90 CO. FARMERS. Raise More and Better? Crops, Marketing and Pure Bred Livestock Farm Bureau Notes. COUNTY DMT FOR of a rare treat in store for them in OLDEST WOMAN FARMER? Early Struggles Beneficial. the shape of an all-day meeting, a You can't always tell what's in a lad RURAL SCHOOLS beekeepers' picnic and field meet, at from knowing his start. Many a poor Dubuque, August 19. This is to be family ha's worth in it that only hard one of the biggest affairs of the year problems can develop. When the time comes such children of fortune will and the"talent gathered will be enough m. Education Association arise ana earn what fate has been reluctant and of a quality to equal the state to bestow. And often straitened conventions. We are extremely fortunate Points to Value circumstances in early life bring by F. L. LIEBENSTEIN, in having with us some of the untold fitness later. The struggle to of System. County Agent, Mower Co. foremost authorities on the subject succeed develops habit that remains in the entire world. dynamic through life.—Grit. ^Pertinent Pointers for Practical Farmers Loss Caused by Tuberculosis. Already in use in mort than twentyfive Those planning to attend can write The county agricultural agent receives states, the county-unit school system HELP WANTED: PttpwM* by the Agrlcvltufal Uahtnkr of MJnneMtm Correspondents to the county agent at Dubuque or from W. A. Peck, livestock is being adopted in others. It is wanted all over Mower County by can go to the County Agent's office commissioner of South St. Paul, a the Mower County News. If you like developing in some of Minnesota's BIG MONEY IN BABY BEEVES TUBERCULOSIS BULLETIN upon their arrival to get more explicit card giving a report of hogs sent to to write or think you can write northern counties. It was favored in HAS BEEN ISSUED directions regarding the location of news, inquire at^ the News office that market with tuberculosis or addresses at the July meeting of the Results of Trial of Feeding Proves the meeting. about our proposition. See City WN'v', bruises for that week. National Education Association in Editor. 10-tf. Standard Rations Best. Poultry Is Subject to the White For the three weeks from July 22 Boston, by the National Bureau of Plague—How to Control. to August 5, of 88,569 hogs marketed Education, the Minnesota Department "If you want to make money feeding 19,572 or 22 per cent were tagged of Education, and the Education TYLE baby beeves, feed purebreds, and feed An l&page, finely illustrated bulletin for tuberculosis and of the 88,569 Association, which is recommending silage. If you live where corn is not on tuberculosis of poultry has just hogs marketed 14,481 or 16 plus per readily available, barley can be used been Issued by the agricultural extension several improvements in schools in cent had bruised carcasses. The actual with fairly satisfactory results." division of the university. Dr. Minnesota with the key note, "Equal ERVICE After a feeding trial with 60 head W. A. Billings, who has made a special loss for the three weeks for educational opportunity for all children." of beef calves, fed with various rations, study for years of poultry diseases, bruised carcasses was $28,203.71 at these are the conclusions reached is the author. The bulletin explains two packing plants. Who stands this ATISFACTION Differences exist in the plan in different by Prof. W. H. Peters, and the causes and symptoms of tuberculosis, loss? We can answer "The Farmer states, but these facts are Prof. N. K. Carnes, of the division of Is Mrs. F. Rhodes of Monticello, III., how the disease spreads, cr Producer." Who is at fault? animal husbandry at University Farm the oldest active .woman farmer in the typical. The county-unit school system how it may be distinguished from There are many chances of hogs getting Using a standard ration of shelled United States? Many think so, and other diseases, and what should be means the substitution of the corn, ground oats, linseed oil meal and have entered her name in the contest done to control and eradicate. Dr. bruised and those who load at county for the local community as a alfalfa hay as the basis from which to to determine the oldest man and woman Billings emphasizes the importance of the farm and stock yards should bear KOBES' CAFE ii it ii ii ii school district. Cities have their own start, four pens of purebreds, one of still actively holding up their end prevention and says it is useless to in mind that rough handling causes superintendent and and supervisors grades and one of scrubs, ten to a lot, of the operation of -a farm in the treat tuberculous birds with any medicine bruises which in time causes money are usually exempt from the operation were fed in attempt to answer these United States, to be decided at the or tonic. Once a bird has become as all buyers must buy on a losses of the system, but the rest of the three questions of first importance to Central States Fair and Exposition at infected, there is no cure, and margin wide enough to cover losses county becomes one producers of baby beef in Minnesota. all efforts should directed towards Aurora, 111. Mrs. Rhodes was born in district, usually be "What would the effect of adding incurred by bruised meat. be preventing and has spent all her life on the healthy one?, from contracting 1842 at the option of the local districts, corn silage to the standard ration upon farm. Her husband died the disease. in 1910, and About the surest and quickest way GET PRICES on VEAL and CHICKENS and boundary lines are drawn, teachers the way the calves would feed, since then she has If the presence of the disease in the had active charge to check the percentage of tuberculosis are selected, and school affairs the rate of gain, cost of g^ins, finish flock is suspected he advises that a of the farm and keeps no help but a before selling elaswhere in hogs is to have the cattle on are managed by a county board of produced and selling price?" sick ov dead bird should be sent to the small boy, whom she has adopted and the place tested and if there are reactors education working with the county "What would be the effect of substituting. veterinary division, University Farm, who attends school. She does all her JLc.* tl O'jCii JSOiA OZ .1 to got rid of them and clean superintendent who is chosen by the ground barley as the princi-1 St. Paul for examination. own milking and chores, and she says: 22a East Mill St. i'p the place. pal grain in place of shelled corn?" board. The county is a considerable There are three ways in which the "I have never thought of being old." The federal and state livestock "How would the purebred, the highj disease may be eradicated, he finds. Her philosophy seems to have been a contributor to. school support. Thy grade, and the calf of common beef If the flock is small and of no great sanitary boards are again receiving great help to her, and aside from being people may still retain control by type and mixed breeding compare active and healthy she is known applications for tuberculin testing- in gaming the members of the board. the when full fed on same standard all over the We Sell Cheaper surrounding counties for herds. Advantages of County Unit. ration?" her genial disposition. Any one desiring to have his herd The United States Bureau of Results of the trial indicates that Education tested for the accredited list may get the standard ration when fed to the presents the following advantages a Getting Her to Take Chance. an application blank at the County standard purebred beef calf produces of the county-unit namely, a A kindly old lady stooped over a reclining satisfactory gains and a satisfactory Farm Bureau office or write to the small board for the management of beggar and produced a penny. market finish in a feeding period of State Veterinarian for same. county schools choosing the county The beggar eyed it disdainfully. 196 days. The addition of a full feed "Ma'am," he began, "Did you read superintendent by a board of education Tri-State Beekeepers' Meeting. of corn silage to the standard ration Here Are Some of Our Every Day Prices in de paper about de beggar dat died instead of by popular election, caused the calves to remain on feed a The beekeepers in the northwest and left a million dollars to a lady dat thus taking the office out of politics little more regularly, eat a little less section of the adjoining counties in give him a quarter?" grain, gain a little faster, make their insuring the choice of a competent V, other states will be delighted to hear seem to remember something of "I gains and teduced the cost per 100 •superintendent with standard qualifications Picnic Hams 14c Per Lb. the sort," repUed '.he old lody, "but—" pounds of gain, decreased the selling I and of better teachers by the "Well, dat guy was me brother. price by 6nly 10 cents per 100 pounds! Bacon Squares 12i£c" loard and the superintendent equalizing Dat's de kind of a family we are!" and left a profit of $17.90 per head inj educational opportunity thru I THOMAS A. CONLON favor of the silage fed calves as com-! Fancy Bacon Strips 20c equal school support, equal terms, pared with a profit of $16.15 per head' Not Bad Philosophy. George and equipment removing schools for those fed without silage. Dougherty, the detective Thick Short Ribs of Beef 6c The substitution of ground barley whose little book on travel in Europe from unwise local influences and rivalries for shelled corn in the standard ration: has made a hit, offers this philosophy promoting consolidation AUCTIONEER Boiling Beef 4c caused the barley fed calves to gain for. the man in moderate circumstances among weaker schools providing' supervisors more rapidly during the early part of who isn't satisfied with the lot. Hamburgsr Sfsak 9e £S helping-teachers and and the feeding period, but they fell off in "You can't sleep in more than one bringing business methods into school rate of gain toward the close of Hie bed," says Dougherty. "You can't eat 08-15G Beef Roast management. period. They were also a little harder at more tliau one table. You can't DR. W. A. BILLINGS to keep on feed especially during the Results of System. even ride in more than one automobile. DIAL 2156 FOR DATES oj Asst. Pror. of Pathology, Division latter part of the period than the cornfed Desirable results are already apparent. Special Prices Given to Farmers Buying in Large rSo why break your neck?" JVeterinary Medicine, University calves. The barley feeding decreased It is shown that better educated Farm, St. Paul. Quantities for Threshing etc. the gain per head for the entire and stronger county superintendents Mower County News Market feeding period a little, required value, and if several .birds have died are selected and that the average Place is the list place to anything slightly more feed per 100'pounds gain, We Pay the Highest Cash Price for Poultry. or are infected, it would probably be you may nave to dispose of. terms of both teachers and superintendents increased the cost per 100 pounds gain bes't to destroy the entire flock and Mr. Fep are longer. There is a by $1.07 and decreased the selling PRINTING start over again. If the flock is large price per 100 pounds by $0.30 thus great saving by reducing the duplication or valuable, eradication may be- attempted leaving a larger profit by $7.52 per of boards, teachers, and equipment. FARRELL MEAT COMPANY by means of physical examination head in favor of the cornfed calves, In one state the county-unit without destroying the entire Any kind you want Hogs following the barley fed calves, system increased the attendance of flock. This method requires the utmost 119 East Bridge Street however, effected a ^saving on .only Any quantity care and attention to the smallest children, the number who finished the $0.63 worth of feed per calf while hogs details for its success. The tuberculin eighth grade being increased over 50 following the cornfed calves effected you need test forms the third method and per cent, and the high school 500 per a saving of $1.37 worth of feed per may be applied to a flock that is valuable Get our prices calf. Gains were equal. cent. One county in Missouri which from a breeding standpoint. had fifty or more one and two-teacher The. first method has been found the PICRIC ACID NOW CHEAPER schools for white children reduced the most successful. MOWER COUNTY If it is found advisable to destroy number to fifteen consolidated scho «s. the whole flock, the birds should be This could not have been done, said Plenty of the Acid Available for All N E W S carefully examined and those free Needs. the superintendent, except under the from extensive lesions may be used 202 E. MILL STREET county-unit plan. The sections of for food. Before beginning anew, see A. J. Schwantes, land clearing specialist northern Minnesota having the unit that the house is well scrubbed out with the university, says that system are getting good results and with soap hot water then and and mum large supplies of picric acid are now the local districts are fast joining the thoroughly disinfected with five per available for cutover district farmers a J. F. FAIRBANKS cent solution of a coal tar disinfectant. county district. No state has abandoned and organizations interested in land BetterTires less Money far If the .floor is dirty, remove clearing. The university has on hafid the system after adopting it. about six inches and bury it. Resurface an unused allotment of 58 carloads of with fresh clean soil. If the floor WOMEN WORK FOR acid, and has been advised by Washington is well made of either concrete, tile that the allotment of picric to or wood, clean' and soak with disinfectant. Minnesota the coming fall can be materially Dealer In Buy your tires at our World Tire Store, get the best tires FARM PROSPERITY If the floor is not of good increased. built and save 25% to 40%. We can make you this bona Lots of chickcii material and hard to clean1, lay a new The stock of picric in sight for Minnesota COAL, WOOD, LIME, fide saving because we area unit in this great chain of retail tire one over the old. Turn over the soil is sufficient to clear 38,500 stores representing one gigantic buying power. Buying in huge fanciers doMwi&nl in the runs. Boil all the drinking cups CEMENT, SEWER PIPE, acres, says Mr. Schwantes, and orders quantities for Hundreds of stores reaching from coast to coast, we are for the acid in any amounts will be and clean the other utensils. When enabled to secure the finest tires in the market at rock-bottom prices. To Aid Campaign For BRICK AND WALL this is well done and a few weeks taken by the university. Every cutover LOOK AT THESE EXCEPTIONAL VALUES: their have passed procure new birds being More Dairy Farming. farmer can have his 1,000 pounds PLASTER. careful to get them a flock free from know (V. if he wants it. Michigan Cords Hall Cords Dunbar Fabrics disease. Mr. Schwantes also announces that If the second method is used the because of a recent reduction in freight GUARANTEED GUARANTEED GUARANTEED birds must be carefully examined by Office 301 East Bridge St. rates, picric will be somewhat cheaper 8,000 MILES 10,000 MILES You cant blame them for that. 6,000 MILES Appointment of a committee of hand. Examine for paleness of comb than in the past. He has figured it out 32x4 $23.45 1 31/2 $13.50 30V3 $ 7.95 women of the farm and town to work and wattles. Examine breasts with SEE US FOR that the price per stick will be*about Phone: Main 32 3Vfc»...... 20.45 33x4 24.15 30'x3V2 8.95 the hand for thinness and lack of 4 cents and the price per 100 pounds 4 ....... 22.85 with similar committees from all pai'ts 32jx 31/2 11.55 34x4 24.55 1 4 2 3 4 0 muscling the liver for enlargement about $11.82. A stick of picric will do FLOUR of the Northwest, to promote the increased Austin, Minn. 31x4 14.60 1 4 2 3 9 0 33x4y2 29.95 the same amount of work that a stick I and the joints for enlargements or use of milk and milk products 32x4 ....... 14.90 1 4x/z 28.75 of dynamite will do. The consumer! lameness. At the same time clean up 34x41/2 30.95 as a vital factor in the health and 33x4 15.55 1 4 /£. 29.95 1 really pays nothing for the material and disinfect. Do not allow the young 35x5 36.90 1 5 3 6 3 5 34 4 15.75 strength of the nation, will be announced costs to him are represented onl& by birds to run With the older ones for POULTRY SUPPLIES within a few days, according they are easily infected. After the the expense of cartridging and the COAST TO COAST. from A CHAIN OF STORES to a statement by Mrs. Rounds, first general weeding out watch the J. E. transportation charges. Orders should WOULD FULL O' PEP be sent to the university through the other birds and remove suspects as St. Paul, president of the Minnesota county agricultural agent or the community soon as they appear, and keep them State Federation of Women's clubs. POULTRY FEEDS isolated. If they develop further banker. Mrs. Rounds is serving as a volunteer C.C.L00MER symptoms kill them at once and burn in the movement which has engaged Some of your neighbors can tell you the carcasses. the attention of child welfare leaders The third method given by Dr. Billings how to cull out the low-producers from BEEKEEPEKS' SUPPLIES. 112 E. Maple St. in every state. is the .application of the tuberculin your flock. About- one in four is a FERTILIZERS test to the whole flock and the "With the franchise women have loafer, and this is the time of year when anyone trained to pick them out removal and destruction of those assumed certain new responsibilities," can do so easily. which react. Mrs. Rounds said. "One of these is to see that we obtain for the children HARE & G0SS ber 7 to 14. This exhibit will typify with the efforts of farmers and business a larger and better supply of milk. in every detail the remarkable* afforts men $o make agriculture steadily and another is to see to it that people I put forth for children by #ie leading The electrical system on your cair who do not yet realize the value prosperous." FEED & SEED STORE 'welfare organizations of the United Extensive preparations are being can be repaired right here in Austin. of milk are taught its worth as a States. made by leaders in women's work Why go farther?" builder of clean blood, stout muscle thruout the country for the marvelous Austin, Minn, and healthy brain. The National Universtiy of Southern Minn, Advertising is the art of making "Healthland" sjiow, an exhibit of the Dairy Exposition is worth your support, others think as you think about youi most elaborate nature at the National and when we give that support PHONE 6743. Dairy Exposition, twin cities, Octo- we art only keeping' step as v?e should 81 Ifia •jW'