Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-09-22

to Its collection daily. samples or ooe
from Wasp mine No. 2, nea Lead,
which was taken from a vein which
essays $40 to the ton, have been placed
on exhibition.
9,460 Pounds of Butter.
The butter shipped from Frederick
for one day recently amounted to 9,46O
pounds, of which the Frederick
creamery sent $3.50 pounds, the Savo
creamery 5000 and the stores a 1000.
The production holds mp well for so
late in the season and this shipment
means the receipt of Sl,400 by orr
farmers.
The Owner the Loser.
The Canton News says; Marshal
Thackery, of Hudson, lodged two sheep
thieves in the county Jail last Tuesday.
They will serve ont $40 worth of time
each but the owner of the sheep does
not get the cash. On the contrary,
these two scoundrels get 20 days free
board at the county's expense. They
should have been sentenced to hard
labor on a diet of bread and water. 1t
is no punishment TO such fellows TO
fatten at public expense.
Rock Island Road Enioined.
On application of the officers Of the
South Dakota Central railroad company
Judge Jones, of the state circuit court,
has granted a temporary injunction
restraining the Rock Island railroad
company from withdrawing a freight
agreement recently entered into between
that company and the South Dakota
Central. According to the provisions
of the injunction the Rock Island COM
pany is required to handle the cars
from the new road and charge the rates
as fixed in the joint tariff. The tenn
porary injunction is protected by a
bond for $4,000, executed by the South
Dakota Central railroad company.
Young Hunter Shot.
Delmon Simmons, the l6-year-old son
of A. ID. Simmons. of Madison, was, it
is thought, fatally shot through the
carelessness of one of his boy compan-
ions while hunting ducks at Lake Her
man real Madison. Simmons and
another boy were near the shore of the
lake, almost concealed in the tall grass,
Where they were trying to get a shot at
a flock of ducks. Vincent Walden, a
son of v. Il. Walden, and another boy
were a few feet furthe r from the shore.
also concealed in the grass. The ducks
rose, and in his haste TO fire young
Walden shot too low, and a full charge
Of duck shot entered Simmons back
near the left shoulder blade, making a
hole some three inches in diameter. His
chances for recovery are small.
Progress In Breeding Fruits.
The horticultural bulletin by Prof.
n. Il. Hanson has just been issued by
the South Dakota Experiment Station.
No. 81, The Western Sand Cherry, con
,ains 81 pages illustrated by 20 cuts,
gives the progress in improving this
'rative Dakota fruit by crossing and
selection. Announcement is made of
new fruits originated at this station by
crossing the Dakota sand cherry with
choicer cultivated fruits such as the
peach, apricot and japanese plum. BY
careful selection through a number of
years new varieties have been obtained
with fruit seven-eights of an inch in
diameter and of quality acceptable for
table use. The sand cherry is also
found useful in the PROPAGATION of tone
fruits. Bulletin No. So, breeding hardy
fruits, contains 80 pages illustrated by
30 cuts and gives an outline of expert
ments in improving the native fruits of
the northwest by selection and crossing.
This bulletin should be read widely
insomuch as the South Dakota Expert
ment Station in extent of its fruit-breed-
ing work is second only to that of Bur-
bank of California. Copies will be sent
upon application TO director James w.
Wilson, Experiment Station, Brookings
| South Dakota.
How he Plants Winter wheat.
In a letter 70 a Sioux Falls friend,
Thomas A. Thomson, one of the most
successful farmers of Charles Mix
county, give an interesting accoun OF
his success in the rising of winter wheat
which it just now attracting great
attention among the farmers of the
state, who are discussing the advis.
ability OF abandoning the spring variety
and substituting winter wheat in the
future. Thomson writes that he never
tried any other than the hard variety OF
winter wheat and that he sows it the
last week in August or during Septem'
Der, and even as late as October. He
sows in corn fields between the row
with a one-horse, five-hoe drill. The
seed, he states, wants to be placed quite
deep in the ground, with a good roo
and top, to secure it against winter
freezing. The first year he experienced
with winter wheat he received a yielt
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