The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1918-03-20

Rogers brothers are located on 1853
acre farm three and half miles west
of Dow City. Last year a silO was
built, it is 16x40 and one of the most
attractive silos in the county. have
often admired it as | drove along the
Lincoln highway in my mighty I'D. 1t
is giving the best of satisfaction, so
Milton told me. He said: II think a
silo is all right, and believe every
farmer should have one or more He
wishes he had another. The cattle
have done we'll upon the silage and
passed UP good clover hay to get the
silage. was not surprised that Mr..
Rogers was pleased with the silo; l
have never found any who we're not.
unless those who do not have them.
Occasionally find farmer. who has
never had one, complain. Silage in
creases the thrift Of stock cattle and
breeding cattle. and brings them
through the winter in better shape
than can be done with dry feeding eX-
cent at much heavier expense. l
noticed a lot of Hampshire hogs on
this farm and was told that they now
have 1868. For several years they have
crossed the Hampshire with Poland
China sows with satisfactory results.
7 was told that these gentlemen are
planning on the erection OF large
COW barn this year.
O.
Woodbine Twiner: The Twiner is
told that a local stock buyer has $780,.
900 worth of hogs in the stock yards
here and can't get cars in which to
ship them. He has tried to buy hve
Ford trucks for use in hauling hogs to
Omaha but they can not be secured.
Manning Monitor: If every farmer
was as fortunate az VIM. Steen living
northeast of Manning raising hogs
there would not need to be meatless
day in this Country. One day in Janu'
ary his herd of hogs was increased by
81 pigs, the progeny of Is sows, all the
same day Mr.. Steen has 50 from the
IS litters, and il good care will save
them, they will grow into big porkers
some time late this fall.
The farm upon which Ulysses $.
Grant lived before the civil war IS
now being used as scientific instltu'
ton for the dissemination of farmers
information. The Grant farm is Wis
tied annually by thousands who wish
to see the humble rooms in which the
great general and past president
lived for number of years. 1t is
also visited by many who are interest
ed in the experiments in farming and
livestock raising. Students OF Grants
history will recall that in 1854 he re-
signed as captain in the United
States army and devoted the following
five years to farming in st. Louis coun.
ty, Missouri He cleared the timber
from his lands, cultivated his crops,
and cut and hauled cord wood to st.
Louis, Is miles distant. But his hard
work brought little reward and at the
end of five years he gave up farming,
convinced that he was failure. he
did clerical work in st. Louis and ILL
liois until the outbreak OF the war. His
failure as farmer gave the union its
great soldier of the civil war. Grant
retained the ownership Of his st. Louis
county farm until 1888, when he lost 1t
in the failure of his Wall street bank
ing enterprise. He conducted the man
agement of his farm from the white
house much more successfully than he
had managed it in person few years
earlier. 1t was his ambition when he
was president and afterward to make
it great stock farm.
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Rape makes one Of the best emer-
gency green feeds which can be grown
on farms in this county, especially for
hogs and sheep. The succulent plant
has a high feeding value and under
favorable conditions grows so rapidly
that it is ready to pasture in from SIX
TO nine weeks after seeding, according
to the farm crops men at Iowa State
college. The plant is practically as
rich as alfalfa in protein and mineral
matter, and is valuable for all kinds
of livestock In an average season an
acre should pasture three to six large
hogs or fifteen to thirty pigs from
weaving time to maturity depending
upon the amount OF grain fed and the
growing conditions for the rape. Sheep
and cattle can also be fed satisfactor'
lily on this forage. Rape is seeded eth
er alone on specially prepared land for
a full season hog pasture; with small
grain for a late summer and fall pas
ture after the small grain crop Is re-
moved, or between the corn rows at
the last cultivation, to be "sheeped' or
to supplement the corn when 1t is hog