The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1895-06-29
THE KIMBALLG GRAPHIC
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Official Pauer Of the City OF Kimba||
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Official Pauer Of the Cityo KimbaII
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To THE EDITOR OF THE GRAPHIC
We find ourselves away down in Dixie's
Land comfortable and happy and we'll
cOntented in our Arkansas home. where
your newsy paper is a welcome and
weekly visitor. AS we purchased
partly improved farm, we were some
prepared for tilling the soil Every
vegetable grows wonderfully rapid. We
are making somewhat Of speciality of
tomatoes. The foliage is so prolific that
the shoots Of the plants have to be
trimmed off and thinned in order to
give light and air to the fruit The
main stock is securely tied to high
pole placed on the north side Of the
plant. | saw remains OF tomato stocks
when we came last winter nearly as
large as a mans arm. Professional
gardeners are marketing the ripe ones
now and learn they bring So a bushel.
We see neighbors taking in cabbage
Dune 81 and getting 10 cents yer head.
The gardeners trim off the large outside
leaves and then they head very soon.
These outside leaves resemble palm leave
fans In size. The first peas are ripe and
shelled for sted. but the sowings every
two or three weeks keep them on the
market until fall. All kinds OF garden
truck is so plentiful and seems to us so
early. was surprised to find summer
squashes already for the table, and even
the Hubbard are quite large. Bliss
Triumph is the earliest Irish potato here,
followed by Rose, a colored potato, but it
becomes pure white when cooked. The
first Of June we were pleased to find
potatoes that could not be placed in a
fbig tin cup. We got some that
measured, by tape measure, Is inches by
ID inches, and the heaviest yield we have
ever raised anywhere. The tops look
like young forest. And the most sur
prising fact to us was to find that the
potatoes had no foes to fight in the way
of bugs, beetles, grub worms, etc. Occa-
sionally we see the striped beetle. A
nursery agent here one day said he never
saw a potatOe bug. We learn something
new every day about the way the natives
develope garden truck. The housewife
is very busy just now canning peas and
string beans. They raise immense turn
ips, beets, satisfy, carrots, etc. They are
left out doors all winter with only
little dirt thrown over them. l think it
hardly seems creditahle the way corn
grows. The stalks are now over ones
head. The crop ripens tho last of July
to the first Of August. Then COW peas
or other feed is put into the same
ground. We have some beautiful fields
of oats that remind me of huge ocean,
as the waves roll along the surface. it
is much better to have the oats cut in
the fall.
During our sojourn here we have had
an abundance of soft water. Have not
so far seen water barrel OF a woman
running out with tubs to catch rain
water. Water seems easily procured.
Some OF the neighbors just dip water with
their pals, and when it rains have an
over-tiOwing we'll. Our we'll is only four
feet to the water and but step from the
kitchen door. Have heard some that
were prejudiced against the South say
that the water was unfit for drinking,
but can assure all that all I have
sampled has been strictly good water
| We have some springs on our land, but
they are not near enough convenient to
run to every time drink is needed We
also have two streams crossing our land
Seems almost extravagant to see the
surplus old timber, fences. boards, etc.
being considered trash, that is piled up
and reduced to ashes in short time by
a hugh bonfire. The ashes serve as ex,
ira fertilizer to scatter around vines
There is no temptation to pick up a load
OF wood that belongs to someone else
As you ride along you may see many
cords piled that were cut last winter
, when there was more leisure. Now it il
) dry and the industrious farmer takes {
load, generally cut into stove lengths
and often finds apurchaser watching fO
J wood. Many make practice Of drawing
back load OF manure, when convenient
making both trips pay. The pitch pin
f is very inflamable, and small bundle
are easily sold, as quite a large stick will
ignite by touching mat6 to it. TIL
hired help is cheap, and n pc who car
n n hire wood cut in the wintafs suitable 70
# posts, rails, cord wood and logs for tn
n saw mills. The natives are adopts a
e handling timber. Usuailya picket fenc
h of their own make surrounds the garde.
d also some kinds Of boards and shingle
q Called shakes) are made bv the thousan
q and are very durable. Good lumbersel
r for 50 thousand
te | wondered at first why so many kel
as their stock without pasture, but frol
observation | see the stock are turne
3 into the woods and they find plenty
5, feed even in the winter, as the leave
r shrubs, and grass do not wither but kee
Is fresh and green. And such range til;
u they have their choice of picking, at
< there are so many streams that they al
r. no care, as they are taught to come hon
t. at milking time. We made small pa
ture, OF perhaps two acres. There seen
to be plenty Of feed in it for the tea
: and one COW. We we're looking at the
as they were lying down and the gra
came as high as their backs, under
m0nstrOus willow by the creek. and til,