The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1917-10-10

tural course, and they go out in the
country to study the cultivation OF
crops and look over the buildings of
the most progressive farmers in the
vicinity OF Storm Lake. When at the
farm Of Adolph Meyers, which is 10.
Gated in section thirty-four, Soldier
township, / thought what a treat it
would be, and what storehouse of
useful knowledge may be found on
this farm in the way of modern build
ings. Don't understand me to even
insinuate that this would not be a good
place for the old experienced farmers
to 60, on the same errand. There are
mighty few farmers living in this, or
any other county, who could not pick
up valuable information on the
Meyer farm. There is material
enough there for page article. but no
matter how much space | may use l
have not the ability to give it the de-
scription which it deserves. l will
only partially describe a few of the
buildings and advise you to take a
day off and look over this farm, for it
will be time we'll spent. The first
building which attracted my atten-
ton, as drove on the farm, was a
garage which has just recently been
built. 1t is 20x24 and it's walls were
made of concrete blocks. It has a &C.
ment floor and generous cement APP
prOach to building. The building, &C.
ment blocks and all. have been paint
ed beautiful color, a light green,
which adds greatly to its beauty. l
was invited to inspect the hog house
which was completed last week. The
back wall is built up about seven feet
of solid concrete. The same material
used for portion Of the ends of the
building, the balance of same and the
south front are concrete blocks. The
building is 24x6O There are ten pens
on each side of the building and each
pen is 6x8. The flooring of pens is
made of hollow tile bricks. A drive
way through the entire length of
building is ten feet wide and the floor
Of same is made Of cement. There Is
a large door at each end Of driveway
of sufficient size to permit team and
wagon to pass through. There are
two rows Of windows on the south
roof and each window can be opened,
thus affOrding light and ventilation
A large ventilator has also been placed
In the peak Of roof, which enhances
the beauty Of the building. Windows
have been placed in the side walls
where they will be the most beneiic-
ial. A cement feeding floor fourteen
feet wide and sixty long, has been
built on the south side of building. 1t
has an eighteen inch fall which will
give 1t the proper drainage. Steel
posts were placed in the cement and
a woven wire fence will be attached
to them. AS the floor is about two
feet above the ground in some places,
this fence will act as a guard rail to
keep the pigs from falling Off the floor
and eliminate damage that would take
place following such an accident to
brood sow. He has a very large build
ing used as corn crib and granary.
1t is also used as a store house for
home ground feed. He grinds his own
feed and does not find it necessary to
buy ground feed of any kind. saw
one bin with ground barley and corn
and another with ground oats and
corn. These are fed as slop to the
hogs and the farmers who have used
such feed will quickly appreciate the
fact that this is some hog feed There
are msny other buildings, cement
feeding floors and labor saving de-
vices in use on this, one Of the best
Crawford county farms, but will not
at this time describe them.