^jTfrr*-~f $* v^.- /i 'v^B/" ^t' *, ^£*-v£ COUNTY NEWS, AUSTIN, MINN. Page Six Sept. Thursday, 21, 1922 LIVE AGRICULTURAL NEWS OF INTEREST AND VALUE TO MOWER CO. FARMERS. Raise More and Better Crops, Marketing and Pure Bred Livestock Farm Bureau Notes, DIVERSIFIED FARMINGISmUABLE SALES AGENCY PREVENT SCOURS IN CALVES Thousands of Department of Agriculture, 75,000 DAIRY gf & Demonstrations Held field meetings were held, with an attendance IS ORGANIZED One of the Most Common Causes of of 1,000,000. FACTS Ailment Is Dirty Pails and Feeding In Wooden Troughs. Demonstrations were carried on by S True Happiness. Calves may get scours from several county extension agents in 1921 on Minneapolis Company Minnesota Communities He Is happiest, be he king or peasant, IMPROVEMENT OF DAIRY COW causes, but one of the common sources 250,000 farms with a variety of 111 who finds peace In his home.— Will Serve Farmers by F. L. LIEBENSTEIN, Awake to Possibilities. is dirty palls and the practice followed crops and animals. In connection Goethe. Hm feeding in wooden troughs. A good County Aff«nt, Mower Co. Department of Agriculture Six of with these demonstrations, according -v In State. High-Producing Animals on Its rule is to keep the calf buckets as to reports to the United States The News—$2.50 a year—worth it, Farm at Beltsville. clean as the milk palls. The farmer Poultry At National Dairy Show. who uses a swill pail for feeding EXPERIENCED MAN­ GOVERNOR CALLS There is to be a National Poultry calves or who hangs the pall on a post (Prepared by the United States Department Closing Out Sale AGER IS SECURED FOR OBSERVANCE of Agriculture.) Exposition in connection with and between feedings without washing it The Improvement of dairy cows will be looking for a cure for calf under the management of the National means a great deal more than Increased scours. With warm weather and the Dairy Exposition, October 7 profits to the dairyman. It .Agency Formed Through Efforts of fly season at hand extra precaution Next Week Set Aside as "Diversified to 14. This Poultry Exposition will means cheaper food and more milk, Farm Bureau Leaders—Reed must be taken In caring for the pails. Farming Week," When Lessons be in the main agricultural building the Lest bone and muitcle maker for Outlines Plan. They should be washed thoroughly On account of ill the health of my wife, we will sell all our personal of Farm will be Urged. children. What this improvement on the state fair grounds. after each feed aftd sterilized either property at Public Auction at the farm, 2% miles south of Ta pi, Minnesota, means Is brought out forcefully by a We all realize that the poultry industry with steam or hot water and then inverted on Every community in Minnesota has poster prepared by the United States has rapidly come to the front The U. S. Grain Growers Sales in a clean place until used Department of Agriculture and sent been called upon by Governor J. A. ranks as a profitable industry. Right ceompany of Minneapolis,, a producers* again. free to interested persons. O. Preus to observe the week of September Wednesday, Sept. 27,1922 here in Mower county we have sales agency which will market An ordinary cow or scrub produces 25 to October 1st as "Diversified GIVE CALF SOME ATTENTION farms on which the poultry has brot grain for farmers of Minnesota, only enough milk to feed five ch!^ Farming Week." in greater income than any other INorth and South Dakota, and Montana, This movement for diversity in product. The hen has become a close particultrly those who have Stunted Heifer Will Never Develop SALE STARTS AT 11:00 A. M. FREE LUNCH AT NOON farming has received considerable competition of the cow and hog for Into Profitable Cow—Provide ^signed U. S. Grain Grower contracts, impetus thruout Minnesota from 8 HEAD OF HORSES—1 Black Driving Mare, 7 years old, weight 1300 lbs. Shade and Water. being the main source of profitable "fias been organized and is about to businessmen, bankers, civic and commerce 1 Bay Mare, 6 years old, weight 1300 lbs. 1 Bay Mare, 7 years old, weight income on our farms. The 1920 census l)egin operations in Minneapolis. The calf is often very much neglected associations everywhere. Thru 1300 lbs. 1 Bay Mare, 7 years old, weight 1400 lbs. 1 Black Mare, 7 years put the hen in the billion dollar Articles of incorporation have been from the time It Is six until It is the practice of diversified farming ,old, weight 1400 lbs. 1 Brown Mare, 7 years old, weight 1400 lbs. 1 Black class with the dairy cow. 3iled with Mike Holm, secretary of twelve months of age. A heifer stunted the soil can be maintained at a higher Mare, weight 1500 lbs. 1 Bay Mare, weight 1600 lbs. Those interested in poultry will do state. by the lack of suitable food will state of fertility and the farmer well to see the exhibit at the Dairy never develop into as good a cow as Incorporators are J. F. Reed, 30 HEAD OF HIGH GRADE SHORTHORN CATTLE—18 Choice Milk is assured of a regular income, instead Show or enter their best birds for one kept growing from birth to maturity. ^president of the Minnesota Farm Cows 4 two-year-old Heifers 1 Pure-bred Roan Shorthorn Bull, 2 years of one that is seasonal. During summer while the show. bureau Federation and a member of old 7 Spring Calves. Minnesota has given special attention young animals are on pasture not sa committee of three in charge of U. much attention is needed, as pasture to dairying in connection with 45 DUROC JERSEY HOGS- agencies. Mr. Reed, working with 35. Grain Grower affairs since that grass furnishes the best and cheapest diversified farming and consequently corporation was re-organized seven Mr. Cunningham 5nd R. A. Cowles A High-Producing Holstein. MACHINERY—1 3-section Drag 1 20-Disc Drill 1 Fanning Mill 1 Corn feed available. Shade and an abundance leads the nation with results from -weeks ago Thomas E. Cashman of of Bloomington, 111., the third memr Grader 1 Feed Mill 3 Corn Plows 1 Corn Planter 1 Cream Separator of fresh water are two essentials dren a quart a day, while a good the practice. Minnesota's dairy products ber of the new executive committee «OwatoTma, member of the Minnesota which the careful herdsman always 1 Klondike Incubator 4 Sets Harness 2 Steel Tanks 3 Wagons 1 Manure cow yields enough to give 20 children netted the state an income of Warm Bureau Federation's executive of the Grain Growers, has been devoting provides. Spreader 1 Loader 1 Side Delivery Hay Rake 2 Mowers 1 7-foot Hay a quart a day. The supercow, and $172,000,000 in 1921, according to Inard and E. H. Cunningham of practically all his time for Binder 1 Corn Binder 1 Gang Plow 1 Sulky Plow Buggy 1 Sled. there are more and more of them in statistics compiled by the state dairy HOME-MIXED MEAL FOR CALF Cresco, Iowa, secretary of the Iowa six weeks to getting the company organized this class each year, gives enough milk 100 PLYMOUTH ROCK CHICKENS- and food commissioner. Sales from Warm Bureau federation and now and ready for business. so that a small herd of them might cows and calves were not included. supply this quantity to all the small Good Results Obtained in Raising president of the U. S. Grain Growers, The movement has the backing of CORN, HAY—30 Acres Corn 25 Tons of Hay. The combined wealth produced by children In a small town. Young Animals at New Jersey the Minnesota Farm Bureau Federation,. Inc. corn, wheat, oats, barley, rye, flax, On Its farm at Beltsvllle, Md., the Experiment Station. county directors in session during The company has an initial capital All sums of $10.00 and under, cash all sums over that amount TERMS. department has six cows, the result of potatoes and hay was estimated at Fair week, having voted approval stock of $25,000 13,000 in common will be given a credit of one year's time on approved notes at 8 per cent very good hom,e-mixed calf meal Its breeding work, that have produced A $171,000,000, or $1,000,000 less than mnd 12,000 in preferred, all fully paid of the plan. interest. made up of equal parts by weight an average of more than 22,000 Is the wealth created by the dairy cows mp. The capital investment will be of old-process linseed meal, hominy GRAIN SELLING pounds of miljc In 365 days. This little J. H. WEBER & SON, Owner. of Minnesota. feed, red dog flour or wheat middlings, imcreased as rapidly as possible, it is herd of six big producers yields Where such a condition prevails and high-grade dried blood. In raising asaid. The U. S. Grain Growers enough milk to provide 170 children a COL. ALBERT HOPFE, Auctioneer. I the sting of hard times will not be AGENCY FORMED calves In the dairy herd at the quart a day. One of "them could supply JEnc., will hold the majority of stock felt. Governor Preus' official proclamation New Jersey agricultural experiment nearly 30 children, or six times as N. V. TORGERSON, Clerk, Farmers State Bank, Adams, Minn. 3a the Minnesota corporation. North-west station, both the home-mixed and many as the ordinary cow could take calls attention to this as members of the Grain Growers commercial calf meals have been used care of. follows: "In periods of low prices, Closing Out Sale wffl iiave control thru a local board with equally good results. Good breeding, first, and good feeding, just as in seasons of poor yields, designated by the members. a in S a second, have made the difference. farmers who practice diversified Fresh Grass for Cows. Chose Temporary Directors. Company to Serve farming to the highest degree suffer Mow the pasture to kill off weeds. The temporary, board of directors MAKE COW RATION TEMPTING the least. There has been ample Fresh grass, free of weeds, makes It Northwest. •swill be composed of Mr. Reed, Mr. evidence of. this during the business As I am quitting farming, I will sell all my personal property at Public possible for your cows to produce more CSashman, B. F. Nelson of Benson, Animal Will Not Do Well on Food and better milk. depression of the last two years." Auction to the highest bidder at my farm 1 mile north and 31/* miles west of secretary of the Minnesota Farmers' That Is Not Palatable—Avoid It is urged by the Governor that Incorporation of the U. S. Grain l-3Jrain Dealers' Association Harry Any Sudden Change. Oakland, and 7 miles northeast of Hayward on Take Care of Cans. every local community arrange a Growers Sales Company of Minneapolis, 'Ccreen of Leal, N. D., a Grain of Cans used for the return skim suitable program for one day during to handle grain for farmers MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1922 The good dairy ration must be attractive. or Grower member, and W. S. Hill of milk whey should be emptied, scalded the week when everyone shall assemble of Minnesota, North and South Dakota A cow is a self-respecting and cleaned as soon as they arrive ^Mitchell, S. D., president of the South and Montana, particularly those and "make a surrvey of the sort of animal and likes she palatable SALE STARTS AT 11:00 A. M. SHARP FREE LUNCH AT NOON at the farm. Dakota Farm Bureau Federation community's resources and present who have signed U. S. Grain Grower food. In fact, a cow will not do well and a member of the. Farm Bureau 3 HORSES—1 Black Percheron, 7 years old, weight 1200 lbs. 1 Gray Gelding, farming methods, and make plans to on food that isn't palatable, and it contracts, was announced at St. Paul committee that had charge of the recent should be remembered that the condition 4 years old, weight 1500 lbs. 1 Black Gelding, 4 years old, weight increase the farmers' income by encouraging Wednesday. J. F. FAIRBANKS reorganization of the U. S. Grain of the food has the most to do 1500 lbs. Articles of incorporation give the a diversity of production ^Growers. with Its palatability. Moldy grains or company's .capital stock at $25,000, and by covering a greater portion of roughages do not appeal to the appetite The U. S. Grain Growers, Inc., has fully paid up. The U. S. Grain Growers, farm crops into meat and dairy products." 17 HEAD OF CATTLE—4 Milk Cows 1 Roan Bull, 3 years old 2 Heifers, of the cow, and consequently are approximately 8,500 members in the Inc., will hold a majority of the unsatisfactory. Thus the unsatisfactory 3 years old, heavy with calf 4 Heifers, coming 2 years old in spring 6 spring wheat area, of which number Dealer In stock. Grain Grower members will Revived prosperity will never feed, no matter If It does contain Spring Calves. 5,000 are in North Dakota, 3,100 in spread generally over the country until control thru a board to be selected the proper elements, may cause a reduction Minnesota and the remainder in COAL, WOOD, LIME, MACHINERY—1 8-foot Deering Binder 1 5-foot Mower 1 10-foot McCormick in the milk supply due to the by them. the farmer can turn his efforts .South Dakota. Contracts signed by cow's unwillingness to eat aplenty to to more profitable activities. The Hay Rake 1 8-foot New Hoosier Seeder 1 Low Down Cloverlea CEMENT, SEWER PIPE, iShese members represent more than keep up a good flow of milk. grain growing business is handicapped Manure Spreader 1 Osborn Pulverizer, good as new 1 New Fanning Mill BRICK AND WALL 15*000,000 bushels of grain, which At the same time It must be recognized Auction Date Book by the speculative factor in the 1 Standard Scale, 1500 pound capacity 2 18-inch Walking Plows 1 14-in. that It is not a wise idea to f&uey have agreed to sell thru the PLASTER. trade. This makes uncertain the change a ration suddenly in order to Breaking Plow 1 4-horse Drag 1 Newman Wagon 1 Corn Plow 1 Melotte •agency for at least five years. The price farmers will receive for their Thursday, September 21.— make it better. A cow Is a pretty delicate agency will handle grain of all Cream Separator, 710-pound capacity 1 Grind Stone 1 Set Working crops when in a position to sell. Oftentimes Jim Penkava, on the old Joe sort of a milk-producing machine lands. Harness 1 14-inch Walking Plow 7 Garden Plow 70 Grain Sacks numerous the grain farmer must Chmelik farm, 2 Yz miles east of and, especially if she is a large producer, Office 301 East Bridge St. T. H. Hagen, a farmer of Lakemile, other articles. liquidate immediately after harvest. sudden changes In the food are Myrtle, lYz miles southwest of Minnesota, has been selected quite likely to upset her in one way or 7 Oakland, and 4 Yt miles northwest This deprives him of holding his 1 NASH SIX—5 PASSENGER TOURING CAR. Phone: Main 32 as Minneapolis manager and is now another, and the result will be a loss of London. Sale begins at 10:00 grain for a more profitable market. of milk. TERMS:—All sums of $10.00 and under, cash all sums over that amount preparing to open offices. Mr. Hagen a. m. Col. Brown, auctioneer. The livestock farmer encounters no Austin, Minn. lias had 25 years of successful experience will be given credit for ten months' time on approved notes at 8 percent such difficulties. Friday, September 22.—Tom LysiiO, KEEP FEED UTENSILS CLEAN in the grain business at interest from date of sale. This season farmers have garnered Blooming Prairie. Horses, cattle, Minneapolis and Duluth. He retired a bountiful harvest. That alone JENS RICE, Owner. hogs and machinery. Col. Albert Average Farmer Is Liable to Grow 1£wo years ago to personally operate tends to depress prices for grain, Hopfe, auctioneer. GUY BRADFORD Little Careless About Pails Siis farm. and when the grain and forage is COL. ALBERT HOPFE Auctioneer. Saturday, September 23.—Ole Niehuis, in Summer. Handle Grain Direct. marketed by the milk route the farmer A. A. SORENSON, Clerk., Oakland State Bank, Oakland, Minn. acreage and tractor sale, onehalf Auctioneer In announcing the plan to Northwest is assurred of a regular income, Wide-awake dairymen realize the importance mile south of fair grounds. sales agency, Mr. Reed issued 12 times a year, and he can largely of keeping calf feeding utensils CLOSING OUT SALE Col. Albert Hopfe, auctioneer. scrupulously clean at all seasons tiie following statement: control the size of the net proceeds. Graduate of Jones Auctioneering Monday, September 25.—Jens Rice, of the year. The average farmer, however, ""It is the hope of the directors The size of his pay check is based School of Chicago may grow a lKtle careless about one mile north and 3& miles west Sfcat much of the grain marketed will largely on the quality of his milk— the calf pall, especially during the of Oakland, and 7 miles northeast lie handled direct from country elevators the butterfat it contains. If he can warm summer months. These palls of Hayward. Col Albert Hopfe, On account of ill health I am quitting farming and will sell all my personal to millers and exporters. But in increase the quality and quantity Office, Austin Feed Bam should be of tin or galvanized Iron, auctioneer. to .dispose of all grain coming simultaneously he will reap larger property at public auction at the farm knbwn as the E. M. Lowry farm never of wood, and should not be allowed Tuesday, September 26.—J. W. fto the company, a seat on the Minne'apofis dividends for his efforts. He can Dial 7180 to get rusty or battered. They 1 mile north and 2 Yn miles west of Oakland and 8 miles northeast of Hayward Gates, Oakland. Horses, cattle, Chamber of Commerce has accomplish this by removing the should be thoroughly washed, rinsed on hogs, and machinery. Col. Albert Keen obtained. The grain will be and sterilized after use, and kept In "drones" from his herd and grading a clean place. Never use calf palls Hopfe, auctioneer. Jumdled in the manner provided in up the most likely of his females. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26,1922 »f• for feeding hogs, or live stock other Wednesday, September 27.—N. L. i£he U. S. Grain contracts and the than calves. Webber, two and one-half miles ^growers will at all times be protected. THOMAS A. COM Competition Needed SALE STARTS AT 11:00 A. M. SHARP FREE LUNCH AT NOON south of Taopi. Col. Albert Hopr Farmers who have signed ESSENTIALS FOR DAIRY HERD In Farm Loan Field fe, auctioneer. contracts can look forward to their 5 HEAD OF HORSES—1 Bay Gelding, coming 8 years old, weight 1200 lbs. AUCTIONEER Saturday, September 30.—Edgewood being made' effective within a short 1 Black Mare, coming 7 years old, weight 1300 lbs. 1 Iron Gray Mare, coming Cows and Young Animals Should Be Stock farm, Hudson, Wis. Purebred tzme^ tho none needs to consider that 5 years old, weight 1200 lbs. 1 Black Gelding, coming 4 years old, Competition, which always makes Provided With Plenty of Pure Duroc Jersey hogs. Col. Abert Iris agreement has been called until weight 1100 lbs. 1 Brown Pony Mare, coming 9 years old, weight 850 lbs. for efficiency and stabilization, is Water and Shade. Hopfe, auctioneer. $ The man wlio makes auc lie receives a formal notice from the sorely needed in the farm loan field, 16 HEAD OF CATTLE—9 Milk Cows, to freshen late fall and early winter Tuesday, October 3.—J. H. Aultfather, constituted grain grower authorities. tloneering his business. Provide plenty of shade and cool, according to J. F. Reed, president of 6 Heifer calves 1 Grade Shorthorn Bull. Austin. Purebred Poland pure water for the coWs and young "Directors of the Minnesota Farmers* the Minnesota Farm Bureau Federation China hogs. Col. Albert Hopfe, animals. Spray cows at milking time Grain Dealers' association have DIAL 2156 FOR DATES 5 HEAD OF SHEEP—5 Good Breeding Ewes. and chairman of a special committee to keep off flies. Look out for sour auctioneer. indorsed the company and plan of orjganization AUSTIN, MINN. of farm leaders that is sponsoring milk and cream. Bacteria and warmth Thursday, October 12.—Como and 20 HEAD OF HOGS—4 Grade Duroc Jersey Sows 15 Spring Pigs 1 Poland and will use it as a selling the campaign to obtain passage cause milk to sour. The modern way Foster, Lansing. Real estate and China Boar. agency for its members. of Amendment No. 1 (Rural to spell bacteria is d-i-r-t. Keep it out personal property—240 acres of PRINTING Hope for Co-operation. Credits )at the November 7 elections. of the milk, thoroughly wash and MACHINERY—1 Moline 6-foot Grain Binder 1 Rock Island Hay Loader land, 100 head of cattle, 100 hogs, "It is the hope of directors of the scald all milk utensils. Keep the milk 1 Janesville Corn Planter 1 Emerson Mower 1 Wide Track Truck Wagon "In sections where few farm laan 25 horses, farming equipment. Col. 1 Narrow Tire High Wagon 1 Hand-made Wagon Box, 2x6 under box and or cream cool, 50 degrees or lower 4f Minneapolis agency that the demand companies are operating," Mr. Reed Albert Hopfe, auctioneer. 1x12 upper box 1 Hog Rack for Box 1 7x14 Hardwood Hay Rack 2 Riding ''possible, and it will stay sweet for «jf grain producers the Minneapolis says, "interest rates invariably are Any kind you want Corn Plows I Walking Corn Plow Household furniture Milk Cans and Tuesday, October 17.—Adam Arens & several day?. .agency that the demand of grain high and the system of frequent renewals, Pails 4 Sets Double Harness 1 14-inch Walking Plow 1 7-inch 1 Horse I Any quantity Sons, Austin. Horses, cattle, hogs, producers for their own marketing cash premiums and bonuses Plow 1 Smith & Johnscn 4-Sec. Harrow 1 Seeder with shovels 1 10-foot Wisconsin in Lead. %r£'&ih?y: l_ and machinery. Col. Albert Hopfe, I you need Hay Rake 1 Owatonna Fanning Mill 1 Double Buggy 1 Single Buggy agency will be fully met. If producers flourishes. The first effect of the Wisconsin now leads in the number auctioneer. 1 one-horse Garden Plow 1 Cream Separator (Sharpies) 1 John Deere %$$%••• Federal Loan system was to lower are loyal to the company and of accredited tuberculin-free cattle I Get our prices 3-horse Disc many other articles 2 Sets Single Harness Wednesday, October 25.—J. G. Meyers, interest rates all over the country. with 36,183 head. Minnesota is second send their shipments, it will become Adams. Shorthorn cattle, and E S A of $ 1 0 0 0 an as at am a with nearly 34,000 head." am important"" factor in the grain But that agency thus far has been Poland China hogs. Col. Albert credit of nine months' time will be given on approved notes bearing 8 per able to take over only 10 per cent of market." MOWER COUNTY Metal Milk Utensils. cent interest from date of sale. Hopfe, auctioneer. the farm mortgage business in Minnesota Announcement of the incorpora-Cion. 4|» Milk utensils for farm use should be a N E W S and farmers generally feel J. W. GATES, Owner. of the Minneapolis company made of metal and have all joints that additional machinery, which will the completion of the first step Mower#^ County News Market smoothly soldered. Never allow them 202 E. MILL STREET be authorized, when Amendment No. Place is the place to list anything -of the U. S. Grain Growers, as re«eently to become rusty or rough Inside. A. A. SORENSON, Clerk, COL. ALBERT HOPFE, Auctioneer. 1 is adopted, is necessary." Oakland State Bank. reorganized, to open sales you may nave to dispose of. -u-J i&> A .if MBliliitlilttli mmm