The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1918-11-27
THE REVIEWS SPECIAL
FARM NEWS DEPARTMENT
John H. d. Gray
( #r# 45- EDITOR
Live News About Crawford County Farms
and Farmers

Orders for $500 car loads of corn
have been taken by the farm bureau
office in one county in southwestern
Iowa and throughout the region striek'
ell by the drought last summer orders
are coming in for corn. Many farm
ers who have more hogs than they
can find feed for are wanting to sell
their surplus stock. In northeastern
Iowa, where there is an extra good
crop of corn, farmers are wanting to
buy more feeder hogs The problem
before the county farmers exchange
and the state exchange, maintained
by the agricultural extension depart
ment at Iowa State college, Is to aid
in systematic exchange of corn to
the southwestern counties and OF the
hogs to the northeastern counties.
Farmers in these regions Of the state
can secure help by listing their wants
with the farm bureau office in their
home county. The county agent will
| forward them on to Ames, where the
man needing corn or hogs may be put
| in touch with other farmers who can
supply the wants. Surplus hogs or
corn should also be listed In emer-
igencies, the county agent will phone
or wire to Ames at once for informa-
ltion.
That it will be in position to carry
on the November price of $3.50 mini.
mum price for hogs throughout De-
cember is the decision of the U. S.
food administration, after consultation
with the agricultural advisory board,
special swine representatives and
packers. ITO receive $3.50 or more,
on the average, for hogs, Chicago, for
December is an improvement over the
situation existing in November" says
John NJ. Evvard, swine specialist of
Iowa agricultural experiment station.
"inasmuch as larger amount OF
cheaper corn has gone into the hogs
in recent months. With the $3.50
minimum, the average price will prob
ably run around $1T.75 or Whereabouts
which will mean that the farmers will
get more for their hogs now than
they have on the average for a series
of ten years previous to the war In
other words, it is ratio little bet
ter than twelve to one. The food ad-
ministration suggests that the lighter
weight hogs, those under IT'S pounds
or Whereabouts, be held back for the
next 80 days; in other words, that
the emphasis of shipment be placed
upon hogs weighing 225 pounds and,
up. 1t is also suggested that foreign
shipments in December and January
will be sufficient to absorb all Of the
availabel surplus" ~ ~
Dairy extension forces in North Car
DINA, working through the local agent
in Sampson county, have placed IL
head of pure bred Jersey COWS with
negro farmers 1t is said to be the
first organized effort to place pure
bred animals for family use on negro
farms. These animals we're part of
car load purchased by the dairy ex-
tension men in Ohio. The negroes
paid an average of $500 head for the
Jerseys. The COWS were secured only
from herds in which milk production
and butter fat content were very high
and were much better individuals
than ordinarily brought in by traders.
Considerable complaint is heard. ov-
err the state because of a failure to
drag the roads properly after rain.
While dragging the roads after rain
is the proper time to- do it, but owing
to the farmers being short of help
lit has been impossible to drag the
roads as they would have been if the
laborers had been more plentiful. This
year the big job was to make the soil
produce more than it had produced be-
fore, and to do it with less farm lab.
orers. To do this something had to
be neglected, and it seems that the
roads were the ones neglected.