sssra im&Miu .» r.:}i!f4 Jrpri** r*C-5'"^V.- -f •l3*- ""v"y •£££$& sx:?'- •Kg-*: ?&•& *S*«S3£ jmt •&£ .&>* Stgf* •ep~* A MOWER COUNTY NEW& AUSTIN, MINN. y* Eagre Six •&»>£,' ^Monday, June 12, 1922. -^•j* SK't^ Sffif CO. FARMERS. MI^SSRaise.More and Better Crops, Marketing and '^Pure Bred Livestock Farm Bureau Notes. KP COUNTY WIN FARMERS PLAN VHfe which is composed of the townships tion of all noxious weeds. In case Government. V^^StT of LeRoy, Bennington, Frankford, Racine, land owners neglect to carry out their iii never oe well ad- BARBERRY DRIVE i-. TO BUILD DP OWN Lodi, Clayton, Grand Meadow, orders, they may contract to have the f! n' -vi'ere those intrusted Pleasant Valley, Adams, and Marshall, work done and charge the cost to the nv.e:ci of well discharging and the villages^ of LeRoy, property. —v,'i]!i !ni 1'enn Grand Meadow, Taopi, Adams and County weed inspectors Elkton. Farmers Must Aid Work. Give Assistance in v.." The weed inspectors have been instructed Southeastern Minnesota Campaign. to devote the first month of Livestock Shippers their season, which started 3une 1, ^Pertinent Pointers *for Practical Farmers to th,e barberry campaign, but their to Meet. "i Thru the work, .of the two weed inspectors efforts will be confined to notifying FtaMnd by the Agricultural Pepammtrt. Unlvewtay of Minnesota appointed for this county, farmers to destroy such bushes as al-j Mower county is co-operating in a SBy Farm Bureau News Service— ready have been located. The actual CATTLE FEEDERS' DAY SET fight that is being waged thruout FARM COSTS IN STATE_0F Livestock producers in this county digging of the roots will be left to the Minnesota to free the state from barberry, FOR FRIDAY, JUNE 20TH were called on today to meet with MINNESOTA SUMMARIZED lOQ^ land owners whose attention is being which annuially causes a loss ____ faimers of seven other southeastern called to the material advantages of of millions of ^dollars to grain, because Beef Stock Experimentally Fed During counties at Rochester on June 20, to Results Compiled by Experts Now Pure quick action. it harbors the. damaging black Winter to be Displayed at. the discuss the establishment of a farmer-owned Available for Publicity—Figures The complete subjugation of the rust. University Farm. Cover 21 Farms. and farmer-controlled barberry this year is not to be hoped The western district for which Watson Paint livestock commission company at the Friday, June 30, has been selected Union coal miners in the United for but the operations of the men in Storry was appointed includes the Chicago stockyards. by the animal husbandry division at States are striking for a working week the western half of the state will have townships of Dexter, Sargeant, Nevada, The call for the meeting was issued University Farm as "Cattle Feeders' of only 30 hours. Minnesota farmers the growth "pretty well cornered" Windom, Red Rock, Waltham, by the Minnesota Farm Bureau Day." This will be the second annual are working at least 65 hours a week this seasoji, with excellent prospects Lyle, Austin, Lansing, and Udolpho, one-day program offered by the division •federation, at the request of the National and are right on the job producing for the success of a clean-up drive next and the villages of Dexter, Sargeant, for persons interested in the If it flows from food for the people even though they Livestock Producers associaand spring. growing and fattening of beef cattle Waltham, Brownsdale, Rose Creek, can hardly make'.both ends meet for members of local co-operative brush more freely for market. The ^program last year The weed inspectors are employed themselves. -r and Lyle, and the city of Austin. tion. Officers, directors, managers And goes farther was given the stamp of approval by Staff men of the division of farm from June 1 to November 1. They •M. J. Callan is. the weed inspector shipping associations, as well as farm abflut 150 cattle feeders who attended. management, University of Minnesota, on the boards, for the eastern district of the county have authority to order the destruc- bureau officials thruout southeastern For that reason a cattle feeders' day have just summarized the results of Minnesota, were invited to the Rochester program is offered again this year. cost studies for. the year ending March Its a dollar gainst Exhibit in Valencia's Orange Show 1, 1922, on 21 farms in southwestern meeting. The purpose of Cattle Feeders' Day a doughnut, Minnesota. These farms average 178 is to give all persons interested an Grew From "Committee 15." ^JOYHIKDflAI That the paint is acres in size. Corn and small grain opportunity to come to University The National Livestock Producers' were the principal crops. The average Farm and inspect the beef cattle that A Forman-Ford's. association is the organization which crop yields in 1921 were: Corn, 45 have been fed experimentally during grew out of the work of the Committee bushels oats, 33 bushels silage, 8 winter and spring months, to get the of Fifteen. This committee was results that have b^en secured first 52#-wJ appointed by James R. Howard^ hand and tp talk over some of the Ask Us About problems connected with the growing president of the American Farm Bureau and fattening of beef cattle for market. federation, to make a thoro investigation FORMAN-FORD'S This year the day will be a "Baby of livestock marketing Beef" day. The feeding trial being No. 600 Bright Red methods, and to draw up plans by conducted is a baby beef feeding trial. •which "the men who produce the country's BARN PAINT Six lots of ten calves each have been meat might have more to say fed since early last December. The about its distribution. objects have been primarily to determine $ IT'S GOOD INDEED, 'the effects of various amounts The Committee of Fifteen recommended IT'S GUARANTEED. of silage in the! ration upon gains the establishment of farmer-owned made, finish produced and economy of co-operative marketing agencies gains to compare barley with corn as AUSTIN on every important terminal Decker Bros. a "grain for baby beef feeding, and to -market in the United States. ^Its recommendations determine the relative merits of purebred LANSING were ratified, and^the beef calves, high grade beef calves and calves of mixed breeding National Livestock Producers association for baby beef production. was created to put into active operation The morning program will be devoted the plans of the Committee to inspection of the cattle and discussion of Fifteen. of the results secured, and the The national association already has afternoon to addresses on subjects pertaining established co-operative commission to market beef production. firms on the East St. Louis and the Packer buyers and commission men Indianapolis markets, with the co-operation will appraise the several lots of cattle Prof. G. A. Pond irT charge of crop of the local shipping associations and a complete financial statement cost studies for University of Minnesota. showing the cost of the cattle, the tributary to those markets. amount and costs of feed consumed, At Indianapolis, where the farmers selling price of cattle and resultant •company opened for business on May tons tame hay, 1% tons wild hay, profit or loss will be made available 1.1 tons and alfalfa, 2Y2 tons." The 15, it was handling more trade than This year's orange show at Valencia, Cal., is said to have been the finest during the morning. The entire program Fords BATTERY average investment in" working capital ever- held. All the exhibits were made of oranges. Here is the one shown any other firm in less than two will be just as interesting and was livestock (including horses), by the Elks. •weeks. On the East St. Louis market, full of information as it will be possible $3,190, machinery, $1,671, and feeds IGNITION for the farmers' firm opened for to make it. and supplies, $653. 1usiness on Jan. 2 this year, on a Prof. G. A. Pond of the farm management Coming Events market where 55 other firms already .division,- who is in charge of GIVES MORE POWER AND PEP TO SWAT THE BARBERRY BUSH were established. It has been leading crop cost studies for the university, i- 'says it is evident that the average farm Wednesday, June 14—The Mower Call Electrical Department for demonstration. them all ever since its eighth week of United Drive to be Launched in Min* in southwestern Minnesota yielded last .operation. County Farm Bureau picnic nesota, July 1st. year little more than a bare living for and barbecue at Wm. Cronan's Producers Head to Speak. UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MINN. 1 the farmers. The excess of business Government, state and the university farm, Rose Creek. "John G. Brown of Indiana, president income over expense on the 21 farms are united in a common drive PRONE 7502 Thursday, June 15.—8:00 p. m. of the National Livestock Producers was only $772 each. Farmers who against the common barberry which by F. L. LIEBENSTEIN, There will be a social meeting owned their land and capital goods association, will speak at the will be launched in Minnesota on July County Agent, Mower Co. were able to meet- expenses, but that of the Nevada Farm Bureau Rochester meeting. J. S. Montgomeryf 1. Headquarters, as usual, will be was about all. Professor Pond says: unit at the Ed. Nelson home. general manager of the Central maintained at University Farm. L. W. zUrrjT "Prices of most things that the farmer Canning school conducted at Melander, state leader of barberry Co-operative Shipping association, Co-operating with the Department buys'declined steadily though slowly eradication, will have charge of the Dexter by Mrs. George Howard, •will review the work of the farmers' of Agriculture, University" of 1 Sell Thru an Ad ln| through the year 1921. Prices of campaign for the general government assistant state leader*, and Miss firm on the South St. Paul market, Minnesota, the Mower County Farm farm products on the other .hand have in this state. A. G. Ruggles, state Jessie Partridge. .-and a representative of the Minne-sota Bureau announced today that it: is strengthened materially the last few entomologist, will direct the. scouts prepared to take orders for picric acid Farnl Bureau Federation "will months. Prospects for the farmer are Friday, June 16,— Canning school employed by the state department of therefore brighter than they were a (war salvaged explosive) to be distributed the News •outline plans for organizing the for Farm Women at Lansing. agriculture. year ago. The farmer who has had to farmers for land clearing -shipping associations of southeastern The federal government- forces'will Saturday, June 17,—There will the courage- and financial^ support to operate in southeastern counties, while Minnesota to market their stock thru purposes. be a canning school and demonstration weather the denression of the last two :he state's fdrces will try to clean up their own firm on the Chicago market. The maximum amount per farmer at Rose Creek. years, who is continuing steadfastly the barberry in the counties of McLeod, ffi You can do so thru an advertisement in the Sj has been placed at' 1000 pounds instead about his business" with his eyes upon Carver, Scott, Dakota, Le Sueur, Saturday, June 17.:—2:00 p. m., The National Livestock Producers of 500 as on the first allotments. every opportunity to increase his receipts Rice, Goodhue, Hennepin, Wright, meeting at LeRoy township jjj Mower County News MARKET PLACE, This may be purchased at the association is now establishing a and curtail his expenses, and Mille Lacs, Sherburne, Kanabec, Isanti, hall of the stockholders of the farmer-owned and controlled commission who has productive livestock through rate of fifteen cents a hundred &noka and Chisago. JB It only costs a cent a word each issue, with jjj LeRoy Co-operative Grain and which to market otherwise unprofitable pounds, F. O. B. Austin. company at Chicago, and local Both crews will work as one in hunting Stock company. crops, seems in a fair way to enjoy a minimum charge of 25c. For example jp down and destroying the barberry. shipping associations in other states a continuation of the increase in A. large amount "of literature will be Wednesday and Thursday, June :are organizing to market their stock E. W. Harman tried out a sack of an advertisement of eight words three in- ffi financial returns that the year 1921 distributed, and thousands of posters 21 and 22.—The Mower county through the new agency. the treble enperphosphate this spring registered over 1920. The recovery displayed in conspicuous places. canning contest will be held at At the request of the national association, and in looking over a field of clover sertions would cost 25c nine words three |jj may be slow but it will be sure." Already the barberry in Minnesota Rose Creek, to be judged by the Minnesota Farm Bureau across which he had spread the phosphate The university's cost accounts for is spreading rust, according to Mr. times would cost 27c and so on. Mrs. Margaret Baker, assistant federation, in co-operation with the it was easy to detect the strip the group of 21 farms show that some Melander. The first rust on bafberry state club leader. county farm bureaus, has arranged to money was made on all livestock except which had received the application. was found early in Minnesota in Ramsey on beef cattle. Crop prices were jjj •present the marketing plans of the and Rice counties. .... The clover was much evener and'had WRITE YOUR ADVERTISEMENT For the amount of work required invariably below the cost of .production. Chicago co-operative agency to the a better color and will probably yield honey production is one of the best The average return per acre over HERE,. AND SEND IT IN NOW j£ ^shipping associations of southeastern from one half ton to a ton per acre Co-operative marketing of eggs will operating expense for land in crops, cash crops. Although the per capita Minnesota. more than in the other parts of the be the leading market project of the on the basis of December 1,^ 1921, consumption of honey is- extremely Dodge county farm bureau. Because field. Mr. Ha,rman feels repaid for prices was $1.71. This would.. little low, there is little or no danger of an the Minnesota Co-operative Creameries XeRoy Farmers his experiments. more than pay the taxes. However, overproduction. association, Inc., has voted to the farmer who marketed his crops Company to Meet take up„co-operative egg marketing as through livestock,, especially through a side line, and to assist as far as hogs, was able to get a better return GET PRICES on VEAL and CHICKENS possible in organizing for the handling than if the crop had been sold direct. The annual meeting of the* stockholders tf eggs in carload lots as soon as an of the Le Roy Farmers' Cooperative before selling elsewhere eastern office is -established, special Club leaders report increased interest Grain arid Stodc Company attention will be paid^to this project I R.H. JOHNSON & SON MEAT MARKET I in home canning this year. Canning •will be held in the Le Roy Township in Dodge county. CT L. McNelly, schools of one or. two days have county agent, has arranged for special Hall, Saturday, June 17, at 2:00 p. I 226 East Mill St. I been arranged- for Freeborn, Dodge meetings at various cheese factories m. for the election of officers and: Goodhue, Kanabec, Milaca, -Watonwan, which are affiliated with the State transaction of other business {it has .Douglas Jackson, -Fillmore, -Mower, Cheese Producers association: "been, announced by John Hale, president Lyon, Carlton and Cottonwood counties. if! .v.:,s These schools are held for the USE A BATTERY Alfalfa leaves, which compose about purpose of organizing, the. clubs and 45 per cent of the hay crop and contain Your Name Dodge County Bureau" getting the members started in canning about 65 per cent of the protein by the cold pack method. Each Picnic Planned on 21st content in the hay, requires careful county having canning clubs can send like ours that will give you big Address handling if they are to be retained with a demonstration team to the state value for your money and longer the stalks in the. harvesting of the fair Thirty counties have already 4. Bodge County's Farm Bureau p!cuic hay, says farm crops division men of dignified their intenr.on./gt seadjng, service than ordinarily.,^ Our 5 will be held on Wednesday, June the University of Minnesota'" such teams. "i Send ill Your Order Today to PHILADELPHIA 21, it was decided at a recent meeting- Equal parts linseed oil, turpentine DIAMOND GRID" WANT AD DEPARTMENT of the executive committee of After, each rain, the garcleh "should .3 the Farm Bureau. L. E. Potter, former be carefully cultivated. TM. breaks and yin?isw mate b- battery is absolutely guaranteed up the. soil crust. wWch-wast83 wliter ®ure president of* the Minnesota Federation, 8 4 MOWER COUNTY NEWS *and if anything .goes Their Ways. Taking through "excessive evaporation,- and' gjfe will speak. wrong with it we will, make it There -was a swap social" In Oak makes a dust mulch, which .checks right. Call and consult us. Park the" other-evening.. The local evaporation and saves moisture for Make your own count and enclose money witli order* Th« Difference. paper,' commenting on it said: "Everybody later in the summer COMPANY PIERRE. BATTERY Initials and numbers count tlie same as one word. The difference between a took 'sotnething they didn't nted. success an ordinary man I9 usually, this:. Many of the ladies took- their husbands.|V-Ghicago and -^Interesting store neu-sr will 212 EAST BRIDGE ST. 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