The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1919-12-31


exhibited by the club owners at tn
county fair. This was one OF the bi,
features of the fair. this year. Sub
stantial prizes were given last year t,
the winners The purebred SOW and lit
ter club will be conducted again in 1920
The boys judging contest of the count.
fair and the judging team at the stat
fair took well with the Crawford coun
ty farmers. The Crawford county team
won thirteenth place in the state con
test.
The Daylight Saving Project
The daylight saving project was TIL
easiest carried out this year. The pc
titions sent out by the federation wer'
circulated by the township cooperators
Cooperation was surely received in thi
project.
Farmers Cooperative Elevator
Efficient marketing Of farm product.
has not in the past been possible to al
the farmers of Crawford county Fo
several years the farmers Of near De
lott were anxious for farmers elevator
at that place. In February a meeting
was held at which G.. W. Foster, of tn,
United States bureau of markets, ex
planned Organization for Successful
Farmers Elevator" A preliminary or
ganization meeting was later held ant
temporary officers elected. Stock sell
ing committees were appointed and il
q short time $4,000 worth of capita
stock was sold. The county agent gave
assistance throughout the entire organ
ization movement, and was instrument
al in getting the new company to gair
complete control of the elevator ant
lumber yards at that place. In the
first six months Of operation the farm
ers elevator has done over 500, 100000
worth of business.
Farmers contributory to Delot have
good grain and livestock markets, al
this time. while heretofore they were
because hilly roads pre-
vented them from hauling to other mar
keting points. -
Aside from the farmers marketing as
sistance given at Deloit, service was al
so rendered at other places in the coun
ty to groups of men who wished to bet
ter develop their marketing facilities.
ID Tractor School
The tractor school held at Manila II
March was success from the interest
shown, but somewhat of a failure from
the attendance standpoint. Here agar
bad and impossible roads held back
men who wanted to attend. While tht
number of tractors on farms in Craw
ford county is not great, practically ev
cry tractor owner is anxious to keeI
his blowing outfit in good repair. Abou1
1875 farmers attended the two day
school,
1t is difficult to say the actual amount
of business transacted through tht
farmers exchange because of the meth
cd of publishing the exchange list. NJ
farm bureau publication is published
Instead, once month in the two DEM
son papers, a farm bureau page is print
ed. All farm bureau activities are writ
ten by the county agent. All materia
on this pages comes out under the farm
bureau heading. The exchange list i.
also published on this page. Regular
advertising rates are paid on want ant
for sale ads. Estimates as to tn,
amount Of farm products which chang,
hands through the exchange can only
be made by the number Of ads sent in
The success Of this system depends up
on the regularity of having the farm
bureau page published. The system /.
particularly" adapted to this county
since the two county seat papers reacl
practically every farm home in tn,
county. .J~ f1s7f.liffs 1870 49,
~ Thresllers Association t95lSs
The $threshers association ORGANIZED
during the war continued to hold goo,
meetings during 1919. Large attend
ance prevailed. at all meetings, which
were more get together affairs rather
than business meetings. iHa ~
The things adopted at these meeting.
have been of mutual benefit to. til,
threshermen and the farmers. Goot
talks by successful threshermen hav,
always emphasized that. Good Service
was the keynote to a good threshins
ring. AnH
For two years now Crawford count;
threshermen have adopted prices tina,
have in every case been satisfactory
Prices have not been fixed. Certain
threshing rates have been worked on
as a suggestive schedule to go by. Pub
licity has been given to this schedul,
and In 80 cases out of 100 the rate
suggested have been satisfactory. TIL,
rates adopted were based on actual fie
ures obtained by the county agent from
threshing machine dealers and from
some of the successful threshing ma
chine owners in the county The fol
lowing newspaper article explains il
detail how the figures were arrived at
Over sixty threshermen from al
parts of the county met in the cour
house Friday evening and fixed sug
gestive prices to be charged for thresh
ing for this fall. Oats will be 4 cent
per bushel and barley cents, the SAM
as last year. For wheat the charge
are raised to 10 cents per bushel Will
a minimum of 81 per hour for a go
separator. $3.50 per hour for a 80" sen
arator, IS for 32'' and 80" machines an,
$3.50 per hour for SO" outfit. Thi
means that if a man has n 80" ri,
threshing for him and there isn't s.
bushels of wheat threshed per hour, h
will have to pay SIS per hour for hi
threshing. Since there are no emer
gency laws this year controlling th
threshing operations. these prices ar
more or less arbitrary To be satisfac
tory to both the thresherman and TIL
farmer there must be mutual under
standing as to what are necessary an
unnecessary delays. 1t was unanimous
ly agreed that If the threshermen woul
do their part in keeping their machine
In good repairs and the farmers be pre-
pared and have sufficient help, bot
the parties would be satisfied with tn
new prices.
The suggestive prices established ar
based on the cost of operating go
steam outfit and the average receipt
for the season. The purchase price 70
such rig is $4,000. Using that as
basis. the following are the expenses O
operating:
Depreciation and repairs a year 5 IS
Interest on investment at per
cent ----------------- 81
Labor for repairing, 12 days at
20 per uay ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 9
VII ana grease Observation-Disclosures 8
Insurance on machine 2
Insurance on men NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. S
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