The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1919-09-17

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4 FALL PIGS SHOULD BE PUSHED
Although some farmers say thai
fan pigs are Improbable, others find
them profitable. At the Iowa Agri
cultural experiment station there is
faith in fall pigs as a good business
proposition.
For a number of years the animal
husbandry section of the experiment
station has been feeding pigs that
come in the last days of August or
during September" says John M. Ev.
ward, head of the work with swine at
Ames. 1--WE push them from start to
finish, until in April, and it is not un.
usual 70 rthem to weigh around $50
pounds, not SO bad for pigs of eight
months of age, fed right through the
5 cold winter. Our fall pigs gain prac-
tically as well as our spring pigs. We
have had fall pigs return US within
i've cents bushel as much for the
feed they ate as the spring pigs"
These fall pig pointers" are offer
ed out of the experience OF the exper-
iment station:
l. Keep the pigs warm and dry
2. Keep the pigs sanitary, killing
on the lice, worms and other parasites
3. Feed them exceptionally we'll; in
truth feed them free choice STYLE .
give them chance at corn and tank
age in separate feeders.
4. Give them plenty of water. 1t is
not essential that you warm it, but q
little warm water once or twice day
is all right.
S. Believe in the fall pigs and have
faith in them and they will make good
II you do your part, they will. ~
CORN BoRER MAY INVADE IOWA
Possibilities of the loss Of the en-
tire crop of the state within the next
year or two are seen in the Judgment
OF the European corn borer in the
New England states and In New York
Prof. 10. b. Ball, of Ames, state ento-
mologist; declared upon his return
from conference of state and United
States department entomologists.
The entomologists spent day in
the vicinity Of Albany, N. Y, now the
center of the infested district of 400
square miles and the following day in
Boston which is near an infested dis.
trict in eastern Massa chusetts of 1900
square miles. They found, Professor
Ball said, that great damage had been
done. The borers drill their way into
the stock and honeycomb the stalk
and ear. .s4E A. Jsz,
unless Immediate and stringent
steps are taken al once by the federal
government to eradicate the insect
the middle west faces the same sort
Of q crop failure of the same magni-
tude that southern states had when.
the cotton boil axeeyil swept over the
gulf states" Professor Ball said.
We are badly scared. If the borer
spFeadsatO Illinois, Iowa and southern
Minnesota we must be prepared to
meet losses which will run into MIL
Hons of dollars every season."
Congress will be asked to appro-
priate $2,000,000 for the first year to
Eight the insect. An effective organiza-
ton and a quarantine to prevent its
spreading was urged. %
i LITTLE THREsHING MACHINE
The latest product OF a Michigan
farm implement factory seems likely
to start an "own your own thresher"
movement among farmers who have
been dependent upon the convenience
of community machine. The new
thresher is 10 feet long and feet 5
inches high, weighing with all equip
nent $500 pounds, and handling $50
bushels of grain an hour. A tractor,
IL horse power or over, will run it.
The threshing mechanism is unusual,
consisting of four claws of arms re-
.TOlved by crankshaft at 228 revo-
lutions per minute, stripping the grain
as 1t passes between them. The ele-
yator arm is adjustable to any height
ofwagon bed Tor direct loading. With
this individual sized implement the A
farmer has only himself to blame If
his crop is not t;lreshed at the proper
time.-Popular Mechanics.
Hog cholera, which has been spo-
dtcaalyIappearina in various paris
OF Plymouth county, has been work
ing havoc in the herds of some farm
ers in the southern part of that coun-d
III. The epidemic is thought to have
been caused by the use of impure !!
S0IuH,dccOrQlnS 10 u. H. GunerSOn |
county agent. Investigations are be-
ing made.
WHAT is BREEDING?
The following definitions have been |
adopted by the department of agricul-
ture for use in the Better Sires- /!
Better Stock" campaign which it will !
conduct in cooperation with the var.
ious states, beginning October LIST:
Purebred: A purebred animal is
one Of pure breeding representing a
definite, recognized breed and both Of
whose parents were purebred animals |;
OF the same breed. To be considered !
purebred, livestock must be either
registered, eligible to registration or
Tin the absence Of public registry for !