The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1889-10-25
stay by Dakota.

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nopulation, or it was unhealthy where
Won lived, fever and ague were near
neighbors or you were flooded with rains.
or chinch bugs or weevil took your crops,
or drouth ruined them as it hus in several
states during the last two or three years.
In mauy eastern states you had all these
difficulties to conteaa with. Here you
have but one of them. 1t has been to
dry here this year yet 1t is only confined
to small localities. One county will
have o light crop of small grain. while on
two and sometimes three sides OF that
county there will be fairly good crops.
One county we know in the central
part will get very little more than the
seed In return from the fall plowed lands
and yet in the south part of the same
county crops are fair, and in the northern
part several farmers confidently claim 30
bushels of wheat TO the acre. The
drouth has not been general. A drouth
that does not touch the corn cror is not
a serious matter to the state at large, it
is serious to those who haye put too
much confidence in small gram. Will it
make up this loss to go somewhere else?
Yonr goods that you cannot take will
you must be sold at a sacrifice. In some
other country you will have to replace
them at first cost. You may need credit
to put in a crop III q new country. You
have friends here and reputation estab-
lished, can you do without these where
you are unknown Won't the necessary
expense Of removal 60 far towards keep
ing you through the winter If you remain
here? DO you know what Oregon and
Washington territories are crowded with
people who spent all they had to get
there and now can not get enough money
to get back to Dakota? Do you know
that Montana has had q far worse drouth
than we have and that the California
boom ended last year with thousands of
people unable to get back again? Do
you know that in Kansas there has been
crop failures for four yearsy not entire
failures but similar to ours, partial enes.
Do you know that fifty per cent of the
cultivated lands of Dakota have never
been only half plowed? Very little plow-
ing has been done over four inches deep.
thousands of acres only three inches,
very many less thar that. Plow Dakota
eight inches deep. and no drouth we
have seen In eight years IN Dakota will
reduce her crops 10 per cent. There is
hardly 8 county in Dakota that will not
produce this year some fields of wheat
that will go 90 bushels to the acre, and
oats that will go 30 bushels, and corn
that will go 40 bushels, and potatoes from
$50 to $50 bushels an acre. The except
iona arc rare where this will not be tn.
case. Is this failure? We Know time!
are hard, they are sc throughout thu
country. In the cities the railway com
panies, the street cars and miners are al
having their strikes. Will 1t help you
condition to add your wants TO those o.
some other community? We think not
Go if you must but stay If you Gun
Every western state has had the sam
experience, the transition period fror
wheat to corn. Few counties in low
now raise their own bread. Nebrafk
now has miles of eerneribs, where a fe'
years ago the wheat men could uotmak
aliving. Wisconsin and minnesota hay
had the same experience aud similar /,
suits, not a few Of the best farmers
Dakota have for several vears pa!
bought their bread and made money j
SO doing. We know right where III
sore spot is. Too many of US arc to
well acquainted with the 2 per cent me-
During the remarkably successful yea
of S4,5 and 6,snme OF us thought Dakot
WAS a bank and that it would meet a
our bills for stock, machinery and bull
ings. Two or three partial failures
crops have pat on the brakes, and rattle
hard times in a few instances. We ha'
the same soil now as then and with mut
wider experience of the soil and its pos.
bilities, the more diversified system
h%usbandry and continually expandi1
market facilities In the west and sout
west, the promise OF q SPECIFY lhhuA
population to settle reservations. a
the assured Of statehood SOL
to be obtained. These aided to Our
most unlimited school facilities, c
great interest in churches and newsI
pers. and the manifest intelligence
our citizens as demonstrated in the al
Gle of our state constitution, all comb
to prove US one of the most intellige
Industrious. highminded communities
the nation. Again we say stay if J
can, but going elsewhere, do not exp
a better soil, a better climate or bet
people, you will not dnd them