The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1918-02-13
THE REVIE WIS SPECIAL
FARM NEWS DEPARTMENT
John II. D! Gray
Editor
Live News About Crawford County
Farms and Farmers
John II. D. Gray
Editor

Ownership Of the railroads. For my.
self, l am opposed to such a policy,
but il the railroads give us no better
service than they have been giving
us recently, am apt to see things
quite different. 49,.
Exchange: Who remembers the time
of the past harks back but minds not
the future. We have with us few
of olden time pioneers whose recollec-
tion tells them of the days when the
snow blew through the windows and
roof, when they trod many rod for
coal to start the early morning fire;
and they assert that they. were a
healthier generation than the present;
that they went without fires in the
churches for the long services then
held, excepting at the last a small
foot fire, that they had small Oppor-
tunity for advantages, but oh! how
they brag of it. There were no match
es, sugar was unknown until the thir.
along without it,, no coal until the
AOuAICCAtA NCAIulys ~ OutLCA uAtA
the fifteenth, tobacco and potatoes
until the sixteenth. tea, coffee, soap,
with the seventeenth, railroad trains,
land there must have been. some
snow storms) until the nineteenth and
now with automobiles, wireless, aero.
planes, telephones, we feel well and
at home. In the future shall we Yep.
pelin from New York to Paris, for
week ends, or 60 by air to San Fran
cisco over night? Have we after all
been born too soon?
An event which will create consid-
cradle interest in the Duroc world
is announced for Tuesday, February
10, when B A Samuelson G. Son will
have their fourteenth annual bred SOW
sale on the farm AZ miles north of
kiron The Samuels0n herd was start
ed about twenty years ago and during
these years it has been the ambition
Of B A to each year have a better
than the previous year. Mr..
has done much to popular
ice the Duroc Jersey swine in Iowa.
He has spent, which seemed at
times, fabulous prices to secure new
blood to improve his herd. He was
from the very start successful in his
matings and it has now become a
science with him. He fully realized
hat it was not only necessary to pro-
cure good herd boars, but equally
Is important to mate them with the
choicest of females. This he has done
md today he stands pre.eminent as a
breeder and owner of one of the best
nerds of pure bred Duroc Jersey swine
n, the United States. We are going
70 expect great things from this sale
February 10 for it has the markings of
! great sale. Look up his sale an
in this issue for details
If the Offering.
Now that the new order concern
ng the buying Of wheat flour has gone
INTO effect, it will be we'll to remem-
Der the many good things that can
De made with corn meal and other
lours. Yeast breads containing 300
If other flOurs as rye, corn-meal and
barley are good in flavor, appearance
md texture. Cornstarch can be sub
;tituted for part of the flour in cakes
and pastry and is not half bad. Pas
ry made entirely of rye flour is very
good But even if you think you do
lot like bred and pastry made Of any
hing except white flour remember
t is patriotic duty to use white flour
low. So just make up your mind that
wheat flour Is not the only good thing
II the world.
Under the new food rule, as an
lounced last week, farmers bringing
n wheat to the mill to be ground, are
permitted to take home 100 pounds
If flour at time, and are expected to
i've up in good faith to the $3.50
orders as respects the use of a pound
If other cereals with every pound of
wheat flour. OF course it will be hard
o keep track Of this, but the farmers
nay be depended upon to live up in
,OOd faith to rule which the govern
nent has been compelled to make to
lelp our allies and our soldiers in
Europe.
Provide or inches of good, clean
liter on the floor of the poultry house
II which to scatter the grain feed.
The hens must exercise in order to |
ct the grain, and this promotes
ealth and egg production.
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Unless farmers are sufficiently in.
rested in farm bureau work to form |
n effective organization which truly |
epresents the farming interests of
he county, there is small chance of |
he. county bureau meeting with great |
uccess.
Rex Beresford. of the Ames college,
0ok look last week at the regis
cred Percheron and Belgian horses
}. j. Eggers will sell this week. He
ked the offering so we'll that he in
1rmed me he expected to attend the
ale and buy two or three of the
rood mares. Prof. Beresford predicts
shortage or horses during the next
lree years and is going to have some
pod ones to sell when they are in
lore demand tnan today. He says
lat but few colts will be raised this
ear. He and his brother conduct a
'ur hundred acre farm in Benton
ounty. They have several purebred
ercheron horses on the farm, but
ave room for more
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