The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1918-11-13
THE REVIE WIS SPECIAL
/. FARM NEWS DEPARTMENT
John II. D. Gray &s4sa
4s Editor
Live News About Crawford County
Farms and Farmers
John H. D. Gray
Editor Fl

sow to raise a family of lice on he1
back while sucking family OF swine
at the same time.
The sanitary disposal of liquid
waste through a sanitary drainage
system commends itself to every
breeder of swine in the corn belt and
it is needless for me to spend much
time on this subject. -"
The concrete floors, or approaches
to the entrance doors, lessons the
amount of mud and filth being carried
| into the nest than where the doors
open directly on to the earth's natur
al surface. If we could educate the
swine to first remove the mud from
their feet before entering the house 1t
would not be necessary to build these
cement floors. But why expect them
to do this when men, the best educat.
i ed animals in the world, have to be
provided with a door mat, and, my
wife says, some men seem to think
the mat was placed there by their
dear wives just for an ornament.
l believe Mr.. Sonnichsen has made
one very serious mistake in this build
| ing. He, it seems to me, has not pro-
lvided properly for ventilation. He
lis now depending principally upon one
metal cupola ventilator in the roof.
A number of hinged windows may be
opened in the side walls too, but fear
| that lis not sufficient. A large book
can be written on the subject of ven
tilation, and the proper ventilation OF
buildings is a science. If owned this
fine large building would employ
THE services of an expert to look at
ter it's proper ventilation. The sub
lject is so important, and so generally
misunderstood, that approach it with
fear and trembling. know If MT.
Sonnichsen would clip this descrip-
| ton of the building and send pictures
of each side of the building, including
/, the roof, to the Ames agricultural col
lege, that the desired information
would be furnished at cost of prac-
tically nothing to him. Outside OF the
ventilation, this is wonderful build
ing, and I advise all our farmers to
go and look it over. ~
Nick Olderog owns quarter section
slice of section thirty-five, Hanover
township. found Mr.. Olderog and
son blowing field Of stubble. He, like
manysothers last week, had his corn
all picked and in the crib. The ground
was so dry before corn picking time
that the work had to be postponed,
but now the farmers have returned to
the work. Mr. Olderog reports splen.
did quality of corn, but only a hall
crop, and many of the farmers in that
neighborhood report the same. These
Hanover township farmers are extens.
i've raisers of hogs and many will be
forced to buy corn to feed their hogs
so have been told. Mr.. Olderog told
me he had never taken the Review
but he had heard SO many good things
about it that he wanted it. He sub
scribed without being solicited.
have not solicited subscription since
last spring, in fact, don't have to, fol
the world knows the Review is the
greatest county seat newspaper pub
lished in northwestern Iowa. The peo
pie subscribe for it voluntarily. They
subscribe for it because they want it
and they want it because they get the
most for their money when they buy
the Review.
Carroll Harold: Following the or
ganization of the farm bureaus ovel
the state many of the counties are or
ganizing pure bred livestock breed
ers association whose main purpose
is to advance the interests of the 10
cal breeders by combining them into
county organization in order thai
they may advertise collectively and in
various other ways advance the inter
ests of better livestock. At the pres
ent time the county agents office has
the names of about IS breeders OF
various kinds and classes of livestock
in Carroll county. The plan is to ask
these men to come together at gen
eral meeting in Carroll some time in
the near future in order to discuss
the ACCESSIBILITY of such an organiza
ton. The county agent is at present
trying to get in touch with an able or
ganizer who can explain the work and
start Carroll county breeders off on
the right foot if it is decided to or
ganize. The county agent would ap
preciate it if every man who is q
breeder of livestock whom he has moi
as yet seen on this proposition to send
in his name, the kind of livestock and
size of his herd or herds. Any sug
gestions along this line from the breed
ers would be most welcome.
o. s.l
Last week VIM. Huxtable had the
following to say in the Storm Lake
Pilot Tribune concerning Buena Wis
ia county farmer, and his farming
methods. Aside from the description