w&T*' rt 4 I' SC ,t va"-'«.a'1.'' NEWS, AUSTIN, MINN, Page Seven Monday, March 27,1922 Crops, Marketing and Raise More And Better LIVE AGRICULTURAL NEWS OF INTEREST AND VALUE TO MOWER CO. FARMERS. Farm Bureau Notes. Pure Bred Livestock WHAT ABOUT CROP Old Bees Now Dying ing, their dead bodies may.be found worry if the death candidates perish New Use for the Old Beer Bottles Farmers' Meetings on the bottom-board. on the floor. They have enough young: No Cause for Alarm bees in the hiyes to bring the colonies REDUCTION HERE "Beekeepers who had young queens March 29.—Closing Out Sale of out strong thru the winter." in their hives last fall," says Professor Beekeepers need not feel concern if Ho'rses, Cattle, Hogs, Chickens, Jager, "or who fed their bees to many bees leave the hive in cellars at Grain, Farm Machinery, etc. Mower County News Market On Geo. Wood farm, 31/s mi. stimulate them to broodraising during this time and perish on the floor. University Man Gives Place is the place to list anything due W. of Waltham, 4 mi. N. September and October, need not Francis Jager of University farm, you may nave to dispose of. and 1 mi. E. of Lansing. C. S. Views on Acreage mi A chief of the division of bee culture, Hartzell» owner. Auctioneer Situation. explains that many bees put in winter Auction! Coffman. Public April 1—Closing Out Sale of all quarters were old bees—that is, bees personal property consisting of that hatched before September 1. By ANDREW BOSS, Horses, Cattle, Wagons, Household These are now dying a natural Vice Director of the Minnesota Goods, etc., at Bradford death. According to their custom Experiment Station. Sale barn, East Mill St. Bruce Having decided to quit farming, I will sell the following property Bradford, owner. Tom O'Halloran, they fly out of the hive to die, or, fail­ The matter of reducing the crop at Public Auction at the farm known as the B. M. & R. Auctioneer. acreage and determining the crops to farm, just south of the old Decker farm, adjoining Austin April 3 Closing Out Sale of grow is in reality an individual matter. Spencer Jordan Horses, Cattle, Hogs, Farm corporation on the southeast, east of Dobbin Creek, on Most farmers will decide for Machinery, Automobile, etc. on MONDAY, APRIL 3, 1922 themselves which crop they can best B. M. & R. farm, south of old Decker farm. Rollin D. Luther, limit. Crops must always be fitted to Funeral Director. Commencing at 1:00 O'Clock P. M. owner. Col. Albert Hopfe, Auctioneer. the markets, the livestock to be fed, The Establishment of the following described property: and the labor supply available to Service. illiig 3 HEAD OF HORSES—1 Black Mare, 8 years old, weight 1300 grow the crops. USES OF ADVERSITY. lbs. 1 Bay Mare, 5 years old, weight 1100 lbs. 1 Bay Gelding, When a good combination has been weight 1300 lbs. One ot the settlers on a smaii rancn at canary, (Jal., was In the habit of HIDES 6c to 10c found for a certain farm it is best to "I don't suppose we will ever find a 6 HEAD OF CATTLE—4 Extra Good Grade Holsteins, all giving allowing his empty beer bottles to accumulate untiFhe got a large number on way to run a government without requiring equip for it and follow that combination Wanted at 25c hand, and then take them to the city and "cash in." But the country went dry Wool lb. Milk 2 Good Holstein Heifers, six months old. the people to pay taxes." of crops and livestock thru a Horsehides $3.50 and there was no more use for beer bottles, so he conceived the idea of building "Maybe it wouldn't be altogether period of years. 9 HEAD OF FALL SHOATS. this adobe house out of them. sirable," replied Senator Sorghum CHAS. DUBINSKY The emphasis may be placed on different FARM MACHINERY—1 Hayes Corn Planter, like-new 1 P. "Some of us politicians base our mosi 303 East Maple Street crops in different seasons but & O. 13-ineh Gang Plow 1 nearly new John Deere Wide- convincing speeches on our sympathy Dial—Office 6900—House 5325 Retired Farmer Versus City Dweller is the combination should not be radically with a tax-burdened constituency." Tire Wagon Truck 1 Steel Tire Truck 1 Good Wagon Box changed. Argued in Fayor of Cityite by "Mayme" 1 Combination Stock and Hay Rack 1 Acme Mower 1 Minnesota CLOSING OUT SALE The labor demands of the crops and Binder. 8 foot 1 Disk, 8 foot 1 International Corn livestock must be fitted to the labor Cultivator, like new 1 Buggy 1 Bob Sled 200 feet Steel Farmers' Boys Drive Automobiles supply of the farms. scrambled eggs. I wonder just what Barn Track 1 Engine, 10 horse power 1 Feed Grinder 1 and Raise as Much Where the labor supply is limited, the difference is between devilishness Ensilage Carrier 1 Rock Island Sulky Plow 1 Columbia The undersigned will sell at Public Auction to the highest Cain as City Lads. it is well to limit the acres of cultivated and devilment. I suppose there's a Wagon and Triple Box 1 Hay Rake 1 Walking Plow 1 bidder, without reserve, the following described crops because these take more fine point that I don't get. But this Smith & Johnson Harrow, 4 section 1 Large Drill, with property, at the hours of horse and man labor than do Mayme's Ire Aroused by Letter particular retired farmer seems to grass seed attachment 2 sets Harness, one set nearly new BRADFORD FEED BARN the grain and grass crops. from News Subscriber know. 1 Single Harness 2 sets Fly Nets 8 or 10 Good Horse Collars Defending Farmers. It is not so much a question of reducing Next Tuesday we ALL go to the East Mill Street, next door to Herzog & Voight, Cream Cans Wheel Barrow Chicjken Crates and the corn acreage as it is of polls to regsiter and when next year other things too numerous to mention. in the City of Austin suiting the acreage of each crop to things aren't so bad as they might Austin, Minn. March 23, 1922. SATURDAY, APRIL 1,1922 1918 FORD TOURING CAR the farm needs, the labor supply and have been, we will be glad that we Dear Jane:— the market probabilities. "seen our duty and done it" as the old Did you read the letter in a. recent TERMS—All sums under $10.00 cash Over that amount 6 to Those who live in corn territory lady said. issue of the Mower County News Commencing at 1:00 o'clock P. M. 8 months' time will be given on approved bankable notes, will do well to remember that even Love to all, signed "Once a Farmer"? It sounded bearing 8 per cent interest. Nothing to be removed until 9 HEAD OF HORSES tho corn has sold at 20 to 25 cents a —MAYME. to me if he needed some exercise in terms are complied with. bushel this year, hogs have paid them 1 Gray Mare, 6 years old, weight 1400 pounds. P. S.—A grocer on Main street yesterday the open air. He'll feel better when ROLLIN D. LUTHER, OWNER 40 to 70 cents a bushel for the corn 1 Pair Black Geldings, 6 and 7 years old, weight paid nineteen cents to the farmers he gets his garden planted. He's "seeing converted into pork. 2950 pounds. for eggs and sold them for twenty. things" now—d£rk spots in front COL. ALBERT HOPFE, Auctioneer. Those who have fed corn and corn Lean years! —M. 1 Sorrel Gelding, 7 years old, weight 1350 pounds. of the eyes. It's easy to diagnose his AUSTIN NATIONAL BANK, Clerk silage to cows and marketed the butterfat 1 Gray Mare, 9 years old, weight 1450 pounds. trouble. He's moved in from the farm Closing Out Sale have no complaint to make. The News—$2.50 a year—worth it. 1 Bay Mare, weight 1050 pounds. and played cards all winter in some If Minnesota is to take the place it 1 Pair Bay Geldings, weight 2100 pounds. tobacco laden room, and his liver does 4sk Your Soldier Boy How "Cooties" should take as a livestock raising 1 Black Mare, 6 years old, weight 1500 pounds. not function. Got Such a Hold. state the corn acreage should be increased I gather that, about the card playing He'll tell you that the battlefronts SEVERAL GOOD MILCH COWS rather than decreased, except of Europe were swarming with rats, from these phrases in the letter, On Account of renting the farm for a term of years and going into other Also several Wagons, Buggys, several sets Heavy and which carried the dangerous vermin in limited areas where corn production "I'll bet my last dollar," "give him all business, I will sell all my goods at Public Auction on the George Wood and caused our men misery. Don't let Light Harness Household Goods, possibly has over-reached the the odds," and "hands down." And Farm, 354 miles due west of Waltham, 1 mile east and 1 mile south of Oak rats bring disease into your home. in fact my complete outfit—everything goes. place it should hold in the permanent anybody can see the rest of it. Dale Farm, 4 miles north and 1 mile east of Lansing, on When you see the first one get RATSNAP. TERMS—9 months' time on approved notes at 8 per farm organization plans. That will finish them quick. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 1922 He says 'Mayme' seems to think cent interest. Three sizes, 35c, 65c, $1.25. Sold and that the farmers who have labored all BRUCE BRADFORD, OWNER guaranteed by Pooler Drug Co. LIVESTOCK PRICE SALE BEGINS AT 10:00 O'CLOCK SHARP FREE LUNCH AT NOON the long lean years and built up the Advertisement—March 17 HEAD OF HORSES—1 pair Grey Mares, 5 and 7 years old, weight 3900 country for the rich people, have ho lbs. well matched and mated, full sisters, and sound 1 pair Grey Geldings,. CHANGES SLIGHT business when they are old—to enjoy Auctioneer, TOM O'HALLORAN AUSTIN MARKETS 5 and 7 years old, weight 3100 lbs.r good^style and good hitching pabr„ a few years of peace and comfort before FARMERS & MERCHANTS BANK, Clerk sound 1 Iron Grey Gelding, 4 years this spring, full blood Percheron, they die." plenty of style and lots of bone, weight 1650, broke and sound 1 Iron Quoted by Peoples Service Store— Grey Mare, 4 years this spring, good style and sound, weight 1500 lbs. He must be a mind reader or have Dairy Butter 30 Cattle Prices at Closing 1 Black Percheron Mare, 5 years this spring, the low down blocky kind, full Eggs .20 a gift of imagination above the average, blood, weight 1700 and well broke, sound 1 Pair Black Percheron Mares, Steady to higher than Potatoes, per bu $1.25 for I never even insinuated such AIR FRICTION CARBURETORS 6 and 7 years old, weight 3680, full sisters, the handsome kind, good life^ Beans ~. 7 a thing. Peace and comfort! I don't well broke, quick on foot and sound 1 Bay Mare, 3 years this spring, Week Ago. Flour—retail, 49 lb.' sack. .$1.90-$2.40 weight 1400 and sound 1 Bay Gelding, 3 years this spring, weight 1200 and begrudge them a bit of that. That By the use of the sectional cut of our Air Friction carburetor POULTRY sound 1 Black Ma*e, 3 years this spring, weight 1200 1 Brown Gelding, 2 we illustrate the construction of an instrument should be the natural outcome of hard Quoted by Smith-Wright Co.— years this spring, plenty of bone, and the big kind 1 Bay Mare, 11 years that will successfully deliver to the cylinders of a motor South St. Paul, March 25.—Altho work and lean years. But my quarrel Heavy Hens 16 old, in foal, weight 1600 1 Black Mare, 9 years this spring, in foal, weight powerful gas from the lower grades of fuel and by so doing cattle prices fluctuated sharply during is with their holding public office. Light Hens 15 1400, sound 2 Coming Yearling Colts, 1 Mare and 1 Gelding. These horses is greatly reducing the cost of operating Geese 13 are all fat and the best of quality—in fact the best barn of horses in the the week under the influence of a motor. And "peace and comfort" and public Roosters 15 county. Conic and buy the good kind and take pleasure in driving the good irregular supplies, prices at the close office are as far apart as the poles. N. W. Specialty Sales Co. Leghorn Roosters 12 kind with plenty of snap and style. show little net change compared with Eggs 18 He also speaks of the hardships of 5 HEAD OF CATTLE—2 Extra Good Roan Shorthorn Milch Cows, to be a week ago. Ducks 16 the early days and especially of the fresh soon, and fat 2 Extra Good Coming Yearling Heifers, Roan Shorthorns With light supplies on opening Turkeys 25 A E N S W A N E 1 Coming 2-year-old White-Face Bull, full blood, the Cummings past two years as being experienced HOG MARKET. days beef steers sold 25 to 50c or herd. by the farmers alone. He says, "If STYLE 2 Medium and Butchers $9.50 HOGS—2 Chester White Brood Sows, to farrow in April 1 Duroc Jersey more higher, but more liberal supplies 5-YEAR GUARANTEE ON SPARK PLUG your city people had gone thru that!" Packers $6.50 to $8.50 Brood Sow, to farrow first of May. later days wiped out practically on Veal, Sheep and Lambs We went thru it right along with the CHICKENS—100 Head of Full-blood Buff Orpington Hens 6 Full-blood Buff all the gain. —4. of Fat lambs $8.00 to 12.00 farmer. Orpington Roosters. A good grade of beef steers are Veal .$3.50 to $6.00 Ask the groceryman, the man who MACHINERY, ETC.—1 McCormick Binder, 8 foot 1 McCormick Mower, & Sheep $3.50 to $6.50 quotable from $7.50 to $8.25, but very foot frame, 5 foot cut 1 Moline Hay Loader 1 C. B. & Q. Side Delivery worked at the railroad shops, and the Cattle few of these are coming. and Tedder Hay Rake 1 Osborne Disc, 8 foot 1 Drag, 4 section 1 Drag, S packing house employee. Three days Fat Steers $5.00 to $6.00 section 1 John Deere Gang Plow, 14 inch, just new 1 Moline Sulky. Plow* A fair showing of sales of medium a week was all the work that many Cows and Heifers $3.00 to $5.00 16 inch 2 Moline Sod Breakers 1 Sod Breaker Bottom for the Moline Sulky beef steers have been made up to Bulls $3.00 to $3.50 men could get and" with families on 3 Cultivators, 1 row, 6 shovel 1 John Deere Corn Planter and wire $7.50, with bulk of the common and Canners and cutters $1.50 to $2.00 1 Hoover Potato Planter, just new 1 .Hoover Potato Digger, just new 1 their hands, rent to pay and cash to medium grades from $6.25 to $7.25, Potato Cutter .1 Sulky Hay. Rake 1 Van Brunt Drill, grass seed attachment pay for food and fuel, "lean years" 1 Broadcast Seeder, 11 foot, with grass seed attachment 3 Good commonest ones around $6.00. HOMMEL ELECTRIC meant more to the city man than they Wagons 1 Quack Grass Machine 2 Extra Good Hay Racks 1 Fanr Butcher cows and heifers were relatively ever could to a farmer. Mill, just like new and all extra screens 2 nearly new Bob Sleds 1 Be CO. scarce in receipts and held Sleigh, 1 John Deere Manure Spreader 1 Top Buggy Wagon Boxes 1 He* says, "Money doesn't grow on practically steady. Better offerings 203 NORTH MAIN STREET Buckeye Incubator 1 Pump Jack Several Milk Cans 1 Heating Stove 1 bushes on the farm." Neither does it for Expert Electrician Table 1 Cream Separator 1 Feed Grinder 1 Extra Nice Set Driving Harness of young cows and heifers sold at the in the packing house, nor the grocery 5 Sets of the Best Work Harness on any farm 1 Extra Good Saddle close from $6.25 up to around $7.00, DIAL 26 7 9 store. It doesn't grow on bushes in a the cow boy kind 1 Feed Cooker Gas Pipes Line Shaft and Hangers Pure with bulk at $4.00 to $6.00. Grindstone Feed Boxes for ground feed Hog Troughs Hay Slings Extra dentist's office, nor a law office. Canners and cutters sold largely at Leather Collars and Halters A lot of other things I can't think of He also says, "You don't find farmer's just now. $2.50 to $3.50, bologna bulls $3.25 tof boys riding around in automobiles Paint GRAIN AND HAY—500 bushels Year Before Last Oats, 20 per cent Wheat $4.00. They All and raising Cain generally." 2000 bushels Last Year's Oats 500 bushels Barley 50 bushels 2-year-old Veal calves closed strong to 25c Well if you don't find them, its because Barley 500 bushels Ear Corn in crib 12 bushels Extra fancy Flaxseed higher compared with last Saturday, 75 bushels Potatoes Seed Corn. Smile they are too swift for you. For with best lights selling from $6.50 to Now Gentlemen, these horses are the best around and the Machinery is all they^ertainly have cars and do raise in first class shape, just as good as.-new, and the Harness is the best you $7.25, a few $7.50, seconds $3.50„ to If it flows from Cain along with the rest of their raising. will see if you will travel the county over. And I am quitting on account $4.50. brush more freely My statement will stand investigation. of other business. This is no Invoice Sale—everything is going to sell and Good and choice stockers and feeders positively no relat'ons or other bybidders standing around. Come and buy And goes farther After gating a closed strong to 25c higher for the some good stuff and have a good time anyway. Then he talks about city men being on the boards, Meat at tho week at $6.25 to $7.00, selected lots TERMS—November 1st, 1922, at 8 per cent. dishonest—in their returns to the assessor. on the fat cattle order up to $7.25 C. S. HARTZELL, Owner IDEAL He'd better prove that. a It's dollar 'gainst and $7.50. Common and medium a Does he think he can make the intelligent doughnut, AUCTIONEER COFFMAN WALTHAM STATE BANE, Clerk grades sold steady to strong at $4.50 readers of this paper believe That the paint is to $6.00. that honesty is a question of occupation. WE SERVE "Forman-Ford's. Hogs have moved up and down the Does he believe that farmers ONLjr THE price scale somewhat, closing weak to IN AUTO TOPS are all honest? Honesty is in the individual's 10c lower than last Saturday. Good BEST FQOD make-up. It doesn't belong light and butcher hogs at the close AT PRESENT there is all the difference in the to any class. Ask Us About $9.75 to $9.85, heavy packing sows DAY PRICES Why is he trying to draw such a \frorld. Some are built for show around $8.50, good pigs $9.75. FORMAN-FORD'S line between the town and the country some are built for wear. We Lambs closed steady to weak, better folks? Why does he say that "city No. 600 Bright Red make tops that are built to grades this week $14.50 to $15.25, folks feel better than the country STRICTLY make your car appear as graceful fat ewes strong, bulk light and medium BARN PAINT folks"? We are all just folks, honest weight ewes $8.00 to $9.00. and dashing as possible, HOME or dishonest as the case may be. and yet to give the maximum of ITS GOOD INDEED, He says, "Why not take the bull by Advertisements in The News reach BAKING ITS GUARANTEED. service. the horns and give a few facts about the consumer. R. H. GRAY some of these boiled shirt citizens Excellent Remedy for Constipation. who can give the retired farmer all DECKER BRdS, SaSSS?" IDEAL CAFE It would be hard to find a better the odds and beat him, hands down— remedy for constipation than Chamberlain's when it comes to devilishness, devilment, Tablets. They are easy to AUTO TOP AND AUTO PAINTING and crookedness." take and mild and gentle in effect. "The Store that Satisfies" ROY CHRISTEN SEN, when you have Give them a trial Talk about your mixed metaphors! sism PHONE 2147. AUSTIN, MINN., Prop. .. need. K.O. Wold Drug Company and i»he |JUjj the poker game and the tc an( Pooler Di%g Company. I i-i .'CC-v Advertisement—Monday— March retired farmer all mixed up like IB-#111. ffiS&gK ''A