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HERALD VOL. XVI. NO
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•jkDVAiNCK VUL.
XIII,
NO 23
Time flitrI«• 13, A. B. IMviiioii
A St. K*. ItsiilwaV.
GOING KAST,
jnon and came home to spend last Sunday
with his family.
Mrs. A. F. Yenny, who was called to
•••Mhakopoe last week by the illuess of her
mother, wriles that her mother died on
the 27th ult., ol paralysis.
•tl.
ftsst'ii^er Daily 12:S p^m
Dally ex. Huitri&y 10:H0a'm
.Freight Daily ex. Sunday 1:80 111
UOINU WEST.
cucer—Dnilv
Way I'rvii/lit —Daily ll.fKtji
i'ass' iin-T--Daily ex. Sunday, Arrive.. 1
2j
IdCaw SiflKctou ll (Ht il ill
The Ladies Benevolent Society will
serve a New England dinner February
m.
Johnson, the stockman shipped a car
load ot stock to the cities the first of the
Week.
Mrs. Einil Johnson was quite ill dur
ing the week with neuralgia ot the
Stomach, but is now improving:.
Mrs. S. Clark was spending a few
days at Montevideo the first of the week,
with her son and Miss May.
Harry Hocum, the cracker man, was
trisiting witli his Milbrnk friends the
flrst ot the wee«.
The steadily cold weather of the past
Week or two was checked Wednesday by
& mild day, much to the relief of all.
Mayor Smither has considerably im
proved this week, and ie now able to be
Hp part of the time and is slowly re
naming the use of his disabled limbs.
There is no excuse for any man to ap
pear in society with a grizly heard since
the introduction of Buckingham's Dye,
which colors natural brown or black.
By mistake the adjournment of the
•toar:l of commissioners was leit off the
proceedings as published lust week.
The board adjourned sine die oil the 17th
•|»t.
Mr. Foster, the tax agent for the
Korthwestern railway company wns in
"ihe city the first of the week, looking up
tax matters on the railroad land in the
county.
Mrs. R. IT. Batty, of Crookston, and a
Iformer resident of this citj', where her
husband was pastor of the Congregation
al church, came in on Wednesday's train
from the east, to look after some busi
$esa matters.
v Mrs J. F. Miller, of St. Cloud, Minn.,
-Was the gu-?st of her kinsman, W. J.
Garrick, the first ot the week. She was
on her way home from Pierre, where she
•ftad been visiting her sister and adrnir
a Dakota legislature in session.
V. The little girls and young ladies of the
It. E. Sunday school will give their so
eial for the benefit of the library fund at
M. Thomas next
a literary pro
gram will be rendered.
the home vf Mrs. W.
1
Tuesday evening, when
The little son of Alpheus Hocum, who
Was mentioned last week as being
•eriously ill with lung fever has been in
precarious condition during tte week,
and has been compelled to submit to two
surgical operations, lie is still iu a
atrious condition.
The C, M. and St. P. Ry. company
paid its tax into the county treasury the
llrst of the week, the total approximating
500. The tax would cot have become
linquent for a month, but the com
ny is paying its taxes all over the state
in
advance of the regular period, for the
benefit of the state treasury. The pay
ment also helps the county funds and al
lows of the payment ^warrants up to
date.
in
SISSEToN LINE.
Lctiros ilhank 7 a
'Tenv( C'or.ina. V :40 a
Arrive! W'ihnnt 12:01 in
Arrive^'urnim ni
Ar. at Mil hank 1:15
Thfsi' trims run Moudaye, Wednesdays, aud
Fridays each \svek
HOME HAPPENINGS.
in
Lonv Wiimnt 8:20 a in
Arriw Sifisctun !£i in
No. 1 Northern
Wheat —Thursday
43c No. 2, 41c,
Gus Mittelstea^it returned the lirst of
the week from a short visit to Wisconsin.
Louis Donar and Mrs. M. Donar were
Up from Montevideo yesterday. Loais
f» attending school at his new home.
(^u I to a little sickness has been report
ed during the week, the great majority or rejection
cases being in the form of heavy colds
Hftf the short recess in the legislative ses-
lion. N. I. Lowthian took advantage In Milbank, S. D., on Jan. 20th, 1895,
®l)c ficralti
Unlike most proprietary medicines, the
formula: ot Dr. J. C. Ayer's Sarsaparilla
and otlier preparations are chterfully
sent t» any physician who applies for
tliem. Hence the special favoi accord
ed these well known standard remedies
by the World's Fair commissioners.
On® ol the peculiar things brought
out in the institute was lhal some of the
vegetables which many farmers were un
able to succeed with others had never
once failed in producing in good quanti
ties. Tomatoes and watermelons were
among ihis class o(- products, and while
quite a numoer asserted that they had
only occasionally been able to bring
them to maturity others asserted that
been in Dakota they had never failed to
have quantities of ripe tomatoes and
large, luscious watermelon. This
would certainly indicate that the failure
to grow such things successfully here is
more for want ot right methods than be
cause of conditions in climate or soil.
At a special meeting of the city coun
cil, hold at the St. Hubert reading room,
a number of railroad oIliclalH were pres
ent, among whom were superintendent
J. R. Williams, Asst. Supt. II. R. Wil
liam 3, and W. H. Norris, the railroad
attorney. The matter of water supply
for the city and the financ'al relation ot
the city with the company were the
subjects of discussion. The desire of
the citv, owing to the present financial
depression, to terminate the contract,
was shown to be absolutely necessary,
as under present conditions the city
could not possibly continue the pay
ments which the contract required.
AfterJ an amicable conference it was
agreed that the council should meet at
an early day and formulate a proposition
to he sent to the company for approval
Died*
Joseph Glfroerer, ot catarrh ot the atom
ach.
Deceased was born in Bildechingen,
Wirtenberg, Germany, March 19tli. 18:30.
and came to this country something over
«'t0 years ago, and for420 years lived at
Jordan, Scott Co., Minn., coming to Mil
bank ten years ago last April, where he
has lived continuously. The burial
took place last Monday in the catholic
cemetery and was largely attended by
the friends and neighbors of the family.
TiarilKIIS SSOCIVriOli.
Program for llevfm&r at the IHil
buiik Hitfb School, t'ubruurr 2,
189.5.
morn IN (», 10:30.
Song
Business Meeting
Model Reading of Lesson
Miss Helen Cnrrick
Folk Lore Prof. Ramer
AFTERNOON
1:15.
Song
School Management Prof. Keiley
Paper Mr. James Corskie
Recitation Miss Josie Fanset
Talk—"Religion in the Public School"..
...Prof. Priest
Question Box
Mina Fanset,
LAUK.V RODOEUS,
Committee.
Teachers are requested to bring in
their loans to the teachers library.
Advertised l.etter £.l*t.
Letters remaining uncalled for in
Milbank Post Oflice, Jan. 24,1895:
SaldellWni. Wedin H.
MILBANK, S. D., FRIDAY, FEB. 1, 1805.
the
In calling for any of the above please
say "advertised" and give date of adver
tisement. It not called for in tit teen
days will be sent to dead letter oflice.
A. J. BI.kskr, P. M.
A ClMtlce §'nrtu For Kale.
The Northwest quarter, Section 20,
Township 120, Range 48, Grant county
South Dakota, and known as the Wolfe
place, near Mil'ank, is for sale cheap.
For price and terms address W. A.
Purviancp. Administrator, Box lOi,
Rosed ale, Kansas.
Lateit In Biscuit.
Miotics.. Yon broke my Sevres plate.
Yon are discharged. How did yon break
it?
Servant—I carelessly dropped one of
the biscuits yon made yesterday on it
—Woonsooket (R. 1.) Reporter.
Grains of wheat have been found in
the son dried bricks of Egypt and Nin
evehj dating^from at loasl B. C. 2300.
FA iC .111 ICS 1 ST TI'TIO.
Friday'* Session uf the 1
iiteretititiff
ami Kucremf ii I HcpIiiib for
the Ad^aiiceii rnf of S*rac»
(Kill
Farm .Tiniiotls.
The third day of the farmers institute
indicated by the increased attendance
the interest that was being manifested
iu the subject ot improved farming.
The court room where the meeting was
being held was barely large enough to
accommodate the gathering, the people
being packed inside and outside the
railing and on the platform. Prof.
Philips and Prof. Shepard conducted
the institute, the former opening the
session with his paper on "how to farm
a quarter section." The Professor con
tended that there had been a great
cbango taking place in the methods and
system of farming during the pas
twenty years, a change niatle necessary
by changed conditions, and the success
ful farmers must study and understand
his work thoroughly, the fame as the
successful man in any other business, il
he would make a success of it. A great
manv farmers were doing this and were
reaping rewards lor their labor instead
of failure. Many instances were known
where one man with many advantages
over his neighbor made an absolute
failure ot his business, while the neigh
bor with fewer advantages and under
more adverse conditions made a success
of his. One of the leesons larmers in
South Dakota were learning was that
they must diversify their crops and not
carry all their eggs in one basket.
Wheat raising exclusively would make
any man or any country poor. The
older states had each and all tried it
and had to give it up and so would the
farmers of this state. 116 instanced a
case were a farmer made money with
twelve cows, aud had lost the profits
in his attempt to raise wheal. The
farmer could and should live more com
fortable and have more of the luxuries
ol the table than the machanic or ordi
nary business man by raising all the
various kinds of vegetables and differ
ent fruits that can be successful and
profitable raised in ttiis latitude. The
professor gave a list of these that would
make a man's mouth water. He gave
what might be called the average living
expenses ot a small family od a farm
outside of what could be raised by the
farmer himself as running from $225 to
$314. He showed that this should be
more than met by tho profit from ten
uows, forty sheep and fifty hens, if prop
erly and systematically handled. Speak
ing of rais-ing wheat he claimed that if
tho snorts aud bran from the wheat
could be fed to the stock on the farm
and the necessary fertilizing element
thus retained on the land, and only the
patent Hour shipped away, the land
would lose hut little of its fertility.
Successful (arming in South Dakota,
the same as elswhere, requires study,
great care, observation and attention to
the experience and results attained by
others. It was in the latter respect that
these farmer institutes and, similar
gatherings proved beneficial.
At the conclusion of Prof. Phillips
paper, the question box was opened,
among the questions being: "Is water
impregnated with iron good for garden*""
It was staled that the trace of iron
found in any of the watur here would
not be detrimental.
"How would land plaster work on our
land Generally did not need it, but it
was just the thing to work up any patch
of gumbo.
"Is alkali water good for garden?"
No true alkali water here.
"What is the best crop to plow under
for fertilizer?" Clover, peas, rye, millet,
preference given in the order named.
"When is it best to mulch potatoes?"
Either before they are up with coarse
manure, spread all over, or after they
are up by putting between the rows.
This practice has proved highly bene
ficinl whenever resorted to.
"What shall we do if Taylor never
comes back with the state money?" In
reply to this Prof. Shepard said that he
was neither a statesmen, financier or
politician, but would give a few minutes
to the question as he presumed it was
put in the box in good faith. lie said
that he did not expect to see this money
returned to the st ite, but nevertheless
he did not believe that the slate would
be bankrupted or its people reduced to
poverty by the perfidy of Taylor. It
whs an infinitesimally small amount in
comparison with the resources of the
state, and he held that the ordinary tax
payer would hardly be conscious of the
loss, which would amount to about 25
cents to each, and which was many times
over lost by wasteful methods arid loose
and untntelligent farming.
The next question the Professor said
was of far more importance than Taylor's
theft, it was "How can we prevent
squash and pumpkin blossoms from
failing to mature?" For an an
swer to this the professer called upon
Mr. Irwin Aldrkh, who explained tho
matter as follows: Blossoms upon
[squash vines are of two kinds. One, the
more numerous aud that which first ap
pears, has as a center-piece, one straight
cylindrical organ looking not much un
like a little yellow parasol closed. The
upper part of this organ produces a
large number of yellow ranules the
pollen of the plant. The other kind of
blossom has a center-piec« which is
round and somewhat wheel-like in its
appearance. At a certain period of
development, it exudes a waxy sub
stance, and if at this time the wind,
waudering insects, or any otlier cause
brings a few pollen grains to it from the
pollon-beaving biossoms, it is "fertilized"
anil the little squash at its base will Jive
and grow. If no pollen is brought to it,
however, the little squash will turn
y e o w a n o o I i s
only this latter kind ot blossom
which ever develops into a squash.
Tho polleu-bearing blossom never does
more than to produce the pollen for
fertilizing the squash-producing blos
som. In this country, where bumble
bees are scarce, the means for trans
porting the pollen from one flower to
another is iiuflicient, hence very few
people grow squashes and pumpkins
successfully unless they live near a little
timber, in which case the pollen carry
ing insects are more numerous. Mr.
Aldrich has grown plenty ot" srjuashes
for the past tew years by going through
hia field about twice a week during the
blossoming season, carrying a pollen
hearing flower and leaving a little
pollen
upon such squash-bearing blossoms as
show by their waxy look that they are
ready to receive it. This year he carried
a few sticks and marked the location of
each blossom treated, and was success
ful in about 75 per cent of the cases.
Most of the failures were due to the
immaturity of some of the squash-bear
ing blossoms treated. The operation is
very easy and simple, any schoolboy
can attend to it.
"What was cause of smut in com and
how prevent?" Mr. Aldrich was called
upon to explain this, and said that soak
ing the seed in a weak solution of blue
stone would iiill the smut.
"If farmers generally should go into
diversified farming would nol prices on
these products fall below a profitable
basis?" The professor explained that
this was not likely to happen, and illus
trated the fact bj showing the difference
iu the consumption of a quantity of good
butter and a quantity of poor butter, the
good quality rather making au increased
i demand.
A general discussion on how to
change from wheat raising to more di
versified work was then had.
The absence of Prof. Wheaton, the
dairyman, who was to test samples of
milk and give a talk on dairy subjects,
was a great disappointment to many.
The professor had been regularly sched
uled tor Miihnnk, but the farmers of
Day county had persuaded him to re
turn to Britton, where they were organ
izing for a creamery, and he was there
by unable to reach Milbank in time.
For the disappointment which this cir
umstame had occasioned Prof. Shepard
said that he would protnisb that Prof.
Wheaton would make a special trip to
Milbank at any time the people here
would decide upon, and fill his engage
ment with them. Upon a vote being
trkrn it was unanimously decided that
the professor should come, and Feb.
20th was fixed upon as ihedate, the ses
sion to commence at 10 a. m.
Pi of. Phillips gave a short talk on
dairying and llhist-ated the improved
butter separator, and the great saying
it made in but tor making, and by re
quest gave what he considered a proper
distribution of crops for 100 acre farm
as follows ""Wheat 20 accon*, and
Consolidated April 11.1M0
fodder ./) acres, oats lo, barley 10, garden
2, potatoes 2 to 5 aud the rest of the farm
for pasture and feed,
EVENING SESSION.
"Gardening'' was tho principal sub
ject at the institute Friday evening, and
a very interesting topic it proved to be.
Farmers were advised to make a garden
anu to make a good garden it would
provide the family with many luxuries
for the table and in many cases prove
a source of profit. One of the first
aud most necessary points was te secure
good seed, as much that was sold was of
poor quality, and should always be test
ed. Prof. Phillips had raised a garden
every year he had farmed in the state,
and gave a list of tho things he had
raised abundantly last season, notwith
standing the drouth. Had never failed
to raise tomatoes, having had them ripen
as early as July 15 in some seasons.
Found the earlist and best varieties to be
the Early Ruby, Dwarf Champion and
Early Advance. Pieplant, celery and
asparagus should not be neglected on
the farm, as it could be easily raised.
Among fruits the hnrdier apples and a
varity of plums could be successfully
grown among the latter the varieties
found best adapted to this country were
the "Desota." "Wolf River," "Forest
Gardens," and "Harrison Pe ach." The
matter of protecting the trees on the
south side, was shown to be necessary
sometimes, the sun in the late winter
an i early spring drawing the sap from
the tree and causing it to split. The
professor recommended putting up a
board or some protection on the south
side of the tree to save it from the ef
fect of the sun. In connection with
this subject he suggested that the organ
ization of a horticultural and agricultur
al society be formed, and some capable
man be furnished with the means to
make experiments lor the society acd
thus secure the best results.
Prof. Shepard gave a short history of
the agricultuial college, explaining the
wo»k it was doing in giving the young
men and young ladies of the state a
complete practical education and pre
paring them lor useful citiizenship.
The young men received, besides the
ordinary instruction of a collegiate
course, an industrial education that
was of in. stimable value to them in the
practical business ot life, either in ag
ricultural or mechanical lines for ihe
latter, blaeksniithing, work at the iron.
Iath«, wood work, mechanical drawing
and surveying were taught, the pupil
learnir.g *o do by doing.
For
the young
adies cooking, sewing, darning and
other practical matters were taught ini
connection with th* more ornamental ao
complishments. The college was turn
ingout young men and women who
were morally and every other way a.
credit to the institution, and very
many of its graduates were filling im
portant and honorable positions in life.
The professor paid a very handsome
compliment to Prof. Aldrich, our county
superintendent of schools, and relerred to
him as a sample of th« young men,
Brookings college turned out upon the
world.
In closing the professor advised the
farmors to keep the institute alive by
holding regular meetings and discussing
methods and icsults, and thereby loam,
from one another. Much good and in
valuable experience could be thus
secured.
At tho close of the institute a vote
of thanks was unamuiously tendered
Professors Williams, Shepard antl.
Phillips (or the very interesting acd in
structive manner in which tliey had
conducted the institute.
Newbern, N. C., was named after
Bern in Switzerland by Baron, de
Uraafewidt, a Swiss, who founded tho
town in 1720.
You
Can Get
Ferry's Seeds at your dealers'
aa fresh and fertile as though
you jrot them lir«ct from Ferry's
Seed Farms.
FIRKFT SEEDS]
are known and planted every
where, and uro alivay* the
beat. Ferry'* Seed Annual
for 1895 tells all about
thero, Pre®.
D. M. Ferry A Co.
Detroit,
Mloh.
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