The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1919-08-13
E.uF. TUCKER,

Many farmers have great faith in
the Tractor, and believe the machine
to be a great money maker for the pur-
chaser and, a saver of horse flesh, One
such personi is George Joens, of sec.
ton 81, Hayes township, He has just
recently purchased Fordson tractor,
and has been>using it to; good adyant-
ags since it's purchase Tie only dis
advantage of, operating a tractor. is
| gettin& man to run it who will take
some Interest in the machine and care
fUrN It. Otherwise the owner, must run
\ TIE machine himself. George lives on
/ the home place, the Detlef Joens farm,
which consists Of :2SO acres, and he
has had TO keep two hired men--when
he could. His 35 acre wheat field went
bushels to the acre, much to, his sur
prise. In cattle he has mixed breed
Ding. His hogs are of the Poland China
and Chester White breeds and he has
100 young ones, and 40 old ones. The
young pigs are not doing SO well, and
he has the most of them penned up,
and is feeding medicine in the hopes
of curing them. Mr.. Joens has recent
ly built a new granary 14x28 with 10
foot posts; he has also rebuilt a large
chicken house. double crib, garage, and
his hog house is 20X40 and another
20x60. One OF the good improvements
is a large cave in which the milk, but.
ter and vegetables are kept nice, aid
cool. Because of the help shortage ne
lost about 20 acres of hay. At llaying
time he had four men who promised to
stay with him and he paid them each
six dollars a day, and when they had
little money coming they left. One
hundred acres Of fine corn was to be
found on the Joens place. A recent
visitor at this home was Mrs. August
Ehricks, OF Aspinwall, whose husband
has just returned from France, where
he has been for one year and seven
months, serving as driver in an ammu.
milton train. He is now at Camp Dodge
awaiting his discharge.
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We stopped at Frank North's IL
miles south Of Vail, last Thursday just
long enough to say "hello" to Frank
as he was coming in on a load of oats.
When farmer is hauling oats and has
two or three men doing the same thing
its a good idea not to bother him too
much. Frank has 400 acres in the
place where's he lives, and how much
more in other places we do not know.
On the home place are to be seen two
big tile silos, a large elevator and
many big buildings, and all this indi-
Gates that the owner must keep some
stock about the place. And this is
just what Frank does; he has all kinds
Of stock. and buys and sells all the
time. He also is prominent share
holder in the Vail mills and has many
J other interests. Mrs. Frank North Is
a sister Of w. X. Dobler, of Vail, and
lis lady Of many excellent qualities.
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81 Miss Katie Didider, of Washington
township, contemplates a visit to rela-
tives and friends at Underwood in the
4near future. Thus she informed us
in section 20. Henry Didider owns a
gl160 acre farm, and keeps 80 head Of
cattle, and this season he has rs head
Z OF spring pigs and 10 brood sows. The
pigs are doing first rate at this time.
His IL acres OF spring wheat threshed
out 10 bushels to the acre, and his As
acres of corn is caring out in good
shape. They keep seven mich COWS
and the cream checks are dated at
Buck Grove, and amount to about $500
per week. Mrs. Bidder was preparing
to put up peaches the day we called.
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c. E. Daugflenbaugh lives on the
Clarence O'Meara farm in Washington,
three miles south of Buck Grove. They
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