The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1918-05-08
THE REVIE WIS SPECIAL
FARM NEWS DEPARTMENT
John II. D! Gray
S$s #Fa Editor
I Live News About Crawford County
Farms and Farmers
John II. D! Gray
Editor
J 8. YEARS ON ZANE FARM.

<. YEARS ON JANE FARM.
There are but few men in Crawford
county today, or even in the great
tate OF Iowa, WHO have resided on
The same farm fbr fifty years. We
Ave with us today, on one of our
lKfgest and besy Crawford county
firms, such q man He came here IN
the spring OF 1853, and this spring
Mas able to celebrate his golden an
13tersary OF residence on the same
I4Arm There are many owners OF
ltkrms In this county who were born
Mss than fifty years ago.
III Let us Look backwards, before go.
ling on with the story. Crawford
county was created in January. 1851
The county then comprised but six
teen townships in lieu of the twenty
now within its borders. Although
having received its name and its boun.
daries bling temporarily fixed, Craw.
skA5a.st0 in effect was unOrganized
1 40. It was attached to Shelby
II Tor all judicial and financial
Jsss and it was not until the win
sof 1854 that this county became
ENTIRETY. The Denison Review Of
s,ber %, 1869, says that West Side
ss now a tOwn-or of town lots at
BIZ Est" So that in the spring Of 1868
sse town of West Side did not exist:
5ssa@ the year 1918 as fair picture OF
fdlightment and prosperity as can be
FOUND IN the world now exists, but
isft was quite different in the spring OF
1868.
After being honorably discharged
and mustered out OF the service OF
your Uncle Sans army, at Mobile,
Ala, Isaac Patterson returned to
Scott county, Iowa, where he on:
gagged In farming. In the spring OF
1868 he came to Crawford county and
purchased land, which he cultivated
80 industriously that he is now the
owner of eight hundred and forty
acres in sections II and IL, West Side
township. For years he engaged In
general farming upon a large scale,
also handling and feeding cattle and
hogs. He has retired from active
farm labor, but still resides in beau.
tiful home, modern throughout and
located about one and a half miles
north of the prosperous little city OF
West Side. He rents all OF the land
except few acres where his dwelling
Is located. 49,.
Mr.. Patterson told me last week that
his first purchase consisted Of one
section and cost him 81 per acre. He
later bought a half section for $40
per acre and still later purchased
eighty acres for $50 per acre. Land
values have certainly Increased since
be made his. first purchase, Tor con.
sentative estimate OF the worth OF
his holdings now would be not less
than $3.50 per acre.
Chas. Schoenjahn rents half sec:
ton Of the farm and G. A. b00ck o4V
acres Mr.. Book has rented this
land the past three years. He resides
IA I comfortable home short distance
north Of Mr.. Patterson's residence.
Right now he has 400 acres in pasture,
40 acres in corn and 100 acres IN
small grain. He has eight car loads
Of cattle on feed, seventy spring pigs
and forty-five more sows to farrow
Mr.. Book can safely be listed among
i the busy men of our county, for ne
4 looks after this big farm with the as
Sistance Of his son, John, and one
hired man. AL his blowing was done
/ BY tractor power. He has used one
/ for three years, but this season decid
4 ed to buy q new one. 1t is the same
make as the old machine, but larger
Ysize. He says he could not operate
the farm without tractor. From the
appearance of the land and the gener
al appearance all over the farm, leads
one to believe that Mr.. Patterson is
to be congratulated on his choice Of
renters.
Machinery Helps Labor Situation.
The labor situation which is con
fronting the dairyman and farmer to-
day is the one problem which must
be successfully met if we are to pro
duce all that our land and herds are
capable of producing.
In view of the fact that there is
/ nationwide shortage of man power
the only logical and practical solution
to this problem is labOr.saving ma
Chinery Machinery that will not on
" do the work of one man or two
men, but will also do it just as cftic'
iently and in less timc-fcr the future
as we'll as the present.
There is probably no other equip.
mcnt on the farm that can be used
every day in the year to bigger ad'
vantage than barn equipment such
a. steel stalls and Sanctions, feed
and litter carriers, automatic stock
watering buckets. etc. They are not
used during one season of a few
months each year and then stored
away for the next season-there Is
work for barn equipment three hun
dred and sixty.iive days out of every
year.
Nh "a litter carrier inst1lled in any
barn will more than pay for itself
during the first year of service. A
boy twelve years old can operate 1t as
we'll as man and thereby release
j man for doing other farm work. A
boy can clean the barn in one-third
the time that it. formerly required a
man to do it with the old wheeibar'
row method. The old way was druid
kery aud cleaning the barn was often
neglected. This resulted in loss OF
the fertilizing value Of the manure.
with the litter carrier it is pleas
a,re to clean the barn daily and thus