Evening times-Republican., 1913-11-18
EMMETT COUNTY NOT RESPONSE.
BILE FOR ANY OF THE PRE-.
pIcrEp CORN SHORTAGE.
STAND ALMOST PERFECT;
QUALITY FIRST CLASS
Hog Cholera Makes Appearance Near
E.therviIls and Opinions Differ As
to Value Of Vaccinations As In Other
Sections of the State-c. e. Wilson's
Rural Observations.
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Estherville, Nov. 1S.-If the estimates
of some of the best informed farmers
Of this vicinity are correct Emnet
county will not be responsible for any
part of the nine bushels per acre
shortage of the Iowa corn crop Of
1913, the estimate made recently by
the national department. of agriculture.
The stand appears to have been all
most perfect. the quality is first class
and fifty buShel averages are found on
nearly every section. Mr.. H. W. Woods,
q well-knoWn local farmer and brother
of the Iowa congressman, has sixty
seven acre field which is yielding fully
sixty bushels per acre.
They are draining out the low spots
here as in other fiat parts of the
state and thereby doing away with the
waste places that pull down crop aver
ages SO noticeably. Many Of the fields
here present the appearance of having
been topped" in some cases hardly a
stalk standing to its original height.
This is explained by the statement that
much of the corn was planted very
late in the season and the upper por-
ton of the stalk was still tender at
the end of the growing season and went
down before the heavy fall winds This,
however. did not affect the grain nor
the lower part of the stalk which
stands up remarkably well.
Hog cholera is making inroads on
the herds of this section tho not to
the extent that it has farther south
and east. It is probably not far from
the truth to say that three-fourths OF
the crop has thus far escaped disease.
There is the same difference of opinion
regarding the effectiveness of vaccina-
tion that exists in other parts Of the
country. One man remarks that vac
cination doesn't amount TO anything
and the next one is satisfied that it
saved mis- herd 1t is to be observed
in different communities that the work
of some particular veterinaries pro-
duces satisfactory results while that
of others is almost universally con-
demned. 1t isn't altogether in the
kind of serum they use either. one man
apparently saving hogs with serum
made at place where some other
veterinary wouldn't think Of sending
for his supply Hearing all these
stories one IS inclined TO the conclusion
that the efficacy of vaccination depends
to considerable extent on who the
"vaccinator" is.
There are evidently some good hog
raisers here as we'll as in counties
farther south. Mr.. Henry Kruse, the
other day. marketed a drove Of thirty
Durocs that averaged 22o pounds at
just a few days more than I months
of age. He fed them corn and slop
made of water and oil meal with some
times mixture of low grade -four and
later turned them into a big corn
field. After about a month there they
began to tear down the corn when
they were placed in a feeding yard and
finished.
What a difference there is in farm
ers and farming, and what difference
good farming makes in the appearance
of farm. Two adjoining places on
mail route northwest from Estherville
furnish a noticeable illustration. Last
year they were tough looking PROPOSE
tions" Poor buildings, worn out land,
everything in disorder. They had been
rented for years evidently on the one
year plan. But last March new
kind of change occurred. The sons Of
each Of the owners came. They came
to stay, too. AS We approached the
house Of one the driver noticing the
difference, remarked, Must be a new
man here. the yard doesn't look like 1t
did when we We're here before
Out in the field the farmer apologized
for the presence of few cockleburrs