The Newtown bee., 1905-09-15

| B LYMAN, FORMERLY OF NEW PRESTON. l Brown County lies in the famous
 Jim River valley, which is noted. for its productivenesS in all kinds of grain. miles and is strictly an agricultural county, as it's soil is a rich black loam
 about 30 inches deep, with a'>porous clay subsoil which holds water indef-
 inltely. It is due to the peculiarity
 of this subsOil which retains the mois
 ture and feeds it to the roots of 1 the growing vegetation that crops are harvested in Brown County
 in years when the rainfall is light and
 when the fields of Iowa, Illinois and
 Nebraska have sbrivelled into dust
 Of course wheat has been, and may
 ever be, the great crop. Still the day 1 of great areas planted solely to that
 cereal have gone. No pioneers of the | West have so thoroughly demonstrat-
 ed the futility of the single crop as
 those of Brown County. And none
 have so systematically educated them
 selves in the theory of crop rotation.
 But by planting portion of his acre.
 age in barley, flax, SpeltZ, oats and
 corn with few acres in potatoes and
 other vegetables, insures himself
 against the failure of the wheat har-
 vest: In the present year, when at
 have played havoc with the wheat, no
 farmer felt that he would find him.
 self in difficulties, for each had suffi-
 cient land in corn, barley and other cereals to view the future without
 fear. With each year greater atten-
 tiOn has been given to corn, which has
 been from the very beginning a suc- | cess in this section. Since the days when corn growing was yet an experi-
 ment in South Dakota, the county
 has never experienced failure but has maintained high average yield.
 This is equally true of all the coarse grains. 1t may be said that Brown
 County is fully equal to the region
 about Cedar Rapids, Iowa, for the cul-
 ture of corn. The intending settler
 will be anxious about markets and glance at the railroad map of South Dakota should fully satisfy his mind on this point. From Aberdeen radi- ate to every point of the compass the lines of the different granger roads. Scarcely city Gin all the Northwest has such ample rail communications, assuring to the farmers quick and sea sonable transport of his produce. FL evators are everywhere, at the most COuVculcuU pldC0S, pTOVlOIlk the most ample storage facilities.
 That the education of the children has been we'll provided for can be ap- preciated by study of the school ex- penditure, which show large sums an nually expended for the betterment of the schools. It is believed that Brown county has spent a greater sum per capita upon education, than any other of the state counties. At Aberdeen the state has provided Normal school, where many students are con- stantly being trained for the school service.
 An abundance of pure, cold water without taint of alkali or other injuri ous minerals can be obtained any where in this section of South Dakota ] at depth of 25 to 40 feet This wa ter is so abundant that the farmer | can water his horses and cattle with | out affecting the supply by simply | turning on the windmill for half an 1 hour. This section has no sloughs, l lakes or ponds and so the surface is as | dry as it will ever be. Therefore if | this water is so abundant to-day, it is DO doubt but that there will always l be plenty of water. If for any reason | body of water (the largest the world | has ever known) can be and is struck | by artesian wells at depth of 800 to | 1000 feet. These wells cost from $250 | to 5000, depending on the size of the pipe used. A S250 artesian we'll will l more than supply any farm of | section of land and all the stock such | a farm can support. This water is somewhat warmer than the we'll water and is especially desirable for stock in cold weather. The larger wells furnish water power and fire protection to most of the towns in this section. The water supply of the city of Aberdeen is drawn from artesian wells sunk 400 feet to bed rock. Prof J. Todd of the State university recently tested the artesian wells at Aberdeen and found them to have a pressure of 240 pounds to the square inch. And he pro- nounced them as having the highest pressure of any wells in the world. The Jim river traverses the county from north to south. It is the longest unnavigable river in the world.