The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1918-01-30
THE REVIEWS SPECIAL
FARM NEWS DEPARTMENT
John H. 2. Gray -.
~ ~ EDITOR
Live News About Crawford County Farms
and Farmers

lsires. His get have never broken an,
worlds records for prices, but he ha
furnished hundreds Of high class, bi!
type bOars and soWs to the breeders O
America who wanted Durocs will
more size. He was owned in the hero
of o. s. Larson of Logan, with the ex
ceuption of five years when Mr.. Larson
sold him, but at the end of that time
bought him back, paying considerable
more than he had received for him
The head of this great boar will bt
mounted and placed in the office of the
Duroc Bulletin at Chicago
Ogden Reporter: George Johnson
brought to the City State bank the first
of the week a sample test of seed corn
Mr.. Johnson took one kernel of seed
from one ear each Of twenty ears. The
stand was 100 per cent. The seed was
taken from shock corn, cut before the
frost and husked in December, before
the freeze which came in that month.
This information might prove Of bene-
fit to those who have shock corn and
have husked it for seed corn.
o.
C. A. Saunders, who is claimed by
both Crawford and Shelby county as
their very own, two weeks ago sold to
Newton man Shorthorn COW and
calf for $500. Seventeen years ago
Mr.. Saunders sold this mans father a
cow and calf for $3.50. I
B. A. Samuelson and son have writ
ten us to claim February 10th for their
bred SOW sale. II am informed that
Messrs. Samuelson and son will do
nate half the purchase price OF the
first and last SOW sold to the Red
Cross. The Red Cross animals will be
two of the best in the Offering. The
Offering will consist Of is yearlings, %
fall gifts and 40 spring gifts. so in all.
I suppose it is really needless for me
to mention. the breed Of swine. for the
name Of Samuelson has been connected
with the breeding of pure bred Duroc
swine so long that Samuelson and
DurOc have almost become synony-
nous. The sale will take place on the
farm four and half miles north of
Kiron. Being DESTROYS of reaching the
greatest number OF people in Crawford
county they will advertise the sale in
the Review.
Cattle are disappearing from the
Grand Junction territory very mystic
riously of late. 1t is thought that cat
tie thieves are at work and steps will
be taken to get to the bottom of the
matter.
Winter days. when farm work is
slack, can be utilized in cleaning and
grading the small grains for spring
sowing, according to statement just
issued by the seed stocks committee
Of the United States Department of Ag--
riculture. This work should be done
before the spring rush in preparing the
land and sowing the seed. Wheat, oats,
barley and fax for seeding can all be
Improved by running the seed through
the tanning mill at least once to re-
move the weed seed, chaff, broken
straw and light, shrunken kernels.
The cleaned grain will run through
the drill or other seeding machinery
more evenly and thus insure more
uniform stand than can be obtained
from unclaimed grain. Cleaning grain
also eliminates most OF the weak and
diseased kernels, many of which may
not grow at all, or if they do grow are
likely to produce small, weak plants
large, plump kernels ger
terminate more evenly, produce strong
er plants and yield more than ungrad-
ed grain containing small, weak ker-
nels. Cleaning the grain also re-
moves large part of 'he weed seeds
it contains. The preparation Of the
land for seeding destroys many seeds
that are in the soil and thus helps to
keep the weeds in check, but the value
OF this work is largely lost if foul
seed is sOWn. Weed seeds soWn with
the grain have the best OF conditions
for termination and growth, and the
plants produced from them compete
strongly with the grain plants through
out the season. Although the small
grain of the 1917 crop, except in North
Dakota and Montana, is mostly excel
lent quality for seed, yet it is we'll
worth while to run this grain through
the tanning mill at least once. No
chances should be taken in sowing the
1918 crop. The very best seed avail
able should be used. Increases in
yield of from to 5 bushels or more