NEWS|-£=- COUNTY MOWER »“ J V > Weekly Minnesota, Thursday, Aug. 14,1924 Issued Austin, SECTION TWO Eight Pages Per Year $2.00 Volume Number 7. 60. MILKERS MOWER COUNTY MOWER LETTERS WHY * JUST JERSEYS Costs ★ Reduction Lower ASTRAY GO TOP RANK NEAR HEAD OF LIST AT why of the wonder Do some you received? send letters never are you Associations Two and and Watch Each Litter of Out Pigs Save More Ranks At In of the By L. B. HANNA Mower Top in Perhaps many you are on class first Austin who drop mail in Profit Grow. the Fourth Three Had Yields of Farm address. the box without There Owner of ELM-O-FARM, Financial any King Jerseys HOPFE that COL. ALBERT thousands Cow. of letters Fifth By and to are go Products. the dead letter office every year. Sometimes it is because f o poor the little Island of Jersey, For 300 France, has allowed not over years near the only is Mower County not near back County to Mower taks there is handwriting, because seat foot a breed of cattle her no return another soil. Whenever to set Jersey on number, profit a of given been there have out Because years so years many who dairymen in the number of of top address, because address by those who afford Minnesota excellent is demanded they travel that other Southeastern to in to or no county par can pay, economical been paid no little attention has of hogs, the production to in very would take all. It only However, has given attention the practical at country. country association but to testing belong to a our more production by the increase products. has been made increased a of but the the value her production in stress on and therefore the Jersey, side of the Jersey know her, of the has the minute sender part to game as we of the pork more bring the notice of the herd. Nothing has done on to to of the keeps the statistics the production county recent According most more to constitution, size, and with rugged little plainly but write the address it takes a more appears a the coarser. by, than conduct he untold losses has sustained in raiser the ranked County years gone available Mower reach of the well within top. For there inclination the favor to smaller imported take many years was of an We hope the thousands of dollars which been organized recently. to the Litter Clubs have of Ton care well and first in first in oats corn, in the show ring, but of the judges showing type preference of the for all In the June thoroughly many are now be more hog raiser will work with them will continue until which carelessly addressed. summary good mail is every and hay. other grains in the top near for the American for in the last analysis, she type, must the at of pay his by the saving of increasing hog production with the idea saturated is the in the associations state The Postoffice greatest testing system be interesting: cow these facts Some of pail. may of the of the number rather than increase pigs the litter in to sows It in in the world. reaches fourth and fifth Mower had more system cow A few I article for the Herald stating that wrote the best years ago an which he has for to care. of the A Huseby world. The the milked twice daily. into class part every breed of cattle, those that the and breeder liked Seven co-operative creameries and cared paying any owner have and were and these periods always pork raiser prominent A postoffice here employs twenty-eight Holstein No. fourth in 3 very cow for best. From the evidence hand it that the Jersey was almost million dollars at has out seems cow many a a always there is will and recur, no this goal recently expressed clearly Austin city mail butterfat while Wiedman carriers with 90.6 breeder and the and admirers increasing faster than other persons. at in checks. owners are any year cream method under economics present our raise about he said he aims when to day fifteen grade Holstein walk miles and the breed. and Burlington with of history of this period a a Home of Ollie May Walker Homestead, dodge them. to head— carloads year—l4o two their combined walking ranked fifth with butterfat. 82 amounts every The American Jersey Cattle Club* world’s champion butter Holstein. and for several During the war eight if he raise and purebred herd 118 miles. The rural A Holstein from the or to can seven average that the business of the club reports months after its conclusion anyone will be caring for litter he pigs the to is 28 miles. The oldest of W. J. Nelson in the Litchfield- city route shows that the banner 1923 Sixth in Minnesota in county was year number feeding hogs. He could make money whereas eighteen only twenty in is F. I. Scullen association first carrier experience Dassel with sows, or and that month of 1924 shows was of purebred Holsteins. every have good hogs. Ordinary didn’t have to the five four he only if to altho Wells who is rural pounds of butterfat. Mr. 104.4 Houston or saves increase the corresponding Third now a in in number county state an over hogs brought profit. looked It thirty-five will litter, thirty carrier first appointed city association second with grade sows or was month of and far the business carrier 1923 was of purebred Jerseys. a so that farmer who had so easy every be required). The in The postoffice here handles 1898. Holstein from the Sennes herd, sows 91.8 the Third of 1924 is almost much in in number of county state as as place raise and feed hogs to went a production his will increase costs little airplane mail because while Parker Bruce in Morgan as purebred very whole of 1923. This business has cattle. association into the business with the result as These large be readily Austin direct is third with Holstein seen. not route, can very registrations and Fourteenth a reference the in in value on was a to county state always follows, night follows as sure as saved if the right be litters but the day is coming, Mr. Anderson which produced pounds butterfat. 91 of can sections the of dairy products. transfers. In of some hog day, production was overdone. methods used. thinks, mail when airplane will are been Thirteen hundred the sale Jerseys has and ninety-seven supplant of country The pendulum back swung clearly convinced We The not all others. foreign other associations mail The Mower didn’t so are farms by operated there pronounced, but is owners. never more a hog profits off. and Now the cut were the that by and mating selection handled is Norway mostly from and do well Association No. 1 outlet for Total number of farms ceasing inquiry and the so 2504 was consisting floater has of business by out gone number farrowed be materially Sweden, Germany, England, and 57th while Leßoy wasn’t tabulated. can of stock, profitable in 413,375 while not acres. as as the thousands and inimitable this although breeders increased Grtece. classification milked In the of some Five hundred and fifteen preceding the of hives of purchaser cows yet years, law is working it always works, as their have proved it to to times daily, Pine Grove 3 4 Farm own bees. seem dairy cattle who has the or an eye on but it is working for instead us now conclusion, but the experiments STEELE PLANNING in Association No. had the sixth 1 on Five thousand, three hundred goods” and and that “deliver the cow can of against and hog profits us are this the various stations record at Holstein with 81.2. on three sheep sheared in 1922. profit in times of adversity, show cow, a coming into view. There once more question do clear. the In herd classification Pine not so Sixteen seem thousand horses and mules. apparently is showing preference marked a will be shortage of hogs again BIGGEST FAIR vast produce a of the Nearly all Grove Farm in No. had Association sows 1 Twenty-seven thousand for the Jersey. milk cows. just certain there has been as as an enough farrowing time but pigs at the sixth Holstein with 81.2. Twenty thousand other cattle. cow, is fact that the Jersey It oversupply, those who have had and a proven shape be raised, and always in not to the herd classification Pine In Eight thousand sheep. produce pound of butterfat financial ability the tenacity and to can a others that from lack of Grove’s herd of Holsteins ranked Fifty thousand care many hogs. August Dates This Year other breed L. B. for less than HANNA hold will that the reward money any on, reap be brought maturity should to the Association tenth in No. are Two hundred state. eighty thousand dollars the who is desirous of and farmer plodder—the the steady to comes man lost. 26-29 Big Premium ranked thirteenth, Huseby’s Holsteins worth 3 of sold annually. eggs ’ his by spoonful selling farm the sticks. Millions who In Parcel which method of sanitation includes The with Leßoy 24th, Thornberg’s One hundred 46.1; thousand twenty-one rather than by the shovelful takes Some breeders have been able to List. ’washing and the cleaning of Shorthorns making 43.2; and dollars pens Post Export Sales worth of poultry marketed annually. kindly the Jersey. It used be make little whole to to during the a money farrcwing of just before pregnant Stier’s herd Association No. 26th, sows 2, talk that the Jersey period of depression because they common produced of the transferring time, and Nine thousand of Holsteins and Shorthorns bushels of apples Booster) (By averaging rich milk but little of it and the affairs, forsaw trend of and like Uncle Sam has joined hands with from the sanitary farrowing pigs and produced sows 42.6. annually. that the remark it always Recognized the biggest the manufacturer, able county to was easy regulate as are the fields without letting and through the help of the exporter to Association Dairy products pen In the ranking, Mower worth $1,500,000 this find ready sale for product, demand, to their the output to cut the a of largest fair in Minnesota, contaminated by them dragging one the annually. get parcel American goods County No. ranked 16th in the 2 post, are brought forth the remark “that the their herd, slideed the overhead, down through the infected used large and United States in the Hormel pens Packing Company There 364 in the with as as state. being shipped abroad were the value cows to demand exceeds the supply because ] now produced few good and sold ones carried a former is being in ; killing capacity years, on June and the butterfat of test 6,600 hogs daily. production the annual fairs, state average many is there supply. This notion of approximately dollars million profit. two them small at was no a by large number of breeders Makes At-Home livestock market. a very 29.5. Mower County No. 3 came was and bigger will be better, being exploded day by the Wildly. Went Into It every contrary month, each the excellent farmers with results, to and according of in with 29. In 21st an average that is being furnished by the ( who majority A large of those brighter in all departments. methods simple that and the Commerce Department. Caravan are so June that association had To Witness 389 cows associations. testing in the business have of the out cow they be carried is hog gone annual exposition This out representative can on every The Earth Blue Associations test. two On the basis of partial or. figures, exporters Show Dairy Program months, either last eighteen showed larger In 1923 herd S. the U. A. -were farm in a our which it the in topped the of county with 35.7 state this shown using method to voluntarily, forced out out milk than the associat- production of went or butterfat Production. and Over 35.4 respectively. of Danger have sold their foreign is of the goods Steele County in averages sold. is countries one into it the those who of . went ion and than 50% greater on were average packer, P. D. Armour, Twelve Red River The old time Valley counties the during value of $8,300,452 to but containing Minnesota smallest in and of the hog boom, into which went the herds of the association wave for it wasn’t cholera, County association No. will if Mower 1 send of said 150 the first five months of the caravan years ago, a cars carrying present that class of people small it wildly townships. Yet this than ( twelve contained probably 50% as more be around and hogs would in 29th place with butterfat. 700 farmers two 28.5 and businessmen Starting with shipments was year. benefit usually do, trying the to breed. The of the milk producing reap “The and wide far is known the the twin pound butterfat. cities half as Leßoy 58th with to August and cents at 26 5 31 area market valued only $1,036,500 in January, a per at on was of -work the long from them breeding American breeder is years World” and Capital of the Butter it September and to one 1 the visual to centers, you th business has $2,236,803 may occur see to presentation grown the had into steady hog put productive and the , and larger man wealthiest of the country’s more of pigs the litter the number of inside of dairying that if the to communities. story in May. Some of these made business. charm” of Jersey is being “watch type money growth of The wonderful be is increased, then will and diversified farming the Vets of 136th To at we confronted Dry goods and clothing with valuation a carried others but The side tracked hand. were many the Steele County Steele County and every of on Northwestern with the condition always Dairy Exposition. same of $2,110,000 for account one had the they Faribault down with bulletin giving the Meet In government as no wave, destined Every fair not to stop. results just passed thru This which have delegation is by far the largest seems we of the entire trade. Silk quarter ' they simply real foothold, shows of the T.B. date tests to were capita production and this is also body overproduction. But organized travel per to year great —an goods and silk wearing appearal so are them “game” with riding. It that Jerseys have the smallest j was a and, keeping wealth increases, per- enough saved will be distance similar there exposition in pace to true; the any the item in this classification, Plans for third annual reunion most important their all and lost. and staked of the of of centage reactors many of development the with the county, any producing the the efficient method of by country. followed by the 136th goods of World of cotton veterans war last of the Out of the fire but half of the two dairy breeds and “Minnesota’s Biggest average offset the difference the Counties which have representative to to every year sow, more clothing, artificial in which Austinians and silk Infantry, cotton many and has the tried true breeds while of the for all the number years come County Fair” in one from Roseau, in price which Kittson, Marshall, grows come may G, cars are manufactures, and wool clothing. served members of Company as for the in breeder—worse of the other breeds popular most wear many of exhibits in all departmnts, quality its and hogs. Pennington, Red Lake, Polk, more Optical goods furthered week the amounted last exports result were as everlasting faith with cases—but shows three times reactors an in number of modern fair as many Norman, Mahnomen, Clay, both by the pork Becker, Hog raising producer $621,000; leather of visit Owatonna by Major and manufactures to to a land him “high the good hog in the Jerseys, hundred, and the to in and buildings, amusements. as per Ottertail, has and Wilkin. and the bred breeder races Capt. C. of pure of, $576,000; furs and M. Nelson and W. Boyce manufactures with his He is found and dry.” numbers Jersey stands 2nd in total The Steele County Fair has become the Plans for assembled by carried without regard been tour any as on $551,000; reunion is be held r and jewelry and gold Fairmont. The to o is keeping the fairs and he of cattle tested. This should dissipate at that takes round wares large it H. Voi, field animal. La for each representative overhead and of to cost year so now and manufactures $466,000. Fairmont Sunday Monday, at on and herd before the his his the that Jerseys notion not name study work preparation, and Northwest to get are Dairy price bred the Exposition If out to a pure you go August and 25, with the first The figures available for 24 are now succeed. Success public. He will healthy other breeds. four-day in readiness for the annual Committee before so as in thru the would know trip boar recent a you big of the or sow, elate the day reunion the first being the result of time as a hog just it of the to The successful breeders most as comes men This the sixth annual, Red River comes festival. Valley, action herds include by visited half dozen had year, a Nelson and Boyce you service inaugurated by and Messrs. recently are new in other business. It to those that comes to men Owatonna, each civic August 26-27-28-29 and businessmen’s at are up some radically one because the prices association, are so heading Fairmont in the the committee Commerce the Departmnet at urgent brought in by the by being neck. family. There those who show best be heralded the of Minnesota’s commercial club, chamber will in of the grade of animal are a for different same charge of for the of those industries arrangements request reunion. and consistent efforts Persistent the preference “Hood Farm” to Kiwanis Fairs club, Biggest County Lion’s club, breeders t certain the that commerce, o Their Owatonna visit you are whose have been hitherto to exports was is There to blood lines while others take count. Rotary club, no easy way success and others increased all in the date. Pi'emiums have been rough We more making a guess. confer with Mayor Minot J. Brown, are considerably underestimated the in through such these in times the Majestys, the Sybils; kindly to larger in each, as furnish by forming towns who in department; county believe of those not to every everything president of the Veterans Association are one trade statistics. been passing. Untiring, which have Raleighs and other the various lines each and we the with other fairs, circuit transportation this life be standardized in one car pay race a of the 136th Infantry, and can Lieut. Col. The figures do show not new our efforts honest will land at the breeding and it is with us to from three thoughbred the between and uniform to same stiff real to and that expenses races Clemans, Ezra C. its a total by parcel treasurer. according exports post, the head. certain lines families it is wnth five farmers for that Appropriate bone flesh assured; the circus horse be tagged and or as price to car. are any every which send can Towns expected Director Julius Klien of the to to are different breeds— the like action has already been taken attractions in of of and vaudeville animal if keep record ones you cost we big delegations the Fairmont gathering to of Bureau Foreign and Domestic Branded Bringing Buyers, Butter by best to of the apt most organizations in the of the stand afternoon be front grand should are more prove more production, but there not include this city, Luverne, Worthington, Commerce, because they do include not McGuire. Says territory. profitable. Our herd and those of the the best that in the prices and evening such wide variance among are Mankato, St. Peter, Madison, a shipments valued less than at various breeders in this vicinity have butter first straight carload of The national and international in asked who amusement of put want to Redwood Faribault, men Falls, Owatonna, that $25. It is estimated there are the blood less of of that Prilly of Minnesota In which furnish this They suspicious sent out organizations and herds. more or bred was ever are can Rochester Northfield. Winona, and pure shipments least half million such at a “I famous o 1 d bull, Financial that King. Butler of under definite brand sort be the that play guess these will when confronted with most man was a year same Austin, which furnished each month. Parcel business post one surprised ability Longevity and transmit of the boys in Philadelphia.” markets last to shipped some which they to eastern of the and interstate fairs; hogs in varied prices state unit the regiment various on and of this is in fact to class to great men so the qualities of size, production and Co-operative week by the Minnesota of difference. Thearle-Duffield fireworks little state other companies, is any expected can see or that the of compiling the figures to cost “Yes, he show animals of fair certainly took their the breath their type Creameries Association under to be displayed First. fair magnitude will are Quality Size and stnd least of 136th be excessive and of two would vets out at score proportion away.” of this family credit of Jerseys. The “Land O’ Lakes” inspected ought growthiness government three nights this the Midway lines and Blood year; the reunion. collected. the the thus to value of data to testing associations of Mower the brand. The importance of difference in shows and furnished by be the only rides will be cow to purebreds A picnic dinner, entertainment an A Boer farmer in have shown 1863 took increase county be appreciated greater above will blood lines should statement Wortham and count the Shows, State Fair midway a a number thru lasting the whole day, significance of Commenting the program on of wild ostrich chickens, of Jerseys than other breed, when it is understood that Minnesota young quality. than size and We attractions after much less any year year; short business meeting and land Klien points the figures, Director a new tamed them and the which speaks well for the increasing to surprise of has been shipping dairy products have in breeds squared there will be buildings most gotten and more and more Interlaken park, water that the sports at where formerly out average successfully reared here. them he popularity many for thirty of which has the of blood lines exhibits; bands matter and better and as years, none aw ay on be features. T more to Major Nelson, considered American business are man would have reared cattle, Others before been branded. there few sticklers for and furnish organizations music j will day ever are very who published the regimental “fantastical foreign sales newspaper, some as followed his example and they McGuire Manager that certain families, but there is reports and night; in fact, although are Income Tax. a not one “The Reveille,” as during the impossibility,” super-mysterious reared in inclosures, couple of representative of chain now thing and that is store all a regular and large, interstate a company state we agree on, (Enacted after Poe) plans special edition of the from mail order today some war, years a remote some a bird, and fed like to fine stock in New York has contracted acres a Blood lines size and quality. count fair quality will be pronounced for the for the See public its reunion. parcel tax, point of the earth for pay paper a alfalfa lucerne, ric hclover, large lots of “Land O’ Lakes” butter. on or a if they have produced quality 1924. more Income tax. excitement package post causes no more easily cultivated. This buyer 850 rule have represents stores than others, On high standing of its account or as a produced How the and citizen his Cause for Thanksgiving. from than similar request worn weary a which handle day of the and these size, two can and reputation people a car a expect or more something tired noodle racks. A eating in the kitchen Boston, Chicago San Francisco. tramp sat or Mrs. Soledad C. Chacon, Association’s branded secretary product. all that three things count better ordinary than the can are Filling blanks, blanks, blanks, county of aristocratic domicile, while this the of The gratifying feature most an of of the of New state Mexico, state in real hogs. fair when they by the tens For lot of red cranks, the household come child of curiously tape development, Klien’s in a export new acted of that during So Luxurious! state as litters better governor Raising larger thousands Steele of County’s means to Until he all muddled by the him. see watched gets it opinion, is the fact that proves the Democratic Convention w'hen from the time of the Mrs. Click—l boys in annual the the exposition and people sow care suppose rules and laws and “That’s good are manners!” interposed acts. is the business not that American man Governor Hinkle in New York rather thirty days mated—or was she is the Army terribly tired times. disappointed. Minnesota’s get at Biggest Of the never the “You tax, tax, tax, tax, foreign trade in its viewing youngster. put least at your C ity. This is believed be the to first the time mated—up she is to before Mrs. Clack—Yes, I they do County Fair is always better guess Tax, knife in mouth.” tax, tax, light—as merely “long distance true your instance where has acted She a the litter. woman of weaning cannot but know they have fatigue than expected August and 26-27-28- you Of the aways periodic, idotic might “It be kid,” blithely tax. selling.” worse, chief executive of as in the state the gestation during a down be clothes let wear.” 29, 1924, will this fact be to to run —George B. Staff. retorted the prove in tatterdemalion. “If manufacturers “Our main street me United States. Mrs. Clacon is direct be gaining period, and she a must outstanding than a more ever. here, have he’d stick knife whom dat inland of partner towns, was many descendent of the early Spanish and mated, she is not little when Plan Ow'atonna, coming to William W. Delaney, for thirtyfour now on in his pocket.” selling salt water, never seen are Conquistadores. A twenty-one-year-old inmate of condition, brot bred amaciated in Steele County, Minnesota, an of writer and collector on one and nonchalantly goods abroad years as a the Nazareth as Institute for the Blind suckling about by feed the lack of the all of fair in August. You days or “popular American songs” the or better their supposedly Ten Minutes More. expertly sentimental One Montreal, is as June in the recipient 18 Winnipeg of celebrated a have of former She litter. must find “The Capital will Butter of the a ballads of home and mother, Mr.: seaboard “Aren’t with ready yet?" informed rivals to every you go traveling scholarship the fiftieth from the anniversary Province of its incorporation. feed that, but and only and not World” is place the - welcome where care the lyrical narratives of a outcasts, efficiently Mrs: “Tell doesn’t faciliy—and as me, Quebec, even as my gown of in From musical small, struggling won a a contest, regular feed and and regular at spirit is and hospitality contagious care, is going of business. old The out so-called look of if of the branches it slipping off as were w’hich will enable some my frontier him of the town seventies, to continue Winnipeg farrowing those time given be must religion is and back Park Row shop, lighted by single a you can lands go foreign shoulders?” “super-exporters” of a his has forged musical studies in Europe. ahead, The and it is attentions which now hog home with feeling of satisfaction man every jet, will be closed. Harvard College a who “No; let’s go.” American gas located in ports are the third cash value of the scholarship largest is city in the $3,- Dominion. knows for larger and better litters count have best in that the and the Grosvenor of Library you seen county inherited sales instincts “Well, supposed have you’ll have wait. It’s to to GOO. saved. fairs. Buffalo buying his last stock of previous generations.” pposed look that are from way.” to s; “One pig the bill” has often The people of Steele and pays surrounding sheet music, about fifteen hundred Nearly six billions of dollars each “If been the slogan would but divert are of the county Auctioneer counties all and in fact the over When Luck, Indeed! the herring fishing songs. Hard proved reported invested a in electric railways. of as tithe the and private salesman, and amount spent yet Northwest a recognize the Steele now upon County we go “And how prison): comparative Lady (visiting failure in the Shetland This approximates one-third educating along people after and armaments but little to year Fair Minnesota’s as year Biggest County pay here, as be' in Islands “khabis” consists did the Arabian of turned The to put making to my you come the Interstate women of Commerce Commission’s the attention enormously increased destructive what this to to “extra Fair. one hand-knit good man?” coated woolen fine selected dates with mixture goods which sell valuation of a the roads steam that science has pig” when it into footing put to power means It is right that they should because comes “I’m unlucky,” (declared the imprisoned readily for and butter. It is high prices. of honey and one its of the two cent national per the hands of the bills in the the world would end. The fewer men, travel long distance must vendor, who one alcohol which a wood of the dishes of oldest wealth of the any United States. surely have for realize that, failing disarmament the better to sow's you care find fair grounds that to “One of are any in confidential mood. A record be found and is favorite banded tern nestling was a common can a as a within few usually give them, civilization and care comparison a years, you can with the modern fire blind and he new didn’t confection the Orientals the customers of Maine to coast my go on among was recovered Fifty-one of all main cent railroad if v.'ill down in ruins per produce eight nine the pigs outbreak you resisting buildings go can or on the Steele whom identified me.” on four the date is staple food. later in the delta a years track (whether single double) of another litter each have war.”—Commander to time or great a Fair you produced County Grounds. the of Niger River, the west on in the United States is not the Burney, limit Mritish of the sow’s M. P. to It be remembered capacity must that fair Japan nothing is In easier than divorce, of coast Africa. Local Pride. equipped with block signals of and factory any tell every board directors can do and man not cannot which takes place by the mutual kind. (after bumping Tourist and show r the figures here over you unusually make fair Within few hours you fair of v A is the time the of the a a and a success. Good only consent positions waiting for man wroman. are bad road): Lord, “My sir! capacity production is the only kind big successful the dam the headwaters people who of the Even though the as on law gives wife as graduates of the Minneapolis Business r every Knowledge and thought without Have people pride that in will make profits. you no your attend, make Yukon River sure it. into operation the went the right her husband’s divorce to College because realize that oppose men action like idle machines. You roads!” are Hog Business Hit. than waters foot. The suit her rose more is easily a consent teach efficiency in secured. our courses will learn bring them every to into action The inimitable law of Native: “Well, I’ll have. California has dam will compensation made the flow study of and say we waters The conserve only formalities required branch of business. Write for catalog, if attend Mankato Commercial has told you the hog business They call this the road in the on worst United States and Constitution assist lake and river navigation consist of informing the magistrate compulsory Minneapolis Business College, College, Mankato, Minn. 6-1-c during the last eighteen eighteen months, counties.” in all its public schools. when is low. water that such is Minneapolis, step contemplated. Minn. a 6-1-c r