The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1919-04-02
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Eldred Larson, Of near Kiron, is the
owner OF new Fordson tractor, and
| the News says he was seen vending
his way home recently driving the
Fordson and using big twelve.bladed
disc as trailer. .r .-
Will Stick. who. has been renting
the James. Hammond section south Of
Schaller, is planning large acreage
Of pop corn this season, and gives the
landlord two-fifths of the crop. In
!order to get hired help and as an in
ducement for! them to work, Mr.. Stick
gives two men IS acres OF pop corn
for their labor during the year.
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IMPROVED LIVESTOCK SERVICE
The movement to improve live
stock service into the Chicago, mar
ket, which was started by the, Corn
Belt Meat Producers association, at
it's annual meeting in Des Moines,
January 29th, has brought prompt re-,
suits. Mr.. Leonard, president of the
Union Stock Yards, advises US, that
but 80 per cent of the total number
OF cars received daily during the first
fifteen days of. January at the Union
Stock Yards, reached the market be-
fore 8 a. m. During the first fifteen
days of February, SO per cent of the
cars reached the market before that
hour, while during the first fifteen
days Of March 80 per cent of all the
cars reached the market before a.
m. In view Of the fact that In improv-
ing this service the railroads have the
same schedules as. before, and the
stock was loaded at the shipping
points at the same time as before,
this improvement is certainly very
satisfactory. -.
I While the reform was instituted by
the Corn Belt Meat Producers asso-
citation, the thanks of the stockmen
of the country are largely. due to J.
l.. Harris of the Livestock committee
of the United States railroad admins
tration, who attended the hearing at
Des2 Moines, and whose past expert
ence as st0ckman and railroad man
made him able to understand the
grievous burden j. under which the
stockmen were laboring and the need
for removing it.--Wallaces' Farmer.
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SHEEP SUBSTITUTED FOR DOGS
For every dog kept loss of $3.50
must be pocketed every year For ev-
cry sheep kept profit Of $27.60 may
be pocketed every year.
At least that is the way the propo-
sition was itemized on the blackboard
of a mountain school house by farm
demonstration agent in Kentucky. And
the figures were convincing. There
was not sheep in the district at the
time the figures were placed on the
blackboard. Somebody said there used
to be one sheeP-a wether-"doWn
the mountain ways" but the dogs
ate him.
A few weeks from the time the
agent placed the figures on the board
fifteen boys each had contrived to buy
a sheep. Eleven dogs had been killed.
Several other. families, pestered by
their small sons: but still unwilling to
kill their dogs, were trying to give
the brlkes away. /
!. sSimilRr movements were started at
other schools. Now. in that district,
there are 622 boys who are members
own neafly. 2,sst sheep. ny the tax
returns the dog population appears to
have increased also, but the agent
says this. lis not true. Formerly there
was ma ntimaat for enforcement of
the dogs1aw, hessays, but now there IS
a verysstrong sentiment halfway, and
while there llaS been a conSiderablesl
decrease in thSsnpmber of dogs, there
Is an apparent increase, because peosi
pie who formerly evaded the dog tax
now have, to- payit lEl
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Charley Kolls, another one Of Craw-l
ford county's "make-goOd" farmers.
who lives in section IS, Hanover town.