The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1919-06-18

pups a. mr. was the rising hour. Be-
fore breakfast horses were to be, cur
ried, fed and harnessed, the barn
cleaned out, the cows MIXED, the
calves and hogs fed with some Incl
dental attention to minor chores. Az
ter breakfast it was in Nhe' field at
and work until with scant hour at
noon which was used to feed the pigs
and calves again. After supper there
was a routine which lasted until 9
o'clock And did any of these city
| fellers ever milk COW with sore
! teats in fly time? Do they know that
the tail Of every COW that was ever
born to be MIXED by man is measured
and cut, off at the exa,t point which
| win make it just reach the eye of the
mixer at every swat when the flies
| are bad and it is raining and the said
| tail has been rolled in manure? Then
there is the rust on the wheat, the
weeds in the. corn. the pip in the
chickens, the rains which drown the
turkeys and the sskunks that catch the
chicks which live through the mites
and. lice and the. pip. I'VE don't men,
tion the birds that take the cherries
the worms that get the apples and the
swindlers who come along every day
with their gold bricks and the floods
and frosts and hot winds and other
things which take the glitter out of
farm life for the fellow who actually
farms. Don't worry about the farmer.
! If he is enjoying a little prosperity
now he has earned it." - &
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Ar uy;I,ov colJ bic raco,,flx,
lquired 40 acres in section s. Wash.
ington township. to Paul Schoening
last week at an advance over what he
paid for it of SIS per acre. r. M. trad.
ed two pieces of town property for the
farm and took it in at $1S5 per acre,
and then sold it to Schoening for $500
per acre, owning the farm less than
three weeks artar.t r.sttrH,ii e.
B.,J. Sibbert returned Saturday from
his Dakota trip where helooked after.
his landed interests. He reports crop
prospects in South Dakota as never
better than right at this time. Plenty
of moisture with corn, small grain and
alfalfa looking at its best. Dakota is
coming into its own with every new
year; the more the land is being Gull
tivated and improved the more mois-
ture it brings ~. a,~, ..,sj-:. }tfg -.
Over at Knoxville, many cattle are
dying from mysterious sleeping sick
ness The first indication of the trou-
bile is to find the afflicted animal in
a curled up sleeping condition at feed.
ing time generally. and a painless
death follows in about eight or ten
hours. The disease seems to be in
the young stock almost entirely. e
Ike Overton, of near Knoxville, has
just sold fifty head of big type Poland
China hogs for an even $4,000. The
hogs were all young ones, and were
all sold to one man: !'-' 20.
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Member the time when if a farmer
wanted to purchase a machine of any
kind he had to come into town and
make arrangements to. give his note
to the dealer, who in turn would take
it to the banker and find out whether
or not he could sell it, and if the bank
or would take fat a reasonable dis
count-athe farmer could take. the ma.
chine home with hinl? It's different
nowadays; if q, farmer wants a ma
chine, he steps to his telephone, calls
up the dealer and tells him to DELIVER
IA machine" to him the next morning,
and the machine is delivered and a
check written, and that ends the trans
action. y wv TO 2i','a 80
II III ~ 49, Z ytilGg 1870
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OF those fellows who believes in the
early bird catching the worm, and he
was out early Monday morning plow-
ing his experiment station just at the
rear of his place of business. He was
using a push pillow and seemed to be