Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-11-03

Andrew Marcher has just finished
painting the Hans Johansen farm
home, northwest of town.
The Service Garage sold used
Ford coupe to Nels Samuelson, from
up towards Bruno, Friday.
Miss Dagmar Gravesen spent Sat-
urday and Sunday in Minneapolis Wis
iting with her sister, Miss Edith.
who is student at the university.
Rev. o. H. Dyreborg was out at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Jens Abraham
sen Wednesday afternoon last week
and baptized their little daughter,
Ruth Marion.
Mrs. Jacob Christensen had the
painful experience a few days ago to
have an automobile door slammed on
her finger. The injured member was
given medical attention.
Elmer Christensen left yesterday
for Winnebago where he expects to
husk corn. He was accompanied as
far as Minneapolis by ]. G. Thomson
who is expected back today.
Word just received by relatives
states that Holger Dixen, Elmer Nor
gensen, and Thorvald Sorensen are
visiting with the formers brother.
Mnar B. Dixen, at Salinas, Calf,
and they may seek employment there
for the winter. Coming to Salinas
from a northern climate they were
surprised to find the roses in full
bloom in the average gardens and
warm weather. That sounds good,
but another friend a little further
south in California writes that they
have just had their first rain since
March so the garden hose can be
given a much needed rest, and the
dust will not be quite so bad from
now on.
During the first few days of the
week A. Henriksen has been making
some fine improvements in his feed
house at Askov, the principal part of
which is the installation of new
Attrition feed grinding mill. This
mill is of the latest type and modern
in every respect, being run by two
Is horse power motors which are on
direct shaft to the grinder and ro-
tate in opposite directions at a speed
of 1850 revolutions per minute. The
mill ana motors are built in one COM
plete and compact unit running on
ball bearings throughout and weighs
about $500 pounds, thus giving very
little vibration. The rated capacity
of the outfit is 80 sacks of feed per
hour at the maximum and will nicely
average 60 sacks to the hour. 1t was
tried out yesterday for the first time
at different intervals and turned out
100 sacks of feed. 1t is adjustable
for fine or coarse grinding and also
has a scalper on the second floor
over which all grain is run before
entering the mill; this outfit is some
what similar to a potato sorter but
with a half inch screen and sorts out
all straws, cobs, pieces of iron and
other objects that will not pass
through a half inch hole; besides
this there are magnets in the hopper
to pull out smaller pieces of iron or
nails, etc. The installation complete
costs nearly $500 but should be a
paying proposition when convenience,
quality of work, and speed are con-
sidered. When Mr.. Henriksen bought
the little original potato warehouse
about twelve years ago he had a
3 horse power motor to do all his
work, now the total motor horse power
in the warehouse and feed mill COM
bined is A. Besides this he has the
feed house at Bruno where he uses
10 horse power in motors and in his
latest purchase, the Produce Co. po-
tato warehouse, there is horse
power motor, making a total of 6S
horse power for the three places.