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International Falls press and border budget (International Falls, Minn.) 1909-1926

February 21, 1918 · Page 2 of 8

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I '•y* pb !f^-',i{ ^x^ry^r^W^l^xc^r 1 5 ^""^/v^ J*f ?4 -i *"s -.'"Y 7' .. »-r ,. »J* •, '.. ~*Vz* v"" jn tt'v *.. 'v. gfo t* tilSlP# f!U CiLf-JS^. •&<* '^t _•& J"" INTERNATIONAL FALLSWtESS PAGE THREE DAIRY PROFESSIONAL CARDS ^/3*o*o*o*o*o*o*o*o*o*o*o*o The Press Offi RETAIN BULKY CROPS JOHN H. BROWN INSTEAD OF SELLING FACTS Attorney »t Law Stationery Store Office over O. M. Carr & Co. Experience, teaches that the less bulky crops we sell the International Falls, Minnesota less likely are we to find the cost of marketing excessive. DR. H. H. IHRIG POWDER HENS BY MACHINERY ENORMOUS WASTE IN WINTER Raw materials must be manufactured into finished productsbefore Dentist GEORGE P. WATSON, Proprietor they become staple and Discarded Churn Makes Application Minnesota Dairy Expert Makes Start* Office over Holler's Confectionery have the highest market value. of Insect Powder Easy and ling Statement as to Amount of International Falls, Minnesota A good way to convert raw materials, Quite Effective. Milk That Is Wasted. such as hay, silage, fodder, C. grain, grass, etc., into finished (By S. ANDERSON, Colorado Agricultural GEO. S. LANGLAND Three and one-half billion pounds of College, Fort Collins.) products, is to feed good milk are practically wasted in jthe Lawyer A hen may be healthy, well fed, and This is the best place to trade for animals and market animal dairy states every winter. This makes In the litis Block on Fourth Avenue well housed, but if she is overrun products. irgiTr 21,000,000 pounds every day. The foregoing SCHOOL, OFFICE AND HOME with lice and mites she cannot remain International Falls, Minnesota o»o»o»ooo»o»o»o»o+o»o»o»c»' is a startling statement, but R. a profitable producer or a good mother STATIONERY SUPPLIES M. Washburn of the division of dairy for the young chicks. MORE DAIRY COWS IN SOUTH husbandry, Minnesota College of Agriculture, F. J. McPARTLIN Under ordinary conditions, lice and says it is true. The farther can mites be kept down by frequently Lawyer feeds most of his skim milk to hogs. Should Form Part of Equipment on spraying the poultry houses, roosts, Office over International State Bank This milk, fed to hogs, produces only Every Farm to Enable Tenants dropping boards and nests and by providing 20 per cent of its energy value in edible International' Falls, Minnesota a to Support Themselves. good dusting bath for the pork. Eighty per cent of its energy birds. When these precautions fail, individual Pens value is lost. Mr. Washburn says, (Prepared by the United States Department treatment must be followed G. F. SW1NNERTON, M. D., C. M. though, that some milk is necessary to of Pencils Agriculture.) by dusting the birds with some good Physician and Surgeon start pigs off strongly. the To have dairy cows as a part of In insect powder. large flocks this is Tablets Eyes Examined iand Glasses Fitted Much more of the energy value of equipment on every farm, enabling very laborious, and the following use the skim milk will be saved if it is Office over City Drug Store tenants to become self-supporting Rubbers of an old discarded churn may help to made into cottage cheese. Every 100 throughout the year and at the same solve the problem. International Falls, Minnesota Mucilage pounds of skim milk, says Mr. Washburn, time maintain desirable soil conditions, Put a cupful or so of insect powder is equivalent to 20 pounds of ordinary is a plan recommended by the Letter Files in the churn. Next put in the birds meat, and will make 15 pounds DR. JENNER PERRY CHANCE bureau of animal industry, United one at a time and turn the churn gently Carbon Paper of cottage cheese. The cheese contains States department of agriculture, for a half-dozen revolutions. If the Physician and Surgeon about one-third more protein among the land owners of the South. powder contains carbolic acid or some Library Paste Office over litis .Drug Store and one-third less energy than meat, The plan is accompanied with an active other strong irritant, it will be well to and is therefore essentially equivalent Fancy Stationery Phone 11 campaign for feed production as a result a protect the birds' eyes by slipping to meat. a marked increase in the acreage Night Calls at Hotel Koochiching small cloth sack over their heads. Typewriter Ribbons of legumes, particularly velvet beans The rotation of the churn causes International Falls,. Minnesota DEVICE ON BUTTER SCALES and peanuts, has been shown. the bird to relax and the feathers to Every effort is being made by field open, thus letting the insect powder PHINNEY Ac CAMPBELL to men of the department aid in bringing get well into the skin. Resilient Support Absorbs Most of of good in a sufficient supply cows Lawyers Shock When Tub Is Thrown Hastily to to establish dairying and fix the type TURKEYS ALWAYS IN DEMAND on Platform. Falls, Minnesota WRITING PAPER CHEAP International of of good cows in the minds the farmers. The readiness of bankers to help We have a large amount of the best The Scientific American in illustrating Because of Constant Decrease in Number W. E. LAWRENCE finance the purchase of dairy cattle is grade bond paper in white and various and describing an attachment for of Fowls There Is Increased^, an indication of how well established scales, invented by F. D. Shea, 164 colors, in tablet form but without The Rexall Store Profits in Them. the industry has become through cooperative Chambers street New York, says: covers, that we are selling out International Falls, Minnesota and state work. This device is adapted particularly (By ANDREW WEINANT.) at 5 cents each—a third of a pound for the weighing of butter. It consists Because the number of turkeys in of good paper in each one. Also a FARM SNOW PLOW IS PLANNED DR. E. A. THOMPSON of a resilient support secured to the United States has constantly decreased large number of scratch pads at 5 the platform of the scales, which will in the last few years while the Dentist for 5 cents and 2 for 5 cents. absorb most of the shock when a tub demand has perhaps increased, a Implement Made of Two Old Planks Phone 245 of butter is thrown hastily thereon, more profitable side line than turkey and Few Boards Is Easily Pulled Office over litis Drug Store raising for those favorably situated by One Horse. for the work could hardly be found. International Falls, Minnesota Given plenty or range, turkeys will Up to last winter I always have readily find grasshoppers and other shoveled paths in the snow around the Subscribe for THE PRESS -The Popular Home Weedy W. E. MARTIN insects, green vegetation, the seeds of farm and got many a backache, while Contractor and Builder weeds and grasses, waste grains, and the horses were standing in the barn. acorns and nuts of various kinds. In Repairs Promptly Done So I decided that I would see if I ONLY *1.50 PER YEAR this way the cost of raising tjiem is could not make them help, writes Phone 159 705 8th St. small and the profits large. Grain Charles E. Richardson in Farm and Home. .1 found two old planks about five DR. ELIZABETH MONAHAN mi feet long, two inches thick and ten Anaesthetist inches wide. I sawed off an end of one THE STUBEE so that the ends would fit together Eyes Examined—Glasses 1' itted smoothly. Tlion I nailed some boards across the top. On the pointed end 1 Phone 223 Office 800 2nd St. Sash and Door Factory The Shoe Hospital REPAIRING WHILE YOU WAIT IS NOW OPEN FOR BUSINESS Attachment Scales. for NATHAN NURICK, Proprietor thus relieving the scales of jar and 213 Third Street We Are Well Equipped to do All Kinds of making it possible to ascertain the Xext to tun Lunch BOM weight of a tub of butter more quickly. HILLWORK Turkeys on Range. NORTHERN MINNESOTA OPEN SHED IS SATISFACTORY and you will make no mistake by getting HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION and stock farms are particularly well their prices before ordering elsewhere adapted to turkey raising, and it is in Dr. C. C. Craig Phone 223 Experiments Conducted by Department such places that most of the turkeys Dr. Elizabeth Monahan Phone 223 of Agriculture on Government are found. Little has ever been done Dr. Mary Ghostly Phone 301 Farm at Beltsville. Building and Contracting a' Specialty in the way of raising turkeys in confinement, Hospital Phone 79 and when it has been tried All Work Guaranteed (Prepared by the United States Depart-, Office oyer International State Bank Farm Snow Plow. the results have been discouraging. ment of Agriculture.) Phone 155 In experiments at Beltsville, Md., by •nit a piece of two by six nn] bore' WAR RATIONS FOR CHICKENS LARS STUBEE, Prop. International Falls, Minnesota the bureau of animal industry, United :i irice Imle in it so tint I could place States department of agriculture, a :i pon*. I also s' i-'II clouts alon-i Corn Is Probably Most Important Food warm barn, commonly deemed essential Phone 50 the sidi so my feet would not slip o-Y. 2nd Ave. and 6th St. S .-L THOMPSON & SON for Poultry and Should Not for large milk production during liy putting a hook on the yx-.'iu 'n «itieh Be Overlooked. the winter months, proved to be somewhat a^sins'etree 1 'had a good snow less satisfactory than an open m!ow\ When there was a snow storm In spite of the high cost of feeds a shed. Experiments extending over ,.ad a horse draw It. Agents for the flock of good fowls will continue to return three years showed that cows housed a handsome profit, because of in the open shed consumed a little ITIMATE VALUE OF MANURE the great advance In price of eggs and more feed, required more bedding and poultry. There is no cheap ration, slightly increased labor cost, but because because all grains and feeds have advanced. JOHN N. GISH more milk was produced and .on Given of Test Conducted at Corn is probably the most account of the lower cost of housing, North- Dakota Experiment Station important food for poultry and should the open shed was found to be some.what With Corn and Wheat. not .be left out of the ration. more economical. Watchmaker and J«w«ler Cracked corn and oats may well ?.?':«nnre applied to laud that was put constitute the bulk of the hard grain, BEST GRASSES FOR PASTURE corn and followed by three crops into using equal quantities by weight of of wlifat (at North Dakota experinent each. A little barley, say 20 to 25 per station, 1906-1910) at the rate of When Sowing Make Up Mixture So cent, will add variety, but wheat is 'x loads per acre increased the yield That Some of Plants Will Be out of the question. Low grades and Afent for Singer Sewing I'tw-o'.gh to bring $1.40 per load, Wlujal Growing at All Times. screenings that do not contain too was then averaging, about 80 cents many weed, seeds may also be used Machine Company and Detroit Vapor corn 50 cents per bushel.. Now It is possible for pasture to be so lliat wheat and corn are ovor $2 per scant that the cow uses up all her DAMAGED FEED FOR POULTRY Woodstock Typewriter. Oil Stove s-sliel and the return per loat. of manure energy in securing enough nutrients will be about $3.50 if the same from it to maintain her body. When Before Buying Low-Grade Grain Make r.-i to of increase in the crop is secured. The only absolutely sowing for pasture make up a mixture 8ure That It Has Sufficient of grasses such that some one of Wtckless Oil Stove Amount of Nutriment. the grasses will be green and palatable oh the market. PLAN TO GUARD LIVE STOCK Also dealer in at all times of the growing season. or Before buying low-grade damaged Burns just like gas. to grain feed the poultry, make sure Wear-U-Well Shoe* Any Animal Should Be Segregated Call and let us that it has enough nutriment In It to Soon as Symptoms of Illness REAL SUCCESS IN DAIRYING be worth the price you pay for It. show you. Are First Discovered.' Grains that are simply shrunken, if bought cheap enough, are sometimes End Can Be Brought About By Part* Preventive rather than therapeutic profitable to feed but those which are nership Between Good Cow and measures will ljelp farmers to conserve damaged in some other ways frequently S.E. Intelligent Feeder. more live stock, says C. P. Fitch, are almost useless and are expensive Border Wholesale Meat & Grocery head of the veterinary division, Minnesota at any price. When possible, it is Real success in dairying comes from College of kgriculture. Any animal well to send samples of this kind of a partnership between the good cow should be segregated as soon as grain to your state experiment statiot' Company and the good feeder. Many a good iny symptoms of illness are noticed. CAR SCHEDULE. Cor examination. cow fails because never given a chance If the trouble appears at all serious to prove her ability. If one would be veterinarian should be called. EXCELLENT FOOD FOR DUCKS The following is the regular schedule a successful dairyman he must Study C. A. YERNBERG, Maaaier for the International Falls' and the business, learn how to know cowti MILK INCREASES EGG YIELD and how to feed them. Wholesale and Retail Meats, Groceries, Fruits and Feed Ranier car line: Mash p1 Cornmeal and Wheat Brar Every Morning and Every Other Ranior Falls v-^ Evening Is Favored. Building Up Dairy Herd. 1:45 a.m. meets Dul. train.-„'2:15 a.m. Dairy Farmers Will Find It-Profitable 4' good dairy herd' is built up only A to Give Fowls All They Will 8:15 a.m. '^9:30 a.m. Home-Made Sausage and Hamburger V- after years of constructive breeding good feed for the ducks, botli A -H Consume Each Day. 11:30 a.m. Wl:00 p.m. and selection. To sell, these herds for young and old, is a mash of one paTt Give Ua Trial and You Will Stay With U» 2:15 p.m. t"j3:30 p^m. beef would be to undo much of the cornmeal and two parts- wheat bran ^Experiments have shown "that the 5:10 p.m. meets Dul. traih. "'*6:15 p.m effective work which has been done. every morning and every other evening, Our Prices Are Always Right and Our Stock Always Fresh reeding of milk, including sour milk 7 30 p.m. 10:00 p.m. and on the alternate evening a and buttermilk, Increases the egg yield rwvPRfc rk: if, It. B. Kook, and dairy farmers will find it profitable good feed of cracked corn, shrunken ^H^Keep All Milk Cows. Don't dry up jthe milk' cows. They wheat or oats. If they can be allQwed/ IV1' Manager. to give their hens all they will drink fcs sO litis Block, Third Street, International Falls, Minn. consldsr* free range they will pick up Cut are going to be, scarce and high priced awl also .mix the damp mash with milk this out and paste it in your next 3re*li able /the place. if a damp mash Ls fectf food around hat. Wi