W '*-W 'PI ^*r^f "j.' rr- r^" 1 4 rk \, a ^•'V-v^-»..!,'..i'-'-':r '"•-.".'•.•r-- ••••-.• V£?*fa. '7«x a *6* „. Tvfc ,? MOWER COUNTY NEWS, AUSTIN, MINN. Monday, May 4, 1922. •.'V »-.^.^:n^r a® iffSffi CO. FARMERS. CVJ Crops, Marketing and Raise More and Better Farm Bureau Notes. Pure Bred Livestock Let Mrs. Mary Graves Tell You Her DEXTER FARM best man in all the world has said, Poultry Raising Experience. Ford Battery 4I certainly couldn't farm without ON THE FARM BUREAU UNIT TO "Three years ago bought an Incubator, you,' oh, how I've thrilled. It becomes MEET FRIDAY this year I've made money. a little song in my heart and Rats stole my baby chicks. Didn't lightens my work for days. And know until a friend gave me a cake of RAT-SNAP. Next morning found even if he weren't the best man, I More clover and less timothy will The Dexter unit of the Farm Bureau two dead rats in hennery. Kept finding think I could be quite happy with and friends will meet at*Dexter lower the fertilizer bill. them. Suddenly they disappeared FOR the thought 'I've earned my way today Friday, May 12, at 8:00 p. m. altogether. It's the only sure rat $18.50 Fruit trees that get no care produce by F. L. LIEBENSTEIN, I'm helping with the most essential killer." Take Mrs. Graves' advice. The leading subject for discussion Three sizes, 35c, 65c, $1.25. Sold and about as much as shade trees. County Agent, Mower Co. job on earth,/I'm working will be "Drainage." "Mower county guaranteed by Pooler Drug Co. for a better future.' as a whole needs a great deal of artificial Advertisement—May. Thorough cleaning and grading of "Then there's the beauty of family drainage," County Agent TREATMENT OF seed is the first step toward suc" a Evils of Constipation. life on the farm. Instead of seeing Liebenstein says. "Much of the soil SEED POTATOES cessful crop. my son rushing off with the fellows, which cannot be cultivated now Perhaps the most serious of the The time for planting potatoes and I have done only one sensible my daughter going out .for a diseases caused by constipation is appendicitis. would produce excellent crops if properly -treating the seed will soon be here. If you would avoid this good time that I'll know nothing thing in my life—to cultivate the drained. A great deal of labor 31 -ports from many of our potato dangerous disease, keep your bowels about, and the younger children ground.—Voltairfe. and seed is wasted on land on which regular. For this purpose Chamberlain's ^growers indicate that it has been coaxing to go to the movies,- we'll WILL BUY A BATTERY FOR YOUR there is no certainty of a crop maturing. Tablets are excellent, easy to jjTofitable to treat the seed for disease. Some wit has observed that hens be spending our evening together take and mild and gentle in effect. The two best methods to use should not be in the garden nor the FORD THAT IS GUARANTEED K. O. Wold and Pooler Drug Co. with our music, books or mutual "Everyone is invited to attend the .are given below. garden in the hens. Advertisement—Monday—May. friends, or going to some amusement meeting at Dexter, May 12." FOR 18 MONTHS Potato Scab, Rosette or Little Potato together. The farmer who uses a purebred Blight, Etc.—Use corrosive sublimate, "And last, but not least, of the sire from a high producing family Schmitz Auto Electric Co. it gets them all. Formaldehyde AUSTIN MARKETS iiiii good things I desire for this daughter-o'-mine, is likely to be efficient in other is good for scab only. Scab is 4* 4* are peace, a love of nature, things and will get high production the best known and least serious disease Quoted by Peoples Service Store— 216 East Bridge Street and time for quiet, happy at low cost. Dairy Butter 30 we have. thoughts. Can they be gotten by Eggs 21 Dissolve 4 ounces of corrosive Potatoes, per bu $1.25 any other class of working people Losses from hog cholera ar6 from sublimate in 4 gallons of hot water. Beans 9 V2 as easily as by the woman on the two to five times greater in counties After dissolving add 26 gallons of Flour—retail, 49 lb. sack. .$1.75-$2.25 farm? She doesn't rush to finish without county agents than in counties Bud Bright's Brainstorms cold water. This makes 30 gallons POULTRY he^ work that she may spend a day which have such agents. Wheat in all. Quoted by Smith-Wright Co.— bargain-hunting—a day of hurry, losses from winter killing are 10 to Dipping Tank—Make it of wood, Heavy Hens 15 worry and 'me-first' thoughts of 12 per cent greater in countics without Light Hens 13 about 2 feet by 2 feet by 8 feet by 1 spending money she shouldn't spend county agents than in counties Merry Christmas means a Gese 12 foot high and consider it a part of new pair of Shoes for Mary. and "gazing at things she wants and which have agents. Furthermore, Roosters 12 your farm machinery. Leghorn Roosters 11 can't have. No she may sit on the wheat yieFds are one to one and a Every commercial potato, grower Eggs 21 front porch a bit while she sews or fourth bushels more an acre in countics Ducksv 15 should make and keep on hand a potato mends 6r reads. She will see and with agents. Turkeys .,. 18 dipping tank made of wood. Not much, opportunity foxdisplay feel and hear the beauty of the HOG MARKET. (Do not put this solution in a metal of artistic quality in "Farmers have just been through world—her world—and with ah unruffled rubbers. container.) It is easily filled, potatoes Medium and Butchers $9.75 a mighty discouraging year," says spirit she will go in and get And yet their plainness may Packers $8.00 are shoveled out, and when the Neil H. Swanson, director" of publicity be relieved by a variety of supper for her hungry brood. Veal, Sheep and Lambs solution is discarded it is easy to tip graceful curves and lines. of the Minnesota Farm Bureau "And so, folks, I want my daughter it Fat lambs $8.00 to 12.00 We make most judicious selections out on the ground, one end sloping federation. "Are they disheartened, to marry a farmer, a good man, Veal $3.50 to $6.00 as to appearance, at to start shoveling out. We rebuild and repair AUTO, or are they up and doing this year Sheep $3.50 to $6.50 the same time being certain upright, steadfast and true, with 1st batch Soak 1^ hours TRACTOR and TRUCK RADIATORS of serviceability and durability. just as every other-year? Cattle visions of the farm-life-to-be in his 2nd batch Soak 2 hours "We found a new note of optimism Fat Steers $5.00 to $6.00 using the best material heart. Then, hand in hand, they can —E t— 3rd batch Soak 2V2 hours Cows and Heifers $3.00 to $5.00 and faith in farming a few years to be had in cooling sections. work to make their dreams come 4th batch Use New Solution Bulls $3.00 to $3.50 ago. In a national contest more Shoe Repairing true, and she will know tho happiness Our work will satisfy. Canners and' cutters $1.50 to $2.00 Before shoveling the potatoes out than 7,000 farm women wrote letters I have known. I could not ask Stir the solution well because the in reply to the question: "Do SMITH'S RADIATOR THE MODERN WAY for more." scum and valuable part of the solution You Want Your Daughter to Marry SREPAIRS rises, and like cream, will stick a Farmer?' Ninefy-four per cent to the potatoes as they are lifted out of them answered, 'Yes.'" MITH ft and weaken the solution for fhe next Jensen-Phiffer The News is going to print a series FOR ALL CATTLE I N hatch. of these answers by the farm MITH Corrosive sublimate is poison to women, which have been compiled Company drink, but it is harmless otherwise. by the Minnesota Farm Bureau. Sheet Metal Workers Treat before cutting as it takes Improvement in market Dial 6555 125 W. Mill St. less solution, although there is no The gross wealth produced by East of Court House shown hogs uneven Who was Santa Clatuf fcarm to treat after cutting. farmers in 1921 had a value of $12,366,000,000 AUSTIN, MINN. Austin, Minn. Have a glass of solution ready so mother? Mary Christmas. Sheep Lower. as estimated by the wben you cut out a rotten or diseased United States Department of Agriculture. 5/ potato you can dip your knife to This is about two-thirds of By DON J. SLATER. prevent spreading the disease to the SUMMER STYLES the aggregate value of the farm products iealthy potatoes. Treat the sacks. South St. Paul, May 6.—The cattle of 1920, which was $18,263,000,000, in Straws and.', Panamas show distinctive Many Minnesota potato growers market is being featured by a better outlines and among the varied and little more than onehalf I shapes that are popular, you will are interested in the hot formaldehyde demand both for fat cattle and for the aggregate for 1919, which find several that are more than usually method of treating potato seed stockers and feeders. Some betterment was $23,783,000,000. becoming. because it saves time, is less poisonous in industrial conditions has resulted During the same period, 1919-1921, Why not get extra wear and save than corrosive sublimate, does in an improved demand for production of ten crops which represent money by sending your old hat to us not corrode metals and is effective to be made fresh and smart by our the dressed products at large eastern about 95 per cent of the total Sot work in both scab and rhizoctonia. consuming centers, and the nearer crop acreage fell eight per cent. Hat Cleaning and Blocking? The solution is made by mixing approach of the grazing season has Placing the average quantity of production ROYAL SHOE SHINE two pints of 40 per cent formaldehyde broadened the demand for feeders of these crops for the five to 30 gallons of water. This is and especially stockers. years, 1910-1914, at 100, the crop &HATPARLOR heated to a temperature between 118 A few small lots of strictly choice production in 1919 was 108 1920 degree and 122 degrees F. The yearling beeves sold up to $9.00, with it was 117 and in 1921 it was 100. 413 North Main Street, potatoes are dipped in the solution best sizable lot in the week's trade The quantity of crop production in AUSTIN, MINN. for two minutes, and then being a half load of yearling steers 1919 was about the same as during ^dumped in a pile and covered and heifers averaging 895 pounds at the preceding seven years that in •with a canvas cover or sacks $8.75. Other sales of good and choice 1920 was the largest ever recorded •fox one hour. They can then be Mr. Pep kinds, mostly yearlings, were made and that in 1921 was the lowest since dried or cut and planted immediately. at $8.25 and $8.50, with load lots of 1913. Formaldehyde when used without both light" and heavyweights at $7.75 One serious mistake made by heating will not control rhizoctonia and $8.00.- many gardeners is planting too and requires one and a half Bulk of the fat beeves have sold great a variety of vegetables ir\ a hours soaking for best results in from $7.00 to $7.50, relatively- few as control of scab. small space, with consequent crowding low as $6.75 or slightly less. If the potato growers would get and poor growth, says the United Best fat lightweight young cows States Department of Agriculture. together and order their chemicals have found ready sale at $7 to $7.25, It is much better for the gardener" for seed treatment and spraying they with best heifers on up to around the whose space is limited to plant could cut the cost almost in half. $8.00 mark. Bulk of the butcher a comparatively few kinds of vegetables, cows and heifers sold from. $4.50 to not more than 10 to 12 out $6.75 according to quality and finish. Will Your Daughter of a possible 50 or 60. Canners and cutters are going to Be Farmer's Wife? It is possible to make the garden packers at $3.00 to $4.00. Feeding pay big dividends for the amount of cows brought $3.75 to $4.75, a few of labor put upon it if that labor is the most desirable kinds $5.00 or better. 87 Farm Bureau News Service— well directed. A space 50x100 feet Do mothers believe in farming? Five-ptusenger, 50-hortepower will, if properly planned and worked, Have they enough faith in farming Bologna bulls are in active demand 119-irfeh wheelba** give a supply of practically all at $4.25 to $4.75 for the most part, to want their daughters to marjry Cord Tires Standard Equipment vegetables, except potatoes and a farmers? some choice heavies $5.00. $1475 few other coarse vegetables, for a Veal calves have tended upward, They have, according to the results f. o. factory family of four the whole year. It best lights closing largely at $7.00 of a nation-wide contest just must be rich soil, well cultivated, concluded. A farm magazine, the to $7.50, with extra choice kinds $7.75 The intrinsic value and enduring quality of the SpecialSix and a plan followed that will use the and $8.00. Seconds or culls sold Farmer's Wife, conducted the contest. Much space all the growing power season. largely at $4.00 to $5.00. More than 7,000 farm women have won for it the hearty endorsement of thousands With the probable high prices of Good and choice stockers and feeders wrote letters answering the question, sr\ds NV\VV\VVS vegetables this year it will pay every were scarce and. sold at $6.75 to "Do You Want Your Daughter of owners. It will win you, too, when you consider: city and town to encourage the $7.50 with the bulk at $6.00 to $6.75, to Marry a Farmer?" Ninetyfour planting and care of vacant lots and relatively few of the commonest per cent of them answered equipment—jeweledeight-dayclock comfort—seat cushions of soft, gen­ its its small plots of ground. kinds as low as $5.50 or somewhat "Yes!" Two of the 68 prize-winning S VC uine leather, nine inches deep long one-piece, rainproof windshield with less. letters were written by Minnesota semi-elliptic springs, front and rear. windshield wiper tonneau light with women. One of them follows. Other The week's run totals about 42,500 CO-OPERATION Seats five without crowding. extension cord transmission lock which compared with 39,000 a week ago. prize winning letters will be published A smile is better than nothing. its power—L-headmotor,3^x5,which reduces rate of theft insurance to owner on the C.M.& St.P.Ry. a The market has been irregular this later. This is what Mrs. We'll be glad to quote you develops 50 horsepower. Remarkable 15 to 20 per cent one key locks tool week, going lower on earlier days but Stuart Oliver wrote from her farm for its flexibility. our prices on compartment in left front door, ignition At each division headquarters borne *more than regaining the early-week FLOUR near Onamia: and large station on the Milwaukee's its economy—low maintenance cost and switch and transmission lock. "I'm going to stop a bit, dear farm losses on later days, and closing about eleven thousand miles of infrequent repair shop attention. 10 to 15c higher than a week ago. women, in the midst of my work, for Railroad, meetings of employes its background—StudebakerYprestige its beauty—body of harmonious lines FEED FOR ANIMALS and officers are held monthly cr Bulk of the better grades cashed at wee daughter is having her nap and seventy years* experience in building built by Studebaker experts, with oftener for the purpose of "getting the close from $9.75 to $10.35, heavy and it's a good opportunity to tell quality vehicles assures complete together," working out operating tailored top, which holds large plate HAY, STRAW, MILL FEED packing sows around $8.75 to $9.00, you why I wish the best of all good problems and better serving satisfaction. Bulbs and Plants glass rear window. good pigs $11.00 to $11.25. the traveling and shipping public. tilings for our pride and hope and HIGH QUALITY LOW PRICE These meetings give employes Lambs are closing strong to 25c 4-Pomm. Joy. Touring,$1475 Roadster, Roadater, Smdan, 2-PAU. $1425 $1475 Coupe, $215^ $2350 an opportunity to make suggestions Alt prtc** f. o. h, fmcimry higher for the week, better grade "It is because I have known the HARE fe.GOSS based on their personal experiences Martin shorn lambs cashing from $13.50 to happiness which comes of service, in the various departments. $14.25. that I want my daughter to know 'FEED & SEES STORE Improvements in methods and Sheep are cfosiiig about 25 to 50c It, too. Is there any greater joy, I economies involving millons of dollars lower, good light and handyweight wonder, than that of a hard task yearly are realized from this GRAND MEADOW shorn ewes being rated at about $7.50 well done When I have hurried close co-operation between the employes AUSTIN Austin, Minn. and officers of this great to $8.00, heavies down at $5.50 to $6, with my work that I might do something railroad. and culls and common $2.00 to around extra outside, worked until I 3-13756 $5.00. felt old and cross aji^tked and the •C'L'f 1 .. w- 1