The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1918-12-11
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THE REVIEWS SPECIAL
FARM NEWS DEPARTMENT
John H. D.. Gray
Live News About Crawford County Farms
and Farmers
EDITOR
and Farmers

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a man living near Archer lost $7OU
worth of Liberty bonds out OF his
pocket the other day. He was fortu.
. nate to recover them. If you are in
the habit of throwing these bonds
around in any old place, it is bad
practice. These bonds are like just
so many dollars and you should take
!, just the same care Of them that you
do Of your other money,
I'll fla Or "a SIX
St. Louis packers find motor trucks
profitable. The use OF motor trucks
to deliver hogs purchased at these
yards to slaughtering plants in st.
Louis, Mo-, has greatly increased re-
Gently as the result Of higher freight
rates between the two cities. The dis
to these establishments varies from
four to ten miles. Before the freight
rates were Increased most of the pack
ers preferred the slower trip by rail
and larger shrinkage to paying the
higher rate asked by truck owners.
The packers who have been using the
truck, now declare that aside from the
truck rate being considerably cheap
er than the new rail rate ,'the decrease
in the loss and shrinkage is OF itself
enough to justify the use of the motor
truck One of the smaller packers
stated that hogs purchased on the
morning market were delivered at his
plant by motor truck at IL a. m. the
same day and that if they had been
shipped by rail would not have reach
ed him before p. m. of the following
day. The motor car rates vary with
the distance OF the plants from the
stock yards, but in general represent
a saving OF from rs to SO per cent on
the new rail rates.
Chas. H. ]. Mitchell, editor Of the
hyphenated Storm Lake Pilot-Tribune,
had the following to say concerning
Jno. H. D. Gray, former editor of this
column and now acting in similar
capacity for the. Denison Review, has
been watching bunch of goats clean
up the underbrush on one Crawford
county farm. John does not report
any unpleasant experiences with the
goats and says that no one was driv-
en- out of the township. Which re-
minds us of a story they tell OF the
fighting over around the Dardenelles
in the early days OF the war. The
regimental mascot was a goat and he
smelled something awful and the boys
fell into heated argument as to
which smelled the worst, the goat or
some of the Turkish prisoners which
had been captured. They decided to
leave it to the colonel and so they led
-slle geatesinto the reolonel's tent and
the colonel tainted. Then they brought |
+ in the Turk. And the goat tainted"
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VIM. Mundt. who has been farming
the old Claus jain farm, located four
miles north of Manila, bought farm
in North Dakota a year ,or two ago.
He was in sDenison last week making
arrangements for advertising the big
closing out sale he will have Wednes-
move to North Dakota and. his many
friends wish him the best of luck In
his new home. He will find num-
Der Of Iowa farmers up in the Dako-
tas. In fact Iowa is the state most OF
the best farmers in the other states
came from. A real estate. agent who
lets Iowa farmers escape is consid-
cred traitor to his home state. They
want them to come there and develop
their state for they know that is just
what the Iowa farmer will do. But
on the other hand, why don't we get
busy and keep these good farmers
right her in Iowa?
The threshermen have made their
reports and their report proves that
Crawford county farmers were no
slackers in the raising of crops, as
we'll as doing their duty along other
lines. In the year 1917 there was q
wheat acreage of 8, 034 while this year
the acreage was nearly $4,000. In
the year 1917 there were 165,970 BUSH
els of wheat raised and this year it
was greatly increased.&AThi yearfthe !
wheat yield was 494,45O bushels, an
increase of 328,4SO bushels over, the
year previous Some increase is right.
grain this year. There were 2,426,677 |
bushels of oats raised, also 1S1,08S
bushels of barley and 4,354 bushels OF
rye. s,i.. sci ixIk
e August Limbrecht, who has been
janitor of the Crawford county court
house, has been selected by the board
of supervisors as overseer at the coun-
~ farm. His salary will be 1915 per
year. John Blackman, the present
overseer, has purchased a meat mar
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