Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-05-12
Farm News Department
County Agent Chris rieasn and Home Demonstration
rs Agent Miss Katie Lucille McBober. 3

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Agent, Miss Katie
1t is impossible to make sweet, clean.
favored butter from old, unclean
cream.
Every farmer should keep some sort
of account system of his business. 1t
should show the profit and loss of all
Of his operations.
Sometimes. we. can not prevent out
breaks Of live stock diseases on our
farms, hut, we can and should always
use every preventive measure and see
that proper precautions are taken when
the disease first makes its appearance.
Pasturing crops for hogs should he
sown on especially well drained and
prepared land that is either rich or has
received liberal application of
manure. Good winter pasture is not
obtained except on the best-drained
lands.
If every farm home would keep a
supply Of pop corn and pepper dbn-
lvenient fewer nickels would be spent
for less wholesome knickknacks and
more enjoyable evenings would be spent
around the. family hearth.
The free use of an effective lice. pow
der is always in order. A dust bath is
very essential iii Kidding the fowls OF
lice. Whitewashing is effective against
vermin Use Kerosene on the rO0sts
and in the cracks to eNterlfilate mites.
The hens greatest profit producing
period is the first and second years, and
unless a hen is an especially good
breeder she should be disposed of at
the end of her second laying season
and before starting to mott.
SO Lit
Horses under one year of age on
farms in Canada averaged $56 a head
in price in 1913 against $57 in 1917 /;
horses one to less than three years old,
S112, against SIG in 1917; and horses
three years old and over, $162, against
$1G7 in 1917.
While it is true that various factors
contribute to increase or reduce the
attendance at schools in given sections
Of the country, it is worthy Of comment
that in the. states having high per-
ccntage of improved roads a much
larger percentage of rural students en-
rolled regularly attend the schools than
in tleStates having small percentage
Of improved roads. Il, ,, .a
Argentina's wheat crop made great
strides when the average yearly prodllc-
ton increased from 30. 600 bushels
in 1891 1885, to 156,3S7 900 bushels in
1O11,1O15, and 162 ,52s, 600 bushels in
191G-101O. Itahas been highly vari-
able crop ut times, however, on account
Of severe droughts in some years. The
production was as low as 77,303,OOO
bushels in 1917, and yet rose to 21o,-
431 ,OOO bushels in the following year.
The combined area of the crops for
which the bureau Of crop estimates
estimates acreage was S54 So, OOO acres
in 1918, an increase of 3 per cent over
lO17, Of sc per cent over 1916, and Of
Is per cent over the census production
year 1909. at which time the area COW
cred by the estimates was &.0 per cent
of the total crop area. If the ratio was
the same in 1913 the indicated total
crop area of that year was 367 ,73S,OOO
acres, an area equal to the. total pre-
war area (not crop area) OF Belgium,
France, the German Empire, Italy, and
the lifted Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland If the area of Utah be sub
tracted from their total.
$3l2.5O Per Acre.
Eagle Grove Times-Gazette: The
deal was closed last Wednesday where
by Andrew Egland sold his fine 100
acre farm adjoining the city to Jacob
Westre for S31250 per acre. The farm
is well improved, has every modern
convenience and is well worth every
cent Mr.. Westre paid for it.
Herd Bear Brings $1,000.
Cedar Fails Record: J. w. McCaf-
free, breeder of pure-bred Duroc Jer-
sey hogs, living on the Waterloo road
yesterday sold his herd boar, Long