The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1919-07-09

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Ming Interests Of Crawford County,
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friend of the family. 1t was at this
1placc that we found a number OF good
Ioutbuildings wherein the livestock
and tools and pr6ducts,~of the farm
were kept. A recent addition was the
building Of new garage where fine
Buick automobile was housed. ... j..
A big, good natured farmer and
lstock raiser whom we met@last week
Twas Gus Vinke, of ection "a, Hayes
township, and say, he owns 800 acres
IOf Hayes township, and also owns his
own threshing outfit-Gahr-Scot sep
aratora and a Russell engine-and he
not only does his own threshing but
threshes for his neighbours. He has
run the separator two falls and the
engine three falls, and the machines
are in good condition. This year he
has in 80 acres of 90-day corn, and
quite little small grain, and he has
a couple of loads of cattle due for the
| fall market There are 70 head in
the bunch. Mr.. Vinke also runs a
good many hogs on, the place and a
short time ago sold bunch at $40 per
hundred. Cream from III COWS averag-
es him about 500 per month. and this
he says helps out wonderfully in de-
fraying the household expenses.
| St.
! John Robinson, who lives three miles
east OF Vail. on the Lincoln highway,
is improving his home BY the addition
Of new part; the size being 14x16
with 12-foot posts. Fred Koester, Of
Vail, is doing the work -
Is. - -. & - a. aa
VIM. .Wilr0th, of section SO, Milford
township, believes in celebrating the
national holiday, and 1hst Thursday he
was in Vail laying in a. good supply
| OF fireworks for the children. In fact
he just kept Lynch busy poking more
and more of the explosives into a
large carton, and said il he was 60
ing to celebrate he was going to do it
right. William has 100 acres Of good
land over south and west of Vail, and
he is now painting big machine shed
he had recently built. The shed is
2Ox40. He painted all his other build
ings last fall. Wilroth has 70 head of
young Durocs, and recently sold 25
head that averaged $50 pounds and
the price received was $19 and $50
per hundred. He has 80 head of cattle
and among this number are 20 head of
fine steers. This year Ire has as acres,
Of corn, Is acres Of wheat and 20 acres
|of oats. And right now he is some
busy for he is going to put up hay
from 80 acres, and he says the hay
stands big, too. Mrs. Wilroth is
fancier of the Rhode Island Red chick
ems and this spring raised 600. She,
used two incubators of the Successful
make. She also has 80 geese, -~~
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When ono picks up paper and
reads OF thirfy.five thousand acres Of
crop land being. under water, meaning
a three million dollar loss to the farm
ers of Monpna county, the Crawford
county hill land looks pretty good and
cheap at $500 per acre. Arecent rain
fall caused the Sioux and Maple rivers
to go on ,a2rampage and the lowlands
have been flooded. adte is estimated
that the crop loss to Monona county
alone will pass the three million dollar
mark. The finest ever prospect for a
record yield of winter wheat was
dashed within period Of twenty-fonr
Il Ty,. Co ia foy,
compelled, to give their attention to
seeking safety for themselves and
some were compelled to get away in
boats, at}}l7, stes4 fs.sE asF 81.
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II Thousands of pure-bred, scrubs are
scattered through this country. accord.
ing to hog-extensfOn men Of the United
States department of agriculture, who
are devoting their efforts to eliminat-
ing inferior pedigreed animals This,
they say, applies to all kinds OF live
stock. hbut is perhaps more general in
the hog industry: (: Pedigrees are nee
essary and valuable to the, hog, breed
er, yet the pedigreeis the nleanss Of
fooling a4lotlaof farmers, particularly :!
those who are about To-. start sinto the
pure-bred hog business and who have
not had enough experience in judg-
Ing to select animals of good standard
type Buyers should notibe contentH5
Simply with pure bred animals, hut
Should see. Tin addition that the ami
mails they are about to purchase have
good quality, say tie department hog
specialists. ....,....
Now .thetsqnestion arises whether
the girls can continue to admire the
soldier when he swaps his uniform
for working overalls.