The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1918-07-24


decided to turn over the active man.
agement of his farm to his soon. Last
spring he sold his son, Louie w., the
old home place and now the young
man is "boss" on the farm while H.
w. Just chores around. He also sold
100 acres off this half section farm to
his son, W. NJ. When l visited the
farm last week l found Mr.. Meyers
repairing the lawn mower. l noticed
small patch of seed corn. He has
grown his own seed corn in separate
field for number of years and favors
this system of supplying the farm with
good seed. There is an excellent pros
pect right now for good seed for next
year. Seed from ten of the best ears
to be found in the seed corn he grew
last year was planted. Speaking of
seed reminds me that last year he
planted alfalfa seed which he had
stored in his home for twelve years.
He secured enough additional seed
for an eleven acre field The seed
was sown in the corn field after the
corn had been plowed once, and the
corn was plowed another time. He
gathered forty bushels of corn to the
acre from this field. This year, after
the alfalfa was up about six inches,
1t was damaged considerably by hail
storm which passed through that sec
tion. Nevertheless he got fourteen
loads of alfalfa from the eleven acre
field the first cutting.
This department is far from being
up to standard this week. Mr.. Con-
ner has been out Of town for about
two weeks and have tried to fill one
Of his shoes, as clare to goodness
editor, as we'll as gather news for this
department. l am suffering from too
much shaking up in the 4d, and it is
with considerable effort that am able
to get around at all. AS soon as Mr..
Conner returns it will be necessary TO
me to lay up for repairs week or
two. ! hope to be back on the job
again after that time and will make
an earnest effort to gather news that
will be to your liking No doubt you
will secretly, if you do not admit it,
be pleased to have less of my COM
pany while you are SO busy in the har-
vest fields. Even if l am forced to go
to the hospital my thoughts will be Of
you, and l shall often wonder just
how you are coming along with your
work. In the meantime, be good. till
n we meet again. If we do not meet
& again soon, shall speak a good word
to Saint Peter in your behalf, for
certainly have enjoyed my years work
in your county.
j. H. Healey has hollow tile brick
on his farm, four and half miles
north of Manila, for garage large
enough to house his auto truck and
his auto. He now has 237 pigs on the
farm-big and little-and they are all
looking good l suppose it is not nee
cessary for men to mention that they
are. all pure bred big type Poland
China, for he has been raising them
so many years that it is a we'll known
fact. Last fall he built one of those
sunlit hog houses, the walls are OF
hollow tile and the floor of cement.
He has tried it out through the win
ter and spring and it proved it's
worth and the only regret Mr.. Healey
has is that he did not build such
house years ago. 1t would have paid
for itself many times over in young
pigs saved. 1t is false economy for a
farmer to have anything on the farm
now but such building. r1
The total wheat crop for 1918 is es-
timated to be near the billion mark,
or in round figures, 931 100000 bush
els. This is an increase of Is per
cent over the average crop for the
year 1912 to 1916 and a jump of 43
per cent over last years yield. This
is all true but it does not at all mean
that with this bumper crop coming in
soon we can begin to eat wheat at our
normal rate of consumption, says
Food Administrator Deems of Burling-
ton. To do so would be almost the
same as to manufacture a great mum.
Der of aeroplanes and then use them
all for pleasure purposes instead Of
war activities.
The United States food administra-
ton emphatically denies the report
that housewives should not put up any
fruit this year because Of the scarcity
Of sugar. If Uncle Sam is going to
have sufficient supplies for his fighters
and enough to spare to the allies, ev.
ery housewife in America who pos.
sibly can must 'tput up enough for
her family's needs this winter.
Wheat, barley and rye can not be
fed to hogs and other livestock. Cecil
Barnes, head of the United States
grain corporation, branch of the food
administration, has wired to the ad-
ministrator for Indiana as follows:
BARLEY and rye are cereals good for
human consumption and should not
be fed to animals where other grain
is, available" Food Administrator
Deems of Iowa has ruled that wheat
must not be fed to hogs in this state
during the year 1918.
Food Administrator Deems, of Bur.
lington, has notified county food ad-
ministrators that if they feel there is
necessity for the service of extra
meals to threshers, or for providing
Of extra quantities of flour in spe.
'cific cases, they are authorized to use
their judgment in such matters, and
issue special orders accordingly.
Z Go
/ remember no farm article have
written which created as much com.
ment as the one Of last week in re-