The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-08-10
Locals of a
Wider Nature.

that he initiated some eight years ago. He began BY
saving each year the seed from the smallest stalk first t
ripen. By following this up he has produced a specie oil
corn about a foot tall with good sized ears that is ready
for use very early in the season. By following the ex-
pertinent longer he expects to produce a variety of corn
with little or no stalk or foliage, with the ears alone to
designate that it. corn.
The approach of school days will find a scarcity of
teachers in the counties east of the Missouri river. This
does not mean that the population of these counties is
decreasing. An aged school director from 20 miles dis
tant reasons it out in this way. 1.-THE Spanish war took
many young men away, leaving the girls at home. Then
came a boom in land and many new settlers focked in, a
large proportion of whom were single men. AS the
girls were hustlers, capable Of teaching the district
school, corralling a bunch of steers, driving a reaper or
mower, leading the choir in singing at church or practie-
ing the children for a musical or literary entertainment,
the new bachelor settlers naturally took to their fair
Dakota n~eighbor, and they won a great many of them
over the hrst year while the Dakota boys were at the
wars. Then it was that the scarcity Of teachers began
and while the wages has been increased $40 and SIS a
month the supply is still limited, while the children of
school age are rapidly increasing. Then the settlement
OF the Rosebud and Sioux countries has taken many
of the older teachers of both sexes away who seem, to
want to go west and grow up with the country. I tell
you, with school about to start and no schoolma'm in
the house, with an increasing number of children crying
for mental succor, the problem is hard to solve"
Chas. Thomson, probably the best Judge of wheat
conditions in the state, expects the price here will be
$l.25 q bushel within the next few months. 1t seems that
the wheat yield is about cut in two because Of the rust,
although an average of 10 bushels to the acre is still ex-
pected. Not so with the macaroni wheat, which the rust
or dry wheather has not effected, the heads being we'll
filled with plump grains. It will yield 20 bushels and
MI. Thomson expects there will be 10000 bushels of it
marketed at the Van Dusen elevator, of which he has
charge. All of it will be No. /. As few have seen the
-four or eaten of the bread made from it, the facts that
this gentleman tells Of it will be of great interest. The
local mill here made some straight -four from it under
adverse conditions, as it requires q different process OF
manufacture from the other wheat. Mr.. Thomson took
q sack OF the flour home and when he set down to par
take OF his breakfast the next morning the biscuit were
unusually delicious and as the old saying is went like hot
cakes. The color was a trife darker than the other wheat
-four but made q sweet, light biscuit. When scien-
ti6cally ground as other wheat is the -four would be of
q creamy, yellowish tint, but not dark. He says the sack
Of macaroni -four was equal ia the Pillsbery -four that
had come from Minneapolis, that was being used in the
hcasea At the time, both in color and in taste of the bread
1T akher oxeHk ~aroductss