The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1918-03-06
THE REVIEWS SPECIAL
FARM NEWS DEPARTMENT
John H. D! Gray
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Live News About Crawford County Farms
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( Sixty per cent of the corn crop il
in the kernel, 10 per cent In the stalks
and leaves. IL they are silaged. II thu
stalks and leaves are not put int
silage, you waste 40 per cent of thu
corn crop. Many farmers complained
last year that their corn crop was 8
losing proposition. Those who silaged
their corn saved the whole feeding
value Of the crop. >.a. ..s...
In Scotland and England turnips
and straw combined with some grain
makes up the cattle ration. Are We
not feeding too much corn to our live
stock? It is claimed that many of the
grand champion cattle exhibited in
this country have been developed and
fed by canny Scot who employed a
great many old country methods and
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have taken the following from q
bulletin prepared by R. X. Bliss for
the agricultural extension department
of the Iowa State Agricultural college
on the relative value Of silage and 9th.
er feeds: sa IL
"Silage fed to fattening steers makes
them gain faster than under any but
the most skillful and expensive dry
feeding. At the Iowa Agricultural ex-
pertinent station in 1911 ration Of ii
pounds Of corn, 3.3 pounds of cotton.
seed meal and 30 pounds Of silage per
day fed to fattening steers gave daily
gain Of 81 pounds for ninety days.
Similar steers fed 16 pounds of corn,
l.6. pounds of cottonseed meal and II
pounds of clover hay made but 2.S
pounds Of gain day at nearly one
fourth greater cost per pound.
"On the average livestock farm no
other equal Investment can be made
that will do as much as will a good
silo toward eliminating feed wastes, in.
creasing production, helping keep
more stock, saving feed storage space,
saving high priced grain and insuring
a feed supply. No other factor can do
so much as can. the silo toward max.
ing it possible to continue to produce
beef, mutton and dairy products at
profit under present abnormal cOndi.
TONS
B. A. Samuelson, who resides on a
beautiful Sac county farm four and a
half miles north of kiron, was Deni.
son caller last week Wednesday,. He
was on his way to Marshalltown and
found time to call at the Review Of
fee. I had the pleasure Of showing
him around the office and he called
just in time to see us printing more
than $500 copies Of the paper-our
regular weekly issue-On that big Du.
pick press, which prints and folds
eight pages of the Review. turning out
1000 copies every hour it runs. While
| was. able to show Mr.. SamuelsOn
something extra good in the way of
printing Office equipment, he can also
show me the best what is" in the line
OF pure bred Duroc swine BY the
way; he told me of a recent visit to
Buena Vista county. While In the
town of Alta some one noticed his
name, which is printed on his auto.
The stranger approached Mr.. Samuel.
son and said: Are you the Sac county
man who raises those good Duroc
swine?' Mr.. Samuelson plead guilty
and the stranger continued: II read
that article about your hogs which ,ap.
pcared in the Denison Review" There
is a moral to this: II you don't want
the world to know about your good
livestock, don't Jet the Review say any.
thug about them.
There was meeting of the board
Of directors of the Crawford County
Federal Farm Bureau at the county
agents Office last Saturday afternoon
in DenisOn. Sixteen townships were
represented. An executive commit
tee was elected and a committee to
draft by laws appointed. There were
discussions on the farm labor problem.
seed corn, increased acreage Of wheat
and other important subjects. Meet.
ings will be held in many of the town.
ships in the near future when the
seed corn question will be discussed.
also treating OF oats for smut and an
Increased acreage Of spring wheat:
The officers and directors are alive
to, the fact that they have taken up
the work Of the government to In.
crease the output Of the farms as welI
as work for their personal interests.
1t was. certainly live bunch at the.
and / believe they are going
to accomplish much in the county this
year. @..t%....'
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The National, Shorthorn congress
and show at Chicago held recently is
said to have been the greatest Short
horn event ever staked in America.
For the show and sale, some of the
greatest individuals of the breed had
been drafted from Americas and Can
ada's foremost herds, and after COM
peting in the show ring they went to
tho
and 1924 females. Among the; Ameri-
can bred stun were. 81 imported ami
mails. representing some Of the best
blood lines. of England and Scotland.
An Iowa bred young bull was pur-
chased by, the South Dakota Agricul.
tural college for. $4,500. Geo. Strive,
Of Manning. purchased two, choice
young females. One was Spring VAL
ley Eliza, calved March, 1916, and he
paid $500 for her. The other was Ur-
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