service Store.— and conditions. The looser cooperative of farmer's co-operative elevators, forfeits the protection of all energy as ti pound of round of beef. form seems more generally Dairy Butter 32 no longer endure the old hit-or-miss method. warehouses, creameries, and other enterprises suitable. Therefore, he wishes to be Eggs .30 those safeguards in the use Whole, unskimmed milk has, of of one sort and another, with They fit their fuel to the weather, Potatoes, per bu $1.40 free, if he finds it desirable and feasible, many course a more pleasing taste to a turn-over of a billion dollers a year. of gas which have taken Beans, per lb ... .6% to resort to co-operation with his need to have a comfortable kitchen the year wmple, ami those who do not They are giving the farmers business Flour—Retail, 49 lb. sack *..2.10 fellows and neighbors, without running years of study and experiment no voiisUler Use additional cost will experience and training, and, so. far 'round and dependable results always. afoul of the law. To urge that ••lulu nlwtns prefer It. (li'hildren POULTRY as they go, they meet the need of to perfect. the farmers should have the same liberty but If that cannot be had It is better honest weighing and fair grading but Quoted by Smith-Wright Co.— You can burn Coal, Wood or Kerosene Oil singly Unfortunately, we cannot to consolidate and. co-ordinate to use clean fresh skim milk than they do not meet the requirements of Heavy Hens 15 or together* 'Four Cooking holes for Coal or Wood, their peculiar economic functions, control the sale of such tubing, dirty or questionable whole milk. A rationally adjusted marketing in any Light Hens 12 four for Kerosene Oil (two direct and two auxiliary). which other Industries In their fields quart of skim milk, even separator Stags 12 large and fundamental way. but we do warn you most Two separate Ovens. enjoy, is not, however, to concede that skim milk, contains about a third of Geese 13 The next step, which will be a pattern emphatically of the danger any business Integration should have a cupful of solid food, which is nearly Spring Chix 15 for other groups,' is now being Step in and learn what tKT§~wonderful presentday legislative sanction to exercise monopolistic all there'was in the whole milk, Roosters 08 attending its use. prepared by the grain-raisers through power. The American people Eggs 27 except the butterfat. In feeding skim range can do for you. the establishment of sales media which The safest rule to follow are as firmly opposed to Industrial as milk, however, it is necessary to make shall handle grain separately or collectively, HOG MARKET. is: Purchase your tubing to political autocracy, whether attempted as the individual farmer may up for the missing butterfat by giving Medium and Butchers $7 90 by rural or by urban Industry. Decker Bros. elect. It Is this step—the plan of the. the child plenty of butter to eat. from us and you will not only Packers $5.75 to$6.'90 For lack of united effort the farmers Committee of Seventeen—which has If it is absolutely impossible to get get the best tubing that it is Veal, Sheep and Lambs as a whole are still marketing their created so much opposition and is fresh milk, then condensed, powdered, crops by antiquated methods, or by no Fat Lambs .$6.50 to $8.50 possible to buy, but you will thought by some to be in conflict with or evaporated milk may be used. Reliable Hardware methods at all, but they are surrounded Veal .$3.50 to $7.00 the anti-trust laws. Though there Is secure the guarantee of service Contains Much Lime. by a business world that has been Sheep .... .$1.50 to $3.00 now before congress a measure designed Compared with most other foodsr that goes with it. modernized to the last minute and Is to clear up doubt on this point, Cattle milk contains much lime, but very little tirelessly striving for efficiency. This the grain-producers are not relying on Austin Gas Co. Fat Steers ... $4.50 to $5.50 iron. Spinach and other green efficiency Is due In large measure to any immunity from anti-trust legislation. Cows and Heifers...... $3.00 to $4.00 vegetables and egg yolks, on the other big business, to united business, to Integrated They desire, and they are entitled, Bulls.... $3.00 to $4.00 hand, are very rich in iron. This is business. The farmers now to co-ordinate their, efforts just Cahners and Cutters... $1.00 to $1.50 seek the benefits of such largeness, union TYLE as effectively as the large business Interests and integration. of the country have- done. In The American farmer is a modern of connection with the selling organizations the moderns in the use of labor saving the United States Grain Growers ERVICE machinery, and lie has made vaat Incorporated is drafting a scheme of In recent years in scientific Strides financing instrumentalities and auxiliary tillage and efficient farm management, agencies which are indispensable ATISFACTION but as a business In contact with other to the successful utilization of modern businesses aglrculture Is a "one horse business methods. shay'' In competition with high power It is essential that the farmers automobiles. The American farmer is should prbceed gradually with these the greatest and most Intractable of plans, and aim to avoid the error of individualists. While Industrial production scrapping the existing marketing machinery, KOBES CAFE and all phases of the huge commercial which has been so laboriously mechanism and its myriad accessories built up by long Experience, before have articulated and co-ordinated they have a tried and proved substitute themselves all the way from natural or supplementary mechanism. raw materials to retail sales, the They must be. careful not to become BAKERY GOODS business of agriculture has gone on In enmeshed In their own reforms and much the one man fashion of the backwoods lose the perspective of their place In IN AUTO TOPS of the first part of tb* nineteenth "the national system. They must guard if Excellence century, wlien the farmer was against fanatical devotion to new doctrines, and should seek articulation there is all the difference in the self sufficient and did not depend upon, with the general economic system world. Some are-built for show or care very much, what the great rather than Its reckless destruction as world was doing. The result Is that &ome are built for wear. We it relates to them. WATCH OUR WINDOWS the agricultural group Is almost as Even at Picnic Parties Milk It an to make tops that are built (Continued in our next issue.) much at a disadvantage In dealing with Important Item. make your car appear as graceful one reason why combinations of egg other economic groups as the jay farmer FOR NEW APPETIZERS —. yolks and milk and of vegetables and and dashing as possible, of the funny pages in the hands of A Mean'Trick. TABLE sleek urban confidence men, who sell milk should be given a child. "How was the seance?" ^4 FOR YOUR and yet to give the maximum of him acreage In Central Park or the When milk Is given to bibles the "A practical joker broke up the service. Chicago city hall. The leaders of the chill is usually taken from It, and It party. The medium told him to ask farmers thoroughly understand this, is safe to do this for all young children. R. H. GRAY any question he wanted to and the and they are Intelligently striving to When milk is used as a drink spirits would rap the answer." Integrate their Industry so that it will It should be sipped, not gulped down. HOTtmBAKED BEANS "I see." be on an equal footing with other businesses. "So he asked what was the population J. AUTO TOP AND AUTO PAINTING Newly born children can live longer of China. That would call for Monday, Wednesday% Saturday Ad an example of Integration, take than adults under water. about 400,000,000 raps." man to think that the steel Industry, In which the model A poor likes & ssyi PHONE 2147%'iM AUSTIN, MINN.ifSjffJ V- than he is the United States Steel Corporation, the rich have more troubles has. with Its_Iron mines!) its 'coal mines, its News advertising brings results. »-.• ~v-.v-.-r,