w*v**' -t 3t|£r WJ 1 •w-Y* wmf */"*l V" SSI Page Six MOWER COUNTY NEWS, AUSTIN, MINN. Thursday, Sept. 14,1922 Q)».- Raise More and Better UVE AGRICULTURAL NEWS OF INTEREST AND VALUE TO MOWER CO. FARMERS. c* 'to Crops, Marketing and Pure Bred Livestock Farm Bureau Notes, DAIRY ENTRIES CLOSE Released Ghandi Followers Treated as Martyrs Auditor's Office Shakespeariana. ONSATURDAY Checks Out Record In the last 200 yaars more than 3,000 FACTS men and women have produced Sum In August books dealing with Shakespeare and his works. More than 500 have been National Dairy Exposition foreigners. It Is estimated 6,000,000 Checking out $423,618.37, the county were published during the past century. auditor's office established a record Offers Teh Money total during August, according Awards. USE MORE REGISTERED SIRES •X.-. "f to County Auditor O. J. Simmons. The total was divided in the following Notable Progress Is Reported in Move* GUY BRADFORD funds: County revenue, $6,056.75 Cattle entries for the 1922 National ment to Replace Scrub Bulls county poor, $936.19 roads With Purebreds. Dairy Exposition will close on Auctioneer and bridges, $31,980.31 redemption Saturday, September 16, according to fund, $697.98 state revenue, $48,- (Prepared by the United States Department an official announcement issued by of Agriculture.) P?4-69 state loans, $50,968.91 school There Is every reason to believe that W. E. Skinner, secretary of the National -districts, $1G0,110.03 townships, villages, Graduate of Jones Auctioneering the replacement of scrub and grade Dairy Association. and city, $121,253.25 teacher School of Chicago sires by purebreds is on the increase. Prospective exhibitors in competition insurance and retirement fund, $573.43 Reports received by the United States for the $35,000 offered in prize inheritance fund, $142.25 general Department of Agriculture from county money to purebred and grade cattle Office, Austin Feed Barn ditch and judicial ditch No. 6, $450.15 agents In various parts of the country (J showmen must mail their entry show that the "Better Sires—Better county attorney, $382.39 jail blanks to the St. Paxil office in the Dial 7180 Stock" movement is having a building fund, $1,102.04. Ryan Hotel on or before that date. noticeable effect. A recent statement PRINTING---*- by M. G. Lewis, county agent of Ten Money Awards. Rockbridge county,"Va., is typical of a In the regular classes as outlined large number. in the new prize list, ten animals will a "The purebred bull movement," receive money awards. The state •*4 Any kind you want THOMAS A. CONLON I says Mr. Lewis, "is progressing rapidly. herd class for all five breeds offers a Since January 1, 16 farmers have Any quantity great opportunity for small breeders disposed of grade or scrub bulls and AUCTIONEER Following their release from prison in ndia, where they served varieu sentences for seditionary acts, a group of with a few choice animals, to combine I you need are usitig registered bulls instead. On Ghandi followers were feted and parade about the city of Delhi. Garlands of flowers were placed about their necks, and make a distinctive showing for the other hand, there are no less than Get our prices luxurious carriages and other niceties were provided for the men who are looked upon as martyrs for the Indian their breed and state. 50 men in the county who still persist cause of freedom. •I* in holding out against the progress The man who makes aucI and development of the live stock interests tioneering his business. FEWER COWS IN MOWER COUNTY of the county by keeping inferior duction being 64.71 pounds of butterfat. Proclamation of Governor Preus grade or scrub hulls. I have a N E W S DIAL 2136 FOR DATES list of 56 owners of such bulls. Some AUGUST TEST Two herds in the association averaged of these men have grades that are Naming Diversified Farming Week AUSTIN, MINN. 202 E. MILL STREET over twenty-five pounds of fairly good individuals, while others butterfat during the month. Eighteen »I4 •14 *14 *£4 A have scrubs that are the worst kind cows in the Ginter and Ratcliff herd of a disgrace to the community and The people of Minnesota have just garnered a bountiful harvest. Low Production Season to the county. averaged 706 pounds of milk, 26.70 CLOSING OUT SALE But, as often happens, a large yield is accompanied by falling prices "The cost of a good registered bull pounds of butterfat, on a 3.7 test. which greatly reduce the farmer's reward for his season's labor. Affects Testing Is so small now that it is a mystery This year, as often before, many farmers find that production of Leslie Govier's seven cows showed a why any farmer will keep anything grain and hay is profitable only if they are fed to live stock. Report. production average of 699 pounds of In periods of low prices, just as seasons of poor yields, farmers milk, 26.94 pounds of butterfat, on who practice diversified farming to the highest degree suffer the least. As I am quitting farming and moving to Albert Lea, I will sell all my personal 3.8 test. There has been ample evidence of this during the business depression Two hundred and ninety-five cows property at Public Auction at the farm known as the Mike Sheedy farm of the last two years. Individual butterfat records were w°re tested in the Mower-Olmsted The production of milk, cream and butter, beef, and pork, mutton 5 miles south of Oakland and 6 miles northwest of London on shown by the report as follows: F. Cow Testing association during August, and wool, eggs and poultry, has relieved the farmers in many sections H. Reed & Son, grade Jersey, 42.43 of our state from the uncertainties of one-crop farming. It has given the report of T. G. Brownell, Monday, Sept. 18 N. W. Cooper Shorthorn, 64.71 J. farmers a steiady income in place of one that is seasonal. It has stopped ter, indicates. Only five produced the depletion of soil fertility which is a certain result of grain A. Nichols, grade Holstein, 40 Ginter 3r forty pounds of butterfat, but raising. & Ratcliff, grade Holstein, 44.23, t1 association average for the month We have made splendid progress in dairying and diversified farming, grade Holstein 40.69 A. Kahle, was 471 pounds for milk, 18.24 yet many communities have not realized in full the benefits they I grade Holstein, 30.83, grade Holstein, might derive thru using the methods best suited to the locality." COMMENCING AT 11:00 A. M. pDunds of butterfat. FREE LUNCH AT NOON Now, therefore, I, J. A. O. Preus, Governor of Minnesota, do 31.82 Leslie Govier, native, A milking Shorthorn, owned by N. Better Dairying Results Wnere Sires hereby proclaim and designate the week of September 25 to October 6 HEAD OF HORSES—1 Black Mare, 9 years old, weight 1350 lbs. 1 Black 38.74 J. M. Lane, grade Holstein, W. Cooper, was the highest producing 1 as Like This Are Used. Mare, 6 years old, weight 1300 lbs. 1 Bay Mare, 5 years old, weight 1200 36.12. cow in the association, her pro­ DIVERSIFIED FARMING WEEK, lbs. 1 Bay Gelding, 7 years old, weight 1100 lbs. 1 Pair Black Geldings, else. Many records have been kept and urge its observance thruout the state. AUCTION SALE 6 years old, weight 2600 lbs. during the last few years to prove Each community during that week should make a survey of its out the actual value of a purebred resources and the present farming methods, and make plans to increase 15 HEAD OF CATTLE—10 Milk Cows, coming fresh this winter 5 Spring bull in dollars and cents." the farmers' income by encouraging a diversity of production Calves. Some of these actual figures were and by converting a greater portion of farm crops into meat and dairy products. Since all our people are dependent upon the prosperity obtained recently by the Department 32 SPRING PIGS- of the farmer, civic organizations and commercial clubs should of Agriculture through an inquiry The undersigned will sell at public auction to the highest bidder on the co-operate with the farm bureaus in arranging meetings to promote MACHINERY—1 6-foot Cut Deering Binder 1 Success Manure Spreader sent out to more than 500 farmers Louis Tow farm just south of Rose Creek, the following described property, on better farming. •throughout the United States. These 1 7-foot Disc 1 9-foot Seeder 1 McCormick Mower, 5-foot 1 Steel 4 Section I wish, in this connection, to invite attention to the National SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1922 atnen gave it as their opinion that in Moline Drag 1 Set West Bend Sleighs, nearly new 1 Moline Sulky Dairy exposition be held at the State Fair grounds October 7 to tb lill kinds of farm stock purebreds have Plow, 12-inch 1 Fuller & Johnson Gang Plow, 12-inch 1 Narrow Tire Wagon 14. At this exposition will be exhibits which will show the wonderful an earning power more than 40 per with 2 boxes 2 Corn Plows, six-shovel 1 Hay Rack 1 McCormick possibilities of Minnesota agriculture and demonstrations of the SALE STARTS AT 10:00 A. M. FREE LUNCH AT NOON cent better than common stock. It ..is benefits to be derived thru the use of more and better live stock and Hay Rake 1 Spring Wagon 1 Cutter 1 Grind Stone 1 Corn Sheller 1 Sixty Shoats 1 registered Chester White Boar Pig, 450 pounds 1 Chester better farming methods. noteworthy that in the case of dairy Keystone Hay Loader 1 Primrose Cream Separator, Capacity 750 1 Range White Boar Pig, 250 pounds 15 good Milk Cows 1 Hereford Bull, 1600 In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the ureat cattle, whose productive power can be Stove and other Household articles. Seal of the State, this 30th day of August, 1922., pounds 36 Head Young Stock 35 Geese 6 Ducks 50 Chickens 1 Roan Team easily measured, purebreds were conttmn J. A. O. PREUS, Horses, 5 and 6 years, weight 2800 pounds. I Black and Bay Team, 8 years, 50 CHICKENS feldered to be 47.8 per cent better 10 ACRES HILL CORN Governor of Minnesota. Common cows. The lowest percenta_ itagfe weight 2800 pounds 1 two-row & O Cultivator. 1 Boiler Cultivator 1 TERMS:—All sums of ten dollars and under, cash on sums over that amount fclven for any kind of stock was 36.8 Boilor Cultivator 1 four-shovel Cultivator 1 Milwaukee Mower 1 Aspinwall fcer cent. a credit of nine months time will be given on approved notes, bearing Potato Digger 1 Hay Rake 1 McCormick Hay Rake 1 Walking Plow Tuesday, October 17.—Adam Arens & 1 Molina Gang Plow 1 8-foot McCormick Grain Binder 1 John Deere Corn Auction Date Book 8 per cent interest from date of sale. FLIES DECREASE MILK YIELD Sons, Austin. Horses, cattle, hogs, Binder 1 Moline Hay Loader 1 Aspinwall Potato Planter 18 Disc Pulverizer LEN CORNELIUS, Owner and machinery. Col. Albert Hopfe, 1 14 Disc Pulverizer 1 International Manure Spreader Owatonna Saturday, September 16.—Miss Mattie •praying Furnishes Means of Reliev. auctioneer. Spring Tooth 1 Single Buggy 1 1200 lb. Scale 1 Feed Cooker 1 Wisconsin Ing Cow For the Time and Save* Hollister's furniture sale, 204 COL. ALBERT HOPFE, Auctioneer. A. A. SORENSON, Clerk. Wednesday, October 25.—J. G. Meyers, Incubator 1 Successful Incubator 1 Colony Brooder 1 Washing Machine 1 Temper of Milker. Oakland State Bank. Courtland avenue, Austin. Col. Albert Potato Cutter 1 Grinding Stone 1 Wire Corn Crib 2 Iron Gates 1 DeLaval Adams. Shorthorn cattle, and Hopfe, auctioneer. Cream Separator 1 Slat Corn Crib 1 Hard Coal Heater 30 Loads Wood Poland China hogs. Col./Albert 90 Oak Posts Building 8 10 ft. 1 Table 1 Bed 200 feet Oak Lumber 30 The irritation of cows caused by John Merten, south of Rose: Hopfe, auctioneer. acres of corn in field and some potatoes other articles too numerous to mention. flies not "only lessens the milk produced, Creek,. Sale begins at 10:00 a. I but, due to the restlessness of m. A. O. Austinson, clerk. the cows, Is a frequent cause of Inefficient Duck Hunting SeaSon TERMS:—All sums under $10.00, cash over that amount six months' Monday, September 18.—Len Cor-1 milking. time will be given on approved bankable notes bearing 8 per cent interest. Opens Saturday nelius, five miles south of Oakland "An'Missus Johnson,you The fly spray furnishes a means of Any one wishing time should make arrangements with the Clerk before sale be sure to get Kellogg's and six "miles northwest of Lon-1 starts. Nothing to be removed until terms of sale are complied with. relieving the cow for a time at least Corn Flakes, because the don. Sale begins at 11:00 a. m. children won't eat any and of saving the temper of the milkers. JOHN MERTEN, Owner Wild ducks, geese, coots, rails, other kind. Kellogg's The following fly repellant mixture Col. Albert Hopfe, auctioneer. have the goody flavor gallinules, Wilson or jack snipe, and and theyare nevertough is recommended: Tuesday, September 19.—Chris. Miller, and hard to eat!" A. O. AUSTINSON, Auctioneer. STATE BANK OF ROSE CREEK, Clerk. greater and lesser yellow-legs may Four and one-half quarts of coal tar Dexter. Horses, cattle, hogs, be taken from September 16 to December dip, 4y2 quarts of fish oil, 3 quarts of and machinery. Col. Albert Hopfe, CLOSING OUT SALE 31 following, both dates inclusive. Children are, whale oil, IVs quarts of oil of tar and auctioneer. ounce of oil of pennyroyal. Dissolve Wood duck remain on the I 4 3 pounds of laundry soap in Wednesday, September 20.—Baird and protected list. The daily limit is fifteen- As we are dissolving partnership we will sell all our personal property water, add the ingredients of the spray quick toknowfello^gs Clark sale, Lansing. Col. Albert birds in the aggregate of all described as follows at public auction to the highest bidder on the L. D. Baird and bring the whole up to 30 gallons Hopfe, auctioneer. Sale begins at! kinds, and in addition five wild geese farm in the village of Lansing, Minnesota, on with lukewarm water. 10:00 a. m. may be taken. A person may pos- WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20,1922 This quantity will spray cows superior goodness Thursday, September 21.—J. H. Ault- sess forty-five of the above mentioned twice a day for 10 days. The spray father, Austin. Purebred Poland species at one time, including wild should be applied in the morning after SALE STARTS AT 10:00 A. M. FREE LUNCH AT NOON China Kogs. Col. Albert Hopfe,' geese, only five of which may be milking and in the afternoon when the 23 HEAD PURE BRED AND HIGH GRADE HOLSTEIN CATTLE— auctionesr. possessed. cows are in the barn for silage or 18 Choice Milk Cows of the highest producing qualities of which ten will green feed. Jim Penkava, on the old Joe Section 62 of the game laws speciChmelik Little folks instantly recognize Kellogg's freshen in October and November. Two of the above mentioned cows are farm, 2Y2 miles east offies that "Water fowl may be taken Corn Flakes from imitations! They know the recorded. 1 registered Heifer, coming two-year-old 1 registered Heifer, RELIABLE SOURCE OF PROFIT Myrtle, IV2. miles southwest of during the open season from the 3 months old 2 high grade Bull Calves, 3 months old 1 Bull, Sir Hartog delicious Kellogg flavor and they know that Oakland, and 4Y2 miles northwest' land, from a stationary blind used to Pontiac Abbekerk, three years old and a-proven sire out of a 73-pound Dam Kellogg's are never tough or leathery or hard and four daughters of his sire made 34 pounds in the seven day record. of London. Sale begins at 10:00 conceal the hunter, from a boat or Dairy Cow Is More Dependable Than to eat! NOTE: This herd has had the tuberculin test under the Federal supervision Beef Steer Because Her Products a. m. Col. Brown, auctioneer. canoe propelled by paddle or pole and is free from Tuberculosis. Sold subject to sixty day retest. No greater Are Steady. Friday, September 22.—Tom Lysuo,1 (other than a sail or power boat), Kellogg's Corn Flakes are so superior in opportunity this year to buy highly bred, healthy Holsteins.—Albert Hopfe. Blooming Prairie. Horses, cattle, when the same is within a natural flavor and in crisp crunchiness that once you The daisy cow is "a more dependable 3 HORSES—One span Black Mares, 8 years old, weight 2400 pounds 1 Bay hogs and machinery. Col. Albert' growth of weeds, ru.shes, flags or oth know Kellogg's you will always serve Kellogg's! sourt* of profit than the beef coming 4 years old, well broke, weight 1400 pounds Hopfe, auctioneer. er vegetation, or in pursuit of wounded steer, because her products are but 80 PURE BRED DUROC JERSEY HOGS—10 Registered Boars, real herd And, Kellogg's should be best because they birds, but may not be taken from Saturday, September 23.—Ole Nie slightly affected by market fluctuations prospects of large type 35 Spring Gilts, not recorded 29 Farrows, weight are the original Corn Flakes— huis, acreage and tractor sale, one- power or sail boats or upon the open and because she is a continuous about 150 pounds 6 Registered Gilts, March Farrow. Bred by McDonald half mile south of fair grounds, water, or from aeroplanes. Rifles source of revenue, for the cregm the most delightful cereal ever Brothers of Medford, Minnesota, and are sired by King Sensation, full or milk checks come in at frequent intervals. •Col. Albert Hopfe, auctioneer. may not be used in taking water brother of the Wisconsin Grand Champion 1920. made! Insist upon Kellogg's Then, too, there Is an increasing fowl. Artificial or live decoys may 100 PLYMOUTH ROCK CHICKENS— Tuesday, September 26.—J. W. —the kind in the RED and demand for dairy products MACHINERY—1 Fordson Tractor with Oliver Plows 1 6-foot Deering Binder Gates, Oakland. Jlorses, cattle, be used." and for grade and purebred dairy with trucks 1 Deering Corn Binder 1 Dain Hay Loader 1 Stoughton TQj^STED GREEN package, because none hogs, and machinery. Col. Albert Manure Spreader (new) 1 5-foot Minnesota Mower (new) 1 3-section cattle. fABM genuine without the signa- Hopfe, auctioneer. are in Poison Mushroom Cap. Jron Lever Drag (new) 1 2-section Iron Lever Drag 1 8-foot Disc 1 Hay ireC ture of W. K. Kellogg, originaLAKt? Wednesday, September 27.—N. L. Animals usually know what is good Rake 1 Lumber Wagon, new Triple Box 1 John Deere Ball Bearing Wagon 1 Most Profitable Cow. Webber, two and one-half miles for them and squirrels will consume 1 Hay Rack 1 Endgate Seeder 1 14-inch John Deere Walking Plow of Corn Flakes! One good cow is more profitable than tor 1 Janesville Corn Planter 1 6-shovel Cultivator 1 Buttermilk Tank the stalks of poisonous mushrooms south of Taopi. Col. Albert Hopfe, .j several poor ones* Feed Cooker 1 Corn Sheller 1 2 h.'p. Gas Engine 1 DeLaval Cream Separator without any apparent ill-effects. The auctioneer. No. 17 2 Sets Army Harness 2 Sets Fly Nets. cap of the plant is left. This suggests Saturday, September 30.—Edgewood Sterilize Milk Utensils. HAY, CORN and OATS—15 Tons Timothy and Clover Hay 10 Acres Standing that the poison may be contained For the proper sterilization of dairy Stock farm, Hudson, Wis. Purebred Corn 700 Bushels Oats in Bin. in the rejected portion, the escape of nfenslJs an abundance of steam or hot Duroc Jersey hogs. Col. Abert SOME Household Goods and Kitchen Furniture and many other articles not the feeding squirrels not being due to water is needed. Immerse them in Hopfe, auctioneer. herein mentioned. any special immunity. But the subject boiling water for two minutes, or put TERMS—All sums of $10.00 and tinder, cash all sums over that amount a Thursday, October 12.—Como ».nd requires careful investigation. them In a tight closet and thoroughly credit of nine months will be given to all approved notes with 8 per cent Foster, Lansing. Real estate and CORN FLAKES sterllbsa with steam for thirty minatesL. interest from date of sale. personal property—240 acres of Uncle Eben. t:_\. BAIRD & CLARK, Owners, land, 100 head of cattle, 100 hogs, "De man who likes to hear himself 25 horses, farming equipment. Col. talk," safd Uncle Eben,v "very seldom ALBERT HOPFE, Auctioneer. LANSING STATE BANK, Clerk. Advertisements in The News reach Also maters of KELLOGG'S KRUMBLES and KELLOGG'S BRAN, cooked and knunbled t, Albert Hopfe, auctioneer. likes to see himself work." .• -r,:' the consumer., L-tX.-.- ...