The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-21
Farmers of South Dakota Are
Heavy Deb0s1t0rs TN It's Banks
Prosperity of the Ag,1cnltu,ist Sh0a,u BY the Con-
ditiou of Banking northumberland
Values Steadily Increasing.
Corn and other Cereals Haze Mude Remarkable
Adznuceu,ent-C01wA area Erteudiug
With EUe1y Season. ....- .....

pendence, tho good average crop may
always be counted upon. Corn is fast
encroaching upon the wheat fields with
most advantageous results. Barley is
orfa aaa ab crop Of g9Tne n m
pprostably grown. Hay and ''' fodder
grow in prodigious quantities and find
a profitable market for shipment.
Dairying has revolutionized many sec
tions and is unquestionably the coming
great industry Of the state, already add
ing millions each year to her wealth.
Cattle, hogs, sheep and horses are
turning thirty-fve millions year into
the Golfers Of our breeders and feeders.
! It is the great livestock paradise, for
here
"A dollar year will keep steer: ,
"These are some of the material adj
vantages offered. On the other side
South Dakota offers highly developed
citizenship, fully organized for all hui
manities. Schools. churches, universe
morality, patriotism. Everything which
combines to make the home congenial,
comfortable and prosperous.
pertinent. More than forty-four years
have elapsed since the agricultural
population first came into the state,
and the entire portion east of the Mis-
souri, has been settled for more than
twenty years. The pioneer settlers
were confronted by new conditions.
Many Of them, who came to Dakota as
homesteaders, were factory operatives
and tradesmen, wholly inexperienced
in agriculture. That many. should fail
and give up in discouragement was in
evitable. And, too, there were periods
calculated to try the hearts of the
most experienced. Fire, flood, drought,
seem to be the portion of the pioneer
in every section, and South Dakota has
been no exception to the general rule.
"But once tried out nature turns to
the pioneer a smiling countenance and
showers the faithful ones with many
favors. So has it been in Dakota. The
men and women who had the faith and
courage to stick it out have learned
the heart secrets Of the mother state
of great happiness and prosperity. She
has taught them the trick of the soil.
Inch by inch she has yielded to them
for fruitful agriculture until all Of her
Astounding domain blossoms with rich
harvests and nourishing pastures where
uncounted herds fatten on the lush
grasses; and where once the buffalo
and the antelope painted for water,
there now gush from her bosom many
| hundreds OF never-falllng fountains,
feeding purling streams and beautiful
lahkess, about which rs spring groves to
breath, once hot and scorching as a
desert wind, has become soft and hui
mid, bearing frequent showers to re-
fresh the earth. - ~. ia,
Opportunities for either homeseekers
or investors to secure cheap South Da-
kota lands will diminish rapidly in the
years to, come. With exercise of
ordinary good Judgment it is almost i'm
possible to make a bad investment in
South Dakota farm lands; prices are
advancing so steadily and the advance
is so legitimately based upon the fruit
fulness of the soil, the profits of agri-
culture, the splendid climate and in
creasing population that investors who
have the foresight to take advantage of
remaining opportunities are practically
certai in of rich returns.