The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1917-11-21
Continued from Page Six.)

\COutlIueu lEUUI Id6c olA.J
teen feet high to peak Of roof, at cen.
ter of building, and there is drop of
four feet. In this space has been
placed six windows which can be
raised or lowered at will, affording
ventilation as we'll as sunlight. More
windows have been placed in the front
Of the building about two feet from
the floor The building fronts the
SOUTH
+. w. Roach is Jackson township
farmer, residing seven miles north of
West Side. He has 40 head Of cattle
and the same number of hogs, which
gives him an outlet for considerable Of
his soft corn, which he has more than
plenty. Mrs. Roach has nice flock
of Rose Comb Rhode Island Red chick
ems. 1t is pretty sight to see 250 OF
these pure bred chickens in one flock.
She has at least fifty young ROSTERS
In the flock and they add much to the
beauty of the flock. l can't under
stand why people will raise a mixed
breed of chickens, after looking over
q flock of pure bred chickens.
o.
The worm evil is traceable to very
plain and distinct causes, so plain. in
deed, that the remedy is easily with
in the reach of every swine grower.
namely, prevention. 1t is worth
oceans of curative agents. The causes
may be summed up in the single word,
unsanitation. The pig that is COM
PEELED to eat in the mud, drink from
some Shiny pool of surface water and
ri IN, tGn f0l ln RIO
victim to worm pests. Thrift under
such conditions is out of the question.
The pig grows thin, Respondent and
worthless runt. Numerous worm rem
sounding claims for virtue and eff
question whether pigs properly cared
for ever stand in need of anything
of the kind. Even if harboring few
of the parasites the powers of resist.
ance of the we'll treated pig are such
as to reduce worm troubles to the min
imum. And it is certain that all the
dOpes and nOstrums ever cOncOcted
can bring no cure to the worm infested
pig unless the causes above enumer-
ated are eliminated and the pig treat
ed like gentleman. Good feed, in
telligent care and sanitary surround
ings can be depended upon to rout
worm troubles.
From figures collected bv township
assessors and furnished the Iowa de.
partment of agriculture by the county
auditors we had in Iowa, July 1, 1916.
1922 ,316 head of hogs. Crawford
county was in fifth place as to num-
Der of hogs. The following are the
five leading counties: Plymouth, 1885,
542; Sioux, 235,26S: Pottawattamie,
19S.O43; Cedar, 1so,249; Crawford,
1858.
A. G. Schoenjahn this week com.
pleted new cattle shed on his farm
about three miles west of West Side.
The building is 24xS0. Twenty feet
of the building has been reserved for
q hog house. A. G. has several other
hog houses and barns and this addi-
tional one will give him plenty of
for his live stock. He says
he has heard the cry for more hogs
and he is going to try to do his share
toward supplying the demand.
30
1COI6C Ad"lCl ACN
barn about four weeks ago on the farm
The main part is 38x5O with cattle |
| called last Friday he had two cars
of heavy steers on feed, but told me
he intended to sell them in a few days.
o.
r. II. Childress has decided to quit
60 N will IN I oHo VipNu |
next spring, where he has purchased |
Wall Lake. Mr.. Childress has been |
a resident of Crawford county for !
many years and his many friends re-
wish him many years of health and
happiness in his new home at Lake
View. He still retains his farm, which !,
is located three and half miles
northeast of Deloit. but will sell at
public sale on the farm December q,
4 lot of mighty good live stock and
other personal property.
o. II
The farm editor of the Storm Lake
PilOt-Tribune called last week on q
farmer who owns and operates 4 sor-
yhum mill. The editor was given
where, is sorghum mill In Craw-
ord county?
County agents office, Storm Lake,
Iowa: The seed corn situation
throughout the corn belt seems to be
more serious than it was at first sup
,osed to be. Procrastination was the
hief of a. lot Of seed corn this fall. 1t
vas temptation to leave the import
int duty of picking seed corn until the
asst minute in order to let it mature
IS much as possible. A lot Of the
milky immature stuff would have made
rood seed If properly taken care of.
rhe cold snap was more severe than
and the corn froZe hard.
t is probable that every available
'ushel OF old corn will be secured to
elp out the situation but there is so
title old corn left that, at best, it will
My be a very small percentage Of the
eed that will be necessary for next
easOns crop. The prospect Of in.
reasing our corn crop is not very
right at the present outlook, but be-
ore we drown we had better grab at