The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1917-08-22

der down mes pathway. Illdt ) all
well for city girls to tell, but when
the farmer jumps into his auto and
meanders around the country, while
the good wife and children are left
at home to run the farm, it Is diff
ferent story, by gosh. To meander
across a twenty acre tract of plo"ed
ground, with lunch for the boy on
the sulky plow, is different than play
ing five hundred in the parlor. Also
climbing through wire fence and
| tearing your dress in an effort to res
cue a chicken which, favorite COW
has planted one OF its feet upon as
she stands content IDLY chewing her
cud, is no joke. The fact that the
hour is eleven in the forenoon and no
| spuds dug for dinner, will also cause
the wife to meander 10 the garden to
dig peck of spuds, and, as the job is
about completed. a commotion at the
home attracts the attention of the
farmers wife, She spies one young
hopeful in the yard trying to increase
his batting average, while killing a
few young chickens-and goodness
gracious Agnes, think what they are
worth. The baby, the pride of the
1 house to the yard while an old female
hog, with a bad disposition. is mean
dering toward the little .dimpled darl-
| ing. In her wild flight to rescue
''me child,' she may not select the
pathway so peset with all manner OF
! sweet shrubs that it perfumes the
air but in place of it. the barn yard,
/ whose odor does not always remind
one of fruit tree in full blossom.
AS she meanders into the house she
catches sight of the Lest cat on the
quarter section farm licking it's chops
as it jumps from the table where a
4 pan of cream had becl cleft for a few
| minutes" while the wife was attend
| ing to few of the duties around the
| house, before she luckled into the
real business of the day No, dear
girl, where "lingeriag rivers in me-
anders glide" or where music throat
ed birds entrance the listening air"
is more romantic spot than the
farm. You had better let your thoughts
mea nder bac.- to social functions and
those dress skirts that. are getting
upper and upper. r
About ten days after D. P. O'Brien
bought farm last spring, two miles
north of Buck. Grove. the barn burned
and 1t was replaced by a well-arrang-
ed large barn. He is now planning on
building one of those combination
corn cribs and granaries. 1t will be 32x
80 and when used a year, l venture to
say that he will wonder how he farm
ed without sone. =
On the farm of Sam Bair, two miles
southwest of Deniso., may be seen
a combination ice house and cave It's
walls are made of cement and pro-
jects out of the ground only about one
foot. 1t is a shelter in time of Storm
and very good plaCe to store home
canned goods, etc. There is no reason
why the farm home should not be
supplied with ice during the summer
| months if only provision is made for
a suitable place to store It, The Bair
ice house, and cave should be looked
over.
Last week Herman Klinl$er sold
thirtyfive hogs at Schlcswig. which
brought him $3.50 per hundred ma
king total of $1,2672O. When I
| called at his home, which is nine
miles northwest of Denison, he was
| just returning from Schleswig and I
noticed he had double box on his
| wagon. | suppose this was to enable
him to bring home all the money in
one load.
| notice newspaper is advertising
for sale Thoroughbred Hampshire
swine" There amt 10 such animal.
The only thoroughbred is certain
breed of horses. Perhaps the news
paper intended to say pure bred.
| j. II. 'SChmadke owns $50 very good
acres of Crawford county soil He de.
cided this summer to buy tractor
and also Yellow Kid separator to
| thresh his grain He raised so much
small grain that it would require too
/ much labor to stack the same. The
tractor and separator eliminated
stacking. He did his threshing last
| week and reports $500 bushels of
oats and $50 bushels Of wheat. The
oats went Gu bushels to the acre and
the wheat IS. When l called last
Friday he was threshing for a neigh
Dor and was doing good job, too. He
will have the tractor to do his fall
blowing and numerous other heavy
work on his large farm. His farm is
located six miles southwest OF Schles-
wig. AZ
Martin Bret.hauer reports two very
good litters from his two pure bred
Poland China brood sows. One had
a litter OF twelve and the other thir-
teen. His father, William Bretthauer,
has purchase property in Denison and
intends TO make it his home. His farm
is located three and half miles
northeast Of Charter Oak.
80 r1-rS o
, J. M. Lowry, whose farm joins the
town of Berne on the east Is planning
to build hog house 16x24.
Henry Bockelman has completed
cob house and wash house at his home
one-half mile east OF Berne. 1t is
12A20 with ten foot posts and is built
Of drop siding with a cement floor.
J. Fl. Will has one of the best set
nf farm hui11 1.-Two IN 70 rr,,ptp HE,