Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-09-24
g W. Hill Editor.

/ Ws.must have a railroad from the
50 uth-east; ard that owned and CON
trolHA BY some other company.
Fhs price of the farmers votes
should be nothing less than a reason
abl lle ectation of thereby securing
a so !, XII honorable. intelligent, faith
full ssFVant,
h ff,oas farmers who have no stock to
ffissna fssssts su fer when grain, is 20 very
low as at present. Mixed farming IS
most sure to pay, and the best pays
little enough.
Experience in this country, shows
that oats do full better when put on
good clean corn ground without plow-
ing than on other land, therefore, we
should raise corn first then oats
An exchange says g In some sections
OF Dakota farmers will raise flax this
year to be used for fuel, a ton of fax
being considered more valuable for
thatEpurpose than Il ten OF soft coal"
Government ought to own all Il. Rs
and warehouses, then there would
be transportation whenever needed,
and none OF this delay that companys
might get rich by forcing grain at
half price.
The sugar cane crop is very good.
and that put in early on sod is first
rate; but some people cut it too soon.
1t should be very near dead ripe before
it is cut; unless the frost is likely to
cut it sooner. A little frost does not
hurt it but a freeze does.
The farmers warehouse full OF
wheat and no cars to be had to carry
it off with, is the news from Woon-
socket; and forty cents per bushel is
ali the railroad warehouse buyers will
pay. That is the way the farmers are
robbed this time. What neXt9
One good crop per year will bring
farmers out OF the fog OF poverty So
many have u hundred acres or OVER
under the ploW, with more to follow
next year. Working cattle will be high
in the spring il not yet this fall
| Horses would be high also if oats and
corn Were not 50 scarce. secure your
teams now.
The ground is quite dry for plow1ng
but it is far better for crops ii ploWed
when dry than when wet. Pillow five
or six inches deep and pulyerize Thar
row it well before seeding and again
after seeding, and put your grain in
the ground in good season, near the full
or in the old Of the moon and you will
get good crop Fall plow all you can
If farmes were properly organized
they could strike for a decent price
for their grain, and stock, and success
fully too. Join the Alliance and
knights Of Labor. Slumber not while
corporations are contracting the cur
rency to force property and labor to
half price; besides resorting to every
other imaginable device, to impoyer-
ish and control The common people.
Farmers should see to it that they
vote for no man for the Legislature
whose interests are antagonistic to
theirs. Let no one get your vote who
is not out-spoken and unreserved in
his declarations to work for the farm
ers' interests, and in cooperation with
the representative of the Farmers
Alliance. who may be elected to the
Dakota Legislature, Respect and pro-
tect YOUR own interest or no one will
respect or protect you and you could
not respect yourself. Any person who
would not honorably and energetically
work for our interests, is not entitled
to our votes.
There was never time when it
was as much for the interest of the
farmers to keep posted in what is be
ing done by their organized and deter
mined men as now; and the truth a.
bout them is only to be learned through
the regular farm journals. Have we
reason to expect the mouth-piece OF
monopolies to tell the truth about us,
and our organizations Can farmers
be so credulous, so soft as that? Ev-
cry farm journal is replete with pass
ing events which make the future his
tory, and every family should have at
least one weekly farm journal for COM
mon information. We know that we
need daily rest, we know that we need
daily Good, and that we need drink at
intervals III order to sustain life, Vlgor
and health; and we need to keep post
ed in passing events just as certain
to be intelligent and reasonable. Truth
is essential food for the welfare Of
mankind. AL other classes OF people
have become 50 glddy, SO wild, so fal-
lacions. that the farmer must rely up
on themselves and their offspring,
to redeem this benign ted world. w .h
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