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week. I would have given the inside
pages of the magazine more of my
time il had not taken so much of
it in looking at the picture ON the
cover page Of the charming young
Iowa lady who is holding the Short.
horn steer. Merry Monarch, grand
champion steer swimming. over all
breeds at the 1917 International.
looked through the magazine but fail.
ed to find marked article, so take
it for granted that Carl wanted me
to be sure and see the picture of Miss
Curtis. l will take an extract from
an article written by Col. F. NJ. Wood.
Here 1t is: with due respect to all
other breeds of cattle, there are few
to dispute these statements: The
Shorthorn breed is the pioneer breed
in America; it is the cosmopolitan
breed. Shorthorns are the most prac'
tical, coming the nearest as they do
ers can afford to keep one breed for
milk and butter, and another for beef.
The ShOrthOrn supplies both, and the
blood has done more to improve the
country's cattle than all the other
breeds combined. The Shorthorn
breed and the grades have given us
more beef, butter and milk than all
the others combined. That is explain
ed by the fact that Shorthorns have
been the choice of the great majority
of men who have kept cattle"
Manning Monitor: Hans Derner had
bad luck with his stock shipment of
two caploads of fat cattle that he
shipped to Chicago form Dotna. His
cattle got as far as Clinton where
they were delayed many days on ac-
count OF the railroad blockade.
AT the O. S. Larson sale of Duroc
bred sows near Logan last week fifty
head sold for an average Of $3.50. 10.
At the Fred Swan sale Of Durocs at
Missouri Valley the Royal Critic" sow
which has won sweepstakes in many
contests in Iowa and other states was
sold to H. Fain, Of Emmetsburg, for
$4,000. And still there are men who
will kick just because the waiter
brings him in pork chops that have
been cut thin. .. WIZ. -.... ..
A. J. Grotenhuise & Son held a Du-
roc. hog sale at Sioux City last week
and hung up a record hard to beat.
John Orion, boar born last April,
sold to E. s. Ritterman, OF Kingsley,
for $1,000. A younger brother of the
boar sold to c. r, Steele, of Ireton, for
$1,000. The top sow sold for $1,025.
8 Mr.. Quist, our county agent, has
been with us but few days but is
90 n a int with n,rr
farmer friends. There still seems to
be false impression as to the work
Of the agent and will give you in as
few words as possible an outline of
BIS work. The primary purpose of
the Crawford County Farm Bureau is
to build up the greatest industry in
the county, grain and livestock farm
ing. 1t is the purpose of the county
agent to make his office a sort of
clearing house for all movements
beneficial to the county, such as or
ganizing and conducting seed corn
campaigns, livestock associations, test
ing of seed corn and other grains,
demonstrating methods of treating
seed oats and wheat for smut, testing
soil, etc. The services Of the agent
are free to every person in the county
whether q member Of the farm bureau
or not. 1t is not the purpose OF the
county agent to tell or teach farmers
how to farm. He wants only to work
with them and help devise new meth
DDS and means of increasing crop
yields, to find the best varieties and
kinds OF seed adopted to the soil and
climate of the county. to aid farmers
in finding help and to serve as
means of exchange of seed and live
stock between the individual farmers
in the county and between our county
and the adjoining ones. When short
course is to be held he will assist
the local committees in putting it
across. He will be a sort OF handy
man to have around the county and
the government pays his salary. aside
from his Office expense. In closing, l
want to mention this fact, he can't
assist you if you will not permit it,
but he will be of great assistance if !,
you will cooperate In his work.
o.
n A. A. Rauch in Ida Grole Pioneer:
Why should the farmers be asked to
labor--more than any other business
does? Where else can the unskilled
labor go, ask and get the very highest
price for his services? The question
is asked, What is skilled farm labor?"
A skilled laborer is man who knows
how to do the work and perform it
having practical knowledge of the
work he is doing. An unskilled labor
er is man who has no practical
knowledge of the work that he is en-
pected to do. 1t Is quite expensive
for farmer to hire unskilled farm
labor and pay these men the wages
they ask and all the while they do not
know how to do farm work as 1t |
should be done. The farmer they
work for must teach them how to do |
the work in such short. busy and
expensive time. A great many folks |
(whO don't live on farms) think that |
anyone can do farm work easily. They |
can. but whether it is done right or |