The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1917-11-21
% THE REVIEWS SPECIAL
FARM NEWS DEPARTMENT
John H. D. Gray
EDITOR
Live News About Crawford County Farms
and Farmers
John H. d.. CRAY
EDITOR

, fields in the county that were fairly
we'll matured before the freeze. Every
mature ear should be secured from
these fields and put away out of dan
ger of further freezing and thaWing
There will not be much chance of i'm
porting seed from anywhere next
spring. 1t is probable that some of
the more mature corn which was cut
and put into the shock will have ears
which have been protected from freez-
| ing and ought to make fairly good
seed. Tests should be made from all
available supplies of old corn and ii
found to be of fair termination it
ought not to be allowed to go to
market. II the corn cannot be held
by the farmer, the elevators. bankers,
and other business agencies can do a
valuable service to the country by CO.
operating to hold and store the old
corn until after the seed corn situa-
ton has been relieved next spring.
This is an important duty to our coun-
try as we'll as to our county and to
our own interests.
You don't leave your rig in the mid
die OF the road and 60 to fence post
to read a sale bill, do you? Then
don't expect the other fellow to do it.
Put an ad in this paper, then, regard
less of the weather, the fellow you
want to reach reads your announce
ment while seated at his fireside. If
he is prospective buyer you'll have
him at your sale. One extra buyer
often pays the entire expense Of the
ad, and it's poor ad that won't pull
that buyer. An ad in this paper
reaches the people you are after. Bills
may be necessity, but the ad is
the thing that does the business. Do
not think OF having q sale without
using advertising space in this paper.
"As the season advances, we get
more proof daily that the seed corn
situation this fall is the worst Iowa
has ever known" is the verdict OF the
agricultural extension men at Iowa
State college. The extension division
is sending men to all parts of the
state to secure first hand information
and samples: Several hundred tests
are being made and the results will
be announced as soon as possible.
Meanwhile. call has gone out to
county agents, urging them to make
extra efforts TO locate fields where
even a small percentage of corn can
yet be saved. By carefully selecting
dry ears, it will be possible to get seed
that will give from SO to IS per cent
strong ears. There is little hope of
securing seed corn from nearby
states, except from the south, and
this would not be advisable. Every
state in the north has been hit as bad
as Iowa or worse.
One of the best ways known for con-
serving national resources is to take
better care of farm machinery and see
that as much of it as possible is kept
under shelter this winter, say the ag-
ricultural engineering men at the
Iowa experiment station. Scattered
over the state of Iowa there are per-
haps millions Of dollars worth of farm
machinery standing out in the wealth
err. This used to be bad enough, but
it is worse now. Last year the cost |
of farm implements increased 80 per
cent. The prices for 1918 are at least |
80 per cent higher than 1917. Two
from Iowa State COL
lege recently drove for a day through |
one of Iowa's most prosperous coun-
ties On every farm passed during |
the day. there was at least one farm |
machine rusting away. On many /
farms almost the whole equipment |
from the tractor down to small cul- |
tivator would be without any shelter. |
On one farm of 800 acres these men |
found by actual count about $4,000 |
worth OF machinery rusting away. I'm
plement dealers say that $3.50 will be |
a conservative price for what reapers
will sell next year. Yet this man had
an Investment OF