Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-05-08
Corn and Wheat Lands.

Land suitable for growing corn in
creases in valhc yearly, and i" much
more desirable to own than wheat
lands. Wheat can be raised on nearly
all kinds of soil and in nearly every
part of The earth, but the United States
has a practical monopoly of corn, as it
has Of cotton, hence in the markets of
the world it does not meet the same
competition as wheat. Last year we
raised 1,SOO,ND,OcO bushels Of corn. If
every hushel was sold it would net our
farming class, taking the year through,
probably 40 centsa bushel: that is, over
$700,0oo,0oo; but this does not jell the
whole story, for corn is fed to hogs and
cattle and used in manufactures, and
as pork, meal, whisksy, glucose, brings
over two thousand million dollars in
the markets Of the country. II is, in
fact, by Tar the most Important Of our
agricultural products, grass and hay
perhaps excepted. We harvested 5l2,-
100000 bushels of wheat last year, but
it brought'so low a price, due TO the
competition of other countries, that
our farmers suffered heavy losses, and
less wheat but far more corn will be
grown next year. Those who think of
buying land for. farming purposes
would do well to see if it is suitable for
growing corn, for if it is there is far
greater chance for an advance in value
than if il is fitted only for the small
grains.-Demorest's Monthly.
Mitchell Republican: Attorney Gen.
Geo. Rice registered at the Alex. Mitch
ell last week on his return from his Of
fetal visit to the Crow Creek and VIM
nebago reservations lately thrown open
to settlement by President Arthur and
later withdrawn by President Cleve-
land. Mr.. Rice made a thoroughinves-
tigation Of the nature ofthe settlement
made on these lands and says he found
the great majority Of the lands taken
by bonafide homesteaders, who have in
vested all they had in improvements
and getting in crops. Mr.. Rice is fully
convinced that a wrong has been done
this honest y.epmanry that can only be
Erighted by their being reimbursed for
monies expended and time lost. When
he advised them to quit their claims
and move off the reservation, he was
met with the question: "Where shall
we go? We have no other home and
no money to buy one" He found
houses that cost as much as $500, sur
rounded by 40 acres OF plowed land
sown to crops, stables for stock and all
the ground work for comfortable farm
homes. MI. Rice has gone north and
will make his report to Gov. Pierce,
who will doubtless report to the Inter-
;or Department at Washington show
ing the exact state of the case.
Professor Swing in The Current says:
I'm someparts of England public school
teachers are paid according to the
standing of the pupils on examination
day. The result is not all good for
some of the pupils are oyer=driven by
the teacher. The teacher is thus much
like the Chicago cabman whose wages
are greater the more he whips his horse.
AS many would rather walk home than
ride to the music Of the whip, so one
would better let the children pick up a
small education of one or two years
than have them driven along many
years so us to Justify the salary of the
driver. In Greece, paidagog means a
gentle child-leader; in England, it
means q child-driver."
The following, from an exchange, is
very true and very appropriate: 1t is
worth remembering that no newspaper
is printed especially for n person any
more than a hotel is built especially to
please ond guest. People who become
greatly d%ispleased with something they
find ina newspaper, should remember
that the very thing that displeases them
is exactly the thing that will please
somebody who has just as much inter-
est in the paper as they have.
"Come off, roars the British lion to
the Russian bear, in reference to the
Afghan frontier, and the Russian Gen
eral komaroff thinks he hears his name
called and replies that he was Just play
ing with the lions tail, but if he was
going to get mad about it the Russian
bear will be turned loose on him and
the world will have a chance to see
which is boss.-EX.
An exchange saysthat Japanese girls
use their tinger-nails as pens. That is
clever, but not quite as practical as
some Of our real estate merchants who
utilize the space to Carry around sam
pies OF Dakota soil to show their east
ern customers.