The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1917-08-01

I survey, and wear the robes of office
that suits their fancy. How differ
ent in town! Some hotels forbid a
men entering the dining room after he
has removed his coat. Some poor
sensitive creatures, iemales of the
species, have become Mortified at the
sight of suspenders and many men
now tightly buckle a leather strap
around their tummies and drape their
trousers over their hips. Poor man!
In these troublous times thrice bless
ed is he who owns his own farm, far
from the maddening crowd and there
dwels in peace with his family.
II Each year the poultry business is
becoming more lucrative. Farmers &C
knowledge the old ben can lift her
own weight in raising a mortgage
from the farm. There has been d
wonderful change in the marketing of
live poultry. Up to few years ago,
it was the custom to sell scrawny
old hens and ROSTERS. of many colOrs,
along about November first. Now the
chickens raised by the farmers are
mostly standard bred; for each farm
or now raises pure bred chickens as
well as other live stock. They are
sold throughout the year, and eggs arc
also gathered every day and taken to
town to get the top prices. They
know the pure food inspector will
get them, if they don't watch out
Farmers have learned it is not pro-
titable to market a lot Of dirty eggs
| of uncertain age 1t seems as if there
is d better grade of poultry yearly
and many come to market fat. The
farmer learned by experience it is
more profitable to first fatten the poul-
| try before placing them on the mar
ket, the same as it is to fatten cattle
and hogs. 1t stands to reason II the
poultry dealer can buy the grain from
the farmers and feed it to the poultry
to fatten them before they are slaught-
cred, that the farmer, who raises the
grain. can make more money by feed
ing the grain on the farm, thus cut
ting off the middle mans profit, A
pound of meat added to each chicken
means something, since it has grown
to it's present price. | understand
number of farmers now have their
fattening pens for poultry. They are
put in these pens two weeks before
marketing.
The other day Jackson county
farmer, who knew | have had con-
siderable experience in raising chick
ems, asked me how to kill red mites.
| told him and will tell you. You
know the little red suckers do not
sleep at night or live on the chickens.
They confine their work to night work.
They hide during the day in cracks
crevices and corners and, when the
curtain of night decends. they go forth
seeking whom they may stick for the
drinks. After filling their hides with
chicken blood they seek secluded
spot to sleep, perchance to dream.
There may be other methods to des-
troy the mites, but this is my way.
purchase crude carbolic acid, or
some of the dips on the market, and,
with it in pail and armed with a
brush go forth to storm the trench
es. | first get busy applying the
din to the roOsts, nest boxes or any
| other place where it is possible for
mite to conceal itself. Don't over
| look the undersides of the roosts.
When painting the nest boxes, do not
get the dip on the straw. the eggs
will taste of the dip, if you don't
watch out. A good plan is to first
remove the straw from the nests and
refill with clean straw DON'T be
afraid you will keep the chicken house
too clean, it can't be did. II
1t is an uncommon sight to see
many pieces of bad roads on high
ground in most any county in the state,
that with the expenditure of some
small effort in draining the roads,
would have made wonderful differ
encc This is an old story, but like
| the drag, it is so simple that it is
slow of adoption. 1t has been de-
| monstrated over and over again that
any old road can be made good, il it
| is crowned so the water will run Off
and the right fall of bitches provided
| to carry away the WAGER AFTER 1t
| runs off the road, and the third simple
rule is to cut the trees which shade
| the road so it will dry quickly after
the water has run off to the ditch
and been carried away. Proper drain
ing or maintaining good'roads. If the
above is followed, and the roads are
dragged. most any old kind OF dirt
makes a good road. &c, h
When / called Monday at the farm
home of John Goetsch, which is To-
Gated about five miles north of West
Side, | found Mr.. Goctsch driving the
binder while his sons, p. J. and Her
man, were assisting in the harvest
field. Mr.. GOetsch is one OF the Old
time of Crawford county and one Of
our best citizens. He is ably assisted
on his large farm by his two sons.
Monday the oats were being cut, which
give promise of going fifty bushels
to the acre There are thirty-five
acres in this field. The barley was
cut last week and it is estimated that
it will go thirty bushels to the acre
The latter part of this week. thresh-
ing machine will visit that nelShbor-
hood and barley will be threshed for
Mr.. GOetsch and two neighbors.
1t is all very well for poets to tell
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