v-' ••. --..4. *.•• -,T •'.• •:••..• ••-.•' 1 MOWER COUNTY NEWS, AUSTIN, MINN. Page Six Monday, May 1, 1922. CO. FARMERS, fgalse Ivlore and Better CJ|g fUT Crops, Marketing and Pure Bred Livestock LifEt Farm Bureau Notes. CATTLE MARKET WOULD PROTECT close from $9.80 to $10.10, packing SHIP BY TRUCK sows $8.75 to $9.50, good pigs this HOLDS UP WELL week $11.00 to $11.35. STOCK SHIPPERS Better kinds of sheep and lambs I We go by Truck with your Household Goods anywhere, closed strong and about -25 to 50c anytime and at reasonable rates I higher for the week, top wooled Prices Strong to Slightly GARNET ROUGH Commission Merchants lambs" $8.00 to around $11.00. Higher Under Increased Best wooled ewes this week $9.00 in S Must Make Separate to $9.50, extreme heavies $7.00 or Supply. DIAL 6749 Deposits. silghtly below. Culls and common ewes mostly $3.00 to $5.00. «$» «$» pertinent Pointers for Practical Farmers By DON J. SLATER. livestock commission merchants South St. Paul, April 29.—-Reports •operating in Minnesota are required 1 AUSTIN MARKETS, PtopaMd by dM Africaltural DtputBM&t, Uaivmity of Minncaott of the dressed meat trade for beef Bud Bright's Brainstorms by an order of the Minnesota Railroad and veal at Chicago and large eastern Quoted by Peoples Service Store— -and Warehouse Commission, issued INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE EGG PRESERVING INTERESTS consuming centers showed some Dairy Butter 30 April 27, to make a separate bank dejjosit Eggs 20 improvement in the demand, which CONSIDERS INSECT PESTS EVERY MINNESOfA FARMER of all net receipts from sales of Potatoes, per bu $1.25 And hoping for things doesn't was reflected in the live markets for stock consigned to them, such deposits Beans 9% get you anywhere unless cattle and calves, prices here and Entomologists Present Topics of Serious Flour—retail, 49 lb. sack. .$1.75-$2.25 Spring Months Opportune Time For or trust funds to be distinct from you work along with it. elsewhere working strong to 25c or Interest to Gathering Held At Selecting Future Supply—Water POULTRY SUMMER the regular business accounts. Minot, N. D., Recently. Glass Satisfactory Solution. more higher than a week ago in spite Quoted by Smith-Wright Co.— Commissioner Ivan Bowen, who of an'increased supply. Heavy Hens 15 If every farmer in Minnesota would drafted the new rule, explains that its SHOES A. G. Ruggles, state entomologist Best fat steers here of good and Light Hens 13 oi put down one case of eggs in water purpose is to protect livestock shippers represented Minnesota in a meeting Geese 12 choice beef grades sold in small lots glass during April, May and June, it the Northwestern International Committee from losses thru the failure or Roosters 12 from $8.25 to $8.75, with best load would mean that 178,000 cases of on Insect Pests, which v/ah Leghorn Roosters 11 financial embarassment of their eggs would be taken off the market at lots at'$7.75 and $8.00. Bulk of the Don't Smother Your Fec-t in held recently at Minot, N. D. Three Eggs 19 brokers. warm weather. Give them a a time when eggs are usually abundant beef steers closed at $6.50 to $7.50, a Ducks 15 Western states and three westsrc chance to breathe. Such trust funds will be safe from and reasonable in price, and preserved Turkeys .- 18 provinces—Minnesota, North pakoti very few common kinds selling as Shoe-making- genius has fo.r use during the winter any action by creditors of the brokers HOG MARKET. and Montana, and Alberta, Saskatchewan low as $6.00. been exerciscd to produce when they are_ generally scarce and and will constitute a guaranty that and Manitoba—were represented easy, cool and at the same Best faj light and handyweight Medium and Butchers $9.75 prices are high. If six million farmers the shippers will obtain all that should at the meeting. Norman Criddle of Packers $8.00 time neat and stylish, footwear young cows on the heifer order and could be induced to put down eggs in for the hot months. Ottawa, widely known as an expert in Jbe comihg to them. No money may Veal, Sheep and Lambs heifers sold from $6.75 up to $7.75, water glass to the same extent it field crop pest control work, presicloc! COME IN AND EXAMINE Xe withdrawn from such funds other Fat lambs $8.00 to 11.00 would about equal the number of eggs with bulk of the butcher she stock over the conference. W. R. "Wal'-Oi". OUR than to pay the claims of the consignors Veal $3.50 to $6.00 placed in cold storage, according to selling at $4.50 to $6.50. from the bureau of entomology a SUMMER Sheep $3.50 to $6.50 for whom stock has been sold. E. Chapman, poultry specialist N. Washington, and Stewart Lockwcoi. Canners- and cutters finished strong with the agricultural extension division Cattle SHOES The order should prove distinctly federal agent in the northwest, took selling from $3.00 to $4.00. Bologna of the university. Such a movement Fat Steers $5.00 to $6.00 beneficial to the livestock industry in tiart in the deliberations. bulls brought $3.50 to $4.25, bulk $4 Cows and Heifers $3.00 to $5.00 would have tremendous influence view of the fact that serious losses Special attention was given to consideration or over. Bulls $3.00 to $3.50 for the betterment of prices at a time Jensen-Phiffer of the pale western cutworm, have been sustained in the past thru Canners and cutters $1.50 to $2.00 The market for veal calves was when they are the lowest of the year. the wheat stem sawfly, and the the failure of commission houses, but Fresh eggs, properly preserved, again uneven, gains for the week averaging grasshopper situation in the northwest. *will be prevented in the future, if the Company may be kept from six to ten months, around 25 to 50c, best lights The entomologists of the six HIDES 6c to 10c brokers comply with the rule of the and be almost as good for all household closing largely at $6.50 to $7.00, extreme divisions are trying to standardize purposes as fresh eggs. To preserve Commission. Wool Wanted at 25c lb. 82 their recommendations for methods of top at the close $8.00. Seconds 30 dozen eggs—one case—by the Horsehides $3.50 control of these three pests. The pale Nothing will keep or culls sold largely at $3.50 to $4.50. East of Court House water glass method, use two 5-gallon Mower County Women western cutworm has caused tremendous Stockers and feeders were relatively CHAS. DUBINSKY man thinner than living .crocks (capacity, 15 dozen eggs each). Austin, Minn. losses to field grain and other ask for Home Demonstration Take 18 quarts of water that has been scarce and closed strong to 25c 303 East Maple Street on hopes. crops in semi-arid districts, particularly boiled and cooled. Mix with it 2 Dial—Office 6900—House 5325 higher than a week ago. Practically in Montana and Alberta. This Features quarts of sodium silicate. Place egg& no desirable kinds were obtainable worm has been traveling east, having as collected, fresh and clean, in under $5.00, with the bulk at $5.50 crocks, keeping covered to a depth of to $6.50, and the most desirable kinds A good representation of Mower at least 2 inches with water glass solution. $6.75 to $7.25. Cozmty Farm, Bureau women and Keep in cool, dry place. Eggs IN AUTO TOPS With a substantial increase in local preserved in this way remain perfectly others attended a meeting at Dexter wholesome and maintain full food hog receipts this week compared on Friday afternoon, April 28. there is all the difference in the value. with a week ago, the market has Miss Julia Newton, state home world. Some are built for show If water glass is not obtainable, a shown a gradual decline, losses for demonstration leader, spoke on home lime solution may be used. Place some are built for wear. We the week being 15 to 25c. demonstration' woi'k. She explained 0 three pounds of unslaked lime in five Bulk of better grades cashed at the make tops that are built to gallons of water and let it stand until •the different projects, pointing out make your car appear as graceful the lime settles and the liquid is how Mower County Farm Bureau MARKET PLACE and dashing as possible, clear. Use the same as water glass. women can avail themselves of some This niethod is not considered so good and yet to give the maximum of of the opportunities provided. jas water glass, but generally proves Mower County "News service. •.The women were anxious to secure entirely satisfactory. .-some of the work for Mower county One Cent Per Word Per Insertion. SUMMER STYLES Many good results are obtained R. H. GRAY Minimum Charge Twenty-five cents. and voted to secure the sewing project from these methods .of preserving in Straws and Panamas show distinctive Ten Cents Collection Charge Will Be as first choice, if possible, with eggs for home use. Eggs can thus be outlines and among the varied Added for all ads not paid for in advance. stored without waste by consumers -nutrition work, second choice, and shapes that are popular, you will Readers or locals not run in AUTO TOP AND AUTO PAINTING when eggs are! cheap to be used in the find several that are more than usually home management, third choice. It this xolumn will be charged at the season of scarcity. Fewer eggs will becoming. rate of 10 cents per line. is not always possible to send the have to be sent to terminal markets in Why not get extra wear and save PHONE 2147. AUSTIN, MINN. specialist selected first, as they are hot weather when unavoidable losses money by sending your old hat to us HELP WANTED sent in the order applied for, Miss in handling are heaviest, and more to be made fresh and smart by our JNewton explained. HELP WANTED: Correspondents fresh eggs will be available for consumers work in wanted all over Mowei5 County by Hat Cleaning and Blocking? The specialist will come to Mower in fall and winter. In other the Mower County News. If you like words, supplies are conserved, distribution county for three days each month for ROYAL SHOE SHINE to write or think you can write is equalized, and prices are stabilized. A. G. RUGGLES, five months beginning in September news, inquire at the News office & HATPARLOR Less work and State Entomologist, University Farm. about our proposition. See City and will meet with the women for Editor. ^lO-tf. one day in each of three communities. POULTRY SCHOOLS IN JUNE 413 North Main Street, been found in limited numbers in the with Planet Jr. implements It will be possible for surrounding FOR SALE western Dakotas. Minnesota does not AUSTIN, MINN. townships to send delegates to the need to borrow trouble concerning it, Com- Activities to Center in Many FOR SALE:—Typewriter Ribbons, community meetings who will return says Professor Ruggles, because stu-' and Carbon Paper. We have a fine munities of Minnesota. "No gardener would do without a No. 4 Planet Jr if he would but try to their units and instruct the other dies of its habits by Dr. W. C. Cook it. I would not take ten times its price and do without it," writes Isaac line of the famous Milo ribbons and Mr. Fep Kennedy, Owensboro, Ky. Poultry culling activities of the and others have shown that it does women there. carbon paper for all makes typewriters. Planet Jr implements are so well made that they not only do gooa work, not thrive in localities where the rainfall agricultural extension division of the When in need of either of but they last a lifetime. Fully guaranteed. No. 4 Planet Jr Combined Hill and Drill Seeder, Wheel-Hoe, Cultivator university will be renewed in June these articles let the "NEWS" satisfy equals 15 inches annually. and Plow you with this superior brand. does garden work so quickly, easily and thorouehly. that it pays The wheat stem sawfly has been doing when the first of a series of 12 culling 8-tf. for itself in a single season. Sows all garden seeds (in drills or hills) plows, opens an immense amount of damage in schools for county agents will be held furrows and covers them, hoes%nd cultivates all through the season. 32 other styles the northeastern part of North Dakota at Rochester, June 12. The other 11 seed drills and wheel-hoes—various prices. REAL ESTATE Planet Jr and in Saskatchewan and Manitoba. dates and places are: Mankato» June No. 8 Planet Jr Horse-Hoe and 4« 1 13 Fairmont, June 14 Pipestone, WANTED To hear from owner of Cultivator No reports of its presence in Minnesota does a greater variety good farm for sale. State cash of work and does it more tlior-^ have been received, says Professor Minn farm 2 2 22 oughly than any other culti- price, full particulars. D. F. Bush, Ruggles, but he adds that it may June 16 Willmar, June 19 Thief vator ever made. It has stronger, better construction. Its depth Minneapolis, Minn. have worked in scattering northern River Falls, June 20 Glenwood, June regulator and extra-long frame make it steady-running. Adaptable 35, 37, 39, 41,43-p to deep or shallow cultivation and to different widths. districts and its depredations laid to 22 Moorhead, June 23 Brainerd, No. 4 15 other styles of one-horse cultivators—various prices. by F. L. LIEBENSTEIN, some other pest. The adult sawfly June 26 Virginia, June 27 North FARM WANTED—Wanted to hear County Agent, Mower Co. lays her eggs on the leaves of wheat Branch, June 29 Farmington, June from owner of a farm for sale, for and grasses. The young insects burrow 30. fall delivery. Give lowest price.— L. Jones, Box 551, Olney, 111. into the stem of the wheat and The master in charge of these WARNING TO 35-lp schools will be N. E. Chapman, veteran at a point invariably near the surface HOG RAISERS. Call and poultry extension specialist, assisted of the ground eat it from the inside see them. We have found an outbreak of Nezcrobacillosis until only a thin layer or the shell of by O. O. Horlamus, formerly, of hogs and several others the stem is left. In this condition the agent in Nicollet county. The, schools are planned primarily to give have been reported in the county. stalk easily falls under'the attack of Don't Swear wind or rain and becomes almost a total instruction to and infuse "pep" in the ""This disease is not common in this dis-fcrict loss. Fall plowing is helpful in county agents in order that they may Also Very Complete Line of Other and therefore is not recognized controlling this insect, while if the carry the principles of successful cul-' by most of us. If we are not careful grain is cut early the damage will be ling to all poultry breeders and farmers CALL FOR US—We can to check it in time the toll will be Garden Tools much lighter than otherwise. in the state: Some work on egg large. marketing, in addition to the lessons stop that roof-leak in a Last season's campaign against the Necrobacillosis is an infection by grasshoppers went to show that this in culling, will be given at these jiffy. Lots of chicken pest can be wiped out when the people "bacillus necrophorus- and appears in schools. will unite in a common cause The spring time visiting tours to different forms such as bull ntfse, sore Don't let it rtiin your furniture, against it. This was demonstrated in the poultry demonstration communi- f&riciers anouth, and necrotic enteritis. The Kittson county, Minnesota, last year! ties will take place early in June, your temper and your asymptoms vary with the part or organ by County Agent W. V. Longley, who Poultry raisers in adjoining territory health. the»r wnvesTo affected. In sore mouth or bull will be invited to these meetings and led the attack there. Similarly successful We~ are specialists in roof nose swellings on snout or sore were campaigns put on ip various demonstrations. The first records of repairs. If you want a new knovM iV. ^patches in mouth or both occur. parts of Canada. Fall plowing is the breeding and raising of chicks will roof let us put on material that a very important step in controlling be ready for examination. *Hiere is an unthrifty condition, fever N. E. Chapman has Supervision of the grasshopper plague, says Professor has stood the test for more Good Tools Make the Work and la'ck of growth. The ulcers make You can't blame them for that. •five of the county poultry demonstration Ruggles. The nests of the hoppers than 50 years. Mastication difficult and give a bad SEE US FOR communities, or those at Long are turned upside down in the odor FLOUR Easier and Pleasanter That's TARGET and ARROW Tin, to the breath and unless attended Lake in Hennepin county, Kingston in process and the eggs usually fail to made by an old Philadelphia concern to death results. In Necrotic Enteritis Meeker county, Milaca in Mille Lacs hatch. Poisoned bait, in which bran with an experience of more than a the symptoms resemble those of county, Askov in Pine county and and arsenic are the chief ingredients, Poultry Supplies Walker in Cass county. The remaining century. jbogr cholera. cen be used with great success in fighting five, which are under the direction the young and adult grasshoppersf All diseased tissue should be removed Consult us about your roofing and FULL 'O PEP ,of Miss Cora Cooke, poultry specialist The earlier this work is started after early and the wound disinfect­ sheet metal work. 'of the office of extension work with the young is hatched the better. ed with tincture of iodine. To present women, are at Orchard Gardens in Dakota We also repair Auto POULTRY FEEDS keep pigs in clean, dry quarters, county, Brookston in St. Louis Manure goes best on grain and Beekeepers' Supplies Radiators 'in which swine have not been kept before county, Waldorf in. Waseca county, grass crops. Potatoes are less liable FERTILIZERS S dip heads of all the pigs in a Fairmont in Margin county and Elmdale to if they have liberal application scat) a in Morrison county. of commercial f».*Mlizer. rpafl of warm potassium permanganate, IT 1 tablespoonful to two gallons I N Advantages of the self-feeding method jr. Ornamental shrubs like brikalwreath, af boiled water. Canker sores should HARE & GOSS IT over the ordinary two or three lilac and syringa will have •be scrapped and and tincture of iodine times a day feeding practices for raising more blossoms if they aren't pruned applied. Abscesses should be lanced. v-!' JT/.' hogs has been demonstrated by the until after flowering time. Then the FEED & SEED STORE DECKER BROTHERS 'Sheet Metal Workers If in doubt see a veterinarian. animal husbandry departments of sev-, oldest shoots can be .cut out and the HARDWARE Dial 6555 125 W. Mill St. F. Liebenstein, eral state universities. A satisfactory long willowy growth that's left will and practical self-feeder can he made "The Store that Satisfies" County Agent. blossom well another spring. *•', AUSTIN, MINN. Austin, Minn. at home in the farm work s^hop. j. Mower County News- Market Interesting store weus will be s, ~r Place is the place to list anything found on every page of The News in News advertismg b/ings result* you may nave to dispose of. ... £kis issue. Shop hore first. 4^3J