Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-04-14
sPRlNo LiTTERe RUNNING SMALL
AND Nc SHORTAGE Is
INDICATED.
CONDITIONS NOT AscRIsEo
TO plsEAsE AMONG HERDS
shortage Exists Where Cholera Did
Net Rass-Ese Crop Nets One Gen.
eva Farmer Average Of $50 Per
Month z. Wilson'S Rural obssr.
vatisns.
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Geneva, April 1l-One Of the i'm
portant crops grown in this part OF the
country has already begun to make its
Appearance. viz: the spring pig. IN
usual interest in the little fellows well
fare is being manifested by the owners
for reasons easily understood. 1t is
considered certain that there can be no
surplus Of the product grown this year
because Of what happened all over the
swine belt" last year and everybody
wants pigs. The results thus far IN
the season in this locality ere not very
satisfactory. The litters are generally
small and losses have been heavy. One
man has seven pigs from ten mothers.
an extreme case, however. Another
farmer, F. p. Finn, has 1876 fine little
Cheste. Whites from eighteen pens,
which is also an extreme case. A guess
OF an average litter OF three or four
pigs taking them as they come would
not be Far from correct and conse-
auently there will not be bumper
pig crop this year in this community.
This condition can not be ascribed to
the effects of disease last year for the
Geneva community was especially free
from the disastrous epidemic that
thinned the herds In SO many localities.
Il. D. Coble and his son-in-iaw, Terry
Grice, are operating the formers farm
near Geneva. The latter is dairy en-
thus:as. with ideals that look modern
and right" to the outsider. Their
equipment includes q cream separator
with diminutive gasolene engine at
tachment, scales and tester.,They have
a big sflo. of course, and they feed a
balanced ration. Some surprising facts
have resulted from a reading OF their
test records. For instance one COW
which was supposed to be a fairly good
one was found to have paid profit
of about cents above the cost OF her
feed thru . six-day test while others
pair nearly 100 times as much. Mr.
Grice believes that silo and an al
talfa field Will prove the solution Of the
feed question for the Iowa dairyman
and stock raiser AZ together silage and
alfalfa form complete ration and are
much less expensive than grain. hay,
oil meal and other feeds which have
been figured out as the proper ones for
the best work OF the mich cow.
There Is. money iD poultry-on the
farm-sometimes.. The other day a
farmer pulled some papers from his
pockstbook. and spread them out. They
we're due b!lis the merchant had given
him for eggs. One was for $6.SS and
one was for 1858, etc. They were
dated. and a little mental arithmetic
showed that the merchant owed that
farmer just $23.70 for eggs taken to the
store from March II to April 1 and had
furnished him with groceries besides.
Sixty dollars a month or more for g.
mere :sideline." There were about 300
hens on that farm.
One Of the best improved farms so
far as buildings is concerned at least
in Franklin county. Is that Of ]. N.
Switzer, who recently bought tract
near Geneva and erected q set of new
buildings entire. Near the road are the
house and BARN. The house is an
eight-reom modern structure equipped
with all kinds Of conveniences such as
furnace, vapor heating system, pres
sure tank, etc. The great barn has a
l6O-ton capacity silo connected at one
end and here too are the modern APP
plianees that double the efficiency Of
the man who does the chores. litter
carriers, grain chutes. lights, and other
modern equipments. Back Of these are
granaries, machine shed and other
buildings al standing IN line and ar
ranged Is they only can be when the