The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1918-07-10

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Speck., He moved from the farm
southeast of Denison that he had rent
ed for nine years, to farm in Good
rich township. At last ] found him
last weeq on the farm he bought last
fall located in section 16 1t consists
Of 100 acres and already he has started
to give it a renovating. Fences are
being built and all buildings in need
of repair are receiving attention. The
entire farm will soon be fenced hog
tight. In looking through his hog
house, saw number of self feeders
and observed that he feeds the young
pigs oats and tankage as soon as they
will eat it. There are also self water
ing tanks and oilers placed around the
yards. He now has 100 spring pigs
and most of them were March farrow.
A number of his big type brood soWs
were sired by Big Long Fred and he
by Big Bob. Several Of the sows
were sired by Big Orange, a Lyden
boar. There are also others by Big
Knox. They are the big, roomy kind.
In the boar pasture are Quartermas-
ter. sired by the giant Grand Master
and Wonder Orange, sired by Mouw's
Big Orange. The first one mentioned
is yearling and the other Is older.
While the two are strictly high class,
Charley decided to add another good
one. He recently bought a young boar
that was sired by Gertsdale Jones, the
boar Peter Mouw sold for $4,000. He
will be called Gertsdale King. This
Young aristOcrat had not arrived when
Icalled. much to my disappointment,
for I like to look at those good ones,
even IL / do not own them. Charley
has founded herd which will soon
take rank with the best OF them. He
has spared no expense to get the good
ones and, like Peter Mouw, he wants
them as big as they grow. He Is
hard working, honest man and certain
" deserves to succeed. From now on
the going will be easier, for he has a
good start which was built on solid
Foundation. The name of Charley
Speck will soon be as we'll known
among the breeders of purebred Po-
land China swine as the best OF them.
always like to say a good word Tor
such man, for feel that he is de-
serving Of 1t. Good luck, Charley, and
long may you wave.
!, G. H. Koenk, of section nine, Good
rich township, last fall bought two
pure bred brood sows Of the Poland
China breed. They have, or rather
are. raising him sixteen spring pigs.
He had been raising grade DurocS
for number OF years but decided to
change. He will now stick to the big
tyne Poland China and will have moth
ing but pure bred stock on the farm.
He will build q combination. cattle ana
hay barn this summer. It Will be
S6x4O. noticed lot OF Bun orping-
ton chickens and was told that they
were bred according to the standard
rules Of perfection. These chlcKens
have been raised on the farm for thlr-
teen years and they looked very good.
Albert J.. Smith, of section nine,
Goodrich township, has built nay
she'd 1t is 20x3O with sixteen foot
posts.
A meeting of the Crawford county
threshermen will be held at the coun-
IN agents office in Denison Wednes.
day July 10th. Meeting will be called
II order at two o'clock. ! understand
that prices for threshing will be liked
Tor the coming season. In Carroll
county the following prices were fixed:
{ cents per bushel for oats, cents
for barley and 8 cents for wheat.
3 %. II. Larson is on his fathers farm
IN section one, Willow township. A
nav barn will be built after harvest
hut rfxht now he is too busy with the
farm work to do any building. Mr..
Iarson started out with pure bred
Hampshire swine three years ago, haV
inc raised the grades for several years
nrevious to that time. Last year ne
exhibited a number of his swine at
fhe Arion fair and they attracted
much attention. He now has IA reg
iatered brood sOws and two male pigs
a well as a lot Of spring pigs: me
male pigs will be two years old next
fall and right now weigh 4OO.
/ had short visit last Friday after
noon with C. j. Bartlett on his moth
ar,s farm in section one, Willow town
shin. G.. j. is & carpenter and ne
was building barn on the farm. II
il 26x32 and has good cement toun-
dation and well built in every depart
ment. Carl Johnson is farming this
lind and when drove along the "a
scared his horses, which heightened
his stride considerable to keep up win
the horses back OF a walking cult
yator. 1 did not hear Carl swear. but
Il was not necessary, had Just pull
Cd through a bad piece OF road
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Henry Remmes, who is located one
mile south of the Hanover center
school is repainting all his farm
buildings. He says he has resided
there for fourteen years and can re,
member no year when he was so wen
along with his work. He has eighteen
brood sows and ia spring pigs.
John Heide resides in section ten'
Goodrich township. He has built
garage 14x1s, wash house 14x2O and
last spring built hay and cattle barn
32x48. The buildings are all well
built and there is an air of prosperity
about the farm.
Charter Oak Times: Where do you
suppose Clarke Marshall, Jr. is? Well,
we cannot tell you. All we know is
that Mrs. Marshal says he Is herdlng
his sheep in northern Idaho flfty
miles from a railroad, so she IS not