The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1919-05-28

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! by Miss Eliza McGinn, was having a
picnic on Friday, the last day of school
| and Is or 20 scholars were having the
time Of their young lives.
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(" Everybody in East Boyer township,
and all over Crawford county for that
matter, knows III. w. Myer, Of section
80, East Boyer township, who owns
220 acres of fine land, and who for SO
long has been one OF the substantial
breeders OF pure bred stock. Mr..
Myers breed of Polled Durham cattle
! has gained for him an enviable repu-
tation, and he has sold many head of his
own raising of this breed of cattle at
fancy prices. He was for years known
las a raiser and breeder of thorough
bred Belgian horses also, and still has
some of the stock on the farm. H. w.
L is not working very much these days,
being content to just "chore around,
and keep an eye open to things and
see that everything runs smoothly. His
son, L. w. Myer, is operating the farm,
and looks after the stock On the
place there are IT brood sows of the
iDurOc breed, from which crop of 80
pigs was narrowed this spring TWEEN
ty head of sows were sold some time
ago to Hans Brodersen, son Of Pete
BrOdersen. Then there are rs COWS
of the POlled Durham and 'ShOrthorn
breeds, and fine bull purchased from
Mr.. Wilson, down at Avoca. The price
paid for this animal was a good round
one. In years gone by some of the
first prize winners Of Durhams at the
Iowa state. fair came from the Myer
farm, and they still have some SPLEEN
did stock Mr.. Myer told ofan expert
ment he tried in getting eleven acres
|of alfalfa started. In the spring he
worked his corn land as usual, then
'pulverized the eleven acres twice; af-.
forwards he planted his corn, it came
up fine, he then crossed it., and har-
srowed the piece and sowed the alfal-.
ia. In six weeks he had blooming al
falfa and as thick as hair on dogs,
back. 1t was ready to cut long be-,
fore the corn was, but little later,
Mr.. Myer cut the entire eleven acres,
corn and all, and had enough feed to
run him through the winter months.
This season he has an excellent stand
of alfalfa. His method of selecting
seed corn is worth mentioning. He
plants corn for seed in the garden
spot, and when it natures he picks it
and never let's it freeze; Immediately
sacks and carries it into the house and
upstairs, where he places it around the,
chimney. He says by this method he
always gets seed that terminates and.
has no difficulty in getting good
stand Of corn. !.
Apprehension as to whether the
farmer soldier boys would be likely
to return to the farms after demobili-
cation or 60 into other pursuits, has
been cast to the. winds over in Hayes
township, and on many Of the places
one sees the boys who have "baen
there still clad in the army shirt but
out in the field, and trench life is on.
ly a matter of history with them.
Among these boys we mention v. j.
-Launderville, of section 8, Hayes,
where he and his brother are working
24O acres. v. J. owns 100 little
north of the home place. He was on
:ly recently honorably discharged from
Uncle Sans service, having been at
Camp Wheeler And. he was anxious
to get back and get to. work. His
brother, VIM. F., is the married one Of
the family, and lives at this place.
They have 1875 acres in corn from seed
Of their own picking, just going out
in the crib where there were between
1900 and 1900 bushels Of old corn and
picking up any ear they came to. This
corn tested 80 per cent, and upon ex-
animation all is found to be sprouting..
Readers will remember that few
years ago seed corn was distributed
around at the school houses of the var
ious districts and farmers could call
there and get seed. The original seed
the Laundervilles are using came from
this source. They also have in 20
acres OF wheat and 20 of oats. On this
place is to be seen tile silo 36x16