The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1918-03-13


China bred sows held at Rolfe recent.
" forty head sold for an average Of
1908. The top SOW brought $475. Sew.
eral Crawford county breeders were
present and were liberal buyers. The
following purcha sed: Herman Goetsch
West Side, $500; Andrew Churchill,
one for $3.50 and another for $3.50;
Carl Hansen, West Side, $3.50; John
Boch. West Side, $235.
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Last week while driving along the
Flint farm north Of Manila l noticed
preparations were being made for
loading their goods for shiment to
OcOnto, Wis. The Flint brothers are
mighty fine young men and their many
friends in Crawford county are sorry
to have them leave. They will take
the best wishes Of all their acQuaint.
ance to their new home.
Manila Times: J. Il. Brockelsby, of
Hayes township, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
w. III. Brockelsby, ST., Of this city,
shipped his farm machinery, etc. from
this point Saturday to ,Mapleton,
where he will farm this season. Mrs.
Brockelsby and two children are con.
fined at the home here, the little
daughter having been taken down with
scarlet rash and the home has been
Quarantined."
Chas. Lyden, who operates a stock
farm adjoining the town Of Manning
on the south, was called out Of his bed
Sunday morning to answer telephone
call. An Indiana man wanted to pur-
chase a pure bred Poland China brood
SOW and offered Charley $1,000 for 1t,
but the offer was declined. He did
ask him $3.50 for gilt and the gilt
was sold. Blood will tell.
Last fall u. Gage built an addition
and remodeled the dwelling on tho
farm located nine miles northwest of
town. When called last week Mr..
Gage was painting the dwelling. This
gives him a commodious home and it
Is nicely located In a slightly place near
the Schleswig ridge road. BY the way.
there are q number of mighty nice
homes along that road.
Barley is the crop to stop the gap
before the new corn Is ready. says
the farm crops section of the Iowa as
ricultural experiment station. There
will be tremendous shortage of hog
feed this summer for the farmer who
does not fortify himself with an early
maturing crop. The low quality of the
1917 corn crop has forced 1t into the
market early and the feed shortage
will be felt more keenly as the sum-
1ner progresses. There Is now but lit.
tie In many cribs and 1t will all be
gone long before the new crop Is
ready. There is no chance of using the
new corn crop for feed before Septem.
Der, but a field of barley will ripen
in July and the farmer who sows it
will gain 60 days on the one who does
not. These two months will come at
the height Of the shortage. They are
the months when the pastures fail
Hog feed will be at premium. For
the farmer who has some extra to
sell, the price is bound to he such that
he can not lose on it. A new circular
describing the best methods Of hand.
ling barley is being issued by the
Iowa station at Alnes, and 1t may be
obtained free by writing for it.
Ewes should get but little grain for
three days after Landing and prefer.
ably bran and oats or both, advises
the animal husbandry section Of the
Iowa experiment station Clover or
alfalfa hay and little silage should
be the bulk of the ration. She should
have all the water shc wants, pro
vided the chill has been removed.
During the lambins period and after,
the pen should be kept dry. clean and
free from draft. After three davs
alone, the eve and lamb are usually
ready to be put with the others. Three
or four should be put In a group at
first and then more, the small pens
being kept for other ewes about to
lamb. The eve must now have plenty
of good feed to provide milk for the
lamb and to keep her in good condi.
ton.
Two.thirds of the labor and time re-
quired for the best methods formerly
used in treating oats smut can be
saved by an improved method recon-
mended by the Iowa agricultural ex.
pertinent station.
BY the new way, two men in from
az to 3 hours can treat and sack
enough seed for 40 acres at a cost of
about cents all acre.
"Formaldehyde is used in the i'm.
proved method as in the old" says II.
d. Hughes of the experiment station,
who has tested the new way thorough
ly. But a stronger solution is used.
In the old method we mixed pint OF
formaldehyde with 40 gallons of wa.
ter, sprinkled 40 bushels OF oats with
1t and covered It with blankets and
sacks for 6 to 10 hours. After that
we uncovered and shoveled the oats
out to dry before sacking them. Now
The improved method follows:
I. Make a solution using pint of
iormaldehyde and 10 gallons of wa.
ter (for 40 bushels OF seed.
2. Sprinkle the solution on 40 bush.
els of seed, meanwhile shoveling SO
that the solution is uniformly distrib.
uted.
3. Sack as soon as solution and
oats are thoroughly mixed and seed
the oats next morning.
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May Atwood, OF Sioux City, gives
her plan for keeping boy or. girl on
the farm She has two bows and this