The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1917-12-05
THE REVIE WIS SPECIAL
FARM NEWS DEPARTMENT
John Fl. D. Gray
Editor
Live News About Crawford County
A3#a IT, Farms and Farmers &c.

of the herd bulls, topped the sale a
$1,700, going to South Dakota. The
top COW also went to South Dakota
She brought $1,000. Seventy female!
sold at an average of $55S.35; 8 bull!
for an average of 1857 %, and the en-
tire herd sold for $34,O49. The follow
ing who live within reach of the Re
views influence purchased stock
Foster Bros, of Deloit, purchased 6
young male for $40; E. B. Gooch, Ute
female for 1915, and another fol
$3.50; Sturdevan Bros, Manning, fe
male for $3.50; H. r. Mcleod, Manila
three females for 5000 each.
Jas. Lawler has recently completed
very good looking, as we'll as sub
stantial, cattle barn on his farm IN
section thirty-five, Jackson township
The barn is 2Sx40 with sixteen foot
posts. It has a hip roof and plenty
of room for storing hay in the big NOV
1t is in keeping with the other build
ings on the farm.
Fred Rickers has fenced off fifty.
five acre slice from his 320-acre farm
| in section sixteen, Jackson township.
A new set of buildings are being built
on this land, which is along the west
end of his farm. A dwelling, 2SX2S, is
nearly ready for the masons to plaster,
the foundation for barn, 36x40, is also
completed, and chicken house, 1Ox2O,
was the first building completed. Other
buildings will follow. A little bird tells
me that Mr.. Rickers' son, Ed, will take
his bride to this new home soon after
New Years. He will rent seventy-five
acres about one-half mile south, so
understand. This will make fine
home for the young folks, and If l get
around early enough some Monday
morning will help Ed turn the wash
ing machine.
Eugene Murtaugh is remodeling the
dwelling on his farm three and half
miles northeast of Vail. He will also
build a new set of buildings on his land
one mile east of the home place.
Have you seen one of those round
corn cribs? Frank North is building
one on his Lincoln Highway, farm about
one and fourth miles west of Vail. 1t
is made of hollow tile brick made
especially for such building. This
crib will be twenty-five feet in diam
eter and about eighteen feet high, A
round flre ventilator is built in the
center, it is five feet in diameter and
lis connected with a chute which per-
mits, a free circulation Of air from the
outside into, and up through the ven
tilator. Woven wire is placed around
the inside walls of the building to keep
out the rats. The building is pleasant
to the eye and makes a permanent
building that does not deteriorate with
age Frank is so we'll pleased with
this style of building that he tells me
he will build one next year in the town
|of Vail 1t will hold $4,000 bushels Of
ear corn and will be placed near the
depot grounds. The railway company
will put in private switch for him.
There is at least one thing I like about
Frank, and that is, he is not afraid to
take chance. He is perhaps the first
man in Crawford county to build such
IA building, but he is willing to try 1t
out, and he is anything else which
looks good to him. At his home farm
south of Vail he is now putting in a
set of scales. He was one of the first
in his neighborhoOd to build silo. He
was so we'll pleased with it that he
built the second and yet there are
farmers right here who still look upon
the silo as an experiment. While they
are complaining this year about soft
corn Frank is using several acres Of
the corn which was placed in his two
silos and thus has found way to part
ly solve the soft corn trouble. Frank
has other faults l might speak Of. He
goes around buying so many farms,
and boosting the price Of farm land in
this county, that it is getting so it is
hardly safe for a farmer today to put
a price on his farm unless he wants to
sell it.
A lean friend says he took physical
culture for two years to increase his
weight and now, just as he has be-
come fat enough to be jolly, meatless
days are coming into style.
Shed your machinery so it can shed
the rain and snow
l don't expect there is going to be
a hanging of food SPECTATORS, but if