The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1920-06-09
COLTS IN PASTURE VERY
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farms has become alarming, according
to Chas. J. O'Neill, farmer and stallion
owner, who has just finished an extens.
I've tour through Illinois.
FOals have never been so scarce as
this year. In going through from Gil
man to Peoria to Springfield and around
by Monmouth, 4 saw very, very few in
pasture" said Mr.. O'Neill, in the ofs:e
Of the horse association at the stocll
yards yesterday. our community
around Manteno. ILL.,, which used to be
q horse raising center, has actually had
to ship in farm horses from the west
and they're hard enough to get there.
The car lots received were disposed of
Immediately by private sale. They
weren't particularly good horses. but
they brought around 5000 each. Many
farmers have been raising mules be
cause OF the quick money, but that has
simply added to the scarcity of horse
stock
Your idea is that every good mare
should be bred to stallion, rather
duction"
Absolutely. For the future Of the
farmer and horse"
DO you have many buyers?"
Lots of them, but the farmers
haven't any horses to sell. They don't
nave enough for themselves. Five
years ago our community averaged
eight to ten car loads per month in the
spring. Now 1t amounts to only one
and a half car loads a month. In fact,
we've shipped in some, About one
farmer in ten will have tractor but
they don't replace more than two hors
es on a farm, and in many cases not
that. The farmers who let go Of about
four horses when they purchased trac.
tors are in the market now trying to
buy at least two, back again"
Z. A. L. Malmquist, OF section 4, stock
holm township was putting away a
number of perfectly good checks last
Friday when we ran across him. Some
OF those checks he had received for a
couple of loads of shelled corn that he
had sold to Billy Lindberg, the Kiron
elevator man. For this corn A. l.. re-1
ceived $1.6s per bushel. This gentle
man Is an oversee man, having served
his time in France, and upon his re-
turn last June he Immediately laid Off
his uniform, and in place of the gun
grabbed two cultivator handles and
started cultivating corn. This was
some of the corn he. had just sold. He
operates 120 acres of fine land two and
one-half miles east and little north
OF Kiron, and on this place he keeps:
and number of pure DurOc hogs, He
has 63 head of spring pigs narrowed by
nine brood sows. The foundation stock
Tor this herd was secured from B, A.
Samuelson & Son north of kiron, and
the mere mention of Samuels0n's stock
Is significant of good stock. This year
Mr.. Malmquist has in 81 acres of corn.
and % acres of small grain. u or visit
ors the past week the family entertain.
nd Tvs -
johnson and Mrs Nels Ecklund and
daughter. Agnes. &i$s
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Crawford county's biggest industry
agriculture, is now well launched and;
farmers over the county are busy cul-
Awaiting their corn The small grain is
We'll along, and for the most part the
corn is three to four inches high. From
this time one topic of conversation
will be in regard to the 1920 corn crop
The bOunteousness or the failure OF
the crop means much to the farmers of
Crawford, and it means much to the
commercial interests because agricul-
ture is the biggest industry in the coun-
ty and state, as Iowa stands at the.
head of all the states In agricultural
wealth. The click of the planter may
sound homely and commonplace in the
columns OF the newspaper, but the click
means more 70 iowa IMAM Lne Wnlr OF
all the manufacturing machinery in
the state. III
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This department is in receipt Of a
letter from Mrs. Kate Bill-Schwarm
formerly of near Buck Grove. but now
-pf Woonsocket, S. D. In writing for
the Paper you take home" Mrs.
Schwarm says: This is very back.
ward spring out here, rainy and cold
80 much of the time. The ground seems
to stay so wet all the time. it is hard
TO get the farming. done; some of the
farmers have Flowing, yet. to do and
lots of sground will not be piowed IA
the country il low and level In and
arolhd yWoonsocket.
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