The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1905-02-03
make up your mind that that means

make up your mind that that means
the LIST OF December and not the
middle, nor tie first of January. BE
on time. Get your entries in a
month ahead of time. 1T will not
hurt anything. Entries have been
offered to this sale as late as the
middle of January and parties lave
really felt offended at being rejected.
i doubt not that d great majority
OF u members fail to realize the
work almost day and night that has
been required TO perfect and execute
the plans, correspondence, advertis-
ing and a thousand MINOR details con-
nected With this present meeting
and sale.
a strong feeling exists among our
members favorable to the holding OF
grand mld-wlnter SHOW In connection
with our combination sale. Such an
exposition would result in great
good TO the breeders, create interest
among the stock growers and add in
lluence and prestige TO our asoscia-
tor. With the new building which
IS to be erected in tbs city within the
next les months. for our special ac-
COMMUNICATION, for the next four years.
(planS Of which viii be laid before
oui O0Nf NuIlIJE IiIlS I!CClIliEi w
would nave an ideal place to conduct
sympathy with the idea and trust it
will receive at your hands the
careful attention which it merits.
before the week closes.
y lc~ parties :ncline TO the belief
that the dates of our meeting and
sale should he changed to a time
when we would be less liable to en-
counter inciement weather This
was fully dicusssed two years ago
when il was admitted that we were
liable To run up against bad weather
either earlier or later and that the
main thing to consider is the season
when our kind of stock is in demand.
February is the best month i'm the
year for bred sowS, ewes and COWS.
January is too early. March is too
late enttlllng too great a 1isi in ship
ping pregnant animals. a later date
than We now use would cut the poul-
try show out entirely by not giving
the ianClerS time to mate up their
breeding pens for spring business.
Our dates seem TO be as good as could
be selected
Once thoroughly organized and all
branches working tremendously GER
1alnly cur association should be m
sidered in a l%lourishing condition and
ready TO do effective work along the
lines OF It's mission-the Improvement
of the live stock of the state.
urge every member, old or young. in
the business to put his shoulder to
the wheel, push with all his might.
throw aside all prejudice for breeds
and ANY personal differences that may
exist and 90 ahead as a unit striv-
Ing to place South Dakota in a po-
si1ion she deserves to occupy in the
stock circles of the country.
1t remained for A. L. Chamber-
lain to rouse the audience to a state
OF excitement in his address on
"~Lcgislation and the Breeder.' lie
touched partic llarly OF the trust Sit
uati0n and how 1T affected the farm
er, with reference to the beef trust
and the Wheat trust. HIS plan
against the trusts. was to throttle
them instead of trying to regulate
them, and he declared that TIE
we've as sufficient to convict
anybody i'm the trust business as to
convict a horse thief. He asid that
the farmers were attending to their
own business TOO much to look after
their interests either at Washi ngton
or Pierre. that they ought situply
to demand their rights and insist on
sending men to those places who will
not lose sight of the farmer imme-
diately on getting into his seat.
With Burning sarcasm he referred tic
the manner in which the meat trust
had robbed the farmer of twenty-five
million dollars by reducing the price
ON neef and their regulation of the
prices even before it left the farm.
hut it vas noticeable that the Gus.
toner was paying at least twenty pei
some tine to state affairs and re-
fer1ed to the big appropriations that
had been made for state Institutions
but he declared that no man coulC
remember when the Legislature
ever appropriated a cent that WA,
for the direct benefit OF the farmer
f, He said the time had come whei
the tanner by NIGHT should demanC
am appropriation that would helk
hlm i'm lis efforts TO increase tht
wealth of the state. He urged thai
tho legislative committee of the as
ISOLATION should 90 to Pierre ant
insist on an appropriation with whicl
to erect a home for the Live Stool
/ Association in Mitchell. He s1iC
that it was asking entirely too mtcl
of Mitchell to bear the burden o
expense in providing Il bone Tor al
institution that is a direct beneii
; to the state. When he closed Mr.
Chamberlain was aIplluded to tn
echo, and he certainly had the stock
t men aroused TO a high point of eN
! element
D In the discussion that foIiowe,
George Mclgathron. of Huron. who i
also the secretary of the State Boar
of Agriculture, said he was i'm lavo
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