The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1920-07-21
THE FARM NEWS
SPECIAL PAGE DEVOTED TO THE FARMING
INTERESTS OF CRAWFORD COUNTY

INTERESTS OF
Driving west from ME-, Lnd's place
IN Otter Creek township, ones atten-
ton is attracted by a commanding
home that would do credit to any city
in the land. This house is located in
the coriier of Ida county, section SO,
Hayes township. The owner. c.. w.
Nelson,, could not move the land over
into Crawford county, so he done the
next best thing, and in building his
house, faced it toward the south and
Crawford county. And he built home
that he ought to be proud Of. If there
to this one John Gray never mentioned
them The house is 32x32 with an addi-
ton y14X16, and is two stories hgh.- 1t
Is modern in all respects has a hot
water heating plant, four rooms in the
basement, six rooms and pantry on the
first floor, and five rooms, - sleeping
porch and bath on the upper floor. The
finish is poplar with oak floors. An
electric light plant supplies the power
and light for the home. All windows
and doors areii'screened, and supplied
with storm windows. TO the south is
a beautiful porch, the columns of which
are OF fire brick. The home is furnish
ed with everything money can buy,
and the Nelson family are happy in
their possession. A garage has recent
ly been built and this building houses
two Fords, a pleasure car and a big
truck. corn crib 32x36 with ID foot
posts still has a large amount OF old
corn stored. This crib is equipped with
an elevator, and the store rooms above
will hold d large amount OF grain. IT
is a pleasure to visit a home like Mr..
Nelson !. there are so many buildings
to inspect and the fine stock to look
at Take the barn, for instance, this
is 5Ox60, and accommodates 16 head
of horses. with hay above. Part of the
floor is cement, and there is room for
a number Of head Of loose stock. Then
there's the cattle barn 4Sx60 with 16
foot posts; and overhead there is am
pie room for hay; IA machine house Is
24x4S, and "a hog house is 24xlO0; and
has a. cement floor. There are numer-
Gus other buildings on the place, al! in
repairitand painted. Mr.. Nelson mas
lived there for AZ years, and we judge
that's about hiss ge. He has always
been "a stock raiser and shredder, and
favored the Aberdeen Angus cattle. He
now has 40 head Of Prides, and this
herd lis headed by a pure bred purctas-
ed at Omaha and for which long
price was paid. Chester White hogs
find d home with Mr. Nelson, and he
went tO.aBuenh Vista county for his
start, purchasing stock from Messrs.
Gaffey and Danford. He has 9G head
of Chesters at this time. For farm
work Mr. Nelson keeps 16 head of
horses, and they were all in the best
of condition. He is working Is acres
of corn, and has some small grain. lie
still has on the place 600 bushels OF
last years popcorn, and says he Is 60
ing to keep it until prices are better.
Mrs. Nelson is a daughter of August
Lundell, Of Sac county. \ r. g:
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Driving down through. sections Is and
16 we came to a home where some new
improvements We're being made, and
stopping we found that Mr.. Emil Volk- !!
mann wis the owner of the farm. He
was having some new Dorches added to
the house., and "Jakey' Stueber was ,
doing the work. We hadn't met up
with p"Jakey'' for twenty years; in fact
we had long thought OF him as having
gone to the land Of peace, but here he
was in flesh and blood. seventy.one |
wears of age, with an eyesight as sound |
as a dollar, and his ability as yodler |
He told us he had all the i
work he could do and when the cold
DAYS of winter came he made lots Of 4
money keeping the scissors and knives
sharpened for the women folks OF. the
In an early day."Jakey'
was "a familiar character in Denison,,
following the wagon makers trade. and
for Conrad Ehric, and still
earlier for Detlef Weick. The Volk-
manr's expect to retire from the farm
after this year. and Will move into
Schleswig, where they have purchased
a home, having bought the house for
merly ownsd BY Ingwer Hollander, who i i
has movedfto5 Denison. Mrs. VolkmanniI'
is a very tine old lady. and takes much
chickens and ducks. At this time she
has ITO tducks of spring Matching and,
a number of oldhOnes; she also has 800.
chickens. Last Friday she was enters,
tanning Mrs. Emil Bielenberg. and they
were enjoying each others company to-
the utmost Mr.. Volkmann has 1901
Hampshire shoats, but recently sold
the brood sows in Schleswig markets
He has the white face cattle and there
were 81! head on the place Friday. Six
milk cows furnish plenty, OF milk for
family Ise and for sale.
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There. are so many good farms in
Crawford county that one driving only
tWct days week cannot make the
rounds and visit all the places. Drive
IN any direction from Denison and one
covers new territory on every trip.
Crawford county is a bisscounty come
to think of it. and to drive the county.
and make stops at most every farm
house. requires time. We know of
many homes, but have never had the
time to visit them. One such place we
visited last Friday when we stopped at
John Linds in section No. 1, Otter
Creek township. This farm is right att
the county line as Ida county is just
across the road, and it is not far from
IheiSac county line. Stopping at the
Lind place we met Mrs. Lind and
found she was the daughter OF the late
VIM. Fleming, of Stockholm township,
,ndsa sister of the Fleming boys. the.
fellows who are so interested in the
Farm Bureau movement. At the Lind
place we learned that there fwere 100
head of spring shoats, of <he Duroc
Jersey breeding, and that the siresl
came from the. b. A. Samuelson & Son
herd up in Sac county. There We're al
10 30 head of brood sows, and numai.
,ar IF head of cattle Mr.. Lind is n