The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1917-09-05
THE REVIEWS SPECIAL
FARM NEWS DEPARTMENT
John H. D. Gray
Editor
Live News About Crawford County
Farms and Farmers

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of the business. After he has had the
start, and has mastered the art of
successfully raising livestock. he will
soon be able to make it profitable for
himself without your active assist
ance. This is the tie which binds him
to and inculcates love for the dear
old farm home and everything sur
rounding it, which sometimes in.
cludes the young lady on the neighbor'
ing farm. Give the boy a chance and
at the same time do not overlook the
daughter. Procure labor saving house.
hold articles for the use of mother and
the girl Take the drudgery away
from farm work. it can be done. Will
you do it? 1t is a good investment.
The special representative from the
U. S. Department of Agriculture has
accompanied me through portion of
the county the past week. We be.
lieve from reports made to us by the
farmers that about 1000 acres of Craw.
| ford county farm lands will be devOt-
ed to winter wheat the coming season.
| There will be but little more than
enough seed for the coming year. On
the Dieter farm north of Vail about
so acres will be planted. : A single
horse drill will be used and winter
wheat will be plowed between the
rows of standing corn. Mr.. Deter has
used this system before and it has
proven success with him. There is
no set rule for time of drilling, but
25th in this locality. Do not follow
drill with the drag. J.. :.1- t..
August Barnhoff has nice bunch
Of cattle on feed in section nine,
Hayes township. He has four car
loads in the lot. He has recently pu--
chased feed cutter and when called
last week Wednesday was cutting up
some green corn for the stock. He
cuts the stalks and corn SO long as
the stalks are green, then snaps the
corn and cuts it for the cattle. This
has been very successful way of
feeding the cattle, he has found.
p. T. Brogan resides in the town of
Vail when at home. but caught him
last week out on his 200 acre farm in
section twentyseven, West Side town
ship, looking over new corn binder.
A new silo 16x4O has been built this
fall. He is now feeding forty-four
head of cattle and noticed he was
giving them some green corn, stalks
and ALL Emil Strathman, whc. is
we'll known in Denison, for he was
employed at the Doud mill, has charge
Of the work on this farm and he was
a real busy man with the spreader
when called. but had time to stop
and insisted that l receive the price
of years subscription to this coun- |
ty newspaper. Thanks, Emil. l be- |
lieve you will find it real newspaper. |
chuck full of the news you are most |
interested in.
When taking little drive in Hayes |
township last week l CHANGED to call |
upon Frank and Ed Mitchell in Sec
ton four. While there l looked over |
their herd of pure bred Shorthorn cat |
tie. While the herd is not large. 1t is |
very choice. A look at that three. |
year-old red heifer which the boys re-
Gently refused 500 for. is worth trip
alone to the farm There are also |
several other good ones. One of the !
cows in this herd has a record not
years old and has had five sets Of
twins. A hog house. 20x40. is being |
built. 1t will be made of hollow tile |
brick with shingle roof. Hollow tile
will be used for the floor. covered
with an inch of cement. Two rows |
of windows will be placed in the roof
on the south side. A water hydrant |
will be placed in the southeast corner |
of the building and feed room placed
in the northeast end. A cement feed |
ing floor has been built along the en-
tire length of the building on south |
side and it is fourteen feet wide with |
sufficient pitch to drain same. Henry |
Bral is doing the mason work and |
when l called he had such severe !
cold that he could hardly speak. But |
that was unnecessary, for l was there. |
Last year several pure bred Poland |
China swine were purchased by
Mitchell Bros and by next year they |
will have a very good start toward a |
large herd. They also raise Rhode |
Island Red chickens, having paid some |