The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1917-10-03
THE REVIEWS SPECIAL
FARM NEWS DEPARTMENT
John II. d. Gray
Editor
Live News About Crawford County
Farms and Farmers

Mrs. II. RenSWaat owns 240 acres OF
section thirty, Nishnabotny township
and her three sons manage and farm
it for her. 1t is not often that | have
seen water spouting on a hog house,
but it has been placed on such build
ing on this farm. Armand says it stops
the washing out of the foundation.
| Misses Bertha and Emma Weiss
came last week from Los Angeles,
Cali, to visit at the home of their
brother, A. c., five miles west of Ma
nilla. They have lived in California
about six years and are still willing to
admit that the leading crop harvested
in that state is the Iowa tourist. No
doubt if they remain in that state a
few more years they will get the habit
of painting everything pertaining to
! that state as beautiful as a rainbow.
While | must admit that some Of those
! California stories are bit strong, yet
| admire booster, and believe there
are several of us in Iowa who would
do well to emulate the citizens OF Cali
fornia when speaking OF Iowa. This
is q state that no one need be ashamed
to compare with any other state, for
| it is in many ways the best state the
sun shines upon. When the govern
ment wants a man of sufficient size to
put something big across, an Iowa man
| is Immediately PACED; when foreign
country wants to improve its livestock
| they come to Iowa for the stock; when
the Pacific coast wants to dispose OF
its surplus fruits they first think OF
| Iowa; the Iowa hen produces more
wealth than the gold mines of Cali
! fornia, and Iowa capital has done
| more to build and improve the state of
! California than the combined wealth
of its native citizens. Great is Iowa!
Let me give you a little food for
thought. Here is a comparison of to-
tai production of various states, per
acre, for 1916: California, $2.S5; Tex
as, $4.2O: Oklahoma. $500; Minnesota,
$5.22; Missouri, $3.50; Kansas, $500;
Michigan, $500; Wisconsin, 81 20; Ne
braska, $3.50: Georgia. 1905; Penn
sylvania, $1,000; Illinois, $l3.32; Iowa,
$14.50. Oh you Iowa!
E. H. McCutcheon is building a hog
house, 1Cx32, also concrete feeding
floor. 1GX34, on the farm in section
twenty-four, East Boyer township. Ce
ment walks have been laid around the
residence and all the buildings will
soon be repainted.
Henry Mordhorst is making several
improvements to his farm in East
Boyer township five miles north of
Manila. A. double corn crib and
granary will take the place of the old
Estyle. doHblese corn crib-wAieh~ are pass
ing. The building will be 24x32. The
old hog house is being moved to a new
location and an addition, 10x12, will
be made to the same This summer
garage was built and a new steel tow
err windmill has just been erected.
Have you ever visited the farm of
j. II. Healey, four and a half miles
north of Manila? If you are inter-
ested in swine it would be worth your
time to visit this farm, for Mr.. Healey
has over 200 hogs and they are all
pure bred at that. For more than ten
years he has been raising the big type
Poland China swine. After taking a
look at those big brood sows, and sew
eral mammoth males, | have about de-
cided to no longer use the expression
big type when want to refer to some,
thing enormous, prodigiOus or gigan-'
tic in size. but to say the Healey type,
and that means as big as a meeting
house or something like that. A few
weeks ago Mr.. Healey was at Ames to
look over those model hog houses at
the college. and to procure plans for
house that will be the last word in
such building. He believes he has
such plans and work will soon start
on this hog palace. 1t will be built of
hollow tile brick and special attention
will be given to light and ventilation.
Edward Langler who resides about
two and half miles south of Denison,
returned last week from his visit in
the state of Idaho. Work will soon start
on new corn crib on Mr.. Langler's
farm.
Richard Baer will build an addition
to his barn and possibly build new
corn crib this fall on his farm four
miles south of DenisOn.
Last spring 4 wind storm wrecked