The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1918-02-13
THE REVIEWS SPECIAL.
FARM NEWS DEPARTMENT
!: John H. .. Gray
EDITOR
Live News About Crawford County Farms
and Farmers

as it looks to me--is smaller farms,
more, young people on the farms, bet
ter farming and spirit of co.opera.
ton among the farmers, that they will
help each other with their farm prob
lens.
Scores of orders have been received
daily for the farm business record
book blythe agricultural extension de-
partment Of Iowa State college. These
books. are being used by farmers for
the two fold purpose OF studying their
business and Of making their income
tax returns. 1t has always been the
policy of the agricultural extension
department to, supply these record
books at cost. This formerly was nine
cents, but now that the income tax
supplement has been added, the cost
is ten cents. Those desiring books
should remit to the agricultural ex-
tension department, Ames, Iowa, and
the books will be sent, all charges
prepaid This book is worth thous-
ands of dollars to the farmers of
Iowa" one farmer wrote who had re.
ceived one copy. He was so pleased
with it that he sent back for several
extra copies to distribute to his neigh.
bors. Many OF the calls for the books
are coming from outside the state.
c. G. Good, of Ogden, owner of Far
ceur, the $4,000 stallion, in a talk to
the draft horse breeders at the farm
and home week short course at Ames,
told the story Of how he came to get
into the pure bred horse business and
along with his experience he gave
some sound advice to a young man
beginning with horses today. Elf
teen years ago bought pure bred
mare for 5000 and grade mare for
$500" Mr.. Good said, II wanted to see
which would pay me more. After
three years of experiment. discov-
cred that the pure bred mares account
was just $1,000 ahead of the grade.
That made pure bred breeder out of
me. From then on l began to build
up my business. believe in beginning
carefully and going slowly at first"
Neighbors laughed at Mr.. Good and
took him to task for squandering his
money in such fashion when he
bought his first mares. Now that he
has made success, his whole COM
munity has taken up the breeding of
Belgians and has become a breeding
center. Sell your unmarketable
horses at bum prices if necessary
and then go out and buy few of the
best you can get" says Mr.. Good. 1T
does not pay to breed scrub stock.
One-half of the mares in the country
should not be- bred at all, and nearly
one-half Of the stations are of too poor
quality. Many breed only the mares
that won't sell. To do this is only to
something worse and more
Of it." .-rs''.
County Agent Quist informs me that
farmers who have made some early
tests of their 1917 corn have found
results. He says: Much of
the supposedly good seed fails to grow
IS per cent strong. In individual ear
testing where six kernels have been
taken from each ear, farmers and seed
houses alike report that they find three
and four kernels growing strong, and
the other two or three kernels abso-
lutely dead" He reports one Craw-
ford county farmer in testing 240 ears
Of early picked corn found 112 ears
all six kernels. About fifty
ears grew four kernels strong and two
kernels. dead. The question arises.
should the ears growing four kernels
strong and two kernels dead be saved
Tor seed. The county agent suggests
that in reading the individual ear test
Ill ears growing six kernels be placed !
in one pile. those growing four and |
i've strong be placed in another pile. |
Discard all ears which fail to grow
at least four strong. Plant your 100 |
per cent seed first. Shell the second |
pile, mix thoroughly and make sec.
ond test Of this corn. Plant 800 to
500 kernels OF the shelled corn in a |
box Of sand. Keep the sand plenty
moist, and the temperature high. Make
The growing conditions as ideal as