The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1918-11-20
THE REVIE WIS SPECIAL
FARM NEWS DEPARTMENT
John H. D. Gray ....
sl E8 Editor Ha #a 4f
Live News About Crawford County
Farms and Farmers .s

glad I did. l not only had very
good dinner, but got acquainted with
Mr.. Dorfler and family. l learned
that knew many people in Sac coun-
| ty who Mrs. Dorfler is acquainted
with and also enjoyed hearing Mr..
Dorfler tell of the early days in Craw-
ford county, when bridges were
scarce and the custom was to ford
rivers and creeks. Mr.. Dorfler has a
very nice farm and is building moth
ing but modern buildings whenever
he builds. He has a hog house near
ly completed which is very good
one, in fact it is one of the best. It's
side walls are built up of concrete four
feet and then two feet high of cement
blocks. The walls are eight inches
thick. The building is 24x4O. The in
terror is divided off into pens, six on
a side. The entire floor and alley
way is of cement. Along each side Of
the eight foot alley, and directly back
of the pens, is drainage ditch. There
are two rows of windows in the
south side of roof. One row is the
ventilating kind and can be opened
or closed from the alley. There are
also six hinged sash windows in the
south side wall. Mr.. Dorf1er has a
has been piped into this building. On
this farm hogs are raised by the hun
dreds yearly. Right now there are
4SO spring pigs on the farm, besides
several older ones. Mr.. Dorfler told
me that the hogs did nearly all the
husking this year. He picked only
about twenty bushels to the acre af-
ter the hogs had been through the
fields. The cement and gravel for this
building were hauled from Ricketts,.
The building was erected at an eX-
pense of about 5000.
Bill Shaw had the following in his
department of the Odebolt News last
week: "A farmer in Early territory
was complaining about being short OF
hay to me the other day. I asked
him why he did not sow millet or
oats, one half the land only would be
required and the crop is almost a
certainty This country seems to be
producing a lighter timothy crop ev-
cry year. Alfalfa is not reliable here
and clover winter kills. There are
many good feeds besides timothy.
was driving by Mrs. Paullina Wiki
ems farm one day this fall when all |
pastures were nearly used up by the |
drought. The cattle were in pasture |
and besides grain soWn late the pas
ture was well seeded to rape. 1t look
ed mighty good-and so did the stock
eating there. III were farming, little |
/ 3,,o0 ~ xyx ha 4 III xyin11c ton
light after it is a year or two old.
Glover can't be beat as fertilizer, as
feed for COW, oats cut in the dough, |
has it skinned mile, and no waste.
A COW has to be pretty hungry to eat
the stems of clover, and it's an ex.
pensive bedding"
For some reason or other the sale |
of pure bred male pigs this fall has
not been as good as in many former
years. l am led to believe that there |
has been too many on the market. /
I have attended several sales where |
a number in the offering should have
gone to the feed lot, and not kept to |
sell as breeding animal. More at
tention should be given to wedding |
out the undesirable kind and nothing |
but the very choicest kept to sell to
breeders. / believe at least a third |
of the male pigs offered for sale this
year were culls and they not only
overstocked the market but they kept |
the average selling price down. 1t |
should not be question Of how |
many but how good. The man who |
builds for himself a reputation of
never selling, anything but the tops !
of his herd is building on a solid
and great will be his re- !!
ward for doing So.
Both pure bred and grade sheep |
clubs are now being organized among
the boys and girls Of Iowa by the
sheep extension man from Iowa State
college. If a pure bred club is formed.
two ewes of each member are suffi- |
cient and the offspring are judged as
breeding stock. If it is grade club,
members may have more than two
ewes and the offspring are judged as |
fat market lambs. Mixed clubs of !
both grade and pure breds will not be
Any boy or girl from 10 to
Is years of age may enter club. The
work consists of securing from two to
four ewes through methods deter
mined by the local committees. The
ewes are to be weighed at the start,
time Of breeding recorded, feed rec
ord kept of the ewes from their time
Of arrival at the farm until the lambs /
are weaned. There must be record
Of the feed for the lambs from birth
to the time they are shown at a coun-
ty or other exhibition. The weight Of Il
deeces from the ewes must be taken
at shearing time. The final standing 4
Of each member in club contest will II
be determined upon the basis of go
per cent for the pen of lambs from
The ewes entered, 20 per cent for the
weight of. lambs for age and 20 per
cent for the record of feed, costs, care
and story of both the ewes and lambs. II
l believe there is not a breeder OF
percheron horses in the state of II
owa who does not know Pat Mcclure.
He has been breeding these great
lraft horses for years and is conceded
% be one of the best judges of horse
lesh in the west. Owing to the fact
hat he has changed the rental of his
arm to a cash rent it has become nee
~, 4 49, 1t. l.