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I THE REVIEW'S SPECIAL FARM NEWS DEPARTMENT Live News About Crawford County Farms and Farmers (Continued Page Six.) not been compelled to board around in hotels and cafe can appreciate Just how good a home cooked meal tastes to a hungry man. —0"~~* On the Tracey Chapman (arm about four, miles southwest of Vail I saW a temporary corn crib which was 8x100 feet. It was made of woven wire with wooden slats. Don't think this is the only corn crib on this well improved farm. There is a real crib and gran ary^ which holds 5,000 bushels of ear corn. While it is well ventilated, but, nevertheless, thr^e rows of extra ven tilators have been placed-through the crib. A young man living on this farm husked 110 bushels of corn the day be fore I called and had a good chance to repeate the next day, for he had husk ed 65 bushels that morning and was going on high when I called in the af ternoon. J. 6. Harrington has a sightly-place about one and a half miles south of Vail. The buildings and surroundings certainly are fair to look upon, *s you travel along the road. The build ings have been built during the past two years. Hfe has a horse and cattle barn almost completed. It Is 36x48 with fourteen foot posts. The space for the horses is along the east end, lfix30v~with room left in the northeast corner for his automobile, the rest of tiie first (1601- is devoted to the cattle barn. Mr. Harrington has a nice herd of pure bred Hereford cattle which he has been breeding for about six years. All, with the exception of about nix head, were bred by J. G. (—o—+ n. P. 1211s has been a very busy man the past summer, for Otieof his age. He resides just across the track from 'the I. C. station at Ells. Last spring he planted one-half pound of onion seed and has harvested nearly thirty bushels from the patch. 'They are the Red Globe variety. He also planted not, quite three acres to navy beans and as a reward for his labors, has harvested more than thirty bushels of beans. At the present prices this has been a very profitable crop. He had a twenty-five acre field of pop cdrh and all but about six acres, planted late, is of good quality. —o— A drive over the county has con vinced me that many of the farmers will have their corn kicking finished by thi3 time and thn much of the corn is soft. The corn, as a whole. Is far ahead of the yield last year and the quality of two years ago, when we had so much soft corn. I And some :fields with not more than ten per cent soft corn but many much worse. 1 believe there is not & field lit this comi ty that is free from soft corn. Be sure to sort oufc as much of the soft corn as possible—and put in extra ventila tion. It will pay you big to do this. A few weeks ago I galled at the farm of J. H. Krahl, about a mile northeast of Vail, and during a visit with Mr. Krahl he intimated that he might sell his farm at auction. I wrote up the farm and it appeared in the next issue of this great fireside visitor. I saw Mr. Krahl at Vail last week Wednes day and he said he had decided to not sell the farm. Said he, "After read ins the article in the Review I made up my mind to not sell the farm. If it was that good, 1 would keep it." What do you know about that? A Boston dispatch says that a standard loaf of wheatless bread will be adopted by hotels throughout that state according to an announcement after a conference by leading hotel proprietors and the state food ad ministrator. A committee was appoint ed to compile recipes from which.the best will be submitted to every hotel chef and made public for home use. Plans were also adopted to enforce two Hsh days a week at all hotels. The hotel men also voted to institute poul try days. —o— Manning Monitor: Workmen are busy on the William Timmerman farm southwest of Manning removing dirt so that the land be better drained, and so that part of the land can, be flooded if desired. 'Mr. Timmerman has one of the largest flocks of wild ducks in Iowa, abd part of the improvement will be made that they have a perma nent home, and a place to hatch their young. Since selling the butcher shpp to his son, Henry, Mr. Timmerman has been spending a lot ot time :and money improving his property. Farmers should not overlook the combination sale to be held in Deni son this week Saturday. I have seen some of the live stock which will be sold and can fcromis^ you that It is good in quality. Chas. C. Speck, who has been breeding those big type Pol and China pigs for a number of years, will' send several lieaa of his best swine tb this combination sale, —o— Scranton Journal: Sanford Gray has added two brood sows to his classy herd of Durocs. He purchased them at the North sale held near Vail re cently attd paid 1186 each fer -. these sows. They are Model Girl and Mod el Critic and good stock judges who have seen them pronounce them the best brood sows ever brought to Greene county. —0~* M. O. Meyer has just completed a new barn on his farm one mile south of Deloit. It Is 36x40. He had intend 'ed to also build another building but has decided to wait until nept. spring to do it. Mr. Meyer raises both Ches ter White and Poland China swine. He now has forty bead of Cheaters and "ten head of Poland, .^hinas,„»il pure bred. .:££.•: Harlan Republican: R. L. Ray, a for ~mer'Shelby county man, sold a- little 910 poind hog to Lee McCoy of Wal- 14 I 'ifliir I Nv John H. D. Cray ii 1! .?:•' '. EDITOR Mm nut recently. The selling price was $15.25 per 100 pounds, the total price, $138.77. He was a Poland China, the big kind which Mr. Ray grows. And still one wonders why fresh pprk sells over the counter at 40 cents a pound. T. A. Tarpay resides about one and a half miles west of West Side. He reports considerable soft corn. He is feeding two loads of steers and has lot of other cattle, several of which are pure bred Herefords. He raises them for the Chicago market and finds them very profitable for that purpose. Asa Brown owns a farm two miles south of Deloit. Since his ownership of the farm, which has been only few years, he has built a new set of buildings. The last one built is chicken house, 12x20. He has a nice bunch of young pigs. I noticed an old log cabin on -the farm, a reminder of tl^e days of yesterday. Just *r6t& to farmers' wives: Don't jet anyone make you believe that this government is going to make you di vide your canned fruit. If any one call* at torn hbute and tells you he is a government officer iand wants part of your canned goods tell niin I said he was an imposter and a liar. During the htonth of June a wind storm overturned a corn crib on the farm of Herman Lochmiller, Sr., five miles southeast of Denison. When called last Week the building, was be ing'righted by the aid of block And tackle. —o— Win. Luiiey is putting anew founda tion under his barn on his farm two miles east of Denison, on the Lincoln highway. It is Intended to have basement barn under the entire build ing for horses and cattle. Kie OlderOg is the owner of a good farm located seven miles northwest of Denison. A hew barn has just been completed on the same. It is 32x50 and is a cattle and hay barn. He has an&ther large barn for the horses. At a recent Shorthorn sale at Shel don the top price was $1,225, which lacked only seventy-five dollars of bringing as much, as the Crawford county young boar, which sold for fl.300 at the McAndrews -sale. On the farm of Mrs. Lemon, about two and one-half miles north of Deni son and tenanted by Paul Schneider, a barn is being built. It is a horse and cattle barn, 40x32. At the Carpenter ft Ross sale of im ported? Shorthorns at Chicago the first of the month, 100 head sold for an av erage of $1,185. Some one page the gentleman who used to take pride in presenting the country editor with a turkey for the Thanksgiving dinner. John Vogt has his new barn about completed on the farm about eight miles northwest of Denison. It is 32x40. That the farms and factories will be "manned" by the boys next spring is the prediction made at the headquar ters of the United States Boys' Work ing Reserve. It is found that more than one thousand boys have enrolled for" farm work. This augurs well for the boys and for the future of agri culture for a lot of these boys having once gotten into farm work .will be satisfied to remain In it. —o— Mrs. Milo Kelly has a barn filled with timothy and clover hay that did not have a drop of rain upon it. Inas much as hay is a short crop, this hay is very valuable. She also has as good a quality of corn as I have seen in the county this fall. She is planning on having a public sale De cember 5th and move to Denison to make it her home. No doubt the sale will be well attended for it is general ly knowii that the live stock to be sold is of a hi git grade. The farm is located about one mile south ot Arion. Watch this newspaper next week for announcement of salp and property to be sold. Our attention has been called to Mr. Hoover's appeal to those keeping poultry that they should not dispose of their stock at the present time, but should keep the same from the stand point of patriotic duty. As a loyal citizen I would certainly like to com ply With the request, but after paying $3.00 for 100 pounds of screenings to feed our poultry the fact dawned upon me that I was certainly doing my bit Julong the lineb suggested By Mr. Hoover. Our agriculture is .more and more drifting into a condition where the highest efficiency will be required. The war will force. greater efficiency on the farm. All must endeavor to avoid waste and make cost of production as low as possible. Onions to keep well should be such as have properly ripened. Before they are put in storage they should be screened and. should always be fciven plenty of Ventilation. For this reason they must be stored in small quan tities where there is a cool tempera ture and dryness. In all parts of the county, farmers are finding,the corn very soft, some have been forced to remove the corn from the cribs on account of it rot ting In the crib. Cold, clear weather Would greatly assist in the drying out, pttoc^jis. Waitofngs have been, given many times that many of our farmers are attempting to raise a variety of corn too late for this sec tion. During the last? three years, we have n&d one solid crop. It is better to have a smaller ear, well K* matured, than a large soft ear. It Would seem a good proposition for farmers to secure seed of an earlier variety of corn for next season': planting/ Poultry house floors are usually made of either earth, wood or cement Where the soil is light and well drain ed the use of earth floors gives econo my in. construction and investment, Ahd a rhbre comfortable house. Where the drainage is qot good, and.tin heavy soils, especially those containing much clay, floors of Wood or cement are gen entity preferred. Each kind of flooi* has Its advant ages and disadvantages, consideration Of which will often lead a poultry keeper to use a different kind of floor from that most generally constructed in his locality. A floor of earth needs to be renewed at least once a year. If the droppings that fall upon the floor are carefully removed at frequent, reg ular intervals, iriuch of the earth is removed With them. It the regular cleaning ot the floor is superficial, the earth of the floor to a depth of sever al inches becomes so mixed with drop pings that its condition is very unsani tary. When the poultry keeper has a gar den, the manure obtained by removing the earth floor of the poultry house will compensate for the labor of re newing the floor, and the new earth required can be taken from a conven lent spot 09 his own land. When the poultry keeper must pay some one else to take away the old earth and bring in new, the cost will In a few years exceed the cost of a cement floor. The principal fault ot a cement floor is that it is likely to be cold and damp. These conditions may be corrected by covering the floor ttfa depth of an inch or two with dry earth or sand, using over this scratching litter of straw or wood shavings. Floors so treated re quire as Much routine work to keep them In good order as earth floors, but the supply of clean earth required is much less and the work of annual ren ovation is eliminated, Floors of Wood are not now much used in poultry houses except when the space under the floor is high enough to be occupied by poultry. A wooden floor close to the ground soqn rots, While any space under a floor not high enough to be used for poultry makes a .harbor for rats and other ver min. 1'he wooden floor of a poultry house should hate a light coating of dry. earth, sand, chaff or similar ina tertal to prevent the droppings of the birds from sticking to and saturating the boards. GOODRICH ITEMS. L. F. Morris bought a load of fine oats of Jim Etetes Monday and had them delivered. Al Johnson is malting some improve ments to his farm buildings. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Winey entertain ed their immediate relatives Wednes day evening in honor of their twenty ninth weddipg anniversary. The eve ning was spent in visiting and mus|c. About midnight Mta. Winey, with the assistance of Mrs.. Albert. Winey. served an excellent supper or friwd chicken, bread and butter, cake, salad, pickles and coffee, which they certain ly did justice to. Mrs. Susan Painter, of Loveland, Colo., and Mrs. Geo. Myers, of Denison, were the out of town guests. Mr. and Mrs. John Anderson visited in Denison Thursday Mrs. S. D. Newton and her friend, Mrs. E. M. Paup, of Denison, visited at the A. D. Winey home Friday. Albert Winey was down.to the coun ty seat Friday transacting business. W. J. Wilkinson ii having a garage built on his farm in Ida county. Jas. McKim. is doing the work. Don't miss- the Bpworth League so cial Friday evening at the W. J. Wilk inson home. Come and enjoy asocial time together and bring your baskets. Mr.' and Mrs. A. D. Winey spent Sunday at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. D. Newton. The renters on the L. F. Morris farm threshed their grain Monday and have some extra fine oats and wheat. Hildreth Tucker and family drove up from Denison Sunday to spend the day with Mr. and Mrs. John Ander son. Andy Bartman is out these fine days The End Of Your Corns Paia Stops at OHM—Com a»*'t *ara & WASTE TIhf "R.llerlit. -ftftl-ll" Never Katie. There is no need for you to go through another day o'flfcorn agony. But be sure you get "Gets-It." Accept nothing else, for remember, there is positively nothing else as good. "Gets-It" never Irritates the live flesh, never makes the toe sore. You can go about as usual, with work or play, while "Gets-lt," the magic, does all the work. Then the corn peels right off like a banana skin, and leaves the toe as smooth arid corn-free as your palm. Never happened before, did it? Guess not. Get a Bottle of "Gets-lt" today from 'any drug store, you need pay no more than 25c, or sent on receipt tit price by E. Lawrence & Co., Chi cago, 111. Sold in Denison and recommend ed as the world's best corn remedy by 'R. f^naul, Grau Drug Co. y&it 3* THE DENISON REVIEW, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 14, 1917. giving A. D. Winey's flew residence a coat of paiht. W. J. Wilkinson and son, Verne, were in Denison Tuesday transacting business. Chas. Jensen is remodeling his resi dence by adding a more commodious addition. The Anderson boys finished up their threshing at the John Anderson home and pulled their machine under cover Tuesday night. Music Of the corn pickers is heard early apd late, and some have found the com not keeping as well as they expected. Floyd Darling Is making the ears of corn fly at the George Beaman place. Miss Lovicle Morris Was. a passen ger to Denison Friday. 5-' DEFIANCE ITEMS -. George Rosman has bold his garage to Sam Hulsebus, of Buck Grave, who will take possession December 15th Mr. Rosman will continue to run the electric light plant and will erect a building for.same just, west of the garage. Mr. Hulsebus has also pur chased the residence property next to the garage, which was owned by Mrs John Nicholson, and is at. present oc cupied by M. L. Purcell and family. Mr. Hulsebus has sold his. interest In the hardware store: at Buck Grave to his cousin, Hepsy Hulsebus. Mat'Finken t|ls sold his interest in the Defiance hardware and furniture store'to his partner, John Rosman, but will remain with the Arm until, the flifet of January., Cecil Maxwell and Walter Boylen left the latter part of the Week for Council Bluffs to join Unit and ex pected to leave from there Monday evening for Fort Porter, N. Y„ wkfto they will be in training for a few weeks. Ed Pennlston, Sr. has sold his farm two miles northeafet Of Defiance to A. Klofcwer, of Westphalia and will give possession March 1st. J. G. Parker has reigned hie posi tlon as rural mail carrier, the resigna tion to take e^ect December 1st. G. G. Brewster, who is Substitute carrier will take his place until sOme one else has been appointed. Several rehearsals have been held for the play Which will be given for the benefit of the Red Cross iii about two weeks. Program will be given later. Miss Iva Haskins was an over Sun day visitor with relatives in Perry. Miss Ruth Knaiiss WaB In Omaha on Monday to visit Miss Alice Runcorn a I the Methodist hospital. Attorney Elmer Tinlfcy, of Council Bluffs, delivered an address dt the auditorium Sunday evening in the in terests of t)w Y. M. C.. A- war fund campaign. A large crQ#d was pres ent and much interest Manifested. Mr, and Mrs. Wm. MtflBride, of Den ison, visited last Wednesday at the home of their daughter, Mrs. Glen Smutz. Mrs. John NickolsOn, of Des Moines has been spending the.'past week at the home of her sister, Mrs, Rob Davis. She has sold her residence property to Sam Hulsebus','of'Buclc'Grove. Mrs. Charles Cross aWtohildren, ot From 9 A* ft to & P.M. Friday, Oc£ 16 At Hotel Denison AND set Dr. A. H. Wefaet OP OES MOINE8, IOWA. DISEASES OF THE EYE* EAR, NOSE AND "THROAT TREATED, GLASSES FITTED. CATARACTS, CROSS-lYES, CA TARRH, ADENOIDS, HEADACHES, DOUBLE VISION TREATED. EXMINATION FREE /, 1 Lifta Off Clean There is nothing In the world like "Gets.lt" for corns. Just apply it according to directions, ith* pain Htops at once and then the corn liftH off as clean as a whistle. No fusH, no bother, no danger. ."Gets It," you know, is safe. Millions have used it, more, than all other corn remedies combined, and it nev er fails. 'For Sate Duitoe Jersey the fonlus "GOLDEN MODEL" breeding, ft* be* feeding typelcnown tb the Duroc breed. I Have some v. I $ H.' 1 Dandy Good Boam- left and ean sell yoo a boar not related to any thing that I have sold before. Come and See Them Before Buying B. W. HUNT Phone 3d J. Denison, la. & 1 t( Spjpv- %kiw: v'V V- mmm 1 A" Dec!ham, spent Saturday and Sunday at the home of her sister, Mrs. Jarnecke. A son" was borh to Mr. and Mrs. Ar thur Book November 3d. Mrs. J. M. Byers spent a couple of days last week at the home of her son, Robert Sawyer, in Harlan. Del Kingsbury, of Cherokee, was transacting business "In towh the latter part of the week. Mrs. Ed Kingsbury left Friday for Truro to visit her mother, Mrs. Long necker. The latter will accompany her to Defiance and make her future home with the family here. Miss Anna Lamm, of Decorah, is a guest at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John SChnuettgen. Wm. Thrue and John Sntrak and wives, of Templeton, spent Sunday at the Joe Dotzler home. John Maxwell, of Harlan, visited Thursday with his brother, Allen Max Well. The A 1 Sunday school class of the Methodist church, with their teacher, Miss McKinney, enjoyed a fudge par ty at the home of Miss Ruth Knauss Thursday evening and made enough fudge to send a box full to some of the boys at Camp Dodge. J. A. Luxford was up from Oakland Sunday. His sister, Mrs. Ellen Fry, of Iola, Kans., who has been visiting at the home of Mrs. Scott, accompanied him home for a visit. Wesley White,' Bog Newman and Mark Mart, who are in training at Camp Dodge, spent Sunday in Defl ance. Carl Muiler and sister, Mrs. May Williams, of Sioux Falls, S. D„ were over Sunday visitors at the home ot their parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Muil er. Mr. and Mrs. O, A. Justice returned Monday from a visit With their daugh ter and family at 'Lake View. Sunday they drove to Sac City to visit Mr., and Mrs. T. W. Konkle. AMERICA An iXCE(i»Tldft. It is less than ten years since the revolution in Turkey which dethroned Abddl Hamid (Abdul the Damned) and set up Mehmet in his place, which drove out the old regime and put the young Turks in Uie saddle. Yet the world seems to have forgotten the in cidents Which attended,that transfor mation andwhich paralleled the events Which have been taking place in Rus sia since the imperial dynasty was overthrown, last March. Revolutions always have .such episodes the only exception to the rule is the American revolution—which European commen tators have always used as the great example of a revolution which was in- of Five* Clover Leafi TEAQUIST MCLAUGHLIN, r&m. ji. itiated and carried forward to success and followed by the establishment of an orderly and progressive govern ment—all by the same group of men and without substantial reaction, at any time. Consequently the Russian ka leidoscope should alarm nobody, DRUGGED FOR TWO YEARS. William Allen White, more recently from the Italian front than any other American, says that Italian officers told him when he was over there that they would not be able to withstand the Germans if they came because of the disparity in guns. The Germans did come, and the Italians could not withstand them. It does not augur well for the United States, for we have no guns at all to speak of and it takes time to make them. Our chief dependence for guns is the Bethlehem Steel company. Yet their immense works, devoted almost entirely to gov ernment work, turn out only 280 guns a week at the maximum—and Mr. Schwab 'has told the Philadelphia Ledger that in order to maintain an effective artillery line it will requirfe one gun for every thirty feet of front which our troops take over. And the maddening thing to think about is that w.e were drugged into apathy for more than two years by the "kept us out of war" narcotic. NOTICE IN PROBATE. State of Iowa, Crawford County, ss— in Probate. In the* matter of the estate of Otto Backhaus, late of Crawford county, deceased. Notice ot Appointment of Executors. To Whom It May Concern: You are hereby notified that on the 6th day of November, 1917, the under signed we're duly appointed executors of the above entitled estate, «nd all creditors of said estate are notified to file their claims in the office of the Having sold my fatai' liear Boyer and purchased the# ,,. Lincoln Highway Garago in Denison, 1 will offerf or sale without reserve^ the following property, on my premises known as the Geo. W. Newcom farm, ad joining the town of Boyer on the south, on Commencing Immediately After-a FREE LUNCH at Noon Seven Head of liofses and Colts Consisting of bay mare 10 years old, weight 1500 black gelding 10 years old, weight muui a good single driver: bay gelding 6 yean otd, weight 1600s grey mare 5 years old. in foal, weight 1200) spaa of colts coming two years old. black and bay one sucking colt. 31 of Cattle Seven choice milch cows, some] will be fresh day of sale, others will be fresh before ja£iitty 1st seven head of heifers coming two years oldj threcyear-old heifer fourteen steers coming two years old high-grade Shorthorn built four months old calf. 36 Head of Ptfte Poland Twenty/two sows and gifts, two bigrearlings, four tried sows, fourteen gilts of May farrow, three spring boars, fourteen fall pigs, tliis is oaopportunity to get some choice breeding stock as this is an extra good offering of strictly bigtjrpe with good length and heavy bone. These farrowed by daughters and grand'daiighteirs'of Henry Fetsenmeyer's ''Big foe" and "A Vend**," the latter being one the greatest Poland China boars the breed ever produced. Girt some of his stock in your herd. CHICKENS—About 200 well bread S. C. B. Leghorn chickens, including choice cbcii Fm JMftcfciaety, Hay, Grain, Etc. Phre«fojt Deeviag mower, eight-foot Dain hay loader, ten4bot McCormick idf-dump hay rake, Leaf manure ipecader, #afso box manure spreader 9a low down wagon, sixteea^iach walk* ing plow, sulky plo*, elght-foot disc barrow, eighteen-foot lever harrow. P. Ir O. corn planter With eighty rods of wire and guage shoes, [planted a&out 70 acres] new Jotm Deere s2x-a!kve! riding ad" tivater, new Century ri&i:eiihiv«lor, fenay Uad Walking cultivator, Jtofcivilie disc cultfrife*, sw«ej griodcr, brand new thirtyfoot steel elevator with open spout and belt attachment, two wagons—one new—one used a year, hay rack, ssed ceht tester. Gambfel three-hoese wagon evens#, gear brake for wagon, Nelson tank heater, cast iron heater, two Ideal galvaniired thicken eoops, two sets Urm harness, set of fly nets, ose hundred square feet of 26 guage galvanized corrugated steel rooting, fifty gajloh gasoline tank with faucet, fifty gallon kerosene tank with faucet, No. 30 Iowa separator—used fbtir months, grindstone, steel hog troughs, Ideal thirty, gallon hog watertt,Ideal chicken watirfcr, eight foot tank.-". FORD TOURING CAR in good order. Ten tons of alfalfa, timothy and clover hay mixed) eight tons of prairie hay, all in barn and in good shape twenty acres of corn stalksi about five hun dred bushels of cbrn in crib some oatsi one bushel 19J6 seed corn. Household Goods Double tub One Minute washer, one tub tgcuum and one with peg doily, and one one-horse power International engine,'[washer used four months] ten gallon barrel churn, three-piece iron bed with mattress, heating stove, vacuum carpet sweeper and other articles too numerous to mention. TERMS—Sums of $10 and under/cash. On sums over that amount a credit of one year's time will be amU on approved notes bearing 8 per cent interest GEO. W. NEWCOM Aucts. ft /.-. .•• '•,.••••••' .,•• ••. ... v,r': JOHN KOVAR, 6 ", 1' •'$ PAGE MA mm clerk of the district court, in and for Crawford county, Iowa, within one year from the,date of this iMtiee,'afc cording to law, and have the nme .al lowed and ordered paid by the said court, or stand forever barred there from. Dated Nov. 12, 1917. '1 iWM. BACKHAUS, CARL BACKHAUS. By Conner & Powers, yf Their Attorney^. 463t Give* a brilliant tftttty shtM ttmf doas not rab off -0r dust' ofH-tliat atwmls to times us long as any Black $ak Stave Mth Is io a clas* by Jtftclf.. It's more carefully made nodirlude from better materials. Try It yoer'paitfcr stove, your cook utove or your p?" If you don't the best polish you ever used, four hardware 01 grocer/ dceler ia authorise] t6 re 1 1 mone/. m-M AUCTIONEERS Will cry tales in this Vicinity* Dates may be afrafiged at the REVIEW office. Your satisfaction is guaranteed. ARRANGE DATES EARLY •"i*r W \S"- Ml 'S| IS 11 W'4 hojp ate S" •m Mm A v.: v\v •0£' 4' Clerk i^insi if