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The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1918-08-21

You might as well try to keep me
Iaway from nice bunch of pure bred
swine, when 1 am near them, as to
try to keep railroad man away from
a lunch counter While in the vicin-
lily of the farm of John F. Byrnes, To-
Gated four miles northwest of Vail,
looked over the herd He is sorting
out a bunch OF his very best spring
boars and few fall bears to put into
his sale September 18th. understand
he will sell Is fall bears and 30 spring
boars, also about half dozen cracking
young sows. The fall boars are sired
by Smooth Bob, and, by the way, that
Bob stuff is in big demand and is
bringing top prices. The spring boars
are sired by such noted sires as King
IL, first prize junior yearling at Ma
tional swine show in 1917; Blue Val
ley Timm, the great herd board belong
ing to Thos. +. Walker & Sons, OF
Alexandria, Neb.; Big Russell, an out
standing big type boar owned by the
Walkers; Smooth Bob sired by the
uncrowned king of the big type Poland
Chinas, Big Bob; and Long Timm, a
young sire Mr.. Byrnes bought from
the herd Of j. J.. Risley, Of Ames.
Great guns, what is this | have been
writing about? That sounds like a
roll call of all the great Poland China
families in the world. But neverthe-
LESS, that is the kind of stuff Johnny
Byrnes has on his farm. AS spe-
cial attraction Orange Giant, a senior
Iyearling, will be sold. Take it from
me that this is some boar. He is one
of those feeding type models. He is
built like Clydesdale horse and is all
hog. If man has a number of those
race horse type Of brood sows, here
/, is the chance of a lifetime to buy a
herd boar that will breed weight into
his herd. l will have more to say
about this gentleman later.
- o.
A. A. Rauch, of Ida county, is
strongly in favor of deep planting of
corn. Last week he mad the follow
ing in the Ida Grove Pioneer which is
worth your time to read:
II spoke to several of the farmers
and advised them to plant deep, for
the reason that there was too much
air in the ground to plant shallow. No,
they would not plant deep for fear
of losing their seed corn in case of
cold and wet weather. We never lost
one hill of corn in deep planting that
we know Of Farmers, let me tell
iyou why you lose corn in case Of deep
planting in cold and wet spring
you don't plant deep enough. Let us
reason little. Suppose we pillow four
inches deep and then plant four inch
es deep. The corn will lie on the
solid ground and there will be no
draining under it, Should there come
cold and wet weather, the corn will
drown and decay Now if we should
plow, say seven inches deep, and
Iplant four inches deep, we have three
inches of loose ground under the corn,
which will drain the water in case Of
cold and wet weather and also give
the young roots chance to start
quickly. If 1t is good seed it will come
up even if the weather is cold and wet.
Here is another loss in blowing with
ia fourteen inch plow, not deep enough
in this great corn belt of ours. To
anyone who is interested in this work
we will gladly give them the chance
Ito watch this corn and see whether
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1918-08-21

or not 1T will stand the drought with
the shallow blowing and corn plant
ing. | have farmers tell me they
never watch what the corn is doing.
Let it alone they say, we can't do
for it, If we study the plant
in a great many cases we can help ma
ture for the benefit of all. Now farm
ers, is the time to visit your neighbor
and see whether we can learn from
one another in this great work. and
better ourselves, in the times coming.
Tell me why we can not better our.
selves as we'll as other businesses do,
by organizing for the study of gu!
'problems?' ......, ,a
| don't understand why Pat H. Sher.
idan did not go into the Duroc swine
business, in place of the Chester
Whites. His color of hair would have
blended so nicely with the Duroc col.
or. But, nevertheless, Pat has a dandy
bunch Of hogs and he is going to have
a sale at Vail October Sth and give the
farmers and breeders chance to buy
some of those choice young bears he
has in his herd. This will be Mr.
Sheridan's first public sale but he has
been selling lots of them every year
for several years, at private sale. His
sale will come just one day ahead OF
John #. Hoist, Jr.'s sale of Chester
White boars on his farm five miles
west of Denison. John has the best
lot of spring pigs this year he has
ever raised, and that is saying mouth
full. | will have more to say of these
two good herds at later date.
I notice F.. F Ranniger is making
improvements to his residence on the
farm which adjoins Denison on the
east. The building has been lacked
up and the dirt removed from under.
meath. This will give Mr.. Ranniger a
full basement and l hope the base
ment is always full-of good things
to eat. Last week Tuesday he was
hauling car load of hogs to market
The hogs were hauled to town in the
auto truck 1t is not necessary for
him to round up bunch of the neigh.
bors to bring their. wagons and horses
over, to his farm to help him haul the
hogs to market. The auto truck has
changed all this. He can haul the
pigs himself while the neighbors are
attending to their own work. The
auto has certainly revolutionized the
hauling on#the farms and has been a
great saving in, labor, which is so es
sential right now. eE A.
J. M. Woolsoncroft has been very
busy since he threshed working on
that new horse and cattle barn on the
farm about five miles north of Vail.
The building will be 36x4S He will
move the hog house to new location
and build cement floor in the same.
His wheat gave a good yield this year.
There were just fiftyone acres of it.
He had piece of Turkey Red winter
wheat that went twenty bushels to
the acre. There were twenty-seven
acres in the piece.
o. o. .#
The heavy shower of rain which Wis
tied these parts last Wednesday night
and Thursday morning did much to
stimulate growth of fall pastures. 1t
also did much to help the fall blowing.
notice considerable fall blowing has
been done.
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twelve men good and. true" decide
they are guilty, shot at sunrise, so
they would be in hell in time for
breakfast.
While visiting with B. w. Hunt at
his farm one mile north of Denison
Bert told me he would show several
of his Durocs at the Arion fair, Sep
TENDER Sd, 4th, 9Th and 9Th. He will
take over Royal Wonder, the yearling
The bought last winter and litter
sired by him. l believe he will also
have a number Of others. Bert has a
nice bunch of spring pigs and Long
Model, the old herd boar, is looking
Just as good as ever. This Golden
Model stuff has made good and, while
Bert has been offered very attractive
prices for Long Model, he has turned
them all down. If you visit the Craw-
lford county fair at Arion, and you
should, look up Bert's Durocs. am
told that the fair this year will excel
by far all others gone before. Fifty
per cent have been added to premiums
| for stock ana many other things. The
prizes offered for racing have been
doubled over last year and this should
attract a good field of horses. ,...#
You'll have to hand it to the farm
, boys of Story county. They have or
ganized a pure bred calf club and l19
members are now in possession of a
pure bred breeding heifer. The ami
mals-57 Shorthorns, 33 Herefords
and 20 Aberdeen Angus-have all been
delivered and their proud owners are
now taking care Of them and feeling
as happy as kings over being in the
cattle business. These calves were
all bought in Iowa by County Agent
iKnute Espe, aided by c. l.. Siverly, a
Story county banker, other bankers
and a representative of the Iowa Beef
Producers association. Every one is
Registered and the registration paper
was delivered with the calf. The mon.
ley for buying the calves was loaned
to the boys in most instances by the
banks OF the country. interest at
per cent and no security. The calves
are to be shown at the central Iowa
fair. All will be bred and next win
Il ter at the farmers short couse at
Iowa State college at Ames, they will
be seld at public auction. Dean G. F.
1Curtiss and W.T.. Barr, Of Ames, have
loffered the services of their Short
! horn herd bulls free of charge and
Carl Rosenield, of Kelley, has made
! the same offer to the boys who own
ANGUS heifers This is without doubt
the largest pure bred calf club in
Iowa and perhaps in the United States.
Similar clubs have been formed in
Jackson, Henry and Cherokee cOun-
, ties.
Iowa is the leading state this year
in the production of corn and oats. ac-
cording to the indications of July list.
Kansas leads in wheat, Minnesota in
barley, North Dakota in rye and flax
seed, South Dakota in hay, Louisiana
in rice, probably Pennsylvania in
buckwheat, Texas in sorghum grains
and cotton, New York in potatoes and
commercial apples, Alabama in sweet
potatoes and peanuts, California in
commercial peaches and edible dry
beans, Oklahoma in broom corn and
kentucky in tobacco.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1918-08-21


Imuch worse conditions if
than in Iowa. Many fields s50XAr
1.-THE train windows were as yeIS11s III
|ripe wheat, and fields which sh0 ....
some green looked tall and good. 51S
o.
Corn prospects are SO good right
now in northern Iowa that many farm
ers there are looking for extra shoats
to feed this fall. More than a dozen
letters have been received within the
past few days by the livestock extern
|sion man at Iowa State college, from
farmers asking him If he knows Of
any for sale. A call is being sent out
by the state marketing exchange at
Ames to farmers who have any sur
plus stock to sell to have them list 1t
with the exchange They will be put
in touch with buyers. II there are not
enough hogs in Iowa to supply the de-
|mand, an effort will be made to find
them in Missouri or elsewhere.
/ y o. @
Lake View Resort: Last Friday
moon considerable excitement was
caused by the burning of a straw stack
at Ed Herrigs place Just north Of
town, and had it not been that the,
wind was in the right direction much
damage would have resulted. AS it
was only one large straw stack was
burned, even though another stood
only about 80 feet distance. The crew
had just finished up threshing when
lit was discovered that the straw pile
had caught from the cinders which
had been left there the day before. All
hands present and neighbors assisted
in saving other property.
,.. s..-. E-- r. o.
Andrew Weiss, who is located ten
miles south Of the Denison seed house,
hauled by auto truck last Tuesday and
Wednesday mornings 2S7 head of hogs
which averaged nearly 800 pounds.
The hogs brought him nearly Sit. 900.
Gee. that is, more than make in a
year. Mr., Weiss hauled the hogs to
Defiance, sas HIS farm is located only
four miles from that TOWN.. III
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1918-08-21


Chester White Swine.
Sept. &c. w. Lindgren, Ida Grove.
Oct. S--P. H. Sheridan, Vail.
Oct. 9-John f. Hoist, Jr., Denison.
Oct. 1O--J. l.. Barber, Harlan.
Feb 20-John F. Hoist, Jr., Denison.
Feb. 24-Gustav Ludwig, Battle Creek
Duroc Jersey Swine.
Sept. 60. S. Larson, Logan.
Sept. 26--Moats & Son, Logan.
Oct. 12-G. B. McAndrews & Sons,
Vail. .s..N
Oct. 14-E. u. Handley, Carroll. d..
Oct. 22-B. A. Samuelson & Son, Kiron
Nov. Sc. w. Hockett, Manning.
Feb. 18-B. A. Samuelson & Son. Kiron
Mar. lib. A. Samuelson & Son, Kiron
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1918-08-21

Last week the Ute. Independent, CON
tanned the following loss by fire OF
considerable oats in the stacks
''Henry Schriever, residing about four
miles northwest of Ute, met with
quite a heavy loss Friday afternoon
when fire of unknown origin consum.
ed five ricks of oat bundles, the pro.
duct OF thirty-five acre field. The
mystery clouding the origin of the
fire is yet unsolved. We are informed
that some neighbors claim to have
seen a fire in the stubble, near the
stacks previous to the time the ricks
began burning, but when neighbors
and the Schriever people arrived on
the scene it could not be ascertained
whether the fire had started In the
stubble and burned up to the ricks or
had started at the ricks and burned
away through the stubble. Several
theories are given as to how the blaze
might have started but as no one
knows the real solution, we refrain
from giving out any of the many
guesses. Anyway, it is heavy loss
Ito the Schrievers, especially at time
when every ounce of grain and feed
is being conserved, and the prices for
|such are SO high
- .tr ro,rs - s-- .s.v .rr..r ..rs-r,,s.s
The following, crop report appeared
in the Logan Observer last week, sent
in by one Of its correspondents: "The
condition of the corn crop is becoming
more and more critical, although a
few showers this week have made
1.-THE farmers feel a little more hopeful
Hot winds along with the drouth will
make a big cut in the corn produc.
ton and STILL considering the unus.
|ually good prospects, early in the
season, pretty fair crop may be left
latter all. Nature always does her
best to replace damage and so per.
|haps the quality may yet be credit
to our county. 1t is always better to
look on the bright side and hope for
the best, since it doesn't do bit of
good to worry. However, this condi-
tion is not; local to Harrison county
nor to Iowa Corn fields along the
Wabash railroad from st, Louis show
q b. Il .tS
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1918-08-21

Shorthorn Cattle.
Oct. 15--J. A. Richardson, Wall Lake.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1918-08-21
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The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1918-08-21

Poland China Swine r...
Sept. 19-J. II. Byrnes, Denison.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1918-08-21

The heavy shower of rain which Wis
tied these parts last Wednesday night
and Thursday morning did much to
stimulate growth of fall pastures. 1t
also did much to help the fall blowing.
I notice considerable fall blowing has
been done,
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1918-05-10
ALSACE-LORRAINE
LOOTED BY HUNS

and solid. The styles which bear the
names of the kings of France, and
which, in the villages, were of fine
and delicate workmanship, acquired
In the country districts a character
entirely original, rustic. 1t is these
that the antiquarians are now after.
AS a consequence while attending
auction sales they find time also to
seek out the little Alsatian homes and
find little difficulty by paying the
country people in actual currency in
acquiring the old family clocks, of
which the majority no longer run. and
the chairs with their magnificent
backs worn by age.
THE demand for objects of this
sort has increased Immensely during
the year that has just finished The
real buyers of them are to be found
in the large cities. For the most part
they are the new rich who have
made their fortunes from the war and
who from one day to the other find
themselves transported from the coun-
ter to the top of German society and
seek by all means to surround them
selves with objects of ancient art"
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1918-05-10

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The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1918-05-10
GUNFIRE is MADE
SURE BY PHOTOS

furnished with complete photographic
and zinographie printing plant and
skilled workers, photographers and
mathematicians. In a very few hours
after the receipt of the days opera
tons from all the various sources,
dozens of copies of the corrected maps
are ready for issue to all the stats
of corps, divisions and brigades COM
prised within the army concerned
Nothing is omitted from the maps
every church, house, chimney, mill,
bridge, road, railroad, group of trees
is marked, as well as every turn and
twist of an enemy trench or system Of
barbed wire entanglements; every
stream, ditch, bridge, ford, every path
used by supply parties, every point of
resistance, organized shell crater, look
out post IS shown on the maps. Maps
on a very large scale are given when
an attack is about to be carried out,
so that each officer and man partici-
pating may know exactly what is in
front of him and what he may expect
to encounter during his advance.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1918-05-10
Wearers of Chips.

Some people are proverhial wear.
ers of chips. They are constantly on
the hunt for trouble and. usually. it's
to be found around every corner. They
think IT shows bigness to wear the
chip. With the I'm bad Indian ex-
preston" on their faces they try to
bulldoze everybody they can bluff. But
the chip is for exhibition purposes only.
Assumed rage and growl is chiefly for
circus consumption and few vigor-
Gus jars are enough to bring the chip
TO earth and the pompous wearer to his
senses. Some folks wear chips be-
cause they are not big enough to wear
anything heavier.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1918-05-10
HAS HARVESTED MANY CROPS
Alabama Farmer Takes SO of Them
From One Piece of Land In
Nineteen Years.

Montgomery, Ala.-Harvesting 3S
crops from one patch In 10 years. pur-
chasing seed potatoes only once in
that time, is the record of r. W.
Phelps. prominent farmer of Shot
well. Ala.
Mr. Phelps looks after the digging
If his potatoes himself and sees that
4 sufficient number of potatoes are
left in the ground to furnish seed for
the next crop.
After the crop natures the ground
Is covered with pine straw. not only
protecting the crop from cold but also
furnishing fertilizer for the next year
Two full crops are grown each year
and potatoes fresh from the earth
twelve months year are had by Mr.
Phelps method and gratifying results
are obtained in every case.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1918-05-10
THESE BOYS
BY ROBERT ADGER BOWEN
of The ViqiIantes.

They are not heroes In their own es-
teen,
These boys whose souls with hero
ism glow,
Whose steadfast eyes so clearly see
below
The semblance and the glamor of the
dream.
Yet not the less upon their spirits
CLEAN
The joys and splendors of young
life's bright show,
The ardent flame, the keen desire
to know,
And loves right royal guerdon to re-
deem.
VIII they come back? we ask with
quivering breath,
Nor dare to show the very dread
we feel,
So calm and bravely unafraid are
they;
AS though the challenges they make
to Death
The purposes divine of Life re-
vea@
TITS we who falter at the price
they pay
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1918-05-10
Washlngton's Headquarters.

General Washington was as well
supplied with military headquarters
during the revolution as some of our
millionaires are with bungalows.
Wherever we go we find confronting
us Washington's headquarters with
the identical chairs that the general
occupied while writing his war orders.
II the great Washington had spent his
entire time in repose he could not
have occupied half the chairs that lay
claim to the honor of contact with his
coattails. and as fpr the sabers that
bear the original stamp. he must have
hired caddie TO tote them over the
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS." in Cartoons Mag
azine.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1918-05-10
HIS NURSE 4 SCHOOLMATE
United States Soldier Has a Remark.
able Experience in an English
Hospital.

Tacoma. Wash.--To be nursed back
TO health in far away England by "a
former schoolmate is the happy for
tune of Perry Howard, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. A. Howard of Puyallup.
Mr.. Howard is confined in an Eng
lish hospital suffering from exposure
following the sinking of the Tuscania.
At the hospital he was assigned to
the care of Ada Allan. daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. James Allan of Puyal-
lup. Mr.. Howard writes his parents
that his sufferings and disappointment
We're in measure assuaged by meet
ing with one with whom he could talk
over old times.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1918-05-10

ueHIdIIy IndnV SmaII boys hau NarlOu3
kinds OF pie for their lunch, while
a score or two went to work next day
with piece of pie in each hand.
All this happened when a pie wag-
on. belonging TO the Consumers Pie
Baking company got tangled up with
me emergency runway gate at the
Manhattan end of the bridge
When traffic had been restored to
normal 10 minutes later, and the
street cars We're again Huntington
pie on street car tracks makes the
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1918-05-10
Treasure Troves in Nests.

To mouse bundle Of paper money
is silnply an invitation to build nest.
Not long ago when the appraisers We're
going through the tumble-down house
of an old English miser. they found
a family of mice living in n nest Of
bank notes worth $1,000. That nest in
the actual quality of its building ma
teriai would be hard to beat; but the
diamond ring found in the nest OF
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1918-05-10
CLOSE LARGE STORE
TO FIGHT FOR COUNTRY

Chicago. - When the lights
were put out the other night In
the four-story department store
of Moeller Brothers, here. the
curtain went down on the first
act of a stirring drama of pa
triotism.
The Moeller brothers, John p.
and Earl 9. have offered up the
million-dollar business as a sac
rifiee on the altar of loyalty TO
the nation In which their father
and grandfather, both German
born, made their fortunes. Stock
and buildings have been sold
and the brothers now are await
Ing daily the call to report for
service in Uncle Sans army.
For 40 years the Moellers.
grandfather, father and sons,
have been building up the bust
ness, until last year its transac-
lions totaled more than $1,000
600. Three and a half years ago
the father died and the sons
took up the business, which at
the time of its liquidation had
over $50 employees.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1918-05-10
Transferred to Maps They Bring
French Artillery to High
Efficiency.
PROCESS IS new Invention
Every Enemy Object Accurately Re-
corded After Airmen's Scouting OF
FiIghts-Maps Brought to
Date Daily.

French Front.-Accuracy and eff
cheney have been made possible for the
French artillery by the invention OF
an instrument that enablee French
mapmakers to locate almost exactly
an object within the enemy lines which
has been photographed from an air
plane. In transferring to map the
photographed object, such as an enemy
battery or munition dump, the margin
of error is limited to less than five
yards.
This permits the French artillery to
pour its shells with almost certain aim
onto German gun emplacements,
trench positions, crossroads, canton
ments, railroad lines, aviation camps
and other enemy organizations. 1t Is
unnecessary for the gunner to have
even distant view of the object he Is
firing at.
Invention Makes Transfer Easy.
To take a photograph of the enemy
lines from French airplane is an
easy matter. but to transfer the OBJ
iects photographed to their exact To-
cation on a map was for time eX-
tremely difficult. This was due to the
varying heights and angles from which
the airplane observers made their
photographs. By the invention of one
of the officers attached to the geo
graphical section, this difficulty has
been almost eliminated.
Not only the aerial observation serv-
Ice but other methods of spotting Ger
man positions-more especially can
non and machine-gun emplacementS-
are utilized as aids to the work of the
military map-maker. The flashes of
guns as they are fired from the Ger
man side form one valuable adjunct
to his work, but the most important of
all Is the calculation of the speed of
the sound of the firing charge of the
German shells. This has been brought
to basis of such perfection that the
guns can now be located with almost
absolute accuracy. In fact, In recent
operations ii has proved that the sys-
TEN of observation by sound has given
successful results In over so per cent
of instances.
In every army there Is branch of
the geographical section and each is