The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1901-12-20
IOWA is COMPARED.
Work Of Two Brothers, One in Iowa and
the Other in South Dakota, on
Their Farms.
University Students Give a Parody on
an AnarchistiC Meeting Saturday
Evening al University.
Local Orators at the University Getting
Ready for Contest to Select State
Representative.
COMPARED With IOWA.
Just Where South Dakota Comes up
to Iowa, and In Fact is Do
ing Even Little Better.

There has in the past few years beep
more or less strife. between Iowa and
South aDakoSa farmers as to:the merits of
the soil and Its productiveness. That
the Iowa farmer is coming our way in
pretty good numbers each year, and
but mighty few South Dakotans going
the other, way, looks like We had the
best OF the argument, But it is not all
argument in the case, the demonstra-
tions have been too numerous and suffici-
emily convincing 40 to really leave the
Iowan but littie ground to stand on,
when it comes to making the soil q mat
ter Of profit. The following very inter
esting piece of information from the
Aberdeen News in comparative state
ment of the results OF Iowa and South
Dakota soil tells it. own story, and ia
worthy of mucn dissemination:
Iowa is one of the great states Of the
union. Her people are wealthy, we'll ed
ucated and shrewd. Agriculture ls
her chief pursuit, and 1t has been made
to pay. The time IL comparatively
short since the state was practically un-
developed. A few years ago farm
lands sold at $40 and Sis an acre. To-
day they sell for S75 an acre upward.
South Dakota stands now where Iowa
stood short time ago. Climatic con.
ditions are the same, except that here
| the falls and winters are more agreea-
BILE The soil is not much different, ex-
cept that in South Dakota there is no
waste land CAST of the Missouri river,
the toughest of it being good for pas.
ture. The products OF the farms are
the same-horses, cattle, wheat, corn,
butter and cream. A: cent or two on
the hundred pounds brings the output
OF tho state as near to the market.
Within few years, under these con-
ditions, both states must stand on an
equal footing, values must reach COM
mon level.
Just now the South, Dakota farmer
enjoys a big advantage over the Iowan.
To illustrate this fact the experience OF
two brothers may be related:
| Charles Eygabroad, auditor Of this
| (Brown) county, owns and operates a
north central part of the county. His
brother, j. A.. Eygabroad, owns and
operates farm near Fredericksburg, in
the northeastern part of Iowa. Both
raise stock, keep COVE, sell cream. The
Iowa brother visited the South Dakota
| brother last summer.
Upon comparing notes they found
| that for the four months previous the
South Dekotan had received IN net cash
81 month for each of his COVE. after
paying sor hauling the cream to HeclA.
| The Iowan's cows-fne ones, too-had
! netted So 65 month each for the same
period.
The Iowan was pasturing his cattle
on land for which he had refused $7s
an acre. The South Dakotan's farm
was worth Sl2 an acre.
The Ioawan ie feeding hay worth SIC
a ton. The South Dakotan's hay only
cost him less than ST. ton, as he had
an almost unlimited amount of grass tt
put up, ard hay in the same neighbor
hood sold for Sl.50 a ton in the stack.
1t is universally admitted that South
Dakota hay is the most nutritious
grown, but for the sake OF comparison
let the food values be counted the same
Both brothers are feeding stock this
Dakotan on ST so hay and the Iowan OF
$40 hay. One will make a big profit BY
the transaction, the other will certainl,
make less.
| These are some of the advantages
the South Dakotan enjoys, and his state
will always be better than Iowa fol
stock raising and dairying, because his
hay is better, he gets more of it to the
acre. his horses and cattle grazs on the
native grasses all winter and spring
when they are allowed to run, there be-
ing scarcely a day in these seasons
when animals will not pick at leasl
half their living on the prairie.
4 At present man may become far
mer in South Dakota on 100 to 800 acre.
of land at one-fifth to one-tenth the cos
of land in Iowa, and he can raise a
least as many dollars to the acre here
as there. The time must come, howev
er, when this difference in the price O
farms will be leveled
ANARCHISTS HELD FORTH