The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1918-07-03
THE REVIEWS SPECIAL
FARM NEWS. DEPARTMENT
John H. D. Gray
EDITOR
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Live News About Crawford County Farms
and Farmers
CORN IN StLO SAVES $37 AN ACRE
ON A 5O-BUSHEl CROP.

used When corn is ensiled this 81
per cent goes into the silo with the
63 per cent in the ear. The import
ance of this saving will be more ap-
parent when given money value.
With yield of SO bushels an acre
the value of the grain is SIS, at $l.50
q bushel. Since the slower contains
more than one-third of the food nut
rients, it is worth at least one-half
as much as the grain or $3.50. How
many farmers will willingly leave in
the. field $3.50 an acre? Yet this is
done in many sections of the country
where the corn is husked and the
slower left in the field.
But suppose the dry slower Is fed
as roughage. Even then it is not
saved as completely as in silage.
When, under ordinary farm conditions.
corn Is cured in the shock, the loss
OF dry matter is approximately Is per
cent and may be as high as As per
cent These losses are due to the
breaking off of leaves by the wind and
in handling and to destructive fer
mentations. The loss of dry matter
in the silo is very slight when the
silo is tight and the silage we'll pack
ed at the time of filling. AS silage,
the corn stalk is all consumed, but
as stover, unless it is shredded, only
the leaves are eaten, and even then
q great part of the stalk is discarded.
Some feeding experiments show that
even in shredded slower the portion
diScarded is as high as 81. per cent.
This is in addition to the loss OF dry
matter during. the curing process.
Too frequently an unfavorable seas
on like that of last year results in the
loss. of the whole corn plant or in i'm
mature soft corn that Is of little value.
BY far the best method to utilize
corn which is immature at harvesting
time is to put it into the silo. Even
frosted corn will make satisfactory
silage if harvested at once. If it be-
comes dry it may, be saved by adding
water during the filling process.
The making of as much silage as
can be used will do much to conserve
the feed supply. Have you planned
to fill that silo?
While on my way from Wall Lake
last week Monday I stopped at the
farm of John Auen. Mr.. Aue,! has re-
sided on this farm the past sixteen
years. 1t consists of 280 acres locat-
ed in sections nine and ten, Jackson
township. 1t is operated as a grain
and stock farm and Mr.: Auen reported
the crop prospects very good. He has
an eight year old field of alfalfa and
he. said the last icutting was the sheav.
lest ever taken Off the3field. Mr.. Auen
now has more than sixty head OF cat
tie and 100 hogs. Two years ago he
built barn 4Ox60 and the same year
the barn was built it was moved some
nine inches during severe wind
storm which passed through that sec
ton of the county. Last fall Mr.. Auen
built new dwelling on the farm and
1t Is handsome structure. 1t is two
stories with full basement, equipped
as city home, with bath, toilet, fur
mace, electro lights and everything
that good taste can dictate. The
house is a model of convenience, with
many labor saving devices for the
housekeeper There is hot and cold
soft water in the basement as we'll as
cold hard water. In one section Of the
basement is located the laundry and
q laundry chute conveys the dirty
clothes from the second floor to the
laundry room. The dwelling is .2Sx3(
and lighted by. electricity, the juice
will also be wired to the other build
ings just as soon as the workmen car
place it there A large hot air fur
mace furnishes sufficient heat to keeI
the building warm from cellar to gar
ret, during the winter months. On
the first floor are located the living
room and dining room, also kitchen
and bed room. There are four bee
rooms and the bath on the second
floor. A roomy sleeping porch is 10
Gated on the second floor at the south
west corner of the building. The build
ing is finished in yellow pine and the
I woodwork received an oak, stain or
the first floor. It certainly must be q
pleasure to reside on such an excellent
$50 acre farm of Iowa land equipped
like this place, with fertile soil to pro
duce unexcelled crops. and Mr.. Auen
and family indeed find themselves for
tunate. The view alone, which Mr.
Auen gets every day, makes the resi-
dent of town and city envious. His
own delightful woodlands, hills and
slipping fertile fields afford bit OF
oSCACAy VI uCVCA OAuAAE SlAcA Ill. A1SOS
there a man with soul so dead who
unto himself hath not said, give me a
home located upon our broad lands sc
may inhale the life-giving air and
feast my eyes upon the most beautiful
/, farming lands to be found under the
celestial canopy. Let us now rise
and join in singing, Happy Day That
Fixed BY Choice Upon Iowa, My Iowa
Harlan Republican,: We think it will
. be pretty generally conceded that the
farm bureau has done work since
its establishment which has much
more than met the expense Of its
maintenance for the year. Its work
in rousing farmers to the necessity
for getting good seed corn, and then
making it possible for all to get good
seed, was worth hundred times the
cost of the bufeau. 1t did lot OF
good work in getting seed wheat. and
itFhas helped whole lot in solving
the farm labor problem. We think il
possible the bureau has placed as
many as a hundred, maybe two hun
dred farm workers. Its record the
past couple of weeks has been about
twenty each week, and it. has been
sending out men each week since
March The farm bureau is not an
institution for debating to farmers
how they shall farm-it is an agency
for helping farmers, by cooperation, to