The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1917-11-07

1.-THE farmer, and to regard him as very
fortunate individual. True, he is more
fortunate than he has been in times
past, but while he has been relieved
of some burdens, he has been saddled
with others. Not all the prices have
benefited him.
/ We are too apt to view the farmer
as living entirely on the farm and of
its products. In one sense this is true,
but in another sense it is not. While
his means come from the farm, much
of those means must be exchanged for
commodities that do not come from
the farm.
The farmer must wear clothes, and
these must come from the manufac-
turers and the merchants. He must
have farm Implements, and these he
cannot make. He must have wagons
and buggies, and, if he is to enjoy life
as his city brother, automobiles, and
the prices of these articles are soar
ing in company with the products of
his farm. =
But what we started out to remark
was that the farmers can in large
measure meet and overcome the ef-
fects OF the high prices of farm i'm
Elements by well planned system Of
cooperation. And it looks now as
though this plan will have to be adopt
ed. The demand for war supplies has
diverted the energies of many large
factories, and a shortage of farm i'm.
Elements is freely predicted.
In this event cooperation in the
purchase and use of the more costly
farm tools will prove not only prac.
ticable, but profitable. There are
many tools used on the farm, where
one implement may be made to do the
work of several farms. Every farmer
knows what they are, and it Is unnec-
essary to enumerate them. We would
merely impress the fact that wherever
these can be owned and operated CO.
operatively, it is not only economy to
do so, but it is also of real benefit to
the country in this crisis. Every
ounce of energy that can be diverted
from the manufacture OF farm sup.
plies can be devoted to the manufac-
ture of government supplies.
Every community in our country
should give this matter serious con-
sideration this fall. while planning for
that record crop that will be needed
next year.
During the time Of high priced feed
it is more important than ever that you
have either pure bred or high grade
stock. A friend of mine says: "The
male ia half the herd. provided he Is
good one-and if he is not he is all OF
the herd"
Don't fail to increase gradually the
feed of the SOW sucking the litter and
see that she is provided with clean,
dry quarters to sleep.
Breda News: Although the price of
hogs has gone down some they still |
bring a good price. Tuesday Joe
Wente marketed 81 head which weigh !
I'd exactly 1910 pounds and received |
! check in return for the amount of
81 ,S4G.75.
Ira G.. Smith is located two miles |
west of Manila. He has recently |
built a machine shed 3Ox60. It is |
really q combination machine shed !
and corn crib, with q feeding floor |
Ill under cover. The corn crib will
hold 800 bushels Of corn and the |
feeding floor is 1Ox30 A tile chicken
house is all O new improvement |
made. The building is 12x25 |
with nine foot posts. There are five |
If those ventilating roof windows in
he building besides several windows
alongs the south side.
o.
Herman Miller is building a garage
IN his farm about one mile west of
Manila. 1t will be 16XlS.
Several of the farmers have told
ne that they are now satisfied that
hey have been attempting to raise
90 late variety of field corn. They |
must cut down the size Of the ear
md shorten the days necessary for
is maturity
Eat lots of corn bread.
o.
c. F. Schmidt's farm is located in
lection twenty-One, and twenty-five,
otter Creek township and it was hit II
~ the hail last summer, as were
many Of the other farms in that 10.
'ality. He is getting q small yield
Il nubbins which he will feed to his
i've stock. He expects to ship a car
DAD of baby beef next week.
Ben Witt, who resides about six
wnllc At wAR |