The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1917-11-07
THE REVIEWS SPECIAL
FARM NEWS DEPARTMENT
John H. D. Gray
EDITOR
Live News About Crawford County Farms
... and Farmers
John H. D. Gray
EDITOR

ty agent is a necessity, not luxury
my friends, and every day you delay
getting one you are taking money
right out of your own pocket. They
are success In every other county
why not here?
Anyone interested in a work or ma
chine shop should visit Oakland farm
about one q half miles northwest
of Astor. The building is 16x26 and
has a cement floor. 1t is fitted with
work benches and several useful tools,
such as o large drill, vice and forge.
There IS an endless variety OF bolts,
burs, nails and other similar articles
which come in mighty handy on the
farm. l would think from look
around this building that it Is not
necessary to make many of those hur-
ry.up trips to town after a break down
of some piece of machinery. No farm
is now considered uptodate without
a work shop upon 1t.
l drove into q certain town for din
ner last week and at the cafe where
ate, the little fairy brought in one
OF those individual butter dishes which
contained two pieces of sugar. What
Sherman said about war is true.
Last spring there were q lot of
friends of Clare Nicholson in Deninson
having fun with him, when it was
learned that he was going to put on
overalls and earn his living by tickling
mother earth with q pillow and few
other stunts of that kind. When he
went to the 24O.acre farm not an acre
OF fall blowing had been done and he
was up against the real thing. No
one who knows Clare will even init
mate that he is afraid of work and he
soon got busy. He had 12O acres to
corn and so acres of small grain. Some
work for boy who had never done a
Gays work on farm. what? Here
Is young man who will have more
than a county reputation as breeder
Of pure bred Hampshire hogs in less
than five years. He goes after this
part of the farm work like lean
sow after slop. A year ago he pur-
chased a male pig at the Omaha show
to head his herd of fifteen brood
sows and he has recently purchased
another from a k'airmont Nebr., breed
ed. He now has about 1874 head of
pure bred swine on the farm and they
are a nice bunch.
West Side Journal: Nearly all the
arm papers and some of the big dali
es continue to scream about the bump
,r corn crop in Iowa. We wonder
where they get the dope. Iowa has
lot q big crop of corn and the quality
8 far behind the average year. We
nave seen large portion OF Iowa's
,orn, and can truthfully say that Craw-
ord stands fairly well up, in the lead;
,ut II this years crop Is considered
! bumper by those wise writer's, they
certainly know but very little about
| big and good crop of corn. II on the
,ther hand they are merely trying to
,uff up the farmer and make him feel
good, that shot, too, has gone wide.
The Iowa farmer knows exactly the
lind of corn crop he has this fall, and
les getting awfully tired reading the
,oft slush that is handed him. We
lave spoken about the corn crop with
It least fifty farmers within the past
EN- days, but have yet to find the firts
me who raised crop of good corn
his year. Why not forget this soft
;oaping and come out with the bare
acts? The farmer can not be hood.
winked any more.
Breda News: Farmers are not find.
ng the corn crop quite as good this
year as was at first thought. They
'eport q large per centage of soft ears
which they claim will not keep along
With the other corn as long as the
weather. does not stay at freezing
and they are compelled
o sort the corn before cribbing it. |
which makes them considerable extra |
york.
Henry Gehrke who resides in sec.
ion twenty.six, East Boyer, has been |
n the sick list for several weeks, but |
7hen / called last week he was able
o be out doors again. l noticed
mall addition had been made on the
hicken house.
w. c. Bartlett farms the Kenney
ownship. He recently purchased ten
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nd young male.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Grimes of Oakland
arm one and half miles northwest
Aston, returned last week Thursday
ON two weeks visit in the state
Nebraska. While visiting in Cher
Y county, Ray and party of four
thers were out on a five days shoot
lg trip. They got about $50 ducks.
was criticised by some for pre-
cting about six weeks ago that much
the corn in this county would be
1T. have visited many of the farm
s in their corn fields the past week
nd find the corn even worse than ii
tpected to find it. II have visited
single field free from soft corn
ant some one to locate that field.
side from about twenty per cent Of !
e corn being soft there are several {
lndred acres of corn hit by the hail J
st summer which is going from ten
twenty bushels to the acre, and the
I'm is only nubbins at that Nearly U
'ery farmer is sorting his corn be- +
re placing it in the cribs and many
e putting in additional ventilation i
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