*qmps3zamm:mmm w&zT: SI TWy-flH fcfymiK". x\ *l *.S' -WT:1 p'Fi-5 'A faatoanrtiBmi Page Six MOWER COUNTY NEWS, AUSTIN, MINK *., y,,, /-..- Monday, April 24, 1922. wt *"^xr 8 LIVE AGRICULTURAL NEWS OF INTEREST AND VALUE TO MOWER CO. FARMERS. Kaise More and Better 9 fgj Crops, Marketing- find Pure Bred Livestock Farm Bureau Notes. BETTER TONE IN trying to save enough in the country News items from all sections of this Fire, tornado automobile, casualty territory are wanted by The News. and workmen's compensation insurance. to pay what he has already spent in THE MRMER Send them to us by mail, tell us peronally J. E. Crippen, Austin Nat'l town. CATTLE TRADE or Dial 2650. bank bldg. Advertisement 27-8-c A farmer tried to go thru bankruptcy a short time ago and when his (Tergiverous Tim in the attorney told him that it would take Bud Bright's Brainstorms Improvement in Dressed Northfield News.) one hundred and fifty dollars to make A farmer is an individual who the trip he said he couldn't afford to Markets results in works thirteen hours a day for a liv-i and would have to farm another year. Price Upturn. ing if the undertaker gets him before P. S.—Cheer up. The snow is gone, We guarantee to fit you in he is fifty he don't even get that. the sun is shining, the hens are out Pertinent Pointers'for Practical Farmers MEN'S, WOMEN'S AND He works from five in the morning back of the bam scratching for a few By DON J. SLATER. CHILDREN'S until noon to pay his taxes and interest fresh worms and we'll have fresh Prepared by du Agricaltunl D)|Wlittnt Unlvenitr of MinnetoCa South St. Paul, April 22—Altho the he works all afternoon to pay the eggs for breakfast anyway. SHOES *g?r~eral supply of cattle at seven large hired man and after supper he goes ^markets showed a moderate increase, AUSTIN NURSERY out and works uuitl dark to try and MINNESOTA HAS FINEST SOW THISTLE ERADICATION ,fclte end of the Lenten season brought save enough to get his wife a new Having a good assortment of apple, COLLECTION OF INSECTS the kind with the right stuff AND CONTROL NECESSARY improvement in the demand and plum and shade trees. Small dress and hat, which she must have in them from material to A fafgher market for the dressed produet fruit, grape, currants, gooseberries style, with comfort and right every five years whether s^e needs it Washington Has Largest Display—Entomologists and strawberries, flowering shrubs -which resulted in a better market Cannot Live Without Leaves—Burn price thrown in for good or not. To Collect Every and a good many things not mentioned. measure. Plants After Cutting—Fall Shallow tone and a gain of mostly 25 cents Some folks farm because they like, Known Specie in State. Now is the time this stock should Plowing Recommended. fa prices of live cattle. A few small be planted. Come and see for yourself. LET US SHOE YOUR to and cannot sleep after four o'clock lata of good and choice beef steers An ounce of prevention is worth a Barring the government insect collections My prices .are much lower than FEET. in the morning, others because they outside nurseries. J. M. LINDSAY, in the week's trade from $8.25 to pound of cure in the light against the in Washington, the division of SoId —E t— have to, and nobody cares a cuss Proprietor. Dial 5993. sow thistle which is rapidly moving entomology of the department of agriculture, •$8.75, with load lots reaching $8.00 about the rest. Advertisement 33-2-p south, according to R. S. Dunham, University of Minnesota, has Shoe Repairing for the first time this year. Other The farmer wakes up in the morning agronomist at the Northwest School one of the finest collections in the load lots of a good beef grade sold at of Agriculture at Crookston. No half country. More than 75,000 mounted in springtime amid the beautiful The Road to Happiness. •$7.60 to $7.75, with the bulk of the THE MODERN WAY way measures will succeed. The battle specimens, representing many different notes of the song birds and in the fall You must keep well if you wish to steers at $6.50 to $7.25. beef must be relentless and continuous species, are to be found in the be happy. When constipated take one he wakes up as the other notes are Botcher she stock was scarce and if it is to be successful, he says. The cabinets of the division at University or two of Chamberlain's Tablets immediately due. after supper. They cause a sow thistle has as many new lives as Farm. under a relatively good demand In the old days he raised barley and gentle movement of the bowels. For Jensen-Phiffer there are plants from its root-stocks, Minnesota's collection of coleoptefa, •brought 25c or more higher prices. hops to add a little joy to life. Now sale by K. O. Wold and Pooler Drug ten having been found on a single running or beetles, leads the collection of Bulk sold at $4.50 to $6.50 at the close Co. Advertisement—April. in order to get a little joy he must root. Propagated both by seed most of the other state universities. Company with the better offering on up to $7.50 and underground root stocks, the sow This collection was founded by Dr. have home brew and this necessitates »c slightly higher. Mower County News Market thistle is in its weakest condition Otto Lugger, Minnesota's first state catching a grasshopper, driving it a It takes a suit for damages Place is the place to list anything Canners and cutters finished largely when preparing to blossom. It cannot entomologist and a scientist of national few miles and gathering up the hops. you may nave to dispose of. East of Court House live without leaves. to convince some tailors at $3.00 to $3.75, with only the fame. Dr. Lugger's original A farmer raises a big family to "Complete eradication and subsequent collection, which was purchased by worst old shells at $2.75 or less. BoLsgna that their suits don't Austin, Minn. help him farm when they are young control are necessary if a campaign the university, contained a very high bulls brought mostly $3.50 to fit. they can't help and when they grow is to be successful," 'Mr. Dunham proportion of the various species of W. R. EARL $4.00, a few choice heavies up to says. "The plant should not be beetles to be found in North America. up they go to town to drive a street $4.25. allowed to produce seed, and only crop Many of these were collected by Dr. car or work in a bank. FUNERAL DIRECTOR The undertone to the trade in veal seed free from this weed should be Lugger in his travels over the continent. Business Residence There are two kinds of farmers: planted. The sow thistle should be calves was strong with gains of 25 to Many others were obtained by Phone 2512 Phpne 2213 Check book farmers and grass root or cut as near to blossoming time as exchanging with individuals and institutions. AUSTIN, MINN. IN AUTO TOPS T&c for the week. The market was dirt farmers. can be done without danger of allowing uneven at the close with best lights The former have perfume on their some plants to mature seed. Since More than 50 per cent of the insects selling from $6.25 to $7.00, a few up there is all the difference in the the blossoms may mature seed after handkerchiefs, and the latter on their in the University Farm collection are -v to $7.50, seconds from $3.00 to $5.00. they are cut at this stage, all plants world. Some are built for show indigenous, and many of them are injurious overalls. DONOVAN & GOSLEE Good and choice stockers and feeders should be burned immediately after or beneficial forms found in some are built for wear. We One makes his money in town and Funeral Directors were scarce and sold around 25c cutting. Minnesota. The exotic collection contains spends it in the country—the other is make tops that are built to and Embalmers "To kill its root stock the sow many insects from South America fiigher than at last week's close at Day Calls—Phone 2188 make your car appear as graceful thistle must be prevented from producing and Africa, some of them of formidable 3ff.50 to $7.25. Night Calls and dashing as possible, leaves. The black fallow, siiie and appearance. Tlfe Common and medium grades moved T. W. Donovan—5914 AUSTIN MARKETS which consists of both plowing and Philippine islands have also contributed and yet to give the maximum of at steady to strong prices. Bulk of 4* .. H. A. Goslee—6637 1 sufficient cultivation to keep leaves to the Minnesota museum. It is service. Quoted by Peoples Service Store— Motor and Carriage Service stockers and feeders sold from $5.50 from forming, is recommended by expected that a year hence there will Dairy ^Butter 32 to §6.50, commonest kinds as low as Mr. Dunham. Plowing shallow in the be material additions not only from R. H. GRAY Eggs 22 fall or disking will aid seeds to germinate this state, but from Polynesia, which 34.25. Potatoes, per bu $1.25 HOMMEL ELECTRIC and be killed by the frost. The will be visited next winter by Prof. F. Receipts of hogs this week at 29,S0O Beans 9 following spring the land should be L. Washburn, and from other parts of CO. Flour—retail, 49 lb. sack. .$1.75-$2.25 were about 8,000 short of last AUTO TOP AND AUTO PAINTING plowed at the* normal depth and a the globe. POULTRY Week and with an increase in shipping black fallow maintained by cultivation Dr. H. H. Knight, a nationally 203 NORTH MAIN STREET Quoted by Smith-Wright Co.— demand, prices show a net gain for Expert Electrician until freeze-up." known expert on certain groups of insects PHONE 2147. AUSTIN, MINN. Heavy Hens 16 about 25c for the week. Better Plowing should be done thoroughly and a taxonomist of wide reputation, Light Hens 12 DIAL 2 6 7 9 and all weeds should be covered. Care has charge of the University /•grades sold at the close mostly from Geese ...12 should be taken in cultivation that Farm collection. Dr. Knight and W. $10.00 to $10.30, top $10.35, heavy Roosters 15 roots are not dragged over the fields. E. Hoffman added between 15,000 and Leghorn Roosters 12 packing sows $8.75 to $9.50, good pigs A rotation including a cultivated crop, 20,000 insects to the collection in 1921, Eggs .. 21 .311.00. a grass or legume crop or & grain and expect to add thousands more the Ducks 16 lExtremely light receipts of sheep crop is advised after the weed is eradicated. coming summer. Turkeys 25 and lambs are coming and lambs are Corn is an excellent cultivated "What we are trying to do," says HOG MARKET* crop and sweet clover heads the closing strong to 25c higher. Dr. Knight, "is to place representatives Medium and Butchers $9.75 list of legumes. Winter rye is one of all Minnesota insect species Best wooled offerings this week $14 Packers $8.75 of the best weed control crops that in our collection here at the farm. It $14.50. Best 100 to around 140potmd Veal, Sheep and Lambs can be grown because it ripens: before is a big task, but we are making progress. wooled ewes $9.50, 150 to 190pound Fat lambs $8.00 to 11.00 the thistle blossoms. Our aim is not to build up a wooled ewes from $7.00 to $8, Veal $3.50 to $6.00 big collection just for the sake of Sheep $3.50 to $6.50 •culls $4.00 to $5.00 mostly, and canmers ANTS TROUBLESOME PESTS making it big. Our work has r, practical, Cattle HflTfftftmwmM.ui. as low as $2.00. beneficial side which the ordinary Fat Steers $5.00 to $6.00 observer perhaps overlooks. By Open These Insects Seek Food In Cows and Heifers $3.00 to $5.00 building up a collection, the means at Places- -Avoid Access. Bulls $3.00 to $3.50 our hand for identifying and fighting Canners and cutters $1.50 to $2.00 various insect pests are also being The ant may be admired for its industry built up and strengthened. It is a big and shrewdness if it makes its field, and it i"s a matter for congratulation home and founds a colony in the outof-way that in this field Minnesota has places. But when it invades Mr. fep laid its foundations so wide and deep. the apartmerits of the fastidious "The series, which will contain from housewife it invites condemnation 25 to 30 cases when complete, will be rather than admiration and plays used by students in the college of by F. L. L1EBENSTEIN, with death. agriculture as a library. Such a library Ants were troublesome in many County Agent, Mower Co. is absolutely necessary for the Minnesota homes last year, and probably proper identification of insects. It is will be again" this year unless impossible for any entomologist to EARLY PASTURING measures are taken early to suppress remember all insects and be able to _XOT PROFITABLE. them. The surest way to keep a identify them. At best he can know house free from ants is to leave no This is the time of the year when only certain groups and must have food lying about on shelves or in open -iiaany of us carelessly cause ourselves specimens to tell othters." places where they can reach it. Ants much worry later in the season. go where they find food, and if the The grass appears fine and green BEST SHORT COURSE SEASON food supplies of a household are kept LIGHT-SIX And we are tempted to turn our cattle in ant proof metal containers or in out while we have plenty of good hay ice boxes, and if all food that may Fivm-pattengmr, 40-hor fpower Boys' and Girls' Club Work Now Coming and ensilage left over. This is a sad happen to be scattered by children or 112-inch uA«e/6a*e Into Its Own. Cord Urea Standard Equipment others is cleaned up promptly the ant mistake for the grass is young, tender nuisance will be materially lessened. and small and a great deal is repaired T- According to A. Erickson of University Cake, bread, sugar, meat or like substances to feed an animal. Farm, state leader "f boys' are especially attractive to THE and girls' club work, this has been the uine leather upholstered cushions, nine Studebaker LIGHT-SIX will As a result they keep a large acreage ants and should be kept from them. best season for junior short courses inches deep, provide unusual comfort. appeal to every buyer who wants eaten down too closely so that it Farmers Bulletin No, 740, United his department has ever known. Short States Department of Agriculture, discusses a low-priced car that will be satisfactory feas no chance to grow. Later on there Its 40-horsepower motor delivers courses or university schools for Minnesota house ants and kinds and methods in performance, appearance, comfort t-s less moisture and it grows so slow ample power for the hard pull. And boys and girls have already of control. Copies may be obtained and endurance. been held at University Farm, and tiiat we have a scarcity of shmmer vibration is practically eliminated by free from the Division of Publications, vs vtarVAa at the substations at Crookston and pasture and decrease in milk flow or a Studebaker's method of machining the And'in addition to its recognized superiority United States Department of Morris. What is known as the county loss of flesh on our cattle. crankshaft and connecting rods. Agriculture, Washington, D. C. in these essentials, the LIGHTSIX short course is now coming into its Spend &\\ Njour \\rtvc A mixture composed of granulated If we allowed the grass to grow for carries refinements found only on The intrinsic value of the LIGHT-SIX own. Such a course was recently sugar, water, and tartaric acid (crystallized) more expensive cars. a few weeks or a month to give it a given at Long Prairie for the young is unmatched at anywhere near the is generally effective in start it would make a- wonderful difference club members of Todd county. The price because Studebaker does not The LIGHT-SIX is equipped with cowl ooV vsofV cleaning out ants. This mixture must enrollment was 170. A similar course in the number of cattle one skimp on materials or workmanship be prepared with great care and safeguarded ventilator operated from the instrument held at Milaca for.Mille Lacs county Ywimqf .acre will feed during the summer. but uses the best. It is built complete while it is being used. board cowl parking lights inside club members attracted 125 juniors. Tame pastures should not be pastared in the most modern and complete and outside door handles and large Other courses for Watonwan, Steele, Gardeners agree that thorough preparation automobile plant in the world, making before May 15 as a rule. rectangular plate-glass window in rear Kanabec and St. Louis counjties will and working of the garden It is a hard problem to keep cattle possible its low price of $1045, f. o. b. be well attended. The state leader estimates curtain. A thief-proof transmission Better get to work—take the «first job plot before any seeds are planted will up in production on dry feed after that 1500 boys and girls will factory. lock, which reduces the of insurance you can get. Tate do as much to produce good garden have attended short courses before they have once had a taste of spring to LIGHT-SIX owners 15 to 20 stock as any one thin.?. Studebaker has been building quality GOOD THINGS TO summer has set in. These boys and grass, therefore we should not let per cent, and cord tires are also standard vehicles arid selling them at fair prices girls are not only trained in the essentials Spring housecleaning that includes them out on grass at all until the EAT FOR ANIMALSHAY, equipment. for nearly three-quarters of a century of club work, but carry the information the electric light globes will increase .grass has a good start. and is the largest builder of six-cylinder acquired 'from the university Long, semi-elliptic springs (50-inch in STRAW, MILL FEED their efficiency as much as 16 per cent, It makes more work now to feed inside schools back to thousands of cars in the world. ^rear 36-inch in front) and gen­ according to one authority. soft,^ FULL 'O PEP but we have more time now and other boys and girls on Minnesota farms. will be well repaid later on for our efforts The furnishings of .the house should Tomring, $1045 3-Pas$enger Roadster, $1045 Coupe-Roadster, $1375 POULTRY FEEDS now. contribute either to the service or enjoyment S Sedan, $1750. AU pricef f. o. b. factory. Flies swatted now mean millions Beekeepers' Supplies of the occupants. Open less next summer. MARTIN & SCHROEDER '"Found Seven Rats Dead in Bin Next spaces suggest restfulness. We don't meet prices—we make them Morning." In a test of 790 ears of corn in an Plum pockets, the disease which "Robert Woodruff says: "My premises HAKE &~G0SS Iowa^ county recently, 21 per cent of GRAND MEADOW causes -bloating, and bladder-like formations AUSTIN were infested with rats, I tried aie ears were found to be dead or too of the plum, can be controlled RAT-SNAP on friend's recommendation. weak to grow, because of dry rot by spraying plum trees with lime FEED & SEED STORE I Next morning found seven dead mold. College of -agriculture men say rats in bin, two near feed box, three sulphur. that where mold was prevalent in stall. Found large number since. in S E A E E A fields last year it will pay to test^he I S IS No smell from dead rats—RAT-SNAP Looking over the tile drain outlets Austin, Minn. ,drys them up. Best thing I have ever corn in a ragdoll tester, as the cost and cleaning out those that need it is used." Three sizes, 35c, 65c, $1.25. Is small and considerable replanting a good spring job~ that may save Sold and guaranteed by Pooler Drug might be saved. A, Vi money later. Co. Advertisement—April r'tkjh-r f. ••tei&u •..:'*:WTi NMiMtfM