Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-07-28
tell a tnle Of advancement more clio.

tell a tnle OF advancement more sio-
quently than can be given in words:
Are. ana., wheat 81 ISIS $3.50 $780, 1884, 10
Bushels heat ........ j, 750,6J0 17,250.350
Acres under oats ...... 1913 otD,GSJ
Bushels oats ......... .3,2J0,3G0 is, 23o,64o
be c-s,, under DER, barley a7's59 2,s go
The average yields for those six years
were as follows:
Bushels.
Wheat. per acre 800
oats. per acre 80
Barley. per acre zfS1
This does not include the great grain
growing province of Manitoba.
AS there is at least % per cent more
land under crop this year 01905) on ac-
count of the favorable spring for seed.
ing. than there was last year, the crops
will doubtless reach these figures:
Bushels.
Wheat 22,5oo.Ooo
OdtS -r'DU,'D"
Barley 3,UUo,ooo
1t must be borne in mind that wheat
is the only grain exported e~asterly to any
great extent, the local demand in Brit
ISL Columbia. the necessities of the in
coming population for seed and other
wise consumes a large portion of the
annual product. Placing the price Of
wheat at 80 cents, oats at 40, and bar
ley at 80, which are very conservative
figures, the value of the crop of 1904 was
$lS,S2 $40. This would give each farm
er established in the work well ON TO
81 1000 for his years work. To this
must be added the receipts from the
sale of live stock, hay, dairy products.
roots, vegetables, etc, well on to half
as much more.
From a condition OF nature, the two
provinces, though lying side by side and
extending from the 10th to the Goth
parallel, haye different climatic iniu-
ences, and as a result are different in
their producing capabilities from econ
omic points Of view. Alberta lying next
the Rocky mountains, but moSe especial
ly in It's southern district, is affected by
the Chinook or warm winds from the
Pacific ocean. AS a result it has dryer
summer weather than its sister province,
and is not 50 much in favor rs a grain
growing country, but is without question
the most favorable ranching country On
the globe. Large tracts are leased NJ
a mere nominal figure, and the herds
live out the whole winter through and
are invariably in excellent condition in
the ''round up or enumeration in the
spring. There are at least 15O,0 900
aces 0. free grazing lands in this wide
country, an area six times as great as
the combined areas of all the Western
States.
Dairying.
Many of the ranchers take up farm
ing with the cattle industry and Incl
dentally dairying as well. The latter
promises yet. profitable as the other
branches OF agricultural industry may
be, to become a leader in farming wealth.
There is a system of d~airying establish
ed in the country under government con
troll, supervision and management that
relieves the farmers Of much expense
and anxiety. Instead of being compelled
to build structures for the care of milk
and its products, they simply turn their
milk over to the dairymen, who call for
it once a day, receive advances once Il
month on the butter and cheese, and at
the close of the season, or when the
years product is sold, balance up the
accounts.
AS cattle double every third year, are
worth about $50 as 3-year-olds, and are
fed the year through on the native prai-
RE, the doubter can readily understand
there are fortunes in ranching and dairy
ing.
There is a class of the community who
imagine the country must be subjected
to much Inconvenience if not privation.
because of lack Of fuel. Because the
country is prairie they conclude there
must be a complete absence of fuel. The
man who takes a trip over the country
is, however, soon relieved from all anx-
iety on this score, as he finds all of the
rivers, many of the lakes and ponds
fringed with timber and often large
bluffs of fair sized timber in patches in
the open prairie, to say nothing of small
forests in many districts of the entire