The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1918-06-26
THE REVIEWS SPECIAL
!. FARM NEWS DEPARTMENT
John H. D! Gray
IEDlTOR
Live News About Crawford County Farms
and Farmers
/0hn H. D. GRAY
IEDITOR

and T
n WORK OR FIGHT!
The government makes that manda
tory upon every man within the draft
Ne. 4.
Self respect makes it mandatory
v Nb0n every man of every age.
h s.aisM, perchance, there are any idlers
n md loafers continuing to lead lives Of
tselessness in your town despite wal
heeds for man power. you can do. a
great deal to cause them to; change
Y their course. You can make com
Dtaint to the sheriff or chief of police
4 k any officer, charging them with
Hagrancy. II the vagrancy laws are
q not being strictly and unrelentingly
tiaforced in your community, yours is
enc Of the very few places in the Unit
M States where those laws are not
eing enforced, You can help to see
that they are enforced. You can see
that loafers in your section get job
0G 20 to jail. Every loafer put to
e work releases man who may help on
tie farm. .-...-
farmers need hands. Soldiers must
have food. Farmers can't produce
food unless they have help. The loaf
Se ID aiding the enemy whether he
1seans to do SO or not The man so
6ead Of spirit as not to realize his
betriotic obligation must be forced to
80 1t. Give the loafers of your town
y ~ straight from the shoulder under
Y. attending of their alternatives. This
"a - ~ f@u.o Efor vor6 1,nincin0 Or ha nv
s 3 = ''ms - "''' "D1 VI ~''
Make him 60 to work or 60 to jail.
Recently, certain agricultural pa
80, to illustrate an article pointing out
He Importance of an attractive en-
trance to the farm, printed picture OF
the entrance to Twin Cedar farm, To-
feted about four miles northeast OF
Manila. What Fred Sievers and Peter
AouW are to the Poland China swine
III Iowa. Mr.. jain owns more than
8Qur hundred acres of land but only
harms eighty acres OF it. He has TAX
On into partnership his son, Hugo, who
m chip of the old block. These gen.
Alemen have their heart in the work OF
Geeding the belted hogs and have de.
NAloped them until today there is per-
ASps not more successful breeder In
Tie state. of Iowa. Strange as it may
! S9om they have never had a public sale
~ dispose tof their stock, but are able
3eS sell al 5of 1t by mail orders. The
LIT two years they sold more than one
4mndred hogs per year by mail orders
They have built up q great
n1p1tation for square dealing and it is
4 2S80 Us buy q hog In the dark from p.
MI JAhn " Son.. It ID certainly pleas
= d af0 to witt with these gentlemen. J.
Galled ut the home last week Thursday
Gld after q swarm of bees had been
taken from tree top and placed In
their hive we went to the home and
Gnared ourselves for visit. could
nat but notice the fairness of Mr.. jain
Wken talking about his favOrite breed
oe.0Wine. and comparing them with the
G(her breeds. He said, There is no
poffect hog, and all have their good
Alities and each has its faults, but
lDrefer the Hampshire" When man
talks like that you can't help liking
him even II you do question his choice
1k swine. But even at that the Hamp-
hire Il good and, while the Durocs
Nv hold the center of the stage in
the sun, the Hampshire is giving them
Is run for their money in popularity.
Nessrs. jain now have about 120
Skiing pigs, Is last fall pigs besides
no brood sows-12 of them being aged
vows and the others gifts.
up to date nearly $4,000 bushels of
wheat have been voluntarily reported
{ rs the food administration by farmers
ok lows, and 1t has been turned over
III elevators or the market. 1t Is est.
\ aatod that there is a very consider
Nhlo stock of wheat held in small lots
= r. lows and all wheat has been requi-
4 llloned by the government. Special
511estigator Orrick has been put into
- field with force of assistants to
! Uncover this grain and is travelling
lInut the state now locating it. The
Nod administration has notified mill
- that they are violating the law
4 Sen they receive wheat from farm.
III and issue credit due bills, holding
scertalm amount of -four for the farm
n ~ To get as they need it for their use.
II aiis violates the rule against more
Tran . thirty days supply and millers
N &SNe been notified that flour which
Il e6ey have been holding in this way
INST be put on the market at once.
ID VIZ ~ ~
According to the census report
Mare were just 1902 silos on Iowa
lImS at the end Of last year. Craw-
q 361d county is credited with GO of
Asm. Shelby county has 81; Carroll
-: Sac 1902; Ida 81. That don't look
He very good showing for Craw-
ford county, when we take into con-
alteration the size of the county.
Crawford county has twenty. town
ships and Sac has sixteen, but Sac
county has thirty.four more silos than
I our big county. Crawford has eight
ll0re townships that Ida, but only sew
n more silos than Ida. Carroll coun-
4 tn with four less townships than
NIAWford has fourteen more silos.
When It. comes to-. number of cattle
sQSaMford county has her neighbors
4 item to FRAGILE and for that reas-
! = q alone. II no other, we should have
any more silos than the adjoining
!, ~ ntiel. The lessons. Of 1915 and
HI when large share of the corn
- failed to get out of the way of
51st, should still be fresh in our