The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1905-03-03
WILL Be A DAY
FOR THE
Grain and Forage Convention
to Be Held March | and
2 at Huron.
AN INTERESTING G
A New Departure in the West Is tn,
AN INTERESTING G
A New Departure in the West Is thu
Instruction of Farmers in Selection
of Seed Grain and the cuiti-
walton of Same.

Huron. S. d, Feb. eS.-Everythins is
IN readiness for the grain and forage
convention to be held here on March
and >. The program has been com
pleted and includes addresses by some
of the best known and most deeply in
terested men in agriculture IN the
northwest. Professor w. A. Wheeler
of the state experiment station VIII
discuss the selection of seed, hafay
early wheats Will be given attention by
Professor II. &. Chiicott of the state
agricultural college, and grasses X
hay and pasture Will be discussed by
O. c. b. Gregg, superintendent of Min
nesota farmers institutes. Mutual
Interests of Producers and Transpor-
tation Companies is the subject as
signed to Hon. a. O.. Johnson OF the
Chicago and Northwestern Railway
company Ruth A. Wardall OF the
State Agricultural college will talk of
domestic science, and this feature of
the convention is to be made especially
interesting for ladies. especially farm
ers' wives. NJ. f. Greeley of the Da-
kota Farmer, Aberdeen, viii Civ ms
views and experiences on Corn ana
Rotation TO be followed with general
discussion.
on the evening OF March /, President
Chalmers OF the Nermillion university
will deliver AN address, followed with
IL paper entitled The American Girl
and the Home" by Bertha Dahl Lewis
of Appleton, Mimi. The Boy and the
Lana will be talked of by Hon. NJ. f.
Greeley of Aberdeen.
Thursday mornings session will open
with short talks on various matters,
followed with Il paper on cheap crops
by Frank Sherwin of Brookings, and
speak of alfalfa, its cultivation, care
and properties as a feed crop. Three
hardy oats for Dakota will be con-
s;dered by Professor f.. G. Chilcott.
and a. x. Bush of Dover, Mimi. will
deliver an address ON the selection and
growing of hardy corn. Plain foods and
plain living is the. topic assigned TO
Bertha Dahl Lewis of Appleton, MINI.
The convention will close with an adj
dress by Colonel ID. G. Rogers, secre-
tary of the Minneapolis Chamber of
Commerce.
Pure Seed Special.
Yankton, S. d., Feb. 2S.-The pur,
seed grain special that LETT Minneapolis
n week ago arrived in Yankton Sat
urday night and remained over Sui
day in this city. In the party We're
Professor w. A. Wheeler and Professor
e. c. Chilcott, both of Brookings, who
made addresses Saturday night in Tur-
ner hall. and John j. Quinn. secretary
of the Tri-State GrainaDealers' ass6-
citation; l.. H. Cooch of the Farmer,
st. Paul; Geo. A. Duvigneaud, vice
president of the II. Poehler
grain commission merchants of Mime
apolis. and Division Freight and Pas
senger Agent j. G. Low of Sioux City,
who had charge of the train for the
Milwaukee road. The party left early
his morning for Platte. The trip Will
take two trips and from fifteen to
twenty thousand farmers that will have
been addressed at its end. Minnesota
and South Dakota owns to the num-
Der of seventy lave been touched at
for addresses. the instruction being
mainly on the absolute Importance of
selecting only the best of wheat and
corn for seed with illustrations from
experiments made at the experiment
stations of this state and of Minnesota.
Much interest was manifested at this
place and the visit will result in great
good.
Warm weather still continues at this
point and the river is likely to go out
at any time. 1t is already clear on the
South Dakot bank and is honey
combed in the main channel.
A lively time with real western trim
mings is reported from Utica near
here, where two brothers named John
son, mounted on ponies. rode into the
Kaiser saloon and proceeded to shoot
up the place. An elderly man named
"OAAAA NViieC NiAoNHVu III W tlie LOIlll-
sons off his horse With a club and The
two left. No arrests have as yet beer
made. Not much damage VAS done.
Delayed word reached here of a fatal
accident at Crofton early last week
in which the 5-year-oid son of CLERK Q,
Courts Charles Ruben. of Knox county
was instantly killed by crawling unde.
a feed grinder. His head was caughl
by he sweep TO which a team OF
horses was attached and ali above the
mouth was smashed to a pulp. A hireC
-dan had left the machine for a min
ute n the boy was killed during his
Nbsence.