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Farm and Home Week at Iowa State
College Put Off This Year Be
cause of Influenza
Because of the possible danger from
influenza in bringing large numbers of
people together from various parts of
tile state, the annual winter farm and
home week short course at Iowa State
college has been indefinitely post
poned. This is an announcement just
issued from the college at Ames.
The annual corn show and meeting
of the Iowa Corn and Small Grain
Growers' association will be held at
Ames February 17th to 22d. Various
other small groups will come to Ames
at various times during the winter for
holding specialized meetings.
Tractor courses lasting two weeks
will open February 3d and 17th and
March 3d and 17th. On January 25th
a ten day short course for experienced
butter makers, ice cream makers and
market milk men opened. A short
course for field men from large cream
eries is being held. Other meetings
are also scheduled to be held.
GARDEN SUPERVISION A SUCCESS
To the supervision of Mrs. M. Cad
wallader was due a large part of the
success of the gardens of Waterloo,
last summer. Mrs. Cadwallader had
a novel system, by- which She not only
gave instruction in trucking, but also
created, an interest in the work.
One day each week she set aside as
an appointment day, on which day
members of. the garden club would
meet at a demonstration garden and
receive individual instruction in dif
ferent points which seemed difficult to
th,em. Mrs. Cadwallader visited the
gardens of the members each week,
and if anything went wrong she would
ca^l the member and in the demonstra
tion garden point out the correct way
to do it.
She also conducted a series of lec
tures in the public schools, delivering
the lectures on some timely garden
topic each Saturday morning.
As a result of this campaign, 118
school gardens showed exhibits at the
Cedar Valley fair this September. One
hundred thirty-eight children who had
grown gardens which were considered
up to a previously fixed standard, re
ceived free trips to the fair.
BE CAREFUL OF FALLEN HORSES
touring the winter many horses fall
down and many are hurt in trying to
get up. If the driver can give the
right kind of first aid, he can prevent
serious injury, says the U. S. depart
ment of agriculture.
A good driver, who has the confi
dence of his horse, can calm the ani
mal by talking to him in a reassuring
tone. When he falls his impulse is
to get up, but sometimes the harness
holds him so that this is impossible.
Do not allow him to hurt himself by
pounding his head on the pavement or
ground in an effort to arise. If neces
sary, the driver should hold the
horse's head down by placing his
knees on the horse's neck.
Whfen the-animal has quieted, un
hitch and back the wagon away. Per
haps all of the harness must be re
moved before the animal can arise,
especially if the accident has occurred
on the slippery pavement. When the
horse is on his side, help him roll
over get his hind feet under his belly
and his fore legs out in front of him.
It he cannot arise from this position,
it is 'best not to force him, but call a
competent veterinarian. He may have
an injury to the hind parts, such as
a fracture of the hip or leg.
Especially in cities should care be
taken with horses on smooth pave
ments. Special attention should be
paid to ithe shoeing, as a little ice on
a smooth pavement may make it im
passable for a smooth shod horse.
/f"* PLANT SOME STRAWBERRIES
During the last two years the food
situation was such that nearly all of
the efforts of the farmers and gar
deners were directed in such a way
that the maximum amount of food
could be produced. Along horticul
tural lines during this period, the pro
duction of fruit has been so side
tracked that tfiere has been a decided
•shortage of fruit and particularly that
of small fruits.
Several times the amount of straw
berries that we produce could be con
sumed by oyr own people if the supply
was available. Every farm that will
grow corn is capable of producing
strawberries. In view of the fact that
the food situation now is not nearly
so acute as it was, we are warranted
In urging people to plant strawberry
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8HORT COURSE POSTPONED
beds for home use, as well as for com
mercial purposes.
The strawberry business is beyond
the experimental stage. Senator Dun
lap, Warfleld, Breederwood, as well as
many other varieties, can be success
fully grown in every county in the
state. Unlike any other fruit, a full
crop can be secured one year after
the plants are set out. Other small
fruits, like raspberries, gooseberries
and currants, require two to three
years to reach maturity, while the
apple requires eight to fifteen years to
fiome into a period of full bearing.
Strawberries are easy to grow, but
like other crops, the greater the cul
tural care they receive, the greater
will be the yield. A few rows running
across the average farm garden will
produce all a family can use. An acre
of well tilled strawberries will yield
anywhere from a few thousand up to
six or eight thousand quarts in one
season.
Iowa has been decidedly short on
fruit the past few years and long on
other food products. None of the ber-j
ries shipped in from the large produc
ing districts can compare with the
home grown product. At twenty to
thirty cents a quart, the price that
prevailed the last two years, the per
capita consumption is small, but with
a supply available in the gardens the
per capita consumption will depend
only on the capacity of the family.
The plant diseases and insects that
work on the strawberries as a rule
are not serious. The crop is as cer
tain as any that we grow. The middle
west and particularly Iowa, is in need
of thousands of farmers and garden
ers who will plant new beds this
spring.
Information can be obtained by
writing to the small fruit and truck
crops specialist, agricultural extension
department, Iowa State college, Ames.
UTILIZE ROUGH FEED WITH BEEF
CATTLE
Every ton of straw, every ton of
corn stover and every ton of coarse,
cheap hay produced on the farms
should pass through the cattle or to
be used as bedding after having been
offered to them. Beef cattle, especial
ly steers and dry cows that are being
wintered, may be given cheaper feeds
than grain, such as well cured corn
stover, straw and hay, with 1 or 2
pounds of cottonseed meal. They
should be given all of such roughages,
however, that they will consume with
a relish.
Much is being said about gasoline
substitutes, but the only one that has
been demostrated as thoroughly prac
tical is leg muscle.
The peace table has been leaved out
so big to accommodate all those dele
gates that one must have to stretch
terribly reaching across for the but
ter.
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HULDA TO HER OWN
Two years ago Hulda was just an
ordinary grade cow, getting on in
years, and with no future—unless the
prospect of winding up as a canner
may bo called a future. No "Johanna"
or "Korndyke" or "De Kol" or any
such aristocratic attachments to Hul
da's name. Just plain Hulda, and no
more. She was 12 years old, and in
1915, so her record says, she pro
duced only 246 pounds of butter fat.
Last year Hulda's owner joined a
cow testing association and began to
take a new interest in the care and
feeding of his cows. In common with
the others of the herd, old Hulda got
better care and a better balanced ra
tion than she had been used to get
ting and she began to wake up. That
year, as a 13 year old, Hulda produced
429 pounds of butter fat.
This year, as a 14 year old, Hulda
has demonstrated what some old cows
can do if they are given half a chance.
Her owner tried milking her three
times a day and she came through the
testing year with the really remark
able record of 716 pounds of butter
fat.
Hulda stands as a striking example
of the practical results that farmers
are getting through business organi
zations of their own..
MEETING DATE CHANGED
Because of the meeting of the Corn
Belt Meat Producers' association
scheduled in Des Moines for January
29th, the meeting of the Iowa Beef
Producers' association scheduled at
Ames on tl^at day has been changed
to 10 a. m. January 30th. This will be
held the same day as the auction sale
of pure bred heifers by the Story
County Pure Bred Calf club, which will
be conducted on the campus of Iowa
State college.
These employers that turn down the
soldiers that want their jobs back
should ask themselves who they Ex
pect will do their fighting next time?
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On a farm over 30 more jobs can be done
with the Crawler Type Tractor
thanany*other built.
Why?
Less Ground Pressure
More Traction
Shorter Turning Radius
CALL US
WE WILL SHOWaYOU
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MATERIAL TESTS RUN AT AMES
Road material tests will aoon be
started at the request of the American
Society for Testing Materials, accord
ing to the engineering extension de
partment of Iowa State college at
Ames, by which the tests are to be
run. The actual testing will be done
in what is known as the good roads
sect'on of the department.
Work will bo mainly along the lines
of testing stones in road ooncrete, and
asphaltic materials, such as road oils
and pavement asphalt. The tests are
being pushed by a special committee
of the testing society.
Inquiries for this work are coming
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extension man. Other states are tak
ing an interest in better roads and
consequently need the information
provided by these tests.
MUCH POP CORN GROWN
Pop corn and navy beans were fa
vored by the boys of the garden clubs
last year, according to reports being
received by the agricultural extension
department at Iowa State college. A
Maquoketa lad raised pop corn that
was valued at $39 in his garden. An
other chap from Oskaloosa got $14.25
for his work.
Commencing at 10 o'clock a. m.
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UNCLE SAM ASKS SAVING
Uncle Sam's war message to Ameri
can women is portrayed In the 1919
federal conservation program that is
being urged. How this conservation
can be carried out is demonstrated by
a drawing which is being circulated.
Conservation means food, clothing,
health, labor and income. All of these
are taught in demonstrations, lectures,
home visits, exhibits and the informa
tion bureau conducted by the home
demonstration agent. These apply in
both the country and city home, ac
cording to the chart which advocates
the movement.
PUBLIC SALE
Having sold my farm, we will sell at public auction, all personal Property on the place, located 10 miles west
and 1 mile south of Denison, 7 miles northwest of Dow ity, 2 miles west 1 mile south of Kenwood,, and 5 miles
southeast of Charter Oak, on
Tuesday, Feb'y. 11th
7 Head Horses and Mules
Consisting of span of brown mules six and seven years old, weight 2400. This is an extra good pair of
mules. Span of grey mules eight and ten years old, weight 2400 black gelding five years old, weight 1400 grey
gelding seven years old, weight 1300 brown mare ten years old, weight 1000.
41 Cattle Will be Offered
Comprising nine head of milch cows, two fresh no w, four will be fresh soon, two fresh in April and one
j, ,'ater 3^Wo.y#ar old heifers 2 two.year old steers 20 pring calves 2 young calves,, and 1 Angus bull Z- years old
23 Hampshire Bred Sows
All bred to a pure bred Hampshire boar 52 spring hpats 25 fall pigs. In good thrifty condition.
Machinery, Wagons, Cultivators
3 wagons 'with boxes hog rack single buggy disc with tongue truck 24 foot harrow force feed Sterling
seeder, new John Deere 13 inch stag gang plow 16 inch stubble plow John Deere No. 999 corn planter 2
walking cultivators riding cultivator John Deere binder with 7 foot tongue truck Deering mower, new
hay rake Deere manure spreader, new 2 O. K. hog wa terers hog troughs emery stone new wheel barrow and
other articles.
About 4 tons tame hay about 400 bushels corn stack oat straw 3 sets 1 1-2 inch harness,, extra good 2
sets 1 1-4 inch harness, extra good 1 buggy harness 3 sets fly nets DeLaval cream separator barrel churn.
Eight Dozen Rhode Island Chickens
ALL HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE: 2 9x12 rugs and a number of smaller ones 1 brass bed 2 iron beds
1 sanitary couch Majestic range 12 foot table complete dining room set new kerosene stove.
TERMS: All sums of $10 and under, cash| On sums over that amount a credit of one year's time will be
given on approved security bearing 8 per cent interest from date. All property to be settled for before removal
from premises.
Wm. Antrim and H. Perry
Owners
Farm !to be Sold at Auction
On the above date will will sell the farm known as the Antrim farm and described as follows: The SE 1-4
and SE 1-4 of NE 1-4 Section 13, Willow township, and the W 1*2 of SW 1-4, Section 18, Paradise township.
This is one of Willow township's best farms, and is wel 1 improved. Good 7 room house, bam 40x60, double corn
crib, chicken house, hog house, good cattle shed. All fenced and cross fenced. It will be sold on very liberal
terms,, made known on day of sale. 5-2t
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