The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1918-05-15
THE REVIEWS SPECIAL
FARM NEWS DEPARTMENT
John H. D. Gray
EDTTOR
Live News About Crawford County Farms
and Farmers

narrowed litter OF ten and saved nine
) of them, four boars and six sows. The
litter is sired by Blue Valley Timm
The sire of Blue Valley Timm was
Big Timm, who was grand chompion
at the Nebraska state fair in 1915,
and weighed 1925. His grand sire,
The Big Orphan, was grand champion
the year before and weighed 1160.
Mr.. Byrnes certainly has an attract
i've litter here. had the pleasure of
looking at a brood sow and litter of
eight which came from the c. NJ.
Peterson herd. The litter was sired
by the great King l., who won first
prize as junior yearling at the Nation
al swine show last year. A fall gilt,
sired by Smooth Bob, is one of the
best show prospects have seen this
summer. hope John will find time
to show her Her damn was Mollio
1st, sired by Smooth Price. and bred
BY ]. L. Resley of Ames. With such
blood in his herd it is easy to expect
that his boar sale September 10. 1918.
will be grand success. 1t will take
place on the farm and Col. H. 8. Dun.
can will be on the block. 81
w. A. McHenry, proprietor of Nc.
Henry Park Farm. says: "A year and
half ago one of my neighbors ask.
ed me what a certain pure bred Pol.
and China sow l had was worth. l
told him, did not know. He offered
me $50 for her. which refused. She
was then nursing her first litter OF
pigs. 4 boars and sows. All of them
suited me pretty we'll. sold the boars
;at $50 each, kept the six gifts. which
have each raised a litter. The orig.
inal SOW has had five litters in two
and a half years. at an average Of
IL is pigs to the litter, In all 66 pigs.
She now weighs 500 pounds. Her
last litter came a week ago Saturday
to the number of 16. all of which she
saved. She has refreshment places
for ~ and is caring for them and the
other four are doing well with another
mother. sold a car load of hogs this
old. weighing 260 pounds eGch in Chi.
cago. at $17.S5. Will some one an
swer my neighbours question? What
is such sow worth? I have 375 Ap.
I'll and May pigs now. with Is more
mothers to report. Come on with
your hog stories. You are next"
s~O-~
The pig crop in Crawford county
this spring is good one. and the
price of pork is verv satisfactory
which is a bright outlook for those
who will have hogs to sell next fall.
Since the farmers started to use ex.
tensivelv green forage crops more
money has been realized from the
raising of hogs. 1t was not 50 manv
years ago that hogs were not turned
out in grass lots but, according to
tests made by farmers and those made
by experiment stations. It was wise
move when the hogs were given mas.
ture The Ohio agricultural school
last year fed a quantity of pigs on
green forage crops with corn with sat
isfactory results. Pigs averaging six.
tv.six and half hounds in weight at
the beginning of the experiment were
pastured sixty-two days on blue grass.
some receiving corn alone and others
mixture Of eight parts corn to one
Of tankage. When the corn alone was
fed the use Of nasture increased the
rate of gain II "a per cent and low
cred the amount of grain required for
a unit of gain in weight 32M per cent.
When tankage was fed with corn the
use of pasture still added materially
to the rate and economy of gains, but
not to the extent that IT did when
corn alone was fed. In later expert.
ments in which smaller proportions
of tankage were used. better results
were secured than from the use OF
corn alone. The hogs fed corn alone
in drv lot gained only two.thirds of a
pound daily. while those fed corn on
pasture gained one and Oneftfth
mounds. The value of the gains over
the value of feed of the hogs fed corn
alone was four cents, with corn at
s154 a bushel and hogs at S14 per hun
dred. The gain made by the hogs fed
corn on pasture was valued at S12.82
above the cost of feed and pasture,
which was figured at SIG an acre. An
acre of pasture in this case was fig.
ured to replace grain worth SGT. 9th
err experiments have shown that more
satisfa Glory results can be obtained
from the use of crops like alfalfa,
clover and rape than from blue grass
pasture.
Last fall Thomas Dixon bought the
Frank Brogan farm located about sew
en- miles northeast of Vail. James. a
son of Mr.. Dixon. is operating the
farm this year with the assistance of
other members of the family. This is
half section farm and has been op.
Grated as stock farm for many
years. Mr.. Dixon will continue along
the same lines. Right now there are
twenty head of high grade Hereford
COWS and a pure bred Hereford bull
! in the pasture. Mr.. Dixon, at the
home place, has been raising Here.
fords for many years. and 1t is not
strange that he would now start his
son off with the same breed. There
are Is brood sows. IS fall and 60
spring pigs on the farm. 1t is planned
to build large cattle shed next fall.
The only sure method of knowing
whether innoculation is advisable is
to observe the alfalfa growing on the
land. II nodules are present on the
roots, it would probably not pay to
add further incubation.
The recent rains have worked won.
dcrs with the growing Of crops. It
did not come bit too soon either,