t»u Mirrnmrgpi !-L-e'-sSif-V rm '4,* 3 SSL iV -n N Jr? MOWER COUNTY NEWS, AUSTIN MINN. PageSiar Monday, Oct. 16, 1922. CO. FARMERS. izva** Raise Mortf and Better Crops, Marketing and Pure Bred Livestock Farm Bureau Notes, STORE POTATO® Their Ages Total 133: Years Farmers May Obtain Fuel Wood Cheaply & jr- IN GROUND PIT From Northern Section By Pooling Orders S & Solution of the fuel wood problem there are few sections of the state lies in pooled orders, according to where communities can not profit if Glyndon Farmer Shows J.. F. Reed, president of the Minnesota bulk orders can be arranged.'' Farm Bureau Federation. If Investigation shows that farmers Practical Method communities, especially Farm Bureau of the northern counties can not profit Of Stoping-.^ township unit organizations, if bulk orders can be arranged." ePerttneni will group orders so that farmers in In investigation shows that farmers the northern section of the state can of the Northern counties are prepared i*icpmd by i£* A|rfca4Mnrf whtnhr tf MtaaMocn Many Minnesota farmers who have ship carloads direct, considerable savings to cut and load wood into cars, a- large crop of potatoes lack up-todate can be made and the danger of r/m RUST-RESISTANT good fuel wood—tamerack, birch, oak, IS COUNTRY'S sforage facilities. Storage is a fuel shortage averted, according elm and poplar— for $4.50 to $6 a MID-SEASON OATS especially important this year when to Mr. Reed. "BIG BUSINESS" cord. Freight rates range from $3.50 the country's potato crop is so heavy "Arrangements have been made," he to $8. For instance, from BrainsrJ and prices are so low. v. said, "whereby the machinery of the to Graceville, the rate on 1 cord of 'i: Propagation With a Large Number'of on G* A", Pond Says (n Radio-Address Circular No. 8, issued by the agricultural federation can be used in, bringing dry tamerack is $3.50. From Brainerd Strains Carried On, Farm Costs. extension division of the farmers who have wood for sale in to Willmar, the rate is $2.80. university, gives the personal experience Plant .breeding specialists of the contact with those who may be hard Rates on other kinds of wood will In a recent radiophone' address G, of Jacob Hurner of Glyndon, University of Minnesota believe they pressed for fuel this winter. This varjr, depending upon the weight. A. Pond, who is in charge of the farm* will b© successful in their efforts to Minn., who has been storing potatoes service should be especially valuable ing costs section for the university, All figures on carload basis. develop rust-resistant, high-yielding in pits with great success for many to farmers living in the prairie counties. urged upon farmers the many advantages For heating purposes, a cord of mid-season oats. The oat nursery at years. to be secured in keeping accurate near the wood producing sections, dry, heavy wood is equal to a ton of University Farm thffe year contained Mr. Hurner digs a hole about six cost accounts.- Prof. Pond argued because one of the big items in more than 1,000 plots (two rows to soft coal. Some of the hard woods that farming is really the "big business" feet wide and three and a half or wood cost is freight rates. However, the plot), each of which was planted are equal to hard coal in heat values. of the country, rather than railroading, four feet deep. The length of the excavation flour manufacturing, meat is governed by the quality of Boiled Potatoes packing, or oil producing and selling. fed in limited quantities to mature potatoes to be stored.* "I fill the pit "Hie total value of all farm property Good for Pigs and idle brood sows. If fed to pregnant full and heap the potatoes up as steep in 1919/' he said, "was 80 billions of sows, they should be cooked and as they will lay," says Mr. Hurner^ dollars more than the combined values fed in relative!}' small quantities." "Then I cover them with old, coarse of all lines of manufacturing and Bruised and undersized potatoes Mr. Dowell says that raw potatoes railroading taken together." hay about a foot deep after it is pressed The ages of these two total 133 years, the woman, Mrs. Annie Brown of which, under present conditions, cannot are often readily eaten by cattle, down. I cover this with about a The United States Department of 'Washington, being one hundred and two years old and her dog, Rover, thirtyone be marketed to advantage this horses and sheep. Fed in large quantities Agriculture and the Minnesota Agricultural foot of dirt, except along the ridge years old. The dog has been her best friend for over twenty-flve years, fall, can be used as feed for livestock. College are co-operating in to dairy cattle they are likely where I leave a strip about a foot, Mrs. Brown declares. assisting farmers to study costs. A to taint the milk and produce a wide the length of the pit. This is group of, 25 farmers near Owatonna "Potatoes are particularly valuable .white salve-like butter. Another for ventilation. Use of Trunk Highways in Minnesota in Steele county and a jtimilar group for fattening pigs," says Austin A. reason why potatoes should not be "The important point in keeping near Windom in Cottonwood and Dowell, livestock extension specialist fed too freely, says Mr. Dowell, is Increases 25 Per Cent In Past Year potatoes is to get them dry. The Jackson counties, are being coached by with the University of Minnesota. because they contain a poisonous material moisture from the sweating of the the university men in keeping records "They should be cooked, the water called solanine. The sprouts of all farming business transacted. potatoes is allowed to escape thru Minnesota highways, so-called Babcock horse drawn vehicles. These figures discarded, then mixed with grain carry this substance in relatively Some of the reasons why farmers the hay along the ridge of the pit. roads, are- carrying 5 vehicles for Trunk highway No. 40 compare at the rate of three parts potatoes should keep careful accounts and large quantities and should be removed I leave them this way till the ground now for every 4 rigs using the state favorably with those for the other "know where they stand" are thus to one pai't of the concentrates. Prepared before feeding. is frozen quite hard, and then I cover routes a year aigo. Average traffic main travelled highways of the state. enumerated by Professor Pond. in this way they may be the strip with dirt and throw about on the system is 710 vehicles daily Foregoing facts and figures are Farmers should know the facts fed liberally to fatten pigs or sows two feet of coarse hay or Straw over based on the 1922 state trunk highway ^jfL 1-.. t, The J.ne news news twice twice a a we week in The about their business'in order to com- 1921- Motor* compared with 565 in with litters. Raw potatoes may be News—less than 5c a week the whole pit, letting it lay census observations made public pare the returns from different crops driyen vehicles number 970 out of about six feet to each side. I consider and different classes of livestock. I each thousand on the state highways, today by Charles M. Babcock, I coarse hay better for this purpose state highway commissioner. Greater Careful accounting will make it pos- compared with 958 last year. Travel GET PRICES on VEAL and CHICKENS than straw as it is less likely^ sible for farmers to know where they' on the trunk highways runs from public use of Minnesota highways is to blow off and it catches the snow made their money or where they lost' 5,627 down to 38 vehicles a day. It MISS FAIRIE MALLORY attributed to recent improvements on before selling elsewhere who has come to University Farm to money. For example, one farmer by is heaviest on routes approaching the better. the system and to the increase of motor R.H. JOHNSON & SON MEAT MARKET take the position of clothing specialist keeping cost accounts found that in "In order to keep water from running limits of Minneapolis, of course, and vehicles owned in the state and with the home demonstration section 1920 and 1921 his hogs returned good thru the hay in case of rains, it lightest generally in districts most of tourist travel. 226 East Mill St. of the agricultural extension division, profits, but his cattle failed to pay is a good plan to make a ridge by remote from those cities. Medium and high-priced cars again She succeeds Miss Eunice Ryan, who their board and keep. He is now raisresigned nailing two wide boards together and 1922 Traffic Census Observations outnumbered the light, low-priced to go to the Michigan Agri- ing more hogs. laying it over the opening, in the on Trunk Highways, compiled by the makes on the state highways, but the cultural College at East Lansing. Miss Cost accounts are valuable also beMallory banking, until the opening is closed is a graduate of the Univer- cause they advise the farmers how to' highway commission, show that at former class shows a decrease while sity of Chicago and has had several grow their crops and raise their live- the junction of state aid road No. 12 and straw thrown over the whole pit/ the latter is gaining. Other comparisons TYLE years of. teaching experience, Just stock in the most economical manner. Trunk Highway No. 40, the near- indicate that the percen an( before coming to Minnesota she was With cost accflint figures available st jjoint to Austin for which figures PRODUCERS LOSE tages of busses and trucks operating state clothing specialist at Illinois, the farmer is in a position to com-| 455 vehicles was the daily for hire are almost exactly double are ERVICE ?are TtS With, ?°?v. °£methods lthf average for the week of August 20 to that -a year ago, while there has been M3 ON POOR BUTTER from an individually selected plant, farmers. He can study the 7!^ n/ X1 jn/t 26. Of these 436 were passenger comparatively slight increase in the Each individual plot consisted of two of feed and care practiced by the low cars, 10 were trucks and only 6 were use of private trucks. short rows, 25 plants to the row. cost producers and increase his own ATISFACTION As soon as a selection shows prom- economy of production. Short Course in Dairying. ise, that is, is uniform in type, time of Cost accounts rfeveal the amount of DR. POWER IS HONORED Percentage Variation of The annual dairy short course season heading, etc.—generally from the third feed, labor, and other cost factors that will open at University Farm on to the fifth generation after the cross are required for a given amount of Butterfat Too Nov. 13 and continue with only occasional. is made—all of the plants of an indi-1 production. By applying current prices KOBES' CAFE High. interruptions until March 10. vidual plot are bulked together and to these amounts, the production cost Five courses will be given, in addition placed in a rod row test, also car- be closely estimated at any time, can to a state-wide creamery managers ried on by the plant breeding section.) Cost account figures furnish the *2* conference which will be held at the The final test is in fortieth acre field general public with definite "dependplots VV Prof. J. R. Keithley of the dairy farm Jan. 4. carried on by the farm- crops able information about the financial husbandry division of the state university The courses have been planned to section at University Farm. status of farming. help the -student in acquiring a better says that poor quality butter "We are experimenting with plants understanding of the problems and known to have the rust-resistance of1 causes Minnesota cream producers BIG RETURNS FROM POULTRY SIEKMAN & DEAN BROS. tasks connected with the manufacture the White Russian parent' and the large losses in income every year. of dairy products in order that he open panicle and general habit of mid-! Too higlT~ butterfat composition of may qualify for positions Big Combination Sale season oats which was obtained from' .. butter causes still more loss to producers. Income From Eggs Near That of the Victory parent," says Dr. H. K. These losses can largely be Hayes, in charge of the plant breed-1 Poultry Produced. Soil Project Report Interesting. prevented, according to Mr. Keithley, Agents in Red river valley counties ing section. "With a large number are reporting some very interesting by combined efforts of the dairy farmers of strains which are known to have! Just how the "business biddy boosts results from the season's soil projects. the general characters desired, it and the creamery operators. Saturday, Oct. 21 business," as N. E. Chapman, University In Norman county 221 busdels per seems very reasonable to suppose: Good quality butter, the first item, poultry specialist, would say, is acre of potatoes were harvested on involves a problem which the dairymen ing" Victory loupled 'w7thsll°wn gather* by unirerthe the Sulrud farm where-the complete themselves can solve, Mr. Keithley rust-resistant quality of White! fertilizer 2-8-5 was used at the r^te of a production route near Owatonna. A says, by producing and delivering 500 pounds an acre. The check plot Russian. It will be necessary to continue flock of 205 hens gave a return of AT ROSE CREEK, MINN. a clean, sweet, cold cream. Item returned 169.5 bushels per acre, thus the yield test for a period of $330.78 from eggs and $88.55 from showing an increase from the use of" No. 2, the problem of controlling the about four years before it will* be poultry, or a total of $419.33. The fertilizer of 51.5 bushels per acie. In known which of the strains exrel in 35 BIG TYPE P0LANDS 35 Prof. Frederick Belding Power of composition of butter, he puts squarely cost of feed was $53.09 and labor, Pennington county one farmer liarvested the characters desired the United States bureau of chemistry, up to the creamery operators. miscellaneous cash, interest and decrease 42 bushels of corn to the acre Washington, who has been awarded Composition of 74 samples of butter in inventory, $170.15, leaving when phosphate had been applied the Fleuckinger gold medal by the Apple Butter. From Culls. received from approximately 300 the net sum of $249.18 as return from 20 SPRING BOARS Society of Swiss Chemists for "invaluable It is not too late to work up the the farm flock. The principal income Minnesota creameries, have been works on alkaloids and etheral apple culls into apple butter that can The girl of the period should certainly was from eggs produced and not analyzed by staff map of the university's oil." He is a native of Hudson, N. Y., be used in the winter as a relish or be admired for her fine and from poultry marketed. dairy division. The butterfat and a graduate of the Philadelphia filling for cakes and sandwiches. University 10 SPRING GILTS manly appearance. In the Windom community the return content varied from 73.7 per cent College Pharmacy and the Univer­ home economics instructors 01 for 1-.00 in feed was $6.44 and or an average of 82.7 per cent. The suggest the following recipe for making sity of Strassburg, Germany. Until the returns for labor were 52 cents apple butter: Mary had a Thomas cat, eight years ago he was connected with standard of composition calls for 80 per hour. One flock* of 200 hens averaging 5 Sows with Litters at Side Thoroughly wash the apples and remove the Wellcome research laboratories In It warbled like Caruso, per cent of butterfat only. 76 eggs per hen gave a net any decayed or discolored spots. London. Doctor Power is now director profit of $1.92 per hen with the average A neighbor swung a baseball bat- "With butter at 35 cents a pound," Core and slice the fruit and to each of the photochemistry laboratory of price of eggs at 24 cents and poultry Now Thomas doesn't do so. says Mr. Keithley, "each 1 per cent gallon of sliced apples add three The, offering is the tops of two great herds and carries the bureau of chemistry. at 15.7 cents per pound. The return variation in the fat content above 80 quarts of sweet cider. Cook the apples the blood lines of the following noted sires. from eggs was $307.81 and from 'I1•!''t'•* »i -M- fr per. cent, the standard, means that and cider in a large preserving kettle poultry $194.39, a total of $563.45. the creamery is giving away sufficient until tender. Pass them through' a Grant's Great Giant, The Pickett, The Yankee, Feed, labor, shelter and interest on sieve and to each gallon of apples add butterfat in every 1,000 pounds investment totaled $179.90, showing a SPECIAL OFFERING ON Pundale Pilot, Orange Wonder, Highland one pound of brown sugar and one teaspoonful of butter to make additional butter r.et profit of $384.55, a sum which exceeded each of ground cloves, allspice, SNOWFLAKE FLOUR Big Joe, Orange Piece, Liberator Leader. the rather large family expense worth $4.40. The loss on a 1,000pound and cinnamon. Cook until very for groceries by $65.31. These churning of butter having the thick. Plan to attend this great combination sale and secure figures demonstrate that a farm flock aveage composition of the samples The finished apple butter is put into will pay the store bill. a real herd boar or a foundation sow at your own analyzed at University Farm, namely, sterilized glass or stone jars and either "One must breed, feed, and house Strictly Fresh In Every Respect price* sealed or covered with paraffin. 82.7 per cent, would be $11.82, the flock so as to secure maximum production," The secret of success in making apple or more than a buttermaker's daily says Mr. Chapman. "The Entire offering vaccinated with the so-called double $I-90 per 49 lb. Sack butter, say cookery teachers, is increasing consumption of eggs is wage. treatment. in long, slow cooking and frequent favorable for the maintenance of a "All creamery operators should stirring. 8 Sale will be held under cover on the Henry Siekman fair price, and the abundant grain harvest control the composition of butter. We have just received afresh shipment of points to as cheap, or cheaper,, Farm, 1 mile east and 2V& miles north of Rose Creek This control can be exercised, within You can't beai. legumes such as clover feed costs for the farm flocks than Minn. 1 mile east of Oak Dale Trail. very narrow limits, by proper care and alfalfa as inexpensive sources this excellent spring wheat brand, Minneso- I has been known for several years.". of protein in feed rations. and effort. Other manufactured products TERMS:—Six months' time will be given on approved ta made. It is absolutely guaranteed to be are so controlled or standardized. bankable notes at 8 per cent interest 5 per cent Cows develop best on balanced rations Manure is a by-product and should Why not butter?" satisfactory by the miller and by us. and so do children. be used wherever possible. discount for cash. Write for catalog. Chamberlain's Tablets Have Done ^Special Prices on 5-Bag Lots SALE STARTS AT 1:00 O'CLOCK. It«gretted Wasted Tim*. Her A World of Good. Recipe for Perpetual Ignorance. Bobby will celebrate his birthday 98 Pound Sacks. "Chamberlain's Tablets have done AUCTIONEERS:—Col. Ritchie, J. M. Heimer, He. proud of your opinion aud content the latter part of next month. He was me a world of good," writes Mrs. Ella with your knowledge. A. O. Austinson. L. Button, Kirkville, N. Y. "I have asked last evening what he would like, H. L. Goss Seed Co. recommended them to a number of and after much debating he decided on my friends and all who have used a boat and a cab. After some further Birds Have Little Sense of 8mell~ OWNERS:—HENRY SIEKMAN, DEAN BROS. them praise then(i highly." When Although some birds have a well' discussion as to when the toys could Successor to Hare & Goss, Austin, Minn. troubled with indigestion or constipation, Rose Creek, Minnesota. developed olefactory apparatus, sden be purchased he said: "But if yon give them a trial and realize bought them now I could be playing tlsts doubt that they have any effl for yourself what an excellent medicine dent-sense of smell. with them until my birthday." it is. "V', --i ""IT*** '•'•www