The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-07-31

The farmer say tiAae wheat
vii eventually supplant other varie-
+;ss On the market macaroni always
grades No. 2.
Vacaroni wheat is being raised in
| o,hsr parts of the state this year and
the same reports are being made Of
the splendid growth this grain at
toipei. The only feature against
raisiny this wheat is that the general
average of mills in the Northwest do
not have the machinery to grind the
Grain and this will have to be intro
/ duced before the farmers generally
can enter into it's production.
Wants His Price.
Sixteen years ago an unread Scotch
man, thirty miles northwest of Miller,
bored a 2O0-foot well on his land, but
| failing 10 get water, proved up and
returned to the old country, first max
ing a contract with a neighbor that
when the we'll commenced to flow, as
he thought it would in time, he was
/ TO have $50 an acre for the farm, the
neighbor feeling safe in making such
a contract, as water was not believed
to exist there at that time. Now the
[scotchman is on the ground to claim
| his price, the abandoned well flowing
freely from a leak in the same neigh
bpr's artesian well who promised the
| $50 an acre. 1t seems that the un-
filed wells dug in the early days in
that section are filling with water on
account of so many artesian wells
flowing continuously, liz some in
stances the water having to seek ita
own outlet.
A Freak Field.
Andrew Nelson, a farmer living
near Ola, Brule county, has a field of
wheat which is a decided freak in its
way, About the time last year that
wheat was ripening grasshoppers got
into this particular field and ate a
great part of the grain. After harvest
a voluntary crop grew in the field and
had attained a good growth when
winter set in. Snow covered the
ground all understanding In
usual in that locality-and last spring
the field again came up nice and
green. For the purpose of seeing what
would result Nelson permitted the
field to stand as it was. To his sur
prise the wheat grew as well as that
Eso"n in the spring, and Nelson states
that the field is now without doubt
the best in that locality. In this in
Stance at least grasshoppers proved.
kof benefit.
Irrigation.
Raymond +. Walter of the United
States geological survey has selected
EhHe sites in western South Dakota
which are deemed suitable for reser-
vo'rs under the national scheme of ir-
frigation and C. Fl. Fitch, chief engi-
lneer of the division Of reclamation,
has arrived from Washington for the
purpose of making further investiga-
}tion. Each site is calculated to ac-
fcumulate sufficient water for the ir-
frlgatlon of a large tract of land. The
I'VE sites are situated in Butte, Fail
River and Pennington counties. Other
sltes are to be selected in Lawrence
fand Custer counties.
Left the Show.
The harvest fields of South Dakota
looked so much better to the tent men
(ot the Forepaugh & Sells Bros circus,
whlch was touring that state, that
faoout 200 of the men deserted the
fshow and took to the fields. AS re-
suit, when the show reached there, it
tpecame necessary to hire about 100
ooys OF all ages to assist in putting
|up, Some delay was experienced in
fsse.lng things in shape. but the ex-
h'oltlon was not interfered with. An
unusual number of people worked
'ne'r way into the show.
Arrested.
deputy Marshall John Bedding of
peadwood. has arrested Martin Bow
en- and Sterling Z. Parker, ranchmen
|along Elk creek in the vicinity north
east Of Rapid City, charged with
II PuUllC were
EVEN q hearing before the United
fe'ates commissioners at Deadwood and
FOUND over to the nextterm OF United
court at Deadwood in Septem-
News Notes.
frank Juneman, a blacksmith, has
Fanysteriousiy disappeared from his
ZONE in Huron. He was last seen late
sunday night, when he parted from
tas nnance, who can assign no reason
ior MS disappearance.
Hand county. for the first time has
woman school superintendent in the
person Ts of Miss Margaret Duthie.
me handsome and newly erected
E'arochial school at Tabor was dedi-
lated with most imposing ceremonies
~ Bishop OGorman, in the presence
several thousand visitors.
harold Cooley, the twelve-year-old
Son OF Deputy Warden Cooley, ofsthe
sloux Falls penitentiary, was drowned
7 the Sioux river at Sioux Falls.
me new Carnegie library building,
'hlch was erected III Sioux Falls. at
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