The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1895-04-04

"o " eoeS W seek WeahI
elsewhere and who has come ba.l,
renew farm work in South Dab.
thoroughly convinced that this s,lI
offers advantages which canno,
found elsewhere. Mr.. Welch's ev,.'
ence is interesting. He came to Son.
Dakota eight years ago and settled /
a farm in Lincoln county, five nil
south of Sioux Falls. All he had
that time was 16O acres of land
remained two years and a half. rails,
three crops ano when he left sold \
farm and improvements for S.. OO0 sd
$500 worth of grain and cattle and MI
with him besides the proceeds of tbaI
sales, nine horses, eve cattle
bushels of oats and considerable ~
chinery. He went to s~outheas,SI
Kansas where he farmed two wears III
a half. AS the result of his operatin
in that state he left Kansas at the ~
of two years and a half with a snar J
mules and a few hundred dollars wo,l
of farm machinery, all that was let
his South Dakota earnings. He M
rowed $50 to help him out of the com
try. He went to Ohio where by N
gence he saved enough to get him I
South Dakota and put him in possess
of another South Dakota farm. H.
now here and says that he intends
stay as he knows of no agricultu11
state where the returns are so cert, 4
and as large as they are in South n
kota. In Justice to Mr.. Welch it shgu
be added that he did not leave 4
Kansas with the idea of betterinp h
condition but because his health ,
CURED at that time a more modenI
climate. Sioux Falls Ar gus Leader \
In order to determine If il is L
profitable to raise ducks as chicken
considering that it took about tyak
the amount of food to grow them
enterprising Hammonton, n. j., pI
tryman. 2. Fl. Jacobs, made the fos
ing test:
At n one week old the duck
weighed four ounces, while the chs
only reached two ounces.
At 2 weeks old the duckling reach
nine ounces, and the chick got up
four ounces.
At three weeks, duckling one pouI
chick, six and one quarter ounces
At four weeks, duckling, one pOrl
and nine ounces; chick. ten ounces.
At five weeks, duckling, two pOuTS
and two ounces; chick, fourteen ouncE
AT six weeks old, duckling, N,
pounds and eleven ounces; chick, "a
pound and two and a half ounces.
At eve weeks old, duckling, thr5
pounds and five ounces: chick, d
pound and seven and a half ounces
AT eight weeks old, duckling III
pounds; chick, n pound and twat
ounce
AT nine weeks old, duckling, ID
pounds and eight ounces; chick, n
pounds. Z
IF reports from Kansas can be re
even a good well and wind mill "
reservoir will successfully irrigate
acres of land. The reservoirs used
such cases are made 40 to so feet
diameter and 3 feet deep, the bottd
thoroughly tramped with horses
cattle with a few inches of water in
This makes it retain the water, u
leakage being light. The sides .
simply made by building a wall ofa
or earth. A square box is PLACES
the bottom of the reservoir three
which the water is rapidly convey1
into the bitches after the reservoir
been filled with water. 1t is clans
that by applying the water during
fall months, thoroughly soaking
subsoil, that abundant crops will
produced the next season with
little rain or surface irrigation.
lieve the experiment is worth tryl1
at least.
Since the price of wool on an
trade basis has dropped over 40
cent. below protected prices, sheepe
yet may be as profitable as any on
branch of farm industry. Horses
cattle bring no return until after
third year, and are selling below
cost of production. The sheep hove
through the yield of wool, to say 10
ing of lambs, give a cash return e"
~ months and bring mon ely in TO
farmer in the spring before there
be any return from his crops. Hp
seems not improbable that a par
least of the duty upon wool will De
stored, and as increase in the tiocs
necessarily slow, it is an open ques.
whether in comparison with thsS
prices of wheat, cotton, horses
sheep are not more desirable thaDpr
of the other branches of farm u
tries.-Justice, Brteman g. Co. II
Heavy cattle dealers from DaS1
ranges have Just returned from