The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1917-10-31

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forsake you, your dog will stay by you.
He Is no fair weather friend, but
stands by you through storm and sun
shine.
Alfred o. Larson resides about one
fourth mile north Of old KirOn. He
has recently built hog house, 24X4O.
He raises pure bred Duroc swine, but
does not have them registered. He
informed me that he finds the pure
bred swine more profitable to raise
for market purposes than the grades.
Mr.. Larson asked me to look up his
subscription, and, regardless OF the
fact that he had his subscription paid
to July next year, insisted on pay
inc it another year in advance. May
his shadow never grow less.
No doubt you have seen the movable
sunlit hog house in use at the Ames
college. The little piggies are happy
in this snuglp built, warm. movable
hog house, and so is the mother. This
house provides warmth. dryness,
abundant direct and indirect sunlight.
shade in summer-by lifting the far
side and one end, and closing the roof
doors ventilation, which comes
through the peak ends, sanitation
easily cleaned, solid, wooden floors and
plenty of space inside-safety, com.
fort, convenience, serviceability, dura-
bility, structure of reasonable low
first cost of maintenance, and pleas
ing appearance. They are good for
the brood SOW, the little pig, the suck
ling SOW, the fattening shote. the
heavy. fat hogs, and the herd boar
all are contented within its four walls.
1t costs not more than One.ha!f the
present value of 300-pound hog II
interested write a letter to the Ames
college for plan OF the same. build
one and enjoy it with the swine.
!. c. Cort. supervisor of COW test
= ing association in Iowa, reports alfal-
ia hay Of average quality selling for
S24.5O (. o. b. Kansas City and good
clover hay selling in northern Iowa
and Minnesota for SIS to 9l5 per ton.
Owing to the high cost of feed there
never was time when it was more
important to Gull out the undesirable
mich cow. Poor producing COWS will
make a relatively greater loss this
year than last, while only good pro-
ducers will return profit over cost Of
feed.
G. p. Keairnes, who owns farm in
section twenty-eight, Union township.
has been a victim of shortage of car
penters, When l called at his home
last week noticed q large pile of
gravel and asked him what he intend
ed to build. He informed me that he
had planned to build a large barn this
fall and had part of the building ma
terial on the ground, but could not
build it because he could not get the
workmen.. -
N. E. Larson has found way to get
around the scarcity of carpenters: he
IS doing the work himself. with the
assistance of one man. He built a
16x22 addition to his machine shed
and is now building cattle barn.
22x32 He has only owned this farm
about a year but during that time has
made a number of improvements. A
fine modern home is one Of the i'm
provements made. His farm is locat-
ed in section five, Stockholm town.
ship.
At the recent Barber sale of swine
a friend of mine purchased a spring
male pig and in less than ten minutes
afterwards sold it to gentleman sit
ting nes- him for about SIS profit. This
goes to show that many attending
these sales do not fully appreciate the
worth of the animal until after it is
sold. They should make up their
minds quicker and pay the price to
the man holding the sale, he is the
one who should receive the profit.
Some others stop bidding just when
the animal is getting good. The man
who buys the top animal receives
many dollars in free advertising, after
the sale, from the newspapers III his
home county and also in the stock pa
pers. It is worth considerable to a
breeder to have his farm pointed out
as the home of the hog which cost
$1,000.
John Hoist, Jr. attended the Frank
Shrer sale of Chester White swine at
Aledo. Ill.,, and bought at long price
the spring male pig which topped the
sale. He is very promising young
ster, sired by Illinois Chief, grand
champion at the Illinois state fair 1916.
The dam was sired by that priceless
boar, Chief Keokuk. Frank Shrer
is perhaps the most noted breeder of
the Chesters in the state OF Illinois.
The new arrival at the Hoist farm,
five miles west of Denison, answers
to the name of Shrer's Choice. Many
of the sows going into the bred SOW
sale February 10th will be bred to
Shrer's Choice.
King Corn has sent out call for
recruits to put up the big crop of
corn in Buena Vista county The
public schools of Newell and Rem.
brandt, in that county, closed for a
two weeks vacation. Girls as we'll as
boys will go into the corn fields.
AS war measure, two weeks vaca-
ton has been granted to any Sac
City school pupil who wants to go
1T and husk corn. The, pupil will
be required to present a statement
from his employer as to the amount
of time put in. The school board
has arranged to pay the teachers for
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