THE WHITE lll'S 1RBEH Every "In PROFESSIONAL CARDS ON SANDYLOAMS $$ ss ss ss 33 says the Good Judge DR. H. H. IHRIG You get more genuine chew* Dentist ing satisfaction from the Real Office over Holler's Confectioneay Legume Can Be Grown Successfully International Falls, Minnesota Tobacco Chew than you ever on Variety of Soils Under got from the ordinary kind. JOHN H. BROWN Adverse Conditions. Attorney at Law The good tobacco taste Office over O M. Carr & Co. lags so long—a small chew International Falls, Minnesota BEST AS LEGUMINOUS CROP of this class of tobacco lasts much longer than a big chew A E of the old kind. That's why It Has Greatest Value in Southern Lawyer States, Gradually Lessening Northward it costs less to use. International State Bank Bldg Seeds Are Commonly International Falls, Minnesota Used for Human Food. Any man who has used both kinds will tell you that. Wlille cowpeas do best on sandy N O E N I N N E S O A loams, they succeed on practically all Put up in two styles types of well-drained soil, according to HOSPITAL specialists of the bureau of plant industry B. F. Osburn, Physician and of the United States Department W-B CUT is along fine-cut tobacco" Surgeon in Charge of Agriculture. No other legume RIGHT CUT is a short-cut tobacco can be grown so successfully and on Office Phone 30 Hospital Phone 79 such a variety of soils under adverse Office Int'l State Bank Building conditions as the cowpeas. A very International Falls, Minnesota rich soil is not conducive to the best results with the crop. Good corn land LAWRENCE'S PHARMACY Is considered particularly favorable. The Rexall Store Warm Weather Crop. The cowpea is a warm weather S. N. Rubin, Proprietor crop. It has the greatest value in the International Falls. Minnesot Builders' Hardware southern states, gradually lessening northward. It is grown, however. In the southern parts of Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, and New Jersey, and in parts Wheat—"Take Him Off and Can arry the Rest." of Michigan. In general, the cowpea is AND the harmful barberry and all bushes (By DR. F. F. KEMPTON, in Charge of adapted to about the same climatic Barberry Eradication, United States Department found should be eradicated so thai conditions as corn. It requires somewhat of Agriculture.) no roots remain to sprout. No seed Tools The white man has been referred more heat, however. It will lings should be allowed to grow neai to in speech and in verse as having stand a considerable degree of drought, estmOldest It or under trees or bushes, along one of the heavy burdens of life to but' under very dry conditions will fences or streams, in brushy pastures, ouseJntheWesi bear. This burden, real or fancied, produce only a moderate quantity of or in any places where birds mighl may be heavy, but to the world, it in hay and a very small number of seeds, carry the seeds. In this way you help no way compares with the accumulated if any. to increase the prosperity of youi burdens borne by the farmer in the In the southern states the cowpea is community-by increasing the produc production of the wheat crop upon the best known and most extensively )l: I?CMAN A) WE ARE HEADQUARTERSOUR tion of wheat and other grains and which the world depends for its staff grown leguminous crop. It is grown of life. 0, Mm mainly for forage and to improve the STOCK IS COMPLETE COMMON If the crop escapes bad weather— soil. The seeds, in addition, are rather cold, ice, flood, hail, frost, drought, or commonly used for human food. As BARBERRY hot winds—various insects may be DANGER OF DUST EXPLOSIONS a catch crop and for hay or seed production lurking about to feed upon what re* cowpeas are especially valuable Falls Lumber & Coal Co. mains. Pltfnt diseases in the form of in almost any system of rotation. Cost 80 Lives and $7,000,000 Property smuts, rusts, and scabs have taken In many sections of Missouri, Arkansas Damage in 1919—Evil Almost varying toll during past years, but, as and Tennessee a rotation of wheat Eliminated. a' rule, they have been less fully understood or oats and cowpeas has given good PHONE 81 Berr/es than the troubles from weather results. On farms where live stock is dust and similar mill sittings Grain bu.rtc.hes like or insects. Among tliese diseases kept the following rotation is very Currents appear harmless, but filtered through are the loose smut, stinking smut or nnr»iiU»r* vo cotton: second the air and ignited in a closed structure, bunt, the black-stem rust, the leaf they are as deadly as dynamite. rust, and the scab or blight. Of all Such explosions cost 80 lives and $7,000,000 these the black-stem rust has taken property damages in 1919. The w" the heaviest toll in the northern states, DURING PAINT UP AND CLEAN UP^ SEASON United States Department of Agriculture O/otnes usu&//y fronS year to year, and in years of rust dust-explosion investigation service in threes AND ALL THE YEAR AROUND epidemics it has caused appalling losses. *v v, A has practically eliminated the Hope is now held out to the wheat evil. WHEN YOU WANT TO— E S O A N growers of the northern part of the Edge of FIX THAT FENCE United States that the control of /ezxf Successor to G. Holmqulst spiny toothed black-stem rust is possible by the GOOD BROAD CONCRETE WALK LAY THAT FLOOR Cabinet Maker, Furniture eradication of common barberry. SEE HANG THAT DOOR Repairer, Picture Framing, It is important that everyone should A twig of common barbery, showing One of the iSreatest Time and Work BUILD THAT SMALL General Carpenter, Contract* understand that the harmful barberry the larger leaves with toothed edges, Savers About the Farm—Prevents BUILDING OR COTTAGE tor and Builder. is the tall green common European' the spines on the stems usually in Tracking Up the House. or any Big Carpenter job— 502 THIRD STREET barberry and its purple variety, and threes, and the red berries in long may be distinguished by the following drooping bunches, like currants. (Compare One of the greatest time and work characteristics. Usually it is four to with the Japanese barberry.) savers about the farm is a good broad six feet tall, though it may reach ten concrete walk from the barn to the also help to supply more food for the or even fifteen feet if the bushes are house. When there is nothing but a whole world. old. The edges of the rather large dirt walk it is almost impossible to Further information may be obtained leaves are toothed, the teeth ending in avoid "trackin' in" mud and barn litter, Farmers and Stock Owners from the United States Department of Cowpea Field in Blossom. small spiny points. On the stems, at but with a concrete walk raised a Agriculture or your state agricultural the base of each cluster of leaves, couple of inches above the yard level, year, corn, with cowpeas at the last college. are three or more stout, sharp spines. and with base enough to permit of driving Wide Interest Shown In Work. cultivation third year, winter oats or WE HAVE IN STOCK AT ALL TIMESBRAN, The light yellow flowers and red berries over it where necessary, a lot of the wheat, with a catch crop of cowpeas The wide interest taken in the work are borne in long clusters like MIDDLINGS AND SHORTS, work of the housewife is done away of eradication has been evidenced by for hay or seed after the grain has currants. This bush, or any that resemblls with. CRACKED CORN, CORN, OATS AND the numerous requests received by the been removed. it closely, is harmful and Worked In Rotation. GROUND OATS, AND HAY. department during the past fiscal year should be destroyed. DRILL CUPS ARE NEGLECTED In sections devoted to growing tobacco for informational material for use in Japanese Variety Harmless. AT PRICES THAT ARE RIGHT the infested areas. Lack of funds ha? a seven-year rotation of tobacco, In contrast to this tall bush there hampered somewhat the department's wheat, two years of grass, corn with More or Less Wear Causes Partial is a low spreading barberry, known Falls Lumber & Coal Co. crimson clover as a cover crop, cow-' campaign against barberry. It wa.( Closing or Widening of the as Japanese barberry, which in some able, however, to supply a large num peas, and red clover, has been recommended Grain Spaces. localities is more widely planted than PHONE 81 ber of posters, bulletins, circulars, and by a state experimental sta-. the tall or common barberry. The other matter for distribution. tion. A good rotation in the corn One of the too-often neglected Jobs Japanese barberry is seldom over three A survey to locate barberries was belt on land where corn and wheat or about the farm is the tuning up of the feet tall and has small leaves with oats are regularly grown consists of cups in the grain drill. After the first begun in the larger cities because oi entire edges. The spines on the stems corn, soy beans, wheat, and clover, the better means for spreading information. few years there is sure to be more, or with cowpeas for hay when clover less wear, and this not infrequently results It was extended then to the Skeptics JAPANESE fails. Cowpeas are to be recommended towns, so that now nearly all cities in the partial closing or else the and towns having a population of over also as a crop to precede alfalfa. widening of the space through which BARBERRY 300 have been surveyed. An intensive Farmers' Bulletin 1148, Cowpeas: the grain moves into the spouts. When Culture and Varieties, now issued by this happens, even seeding becomes impossible. survey of the entire rural area outside the United States Department of And often just a little attention of the cities and towns has been Agriculture, contains much valuable will set matters right, and will begun. Already about 50 counties have greatly prolong the life of the drill. been covered, the survey reaching every information on the growing of cowpeas. Copies may be had upon request farmstead and brushy pastures of the department at Washington, D. C. CONCRETE FLOORS FOR BARN and woodlands in the entire area. This means traveling every section line, Berries •s/ng/e or h7 twos /ike many half section lines and scouting GROWERS OF SORGHUM SEED Provision Should Be Made for Sufficient gooseberries the woodlands rod by rod. Slope So That It Can A very important part of this survey Easily Be Flushed. List Published by Kansas Agricultural is finding the escaped barberries Station of Great Advantage which have started from seeds dropped In laying the concrete floor for the to Farmers. by birds in thickets and pastures. Over new barn, see that it slopes enough ?b *S/o/nes u&u*Tfy 1,674,000 escaped bushes were found so that it can be easily flushed wi tfrr A list of growers of pure sorghum •S/ng/c during the past year. A total of almost a hose. Even if you haven't the water seed has been issued this year by the Edge of 1,900,000 bushes was found in •at this time, the day is coming when /ea/ Kansas State Agricultural Experiment 'Smooth rural districts last year. Records to you will have water pressure, and will station at Manhattan^ supplementing date show that 3,865,426 bushes have do the bulk of your cleaning by means similar lists which have been published A twig of Japanese barberry, showing been located and 3,705,142 bushes removed. of It. in the past on wheat, corn and other its smaller leaves with no teeth principal cereal crops. The list -is on the edges, the spines on the stem made from field inspection and enables SUN IS BEST DISINFECTANT BEST-GRADED PRODUCTS WIN usually one or sometimes two in~~-a farmers to tell the exact grade of place, and the red berries singly or In sorghum or percentage of mixture with Hard to Beat Plenty of Good Strong small and short clusters of two, like Standardization Establishes Common other varieties which is to be obtained Sunshine and Ought to Be gooseberries. (Compare with the common Language Between Buyer and from any grower. This service has Kept at Work. barberry.) Seller. been of great advantage to the farmers of the state. You can pay out a lot of money for are only one in a place. The flowers It has been demonstrated many times disinfectants, but it's pretty hard to are borne singly or in twos. The berries that In the markets of the world the TREATMENT FOR BULLS' FEET beat plenty of good strong sunshine. are a dark red in color, borne seller with the best-graded products Is Not that the disinfectant may not be singly or in twos, like gooseberries, the favorite, because graded goods are needed too, but that sunshine ought to Many Useless Cripples Could Be and have a thicker skin than those standard and the buyer knows what be kept steadily at work. Avoided by Giving Some Atteit of the common barberry. This barberry he will get when he buys. Standardization tion to Underpinning, is harmless as it does not carry establishes a common language TRUCK FOR AVERAGE FARMER the stem rust and should not be destroyed. between the buyer in one country and Unfortunately many good bulls become the seller In another, which creates useless cripples through neglect If every property owner In the northern understanding and confidence and prevents Vehicle of One to Two Tona Capacity of their feet. Few things are more wheat-growing states of Colorado, With Trailers Is Plenty disputes. painful than to see a good bull limping Illinois Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Large Enough. A national grading system usually along en his heels, with long, upturned Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, provides for authorized national Inspectors hoofs. No amount of attention Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin For the average farmer's use a to pass upon the goods and can restore the sprightly step and and Wyoming co-operate, it will be truck of one to two tons capacity and thus puts Into effect a uniform standard erect carriage that are characteristic .one or two trailers of equal capacity W. ula, we're takin'awfu) chance In exportfiT w»r» much tor possible to take tbls "Old Man of the application of the grades established, of a vigorous bull, when once his feet Christmas through a little gas grate chimney like this Sea," black-stem rust, off the shoulders is preferable and less expensive to buy whatever~fhey may be, that have been-seriously neglected. Prevention ifljr.. bub. »»ybe 8anta carries a chimnej itratetm srtta of the wheat grower. Every proprty and operate than a three or flr« too cannot be maintained -unless the system is always better than to venture trade alone. should be carefully examined for Is nation wide In ita^scope. the risks of a cum.