ssr .is. •f.-l *«. r* MOWER COUNTY NEWS, AUSTIN, MINN. Page Six Monday, Sept. 4,1922. W I I JtosLuimZ 0 LIVE AGRICULTURAL NEWS OF INTEREST AND VALUE TO MOWER CO. FARMERS, Raise More and Better 9 Crops, Marketing and Pure Bred Livestock Farm Bureau Notes. ALL PARTIES BACK Irish Nature Faker. Prosperity Seed Corn Time Rolls Round Again Best The following telegram, writes an Selection Dates from September 10 to 20 Irish reader, was sent by a Western R. SURAL CREDIT ACT follows the Dairy Cow I. O. man from a outlying district to his sergeant: "Motor just passed at BE SURE YOU ATTEND THE National Dairy furious rate in direction of town. "The best authorities on seed best ears only from cho most Exposition oct. %'VFi Killed heifer containing four gentlemen vigorous plants are used fofseed, corn selection agree that it is Politics Plays No Part and two greyhounds, one of which was the chances of getting a-ftill best' to pick, ears from the best a clergyman." 4 in Campaign for crop of corn are greatly increased. plants growing in full hill Amendment.- stands," says-Andrew Boss, vice •x- -i' -t- -i- -t- "Every farmer who succeeds GUY BRADFORD director of the Minnesota Experiment has pride in his crops. Almost cPertinent Pointers for Practical Farmers I THOMAS A. CONLON 1 Station at University By Farm Bureau News Service) any farmer would be pleased to Auctioneer Farm. "These plants' most Minnesota voters this year will Prepared by the Agricultural Department, University of Minnwoca grow the best corn, in the community. I AUCTIONEER easily be found before the corn To do so he must have 3-iave the unusual experience of passing" stalks freeze or dry out. This PHOSPHATE NcfcUtU ON good seed as well as efoocl land. judgment on a measure that is HORSE SUPPLANTING TRACTOR Graduate of Jones Auctioneering method of. selection gives an The care of the crop begins with sponsored by every political party in 10,000 MINNESOTA FARMS School of Chicago ON NORTHWEST FARMS opportunity for observing the the selection and ^curing of the Abe state. The man who makes auctionesrifig health and vigor of the plants seed. The man who observes "This measure is a constitutional his business. Crop Rotation a Rapid Depletor of Tractor Fuel, Wear and -Tear Cost from -which seed ears are taken raroi/mlrnent, which comes up at the /Seed Corn Time for making the Office, Austin Feed Barn Natural Phosphates. and their behavior under competition general election on Nov. 7. Amend-' More Than Horse. selection will have an advantage DIAL 2156 FOR DATES I in hills with other plants, merit No. 1, the rural credits amendment, in growing next year's crop that Dial 7180 It is probable that phosphate can AUSTIN, MINN. Recently summarized data collected "It is probable that the best has the outspoken endorseof counts for much. The extension be used with profit at present on at by the farm management division on stalk in a hill of corn will have a division of the agricultural college every party. The platforms *$. ,•« least 10,000 farms in Minnesota, says a group of farms in Steele county good ear and that seed from that has announced September vol the Republican, Democratic and Dr. F. J. Alway, chief of the division show that on ten' farms where tractors of soils at University Farm. ear will again produce plants 10 to 20 as the most favorable Farmer-Labor parties approve it in were owned the use decreased The phosphate content of soils in ..unmistakable terms. Politics plays that will do well under competition period for seed corn selection in GET PRICES on VEAL and CHICKENS 28 per cent in 1921 as compared with general is low, he finds, and most of 1920. In 1920 these ten tractors averaged with other plants. 'If the Minnesota this year." no part in the campaign now under those in ^Minnesota form no exception. before selling elsewhere 415 hours of use in 1921 only way in Minnesota to obtain passage Further, phosphate is sold off the 298. Of the 415 hours in 1920, 313 R.H. JOHNSON & SON MEAT MARKET jaf the amendment. farm in the form of grain, milk and Yates & Lewis Add 1.00 were spent at traction work and 78 Real Estate Transfers -Leaders in the campaign for the live animals. To replace that removed hours oi belt work. Of the ten tractors P. W. Peterson et ux to Jno. 226 East Mill St. samendment are emphasizing that the in the bones of aij ordinary only two were used more in C. Heimer' et .ux Lts. 11 cow, for example, requires the purchase sneasure is designed to develop the 1921 than in 1920. The use of the Deeds of a 125 pounds sack of ordinary 36 Yates & Lewis Add. ... 1.00 prosperity of the Whole state, without others was cut from 35 to 613 hours Willie S. Elliott et ux to Jno. acid phosphate. A good steer removes one per cent of cost to the tax per farm. In 1920 six tractors were Robert Fitzgerald to Leo & much more, and young animals make Olson—N. W. 16-101 N14 used 400 hours or more, in 1920, only payers. Raymond Fitzgerald—Lts. a heavier draft upon the land" in proportion CLOSING OUT SALE ,.. 1.00 two. The use of horse labor, on the 5 & 8 B. 13 Balcoms Add... 1.00 to the feed they consume than $150,000 SAVED other hand, increased on these farms Laura M. Lane et ux to Joseph mature animals. James M. Gait to Robert Fitzgerald an average of 610 hours per farm in Notestin—S1^ Lts. 5 & 6 One of the most rapid methods of 1921 over 1920. Lts. 5 & 8 B. 13 Balcoms We are quitting farming and will sell all our stock Block 15 Woodlawn Park exhausting the phosphate supply of a BY PRICE SLASH The cause for this substitution of and farming equipment at Public Auction at the farm Add 2,000.00 farm is the use of a good rotation, says Add 1.00 horse labor for tractor labor, according Dr. Alway, which includes clover, the ,known as the old Cook Farm, 1 mile west of Oakwood A. D. Schaefer et ux to Martin Irene Huss to Amanda Swancer—Part to Prof. G. A. -Pond, in charge of feeding of all the produce to cattle, cemetery on $ Hoban E% S. E. 8104N-16W cost accounting at University Farm, Lot 1 B. 13 Morgan's and the return *of the manure to the is apparent to one who observes the Thursday, September 7 S a is on in 1.00 Add 1.00 fields. One of tlie Inost progressive relative pirce of tractor fuel and Theresa Young et al to Anna Martha Ferguson to E. A. Sales PracticallyDoubled. livestock farmers in the state, who for horse feed for these two years. The B. Roble—Lots 10 & 12 9 Sale Commencing at 11:00 A. M.—Free Lunch at Noon. thirty years has devoted himselt to Clark—N. W. 9-103-15.. 1.00 beef production, treated a strip five 8—HEAD OF HORSES—8 rods wide acrbss five fields of his 1 Bay Mare, 4 years old, wt. 1400 lbs. 1 Bay Mare, farm. Clover alone of the crops 6 years old, wt. 1400 lbs. 1 Bay Gelding, 6 years old, wt. showed a very marked response In *£By Farm Bureau News Service) 1500 lbs. 1 Gray Gelding, 4 years old, wt. 1250 lbs 1 HOTSON'S SECOND ANNUAL HOG SALE the first year, but on this the yield Price reductions on farm machin-ery Black Gelding, 3 years old, wt. 1100 lbs. 1 Black Mare, from the phosphate treated land was manufactured at the Minnesota 10 years old, wt., 1200 lbs. 1 Sorrel Mare, 5 years old, four times as heavy as on the ufr state prison, granted in response to wt. 1150 lbs. 1 Spring Colt. treated. The sold was typical black a request by the Minesota Farm Bureau silt prairie lo^m. 85 Head Pure Bred Chester White Hogs 9—HEAD OF CATTLE—9 federation, have saved farmers About twenty years ago phosphate 7 Good Milch Cows 1 two-}rear-old Heifer 1 year- 1* 5$150,000 this year. rock was found in Utah and later in ling Heifer. Tried Sows, Spring Gilts, Spring Boars and Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana, but A repoi-t from the state prison 75—HEAD OF HOGS—75 not until about 1908 was the great extent machinery plant shows that 7,108 Feeding Shoats of the phosphate fields recognized. 13 Brood Sows, some have litters and others will far- $ farm machines have been sold this In that year 7,000 square miles row shortly 16 Spring Shoats 15 Summer Pigs. year. These sales include 2,379 binders, were withdrawn from public entry MACHINERY 3,028 mowers, and 1,701 rakes. The above will be sold at public auction at the farm 8 miles south with the result that now the world's 1 7-foot Deering Binder with trucks 1 Dain Hay of Austin, 6 miles northwest of Lyle and 4 miles northeast of London They represent an increase of 139 Neatest reserve of phosphate is to on the River Road on Loader 1 13-inch John Deere Gang Plow 1 16-inch Janesville percent in the sale of binders, 38 per be found on land belonging to the federal Sulky Plow 1 5-foot McCormick Mower 2 6-Shovel government. Minnesota is the ffent in the sale of mowers, and 10 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8 nearest prospective market of any John Deere Cultivators 1 1-2-foot McCormick Play Rake per cent in the sale of rakes, over the conisclerable magniture for this western 1 G-Shovel Case Cultivator: 1 4-Section Iron Harrow 1 8foot number of machines sold last year. at 1:00 P. M. Sharp phosphate. Disc 1 Bob Sleigh 1 Stoughton 1 in. Truck Wagon The price reduction obtained by "It would appear," says Dr. Alway, 1 Stoughton Tripple Wagon Box 1 Hay Rack. the Farm Bureau has saved approximately "that every progressive farmer would 3 Tried Sows, Due to Farrow September 20th. $150,000 for the farmers be wise to try a sack or two of some HAY and OATS Prof. G. A. Pond readily available phosphate, applying 36 Spring Gilts 36 Feeding Shoats 5 Tons Timotry Hay 400 Bushels Oats. who bought these machines. In charge of cost accounting, University it in long narrow strips on his fields, •"As a result of the co-operation of 10 Good Stretchy Spring Boars Trms:—All sums of ten dollars and under, cash. On Farm, St. Paul, Minn. and then keep the experiment under ^the Farm Burau, farmers have gained sums over that amount a credit of one year's time will be close observation for a- few years. Every animal is pure-bred and eligible to registry. They are of more confidence in the state prison given on approved notes bearing 8 per cent interest from From the response of tlie crops he the most modern type Chester Whites. They have made a splendid relative price of tractor fuel and machinery," Meyer Bernstein, date of sale. can decide for himself whether he growth and are bound to do well for their new owners. An exceptional by the farmers was 29 cents in 1921 manger of machinery sales, said in an opportunity for one to buy foundation stock. The gilts will be can use phosphate with decided advantage. Harvey Brothers, Owrvers it was 24 cents. Kerosene cost 21 sold in pens of five and the feeding Shoats will be sold in pens of five official report. "Very few more, if It is importont, however, to cents in 1920 and 14 cents in 1921: or more. We invite you to be with us on sale day and promise to show any more, harvesting machines yrere emphasize that the question must be The average farm price of oats in you a select offering "of real big type Chester Whites. They" will sell Col. Albert Hopfe, Auctioneer. settled on the individual farms, as •sold to farmers in 1922 than in i921, Minnesota in 1920, on the other hand, to the highest bidder without reserve. Farmers & Merchants State Bank, Clerk. many may find little or no effect on but we did receive a larger percentage was 70 cents a bushel in 1921 it his land although on his neighbor's was 28 cents. Corn in 1920 was $1.20 One Hereford Bull, 4 Years Old—Any one interested in a high of this business, and for this drops it has proven very profitable. per bushel in 1921, 41 cents. Hay in class Bull of the best possible blood lines as well as individuality credit is due very largely to the 1920 was $14.76 per ton, and in 1921, could hardly make a mistake in buying this herd sire on September Farm Bureau." Entomological Specimen Hunt. 8th. Remember he is yours for the bidding. $8.30. These farmers used an average of one gallon of gasoline to four Dr. H. H. Knight, assistant professor gallons of kerosene. This would make of entomology at University Farm, TERMS—Eight Months on Approved Notes Bearing 8% Interest. TYLE 250 Tons of Feed the average cost of tractor fuel per nationally known expert on certain Needed for Animal gallon 22.6 cents in 1920 and 16 cents insect groups and a taxonomist of wide VANCE B. HOTSON, Owner. in 1921. Allowing a horse 50 bushels reputation, with Dr. H. B. Hungerford, At State Fair ERVICE of oats, 35 bushels of corn, and three an authority on aquatic insects and one-half tones of hay annually, from the University of Kansas, and COL. ALBERT HOPFE, Auctioneer. the average cost of horse feed in 1920 W. E. Hoffman, research assistant at R. A. ANDERSON, CLERK, First National Bank, Lyle, Minn. Over 250 tons of straw and hay, ATISFACTION was $128.66,' and in 1921, only $57.40. University Farm, is now on an extensive .and 25 tons of grain and mill feed, Thus tractor fuel had declined only three weeks' expedition into extreme. "w'll be needed to provide "eats" for 29 per cent in price, while horse feeel northern sections of the state the hordes, cattle, sheep, swine and had declined 55 per cent, or nearly collecting specimen for the University's poultry at the Minnesota State Fair, twice as much. entomological museum and conducting "Tractor manufacturers and horse ihis week. a detailed survey of the insect AUCTION SALE KOBES' CAFE breeders associations may urge the life of northern Minnesota. .No exhibitor of stock is to be permitted ••'•i/im iim relative merits of tractors and horses Thousands of new insects will be secured to bring any feed for his animals as sources of farm power with all the, as a result of the trip. During to the fair this year. It must eloquence of which they are capable," the summer of 1921, 20,000 specimens all be bought of the forage department. said Professor Pond, "but the farmer were collected by Dr. Knight who is The piling up of hay and grain As I have rented farm, I "will sell at public Auction on the Dennison who has both available keeps his eye. curator of the entomological museum VTVVV big piles in all the barns so in«creases We Sell Cheaper steadfastly on the relative prices of for the University. The survey is one Farm, 2 miles west, 1% miles north of Lyle, 10 miles south of Austin kerosene and oats and adjusts his of a series which when completed will the fire hazard as to make power supply accordingly. This is give the University as comprehensive ON MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 the policy a dangerous one. It also just one of the niany examples that and complete a collection of the inse'ets takes up a lot of valuable exhibit might be cited of the readiness with of the state as are found in any space.'"The fair will sell all its feed AT 11:00 A. M. SHARP FREE LUNCH AT NOON state university in the country. More which the farmer reacts to changing on a cost basis, and rigidly enforce than 75,000 mounted specimens from economic conditions." the following described property: •jx standardized scale of prices for evcerything. all corners of the globe are now in the Here Are Some of Our Every Day Prices cabinets of the museum. Dr. F. L. Horses—1 Team of .Geldings, black and brown, 9 and 11 years old, Eutterfat. Dairymen Lose $2,081,919 weight 2900 pounds 1 Team of Black Mares, 5 and 6 years old, Washburn, professor of entomology u'The forage department," says If the analyses of 742 butter weight 3,000 pounds Team of Blacks, 1 Gelding^and 1 Mare, 6 and and economic zoology in the division, Superintendent H. L. Elliott, "must samples taken from entries in the 7 years old, weight 2800 pounds 1 Black Gelding, 4 years old, expects to add several hundred more be run in about the same way as a Minnesota butter scoring contest conducted weight 1500 pounds. exotic specimens during his Polynesian !4c Per Lb. Picnic Hams by the state dairy and food .delicatessen shop in a Vig apartment expedition on which he is to start commission wer^ taken as an index CATTLE—8 Milch Cows, some milking, some coming fresh in fall and Sio-ose. Like the proverbial flat•SweUer, in September. Dr. A. Riley, chief W. Bacon Squares 12^c" winter 5 Calves 1 Yearling Steer 1 Bull, 3 years old this fall. of composition of the 170 million the stock exhibitor does not of the division, is now in Porto Rico pound output in 1921, a total loss to have much room for anything, which under auspices of the Rockefeller Fancy Bacon Strips 20c HOGS—2 Sows, to farrow soon 60 Spring Shoats. Minnesota dairymen of $2,081,919.06 Foundation investigating disease parasites, iimikes it necessary for him to go resulted because of the incorporation particularly the hookworm. MACHINERY—McCormick Mower, 5 foot McCormick Binder, 7 Thick Short Ribs of Beef 6c Shopping ^or hay and grain two or of more than 80 per cent of fat in the foot 2 C-^rn Cultivators Fuller & Johnson Disc McCormick Hay three times a day. Two bookkeepers,, butter, accroding to Prof. J. R. Keithley, Rake Rude Manure Spreader Janesville Gang Plow 14 inch foot If ypu w,in at the fair, don't crow Boiiing Beef 4c of the dairy division, who is conducting iSHCD special elerks, and other as sis tsoJ't® lift Janesville Gang Plow, 14 inch lever lift Van Brunt & Davis if you lose, don't grouch. Spend your the tests. Consumers of but-' are needed to take care of all Seeder, 8 foot Sod Plow, 14 inch Walking Plow, 14 inch Walking time learning why you lost or won Hamburger Steak 9c ter, he declared, are entitled to an 80 Plow, 16 inch Wooden Drag, 26 foot Iron Drag, three sections fie business done. maybe the judge will tell you. per cent product, but more than that High Wheel Wagon 2 Truck Wagons Hay Rack Bob Sled Triple "We will sell more than $10,000 Beef Roast 9c-15c" amount of butterfafr means an unnecessary Box Sattley Cream Separator Galvanized Water Tank Fanning Hens receiving a 11 the animal protein sworth of feed during fair week." Mill 3 Sets Harness, IY2 inchf 2 Section Spring Tooth Harrow loss to the farmer. they need will produce about 50 Gallon Gasoline Tank 1 Cutter Single Buggy About 14 Acres Special Prices Given to Farmers Buying in Large three times as many eggs in the year Checked Corn About 10 Acres Drilled Corn Many other articles Early-plowed land brings more jftapol««n'a Summary of Hi* Life. fcs those receiving none. too numerous to mention. Quantities for Threshing etc. wheat. AM given to Barry O'Meara, his surgeon at St. Helena in August, 1817, Nafpoleon's Build first on paper. It's cheaper TERMS—AH sums of $10.00, and under, cash on amounts over that We Pay the Highest Cash Price for Poultry. summing up of his finish was: to rub out than to tear out. eight months' time will bes given on bankable notes bearing eight Pig* Not Naturally Dirty. "1 should have died at Moscow. I had per cent interest. Pigs are popularly looked upon .as fought 50 battles without a check, Young folks are smart, but all ain't dirty animals, but tliey are not really I commanded. I would have good that's new P. H. DENNISON, Owner. FARRELL MEAT COMPANY so, and the unclean appearance of the I guess the grangers they knowed dfftn In history as the greatest *. domestic porker Is/generally the result sunthin', too.—Lowell. at conquerors. The English sent me 119 of the condition of its sty. Inrits wild First National Bank of Lyle. to force me to commit suicide, East Bridge Street R. A. ANDERSON, Clerk, A. O. AUSTINSON, Auctioneer., state, the pig keeps itself clean by If the heel of the loaf dries out so I will not do that, because it is bathing in river or lake, and rubbing the bread cannot be served, grind it desire. I am a fatalist and be. until dry against tree trunks. fbr escallops and croquettes, .w SH re in that respect as the 1 O A