The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1918-05-29

J the country Is not unfortunate. He
can have just as good an education as
the boy who lives in the city. Oul
schools, in the future, will teach in
terms of the lives of people-in terms
of the lives Of boys. The boy will
know quack grass and dodder and al
falfa and sour soil and be able to test
cows milk. Give your boy pig or
a calf. Make him partner in the
business and he will love his work on
the farm and not try to get away from
H it.
1t is not a hard job to milk COWS
and care for stock if we take an inter
est in our work and get our heads in
the game. We will find that all work
is drudgery unless we like it, put the
best we have into it, and use intelli-
gence.
The Des Moines News is starting a
campaign to collect tails off old shirts,
from which to make war aprons for
the soldiers. Cutting the tails from
shirts is not exactly new to me. ] re-
member when / was boy about thir-
teen years of age, visited at the home
of my uncle, who resided about four
miles southeast of Sac City. l was at
that time wearing undershirts made
| by my mother and the material used
for the shirts was red flannel. had,
as you will soon discover, started ear
ly in life to give farmers advice on
how to care for their poultry. There
were a few hens on the farm that
wanted to set, so ! had my cousins
bring the hens to me in the barn and
l promised to teach them how to re-
move the setting habit from the minds
of the hens. | tore strips from my
shirt and fastened them to the tails of
the hens After decorating all of the
hens on the farm, started in on the
ROSTERS and was making great head
way until my aunt discovered the ex-
citement among her chickens. Her
coming put stop to the sport, and
she came none too soon. for about all
l had left of my shirt were the sleeves
and collar. So you see using the shirt
tails for a useful purpose Is not ex-
actly original with the Des Moines
editor. ''
A meeting Of pure bred stock breed
ers Of Calhoun county will be held In
Rockwell City on Saturday, June LIST.
to form an organization, the purpose
of which will be to encourage and in
crease the raising Of pure bred stock
in the county. Professor Beresford,
OF the Iowa State college, will address
the meeting. He will tell OF the 'bene-
fits to the stock men and the county
of raising pure bred stock. In the
directOrships of the organization, ev-
cry different kind of pure bred stock
in the county will be represented.
There will be division for each. 1t
Is planned to have the farmers work
in cooperation with each other in
developing better bred stock and in
advertising. A booklet probably will
be issued giving complete information
as to the pure bred industry in Cal
houn county.
Witt Bros. reside in section fourteen,
Paradise township. They have good
farm we'll improved. Last fall they
built a silo 14x47 OF hollow tile brick
visited the farm last week and first
met Theodore. inquired of him
how he liked the silo and lie said it is
oAuOSL AAuASPCAolUlC VII Vic A0A AA' Aho
told me the cattle came through the
winter fed on ensilage and hay in ex-
cellent condition. In fact, they were
An electric lighting plant has been in.
are we'll pleased with it. In addition
to furnishing light for all the build
ings on the farm it also furnishes pow
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laundry machinery and the large wood
saw. l have seen many lighting plants
on the Iowa farms the past four years
and am convinced that no farm is
complete without one.
Wallaces' Farmer: Letters received
recently indicate that the hog cholera
dope seller is at it again. One Linn
county, Iowa, subscriber writes that
there is an agent in that neighborhood
selling a medicine which he claims
will prevent hog cholera if it is fed
regularly every week; also that it will
kill worms, prevent thumps and all
other diseases except tuberculosis. No
medicine ever has been discovered
which will prevent hog cholera, and
the farmer who spends money for
such medicine is simply throwing it
away. We can we'll understand that
there may be medicines which would
prevent thumps. Thumps is disease
brought on by too much feed and too
little exercise. 1t attacks the latest,
incest pigs in the herd. Almost, any
quack doctor can get up medicine
that will prevent pigs from becoming