Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-12-01
EFT, N. o. Gaasadalen, Hans Fairness.

E. j. Carpenter, Sam Warren, c. s.
Layman, Tom Peterson, Thos. Coul-
son, j. B. Nelson, A. Anderson, c.
g. Jensen, Laura Hanson.
The Sunset Limited" on the
Great Northern, which boosted that
it would cut down the running time
between Huron and intermediate
points to the Twin Cities, has been
checkmated by the Chicago g. North
Western. The latter simply runs a
passenger, which ran from Redfeld
to Brookings, over the original
North Western line from Wateltown
to Tracy through Marshall, Mimi.
This train carries a sleeper and
saves an hour and thirty minutes
time to those who travel from Water
town and all parts of the state that
might possibly travel over the G. N.
AT the same time the @. & NV.
runs its regular evening passenger
and sleeping cars from Huron to the
Twin Cities. The fact Of the matter
is that there is no other railroad sys-
tenn in South Dakota that has the
facilities and gives the service that
the North Western is giving.
1t begains to look as if the coal
famine predicted for this winter
might become a reality. The stock
of Hooking Valley coal on the Lake
Michigan and Superior docks is said
to be very low for this time of the
year and lake navigation will close
on the 9Th Of December. The large
coal ace on the two lakes are
all the way from 1900 to 5000 cars
behind their orders for shipment
their capacity for loading being from
100 to $50 cars for each concern in
a day. This situation is due to the
scarcity of cars. Heretofore it has
been customary for coal shippers to
trsasfer business from one to
another, in order TO expedite matters,
but now all concerns refuse to take
orders from another shipper on the
ground that the car sevice and pres.
p~ectiVe supply will only allow them
to care for their own trade. The
facts as stated above, together with
the talk of possible difficulty with
the miners unions next spring leads
the coal dealers to talk of advances
in the price.
of late we have been reading
many articles in our exch anges
from all over the state relative to the
value of treating seed wheat for
smut by the formaldehyde process.
The general opinion, based upon OBJ
servation. is that the treatment is a
great preventative of that wheat
disease. In this locality very few,
if any, treated their seed wheat and
as a result there was scarcely a field
tributary to this city that did not
contain smut. This caused a con-
siderable loss to the wheat raiser,
both DIS to yield and as to quality.
The smut kernels weigh very little,
and yet each smut kernel takes the
place ofgood sound kernel of wheat
on the stalk. The percentage of
loss could easily be determined by
taking a certain number of heads
and counting the smut kernels.
Added to the loss in yield is the loss
in price. All smutty wheat must be
washed before fit for milling. The
washing process costs from 3 to 4
cents a bushel, SO we have been in-
formed BY concerns equipped with
apparatus for that purpose, and add
ed to this cost Is the profit the wash
ers demand and are in position to
take because they have a "cinche" on
the situation. Smut easily lessons
the price 10 cents per bushel. We
notice, too, that even a very small
amount of the smut lowers the price
almost as much as if the wheat
were black with the smut. As to the
value of treatment for smut this
writer depends almost entirely upon
reports. TIE only case that has
come under our personal observation
was brought to our attention by @.
w. Stoner, at Iroquois. We werc
shown wheat raised from treated
seed, and also wheat raised from the
same seed untreated, both raised up
on adjoining quarters of land. The
treated seed brought forth a crop
that was absolutely free from smut,
Mr.. Stoner also told us Of a farmer