yic •Wr~ ^V%AV '"V-" V* •***••'.: v. •#m •. ,. a •. ti Page RiV MOWER COUNTY NEWS, AUSTIN, MINN. Monday, July 24, 1922 «*s# LIVE AGRICULTURAL NEWS OF INTEREST AND YALUE TO MOWER CO. FARMERS, e* JRaise More and Better «s 2 Crops, Marketing and vPure Bred Livestock Farm Bureau Notes. Nineteen Herds in County Testing ELKS' GIFT TO HARDINGS Dr. B. T. Johnson Association Show High Production DENTIST Nineteen herds in the Mower Knuth's report stated. Twenty-four Office over Wold Drug Store. County Cow Testing Association No. boarder cows were sold during the DIAL 2603 1 averaged over twenty-five pounds month. Two farmers are feeding silage of butterfat for the month ending and three are feeding legume by F. L. LIEBENSTEIN, July 15, according to the report just hay. County Agent, Mower Co. HOMMEL ELEC- I submitted to the Farm Bureau office It was shown -by the report that by Wm. Knuth, tester. the following members of the association TRIC CO. I e.Pertinent Pointers for Practical Farmers Has Your Oats Lodged? Mr. Knuth reported that 404 cows owned forty-pound cows: Evergreen 203 NORTH MAIN STREET I In .driving over the county and ih tested during the month, with Farm, two L. B. Hanna, six Were Prepared by the Agricultural Department, University o£ Minncfots for Expert Electricianj examining fields of grain. we find eighty-three of them producing forty J. C. Schottler, two Enright Bros., DIAL 2 6 7 9 I that much of the oats, especially, has pounds of butterfat or more during two H. M. Walters, one A. L. Boot, NEW VARIETIES OF PlUMS DROP IN EGG PRODUCTION lodged. This means that it will not that period. The average' individual one J. M. Christgau, four Lewis WILL BE-SHOWN CITIZENS LAMENTABLE SAYS SMITH Larson, two S. M. Starks, five Otto fill properly, that much will be lost in production for the whole association cutting and that it will take longer was 694 pounds of milk, 30.1 pounds Goetsch, three H. B. Hillier, five Hardy, High Quality and High Yielding and be harder'work cutting it. The of butterfat on an average test of Clover Lea farms, four Minnesota W. R. EARL AJnder ^Average Conditions Flocks Plums Has Beert Vexing Problem 4.33 percent. Holstein company, sixteen Henry Yield Not More Than 25 Per Cent thing for us to do is to find out if FUNERAL DIRECTOR In This State. During Summer Mortfhs. possible, "why the oats has lodged. The highest producing cow, a purebred Heimer, seven Gleason & Odden, Business Residence The rain we had about the 6th of the Holstein owned by the Minnesota four George A. Dutcher, two Bro.okholm Nine new Varieties of plums developed r~ The Phone 2512 Phone 2213 big-drop in egg production that by university horticultural experts month certainly was ideal and should Holstein company is credited Farm, three J. R. Woods, seven ^occurs AUSTIN, MINN. on most farms during the summer will be shown citizens of the not "have caused the lodging which it with a record of 106.9 pounds of butterfat. Bragg & Banfield, two HalvtTrson months is lamentable because of state in the second annual plum field ,the did. The later rain was harder and Brothers five A. F. Haugland, great financial loss and because it day to be held at the state fruit breeding Js mostly unnecessary, according to would naturally cause some lodging. The perfect record achieved last one. farm Zumbra Heights, early in Prof. A. C. Smith, chief of the division month in the number of purebred I The following nineteen herds avers.ires There are several factors to consider: August. poultry husbandry, University Is our land too rich in nitrogen? in use in herds composing the aged over twenty-five pounds for The hardy, high quality and high Farm, St. Paul. yielding plum has been a vexing problem association is still in force, Mr. I butterfat: Funeral Director. Is it poor in phospherous, thus "Because the price of eggs gradually in this state for many years, bat The Establishment making a weak straw? Or, are we of increases from about the first of with the promising results appearing Service. Owner— This beautiful Rookwootl lamp was growing varieties of oats with weak Mo. Cows June until the winter months," he in the experimental orchards, fruit presented by the Cincinnati Elks to Minnesota Holste'.n company 20 1504 55.2 3.66 «ays, "monetary returns, thereafter, straw growers will soon have trees yielding President and Mrs. Harding. The presentation .are pleasing in proportion as the L. B. Hanna ,...13 779 43.5 5.59 We ought to determine the cause a product of high value, according to was made by little Miss Elizabeth maximum egg yield is approached* It of this lodging land resultant loss in J., R. Woods 12 729 38.3 5.25 R. S. Mackintosh, horticultural specialist CLIFFORD C. LECK, M. D. H. Schoot, oir the Hardings' anay be stated without fear of contradiction John Christgau 9 929 36.8 3.95 with the agricultural extension division yield and guard against it another Dial 2C38 thirty-first wedding anniversary. that under average conditions at University Farm, St. Paul. Henry Heimer 13 983 36.8 3.75 year. Physician and Surgeon flocks yield not more than 25 per cent Undoubtedly, he predicts, existing I Hirsh Block, Austin, Minn. S. M. Starks 14 916 33.3 3.63 Biliousness and Constipation. daring the summer months while if standard varieties now grown in Minnesota X-Ray and Laboratory Equipment "For years was troubled with biliousness Clover Lea Farms 20 943 33.8 .3.45 I the Old Easiness. flocks are well managed the yield Assistants— will be replaced by the new and constipat.on, which will be Lewis Larson 12 892 32.2 3.88 practically doubled, at a small I left my dad, his farm, his plow, varieties. Ernest H.Morris, M. D. made life miserable for me. My appetite additional expense." Otto Goetsch 13 775 31.8 4.10 Because my calf became his cow Mabelle Moore, R. N. Among the new fruits shown will be failed* me. lost my usual I Reasons given by Prof. Smith for A. J. Haugland 9 978 31.8 3.25 force and vitality. Pepsin preparations I left my dad—'twas wrong, of course the "Red Wing" or Minnesota No. 12 toe failure of farm flocks to maintain and cathartics only made matters of which B. B. Sheffield, former chair- Brookholm Farms 16 809 31.7 3.80 But my pet colt became his horse The Same Everywhere. Che worse. do not know where high production of April and May development I I man Qf the northwest H. M., Walters 4 554, 30.9 5.58 I left my dad to sow and reap The editor of Paisa Akhbar, a native ©r should have been today had not approximate it are, first, that feeding I committee of the Minneapolis Cham- newspaper of Lahore, India, Enright Bros 10 6451 30.2 4.68 I Because my lamb became his sheep tried Chamberlain's "Tablets. The conditions are likely to be differ- ber of Commerce recently said, cablets re 1 ieve~the ifl feeling"at once, says have used Chamberlain's Col- vJ. C. Schottler 23 767 29.6 3.85 I dropped my hoe and hit New York nothing had been done but the. development strengthens the digestive functions, !1C Diarrhoea Remedy many times and EL B. Hillier 22 525 29.6 5.60 Because my pig became his pork of this plupa, it would have helping- the system to do its work na-jaiV.ong' children and servants, for my Gleason & Odden 16 612 28. 4.51 The garden truck I made to grow, turally," writes Mrs. Rosa Potts collc and diarrhoea and always found Bieaiit millions to the state of Minnesota." Birmingham, Ala. K. O. Wold and'11 effective." K. O. old and Pooler A. P. Mackie 8 686 27.7 4.03 Was his to sell, and mine to hoe. Pooler Drug Co. |Dru8' Co- A tour of the experimental orchards Halvorson Bros. ..f 26 751 27.3 3.62 Believe me, too, I had to hoe— Advertisement—Mon. July. Advertisement—Mon. July. with "demonstrations" of the new Bragg & Banfield 19 441 26.2 5.90 There was no riding down the row. fruits "by sample" to the visitors will New Business be conducted early in the afternoon by Easter and the Rabbit. Art of the Story Writer. experts from the university's horticultural With dad and me it's half and half. Nearly all the world over the hare Story-writing is always experimental, TYLE staff. An' instructive and educational The cow I own was once his calf. is associated mythically with the just as a water color is, and that program is promised for the late moon, and it is on this account that I'm going to stick right where I am, something which does itself is the afternoon. the rabbit has so much to do with Because my sheep was once his lamb. vitality of it. I think we must know ERVICE Every citizen in the state is invited Eastei^ There has been much dispute what good work is before \Ve can do I'll stay with dad—he gets my vote, to participate, according to Mr. Mackintosh, as to why the hare should have good work of our own, and so I say, Because my hog was once his shoat, Governor J. A. O. Preus, the anything to do with the moon, but nobody study work'that the best judges have No town for me—I'll stick right here, board of regents of the university, and has arrived at any satisfactory ATISFACTION called good and see why it is good other prominent state officials are expected For he's made me tractor-engineer. conclusion on the subject. It is evidently whether it is, in that particular story, to attend. a folklore notion of extreme It's "even split" with dad and me the reticence or the bravery of speech, antiquity, which partly accounts for In a profit-sharing company. the power of suggestion that is in it, its wide distribution. The rabbit is or the absolute clearness and finality lation to summer egg production that work together from day to day nocturnal in habit, coming out at of revelation whether it sets you a warm house in winter does to winter Believe me boys it's the only way. KOBES' CAFE night to feed, and that might have thinking, or whether it makes you egg production. The keeper who started the idea. It is asserted by see a landscape with live human figure keeps the house cool and comfortable Sm„tty? .students of such matters that the left Yoor Grain living its life in the foreground. I by opening all the windows and..ventilators hind foot of a graveyard rabbit, killed —Sarah Orne Jewett. on exceptionally warm-day gets Last spring we advocated rea in the dark of the moon, represents A- C., Smith, Chief of the Division of his reward in a good supply of eggs ing seed grajn with the formalin the last quarter of the moon, and for Hog's Bristle First Hairspring. Poultry Husbandry, University at the time when they are bringing treatment to prevent smut. Very thatVeason is lucky. In the early days of watch-making FarnvSt. Paul. the average price for the year, or few however, thot it worth while as science had not yet developed steel more. they thot we would not be troubled sufficiently to be made a part of the Broody hens account for quite a loss. «nt. As the season advances, and the with smut. timepiece's delicate mechanism. It \V!nn man lias no luck ii is These should be and can be kept laying. weather becomes warmer, and the soil was therefore given to one of the commonest Lately quite a number of farmers iliy because be lias neither ability The real secret here, according dryer, the supply of insects and young, of barnyard animals—the pig— have complained of lots of smut in industry.—Atchison Globe. to Professor Smith, is to start quickly—remove tender greens essential to the fowl's to make an important contribution to their oats and wish they had treated. thenr from the nest the welfare becomes smaller and smaller the science of horology. The first When you think in terms of first night they desire to stay on put This is the time to note if your oats 'until it is insufficient to supply more hairspring was actually made from a buying a new battery think of them where there are no nests and no is affected and how badly. A few -than the needs of the body. This factor hog's bristle, and it worked very well places to set, feed well and treat well, Mr. Pep PHILADELPHIA is heads out of a hundred means a few especially influential because indeed, and also served to demonstrate and they will soon have had a sufficient DIAMOND GRID .many flocks are fed sparingly,- perhaps, percent and on a large field that the correctness of the principle involved. vacation to feel perfectly willing of hard grains while the mashes The next step was the substitution It is a proven thing of merit. means many bushels loss. to go to work again. containing the animal food or protein, Users of our batteries will tell of a steel spring, and this While the general impression that to you that they give consistently the lack of which the failure in the led to the development of the coiled it is the usual thing for hens to fall The Patriot good service under the most adverse /egg crop is due, are not fed at all. hairspring which is in use in the .modern off sharply in egg production during conditions. External parasites are responsible He was a careless sort of cuss, watches. the summer months is not unfounded, 'for much of the drop in egg production He didn't yell and fume and fuss I E E A E O A N this depression in supply need be because, they irritate and worry the About the Land of Liberty neither deep nor abrupt, according'to 'fowls and are generally present in 212 EAST BRIDGE ST. PHONE: 2610 And wave the flag "from sea to sea," Professor Smith. Much depends upon Jarge numbers during the hot weather. •the breeding of thes hens in question. He didn't yell to beat the band "If we were to place these losses at If they have the inherent tendency to About our "brave and glorious land," *10 for every fifty hens and a proportionate lay they will keep well up to maximum He didn't act as if he thought sum for larger and smaller.flocks production, which^usually occurs %. GET PRICES on VEAL and CHICKENS during the summer months," The rest were traitors,. and he ought in April and May, long after June 1, cigarettes •says Professor Smith, "we would To bawl them out till they'd agree how long depending upon feeding, individuality -create some surprise yet, let us analyze before selling elsewhere To his one view of loyalty. and care. Care is important the statement and see what the because a poorly cared'for hen Nope! Being sort of meek and mild R. H. JOHNSON & SON MEAT MARKET improbabilities are. Ten dollars means never shows, nor is it possible for her He took his honest hands and piled fifty dozen eggs or less, which is one to show, the results of "good breeding. 226 East Mill St. Eight'into life and did his best alozen eggs for each hen in the flock "Some of our flocks at University To make things happy for the rest during a period of four months time, Farm are now laying between 50 and or less than three eggs per hen per With service and with sacrifice 60 per cent," says Professor Smith, anonth. A hen does not have to be He had no time to criticize, "and these results are brought about t)Othered by many mites or lice to reduce in several ways." He figured torbe goo'd and true her yield three eggs per month "Flocks are fed plentifully with a Was1 just about all he could do *fior must she be bothered with a very balanced ration consisting of grains, To show his love for Uncle Sam •great many to stop laying altogether animal food in proper proportions with And so he saved his diaphragm ,as a great many hens do in warm an unlimited supply, of greens, grit weather. If one quarter of the hens And didn't stretch his vocal cords and oyster shells. They are kept They are GOOD! groups «^nd .lAbq*? stop laying because of the presence To be a Patriot in Words free or practically free from lice, groups. The st sf mites, the number of eggs missed which means that one may be seen So, free from agitating frets, re will be equivalent to the loss of three Here Are Some of Our Every Day Prices now and then as on any farm where o£ os He loved his friends, and paid his •eggs per hen per month for every hen any number are kept. The houses are &.ve. debts, 'kept, and furthermore, it is safe to say kept comfortable by regulating the So I've a notion, maybe he that a larger proportion by far than She ventilation to suit the day and the Cfoops -i one fourth the farm flocks are sorely Was loyaller than you or me! weather the broody hens are broken 15c Per Lb. Picnic Hams pestered by these parasites. If we had up at oace, sick hens are removed at We sell poultry supplies and! placed the loss at two or three times 12^c" II Bacon Squares once, and those that fail to produce News advertising brings results. •that figure the statement would have feed for aniihals that will satisfy under these favorable conditions and I 4een more nearly correct. When one Fancy Bacon Strips are healthy and in good flesh are culled all of them. It considers the 160,000 flocks iwith an out and marketed at least once, a 5c Boiling Beef ^average of 74 hens each on Minnesota J. F. FAIRBANKS month. The last item is important. It FULL '0 PEP larcns, the appalling loss through neg The non-layers should be culled out Thick Short Ribs of Beef 8c 4eet to eradicate these pests is appar- rjg]j^ along until only enough are left tl J'OUI.TRY FEf.IS i^llt nnn nn«l'o Vlfonfloro Tllfl VflCI'llf for next season's breeders. The result Beef Steak 20c Another reason for low production of such a method will be that the best ii ^during the summer months comes PEED FOR ANIMALS Hamburger Steak of your flock will be the ultimate survivors. 9c Dealer In brough failure to realize that a hen It is important also to remember *an be about as uncomfortable when Beef Roast 10e-12^c-15c that"the layers for next season Hay, Straw, Mill Feed COAL, WOOD, LIME, -very much too warm as when too cold. should be sought among the early matter where or what the ^Keeping the hen house cool enough -to hatched spring stock." CEMENT, SEWER electrical trouble is, we can We give special prices to formers buying in large be comfortable bears the same re- All kinds of feed for animals. make the proper repairs. It will BRICK AND WALL pay you to have your work done The longer they grow the more quantities for tKreshing, etc. PLASTER. Nobody puts in a longer day for- the by us. HARE & GOSS weeds there'll be and the harder to communlty than the publisher of the kill 'em. turaie town newspaper. FEED & SEED STORE Office 301 East ^Bridge St. MELP A self feeder Wr the spring pigs University of Southern WANTED: Correspondents FARRELL MEAT COMPANY gets 'em. to market before it is glutted wanted all over Mower County by Minnesota Phone: Main 32 with those that grow slowly because Austin, Minn, S the Mower County News. If you like 119 East Bridge Street they are fed by band. Phone-7502. to write or think you can «ew8, inquire at the New*, office Austin, Minn. .about our proposition. 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