i'1l$y *ytw^jgwp»* ~1 V.y j^!aappM{«ri 1 W1^7 f- ys, it yr? MOWER COUNTY NEWS, AUSTIN, MINN. Page Six Thursday, April 6, 1922. LIVE AGRICULTURAL NEWS OF INTEREST AND VALUE TO MOWER CO. FARMERS. Raise More And Better ®8|® Crops, Marketing and Pure Bred Livestock Farm Bureau Notes. HOGS WORKING UP THREE FROM HERE Standard Type Birds TO HIGHER BASIS GRADUATE AT "U" Best for Breeding AIR FRICTION CARBURETORS In selecting breeding stock for egg and SPARK PLUGS production choose birds that show Fairly Healthy Demand Two Christgau Boys Included signs of being good layers, as indicated in University from Packers and by trap-nest records and those DO REDUCE THE COST OF having egg-laying characteristics, Shippers. Farm Class. such as deep bodies with good width OPERATING A GAS MOTOR between the pelvic and keel bones. Pertinent Pointers'for Practical Farmers Three Seniors in tKfe school of agriculture By DON J. SLATER. Select birds as near standard type fJAT TAKING FIRST THE FUEL: of the University of Minnesota as possible. For breeding, yearling rtirtaes "Tuesday's Closing— by Prepared the Agricultural Dtpftitment, University of Minnesota Cattle 2,200. Market mostly from Mower county were graduated or two-year-old hens are preferred. Understanding that a lower :Ft?ady, spots strong' to 25c high•tr:. at commencement exercises in the Hatching eggs should not be kept grade of petroleum fuel is the Calves 2,300. Mostly strong UAIKT EXPERT OUTLINES RADIO SYSTEM TO University Farm auditorium Wednesday more than ten days. -to slightly higher, best lights $7 fuel of the future, the particles afternoon, March 29. They are MILK PROBLEM WITH CALVES N. E. Chapman, poultry specialist to $7.50. Hogs 7,500. Market 10c INSTRUCT 12.000 U. OF M. STYLE 2 of which have a greater tend- to 25c higher, bulk better grades Chester A. Chritgau, Dexter Theodore at University Farm, now gives the FARM STUDENTS ^9.75 to $10.25, top $10.35, packing H. Christgau, Austin, and Arnold ency to adhere to each other, you have observed that Dr. C. H. Eckles of the Minnesota foregoing advice, advocates dry, sows $8.50 to $9.00, odd stags Farm, Suggests Good Start With M. Johnson, Austin. warm, well ventilated quarters for the Air-Friction Carburetor, thru its fuel distributor, or ,|7.00, good pigs $10.35 to $10.50. D. O. Mayne, Principal at University Milk—Change to Grain Early. A total of 137 seniors were graduated the flock with plenty of scratching Sheep 400. Market strong. Farm, is Planning Details—Market spray nozzle, makes a positive mixture of fuel and air, with the 1922 class, making a total room and range as soon as the weather Reports Now Sent Out introducing it at RIGHT ANGLES to the passing air, all Owners of dairy herds whose product South St. Paul, April 4.—With general of about 2,850 young men and permits. Daily. is marketed in the form of whole of which is warm, while the jet nozzle type of carburetor receipts of hogs running lighter women who have received diplomas To insure laying the breeders should milk have a serious problem on hand jets the fuel thru a small opening, and parallel than a week ago and a fairly healthy from the institution, a large per cent A major portion of the 12,000 students in raising the necessary number of be kept in good condition by proper with the air. This latter method would serve with demand locally on the part of packers who have attended the school of calves to maintain their herds, says of whom have gone back to farms as feeding. A laying ration should consist high-grade fuel of the past, but is not suited to the lowgrade and shippers and bullish news from agriculture of the University of Minnesota Dr. C. H. Eckles, chief of the dairy farmers or farm homemakers. of from ten to fifteen per cent fuel of today. will be enabled to continue division of the University of Minnesota. other centers, the hog market has advanced meat scraps. their education when a radio system The milk of 45 out of every 100 this week, being 10c to 25c Some Dandy Local Territory Open to Agents now being planned by D. D. Mayne, cows kept in the United States is sold Hollow Tile Makes higher today. Advertisements in The News reach principal at University Farm, is completed. as whole milk, he says. If no calves N. W. SPECIALTY SALES CO. Bulk of desirable grades cashed Dry Floor for Pigs the consumer. According to the plans, alumni are raised and the farmer depends upon from $9.75 to $10.25, top $10.35. and former students will secure receiving buying what he needs there is constant 4. Packing sows sold from $8.50 to $9, outfits and "listen in" every danger of disease and his herd AUSTIN MARKETS The agricultural engineering division AT PIERCE BATTERY COMPANY day to the assembly exercises at University seldom improves from year to year. odd stags out around $7.00. Good at University Farm has been receiving Some milk must be used in raising Farm. The radio outfit which Quoted by Peoples Service Store— $»gs cashed from $10.35 to $10.50. inquiries concerning the contraction calves under these conditions, as there is being installed at the cost of $1,500 Dairy Butter Fundamental conditions in the cattle of hog houses, especially as is no substitute for it. will be connected with the assembly Eggs market remained unchanged. "Experiments in progress at the Potatoes, per bu $1. room and a mouthpiece placed near to the material to use for floors. Dressed beef trade continues very dull Beans the speaker's stand so that every Minnesota Experiment Station," says "The hog house floor is very important Flour—retail, 49 lb. sack. $1.75-$2. IN AUTO TOPS speaker addressing students will be Dr. Eckles, "show that the best plan and stocker and feeder demand from if the building is to be permanent POULTRY heard over the entire state. Mr. so far worked out is to give the calves the country fails to show much expansion, and satisfactory," says Prof. Quoted by Smith-Wright Co.— Mayne believes that former students a good start with milk and then get causing cattle prices to show there is all the difference in the H. B. White of the division. "Hogs them on grain and hay as soon as possible. Heavy Hens and alumni will be quick to install instruments little change on opening days of the world. Some are built for show desire a clean, warm, di'y and well Light Hens The plan, suggested is to feed at their home which will week spite of much lighter supplies. Geese enable them to hear the assemblies at bedded nest and this requires care in some are built for wear. We Roosters their Alma Mater. These outfits will the choice and placing of the materials make tops that are built to Leghorn Roosters Practically no good choice beef or cost about $25, Mr. Mayne estimates. for the floor. make your car appear as graceful Eggs steers are coming and while best medium Assemblies come at a very convenient "Concrete makes a sanitary floor, Ducks and dashing as possible, time for the former students to grade shortfeds are quotable up Turkeys 5 but it is often cold and damp and not and yet to give the maximum of "attend," Mr. Mayne declares. HOG MARKET. to $7.50, no load lots reached this desirable for small pigs. A removable "At the present time," he says, "market service. Medium and Packers $9.' price, best selling at $7.15 and $7.25, floor of wood for the nest to be reports are sent out every noon Packers $8/ R. H. GRAY with the bulk on down to $6.00. used at farrowing time is a great improvement. from the University station. Our former Veal, Sheep and Lambs Seasonal scarcity held butcher cows students would be interested in Cork brick or creosoted Fat lambs $S.00 to 12.( getting these. Assemblies come immediately Veal $3.50 to $6.E and heifers on a strong to slightly blocks are also used for the floor of after, and it would be very Sheep $3.50 to $8.1 higher basis. Bulk sold at $4 to $6, the nest. AUTO TOP AND AUTO PAINTING convenient for the students to wait for Cattle •with better offerings of light and "Hollow building tile laid on well Fat Steers $5.00 to $6.( these also." liandyweight young cows and heifers drained gravel covered with about Cows and Heifers $3.00 to $5.( PHONE 2147. AUSTIN, MINN. The branch schools at Crookston cn up to $7.00 or higher. one inch of sand and with the joints Bulls $3.00 to $3.c and Morris will also install these outfits Canners and cutters $1.50to$2.( Canners and cutters ranged from between the tile filled with sand so that the three schools wiil keep in close touch with each other, Mr. makts a dry, warm floor. $2.50 to $3.50, mostly $2.75 and up. '/I Mayne predicts. The new outfit will "In some cases an inch of concrete Bologna bulls sold from $3.25 to $4.00 enable school students to keep in touch bulk $3.50 to $3.75. Best light veals over the tile is preferred, as it makes with the entire world. Musical concerts .sold from $7.00 to $7.50, seconds $3.50 a more easily cleaned surface, altho in Germany and speeches from Dr. C. H. E£&les, Chief of the Dairy not so dry." tfco $5.00. other parts of the world will be Division, University of Minnesota. Good and choice stockers and feedel's brought directly to the students, according RS5HS milk in the usual way to the age of on the fat cattle order brought to Mr. Mayne. about 50 days, then if the calf is .$6.75 to $7.25, with the bulk of medium strong and vigorous gradually reduce RANK to good kinds $5.25 to $6.50, and MINNESOTA POTATOES the amount until none is fed after the commonest kinds dull and slow sale calf is 60 or 65 days old. FIRST IN GRADE AND YIELD "Alfalfa or clover hay and a grain down to $4.50 or less. mixture of corn meal four parts, bran Sheep and lamb market is firm, best Grand Rapids Experiment Station one part and oilmeal one part is kept native lambs around $15.00, desirable Shows Excellent Results Against before the calves. They will begin M, ewes $8.50 to $9.50, yearling ewes up Nine Contesting States—Indicates eating grain and hay when about a by F. L. LIEBENSTEIN, to $10.50. Seed Superiority. month old and will gradually increase County Agent, Mower Co. the amount until at the time the milk Irish Cobbler potatoes from the feeding ceases at 60 to 65 days of age North Central Experiment Station at IN ORCHARD AND they are able to get along very nicely The following from a letter to the Grand Rapids, Minn., under test by without milk. county agent, F. L. Liebenstein, from University of Missouri station men "Calves handled in this manner will Dr. Cotton of the Livestock Sanitary GARDEN against 22 other strains representing be somewhat checked in growth for a Board, sounds a warning* note to livestock stock from nine states, Michigan, short time after the milk is taken men: Maryland, New York, Wisconsin, Minnesota, from the ration," he says, "but will !i Maine, Nebraska, Colorado ''Foot and mouth disease has been be in as good condition as the calf and Virginia and also the dominion of raised on skimmilk by the time they very prevalent in Europe since the By LE ROY CADY, Ontario, stood first in total yield and are six months of age. The total milk war, and at the present time there is first in the number of bushels in U. S. Assistant Horticulturist, University used need not exceed 400 pounds. The a very serious outbreak in England No. 1 grade and contained the smallest grain mixture mentioned serves the Farm, St. Paul. and Scotland. Since January 1, 1922, number of pounds of culls per acre purpose just as well as more expensive The Beta, Alpha and Hungarian varieties this disease has appeared in 966 herds though the yield was considerably commercial calf meals." of grapes need no winter protection in Great Britain, requiring the slaughter larger. The result of the test is reported of 43,735 animals. altho they often fruit better if COW TESTING WORK in Bulletin No. 191, entitled "Seed some protection is given over winter. The United States and Canadian officials orld's Lowest Priced SPELLS DOOM OF THE Studies With Irish Potatoes." just issued Garden work may begin in earnest are maintaining a strict embargo TheW by the University of Missouri. BOARDER TYPE now if the frost is out and the ground against importation of animals In discussing the results Prof. J. T. avartns up. Spinach, lettuce, radish, and exposed materials from the infected Rosa of the Missouri station, says th9 Cow testing association work has FULLY EQUIPPED onions, peas, parsnips and other hardy countries and are taking every work at that station indicates the general spelled the doom of many cows of the vegetable seed may be sown as soon superiority of the northern grown possible precaution to prevent the introduction boarder type. By the same token the seed. "It is conclusively shown," he as one can work the soil easily. of the disease. However, work has been a life saver for cows says, "that spring home-grown potatoes New lawns may be seeded as soon there is always the danger of its being whose productive points were not appreciated are much inferior to northern potatoes Quality Sedan as the ground can be put in shape. brought into our country thru by their owners. for production of the Missouri They should be made up of 80 per E. A. Hanson of University Farm, other channels. spring crop, since the total yield is who is in charge of cow testing associations «ent blue grass and about 10 per cent For instance, it seems possible for less and the percentage of culls is in Minnesota, relates that each of white clover and red top. the virus of the disease to be carried higher in the former. On the other 875 when P. M. Christiansen of Farmington, hand, fall home-grown potatoes of Set out hard wood cuttings as soon long distances in the clothing of other joined his local association he the early varieties closely approach $ as the ground is warmed up and belongings of immigrant farm laborers, was about to sell one of his cows to northern grown seed in quality and workable. or hay and straw used as packing f. b. the butcher because she was in good productiveness. o. An iris show will be held in St. Paul for crockery and other goods. flesh and prices of beef were high. On "It may be worth while for the Missouri Flint, Mich. second thought Mr. Christiansen decided nearly in June this year and a peony The hay and straw should be immediately grower to plant a small acreage to give her a chance for her life ahow in Minneapolis. Plan to exhibit burned to prevent its reaching of fall crop potatoes especially for use by testing her. She made good from Prices Subject to Change Without Notice and attend these shows. as seed for the following year's crop. susceptible animals. the start and completed the year's Where extreme earliness of maturity Prune fall blooming shrubs in the The clothing of such laborers The Sensation of the Shows Your Family*s Private Car work with 367 pounds of butterfat to is desired, however, northern grown spring and spring blooming shrubs should be thoroly fumigated before her credit. Another surprise for the seed probably will continue to give This beautiful, four-door sedan offers the privacy after they have flowered. these men are allowed to care for susceptible dairyman was when tl\e cow he had This car, with high grade Fishec Body on the best results." and luxury of a limousine at less than the cost celebrated New Superior Model Chevrolet Chassis, Make sowings of peas, radish, lettuce always considered his best produced animals. of most open cars. is the most sensational value ever offered only 167 pounds of fat in a year. and spinach at intervals of ten All livestock under care of men who in motoring. All that has kept the majority of motorists from Stable manure has a trinity o£ values Last fall, when prices were declining, days or two weeks up to the middle of have recently arrived from foreign owning closed cars has been the high prices Its artistic lines, harmonious two color finish, in plant food, humus and beneficial Mr. Christiansen's grade Hoisteins, June. countries should be watched carefully heretofore charged for this type of automobile. refined appointments and mechanical efficiency bacteria. Changing conditions all having cow testing association The closed car defies snow, raip and cold, yet is Do not set a new strawberry bed for any symptoms of sore mouths and make it the most desirable car for all who seek may make it difficult or impossible to records, were sold at public auction cool anr clean in summer. At all times it has year't ound service combined with small investment feet. near the old one if there are any obtain, but Minnesota agricultural college at $75 to $195 each. Cows of more style and quality than an open car. It is and economical operation. It is very essential that all who are strawberry weevils or other insects in gardeners say the wise gardener similar grade and appearance but the ideal family car. Illustrations and description convey but a poor will never willingly do without it. One without records wero selling at auctions interested directly or indirectly in our the old one. No matter what priced car you own or are considering, idea of this 1922 leader in values and desirability. ton or one two-horse load is not too in the community at the same livestock industry will be on the alert Has the orchard been sprayed? It's it will pay you to inspect this pacemaker Yoi,t must see it to realize what wonderful buy much for a garden 30 by 60, but a time for $60 to $100 each. in values. -pretty safe to say that clean fruit can for the first appearance of the disease it is at $375, F. O. B. Flint. Mich. much smaller amount will give good not be raised in Minnesota without should we be so unfortunate as to results if supplemented by composts Seed corn isn't the only seed worth ERDMAN GARAGE CO. ihaving the trees sprayed. have another outbreak in this country. of leaves, lawn clippings and the like, testing. Oats, clover, and other important Plants of any sort make fine Easter by green manures and commercial fertilizers. crop seeds should be tested, Therefore veterinarians, county agents, gifts. Flowering bulbs of one's own too. Austin, Minnesota 508-510 North Main Street stockmen and others who come raising have an individuality that is "I Never Knew You Could Keep Rats Women who use pressure cookers often appreciated. in contact with livestock should be on Out of a Butcher Shop." say they are good investments. Although What Ralph Watkins says: "Figr.red the lookout for any sign of foot and the initial cost may seem high, rats around store had enough to mouth disease and report promptly the housewife finds that the pressure feed on wouldn't touch anything suspicious. Someone has remarked that there all suspicious cases coming under has many uses and saves enough time Heard about RAT-SNAP, 7 ta about as much danger in getting their observaton. and fuel to pay for itself in a short gave it a trial. Results were wonderful. too much milk in the diet as there is Cattle, hogs, sheep or goats with time. Cleaned all rats out in ten days. of breathing too much pure air. Dogs about store night and day never sore mouths or feet should be regarded Now is the time to fill and keep refilling Mower County News Market touch RAT-SNAP." Three sizes, 35c, as suspicious and reported promptly the incubators and get the crop 65c, $1.25. Sold and guaranteed by Place is the place to list anything to this office. Pooler Drug Co. Advertisement-Apr. of chicks started early. you may nave to dispose of. •'I' kc ...... v..