The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-10-04
HORTICULTURE THE
BASIS OF WEALTH.
J. A. stransky Tells Farmers of Charles
Mix County that South Dakota
Land Is the Ecuai of lowa's,

Platte, S. D., Oct. II. A. Stransky
of Pukwana, democratic candidate for
governor of South Dakota, spoke to
the farmers of Charles Mix county yes
terday at the opening of the county
fair, dealing with the wonderful de-
Velopment of the northwest, and es-
pecially South Dakota, eliminating
politics in his half-houl' address. Mr..
~StranSky is Il great optimiSt and has
for a quarter of a century been striving
for the advancement of the state, n
in the past ten years has become the
states biggest advertiser and land
owner.
Mr.. Stransky opened his address with
a few preliminary remarks, congratu-
lating the people of Charles Mix for
their thrift ard enterprise. Mr.. Stran-
sky said in part:
Agriculture is the basis of all wealth.,
and they who till the SOL feed the world.
You who are here today are farmer-pio-
neerS. In some other state many of your
ancestors were pioneers; hardy, courag-
sous men and women are you and so were
your ancestors. In fact, but a few miles
from where we now are assembled, l02
years ago, the expedition of Lewis and
Clark, commissioned by that great states
man.. patriot and scholar, President JEFF
tcross plains and over mountains, to es-
'ablish and perfect title to the vast region
If the northwest. embracing all of Wash
ngton, Oregon, Idaho and parts of other
states. From these Adventures and fort
lne hunters went back awful tales of sand
and sunshine; of burning heat and dry
claims, where the parched lips of man
found no welcome water; where the only
bird was the swapping owl, and the sparse
'egetation was full of deadly rattlers. We
know today their stories were as much
exaggerated as the sailors stories of mer-
maids and sea serpents.
Wealth Is in Agricultural Products.
l am speaking to you as agricultural peo-
pie, and so you are, and South Dakota,
aeSDitn its other great wealth. is AN ag-
ricultural state. Some refer to South Da-
gotta as a cattle state or a mining state:
Why, do you not know that the value or
any ore of three of our reading agricultural
products IS greater than the animal and
mineral productions together, and that the
combined field, garden and orchard pro-
ducts for one year would equal the pro-
ducts of the grazing lands and mines for
almost a decade? And # we look into the
taken up by farmers is put under cultiva-
ton, the agricultural productions of this
young state battle your .maginations.
you reside in South Dakota. You are to
be congratulated upon your enterprise in
establishing and maintaining a county
educative value. The spirit of rivalry for
the production of a better grain, or of a
larger yield; of a better hog, horse or steer
puts the mind OF every competitor at work
and it must be remembered that all prog
ress has its origin, plan and working out
in the mind of man. Go to the farm of a
PIE WililtI Ut Tile county 11IT anu you
will see evidences of thought and thrift.
And when you meet upon these grounds
and exchange ideas; when you meet men
who have thought upon different lines and
str.ven for different ends. you exchange
IDEAS with them, you absorb, as it were,
digest and assimilate things from them
farms mentally broader and better than
YOU were when you came; your spirit and
determination awakened; you have beer
broadened and bettered by the educat.v@r
influence Of association.
Dakota Just as GOOD as Iowa.
Hundreds are pouring in now to the
lands beyond the Missouri. While we lave
largely recovered from the effects of a
grand state of Iowa has suffered two and
in parts of the state three d~roughts in the
same time. yet land east of Hawarden is
selling for more than land just as rood
west of it in Dakota. There is no reason
for this so far as soil, climate and pro-
auctions are concerned, for we equal or
could be moved to Montana, any acre of
South Dakota subject to tillage, would be
worth $50 per acre. A few days ago I
closed a deal involving $44, 1000. Had I sold
land no better, the same acres would
have sold for three times the amount.
When these facts are fairly known, our
We have in the past borne the burden of
a heavy local tax. A large part of this
has been for educational purposes. and we
pay nngrudgingly to sustain the school
marin, as we say. who guides and directs
our children in discipline and earning We
nave accumulated a large school fund,
which is lessening our taxes: and I wish
that our many thousand acres of unsold
school land could be now. at least tempor-
arily, Withdrawn from sale, and rented and
held for higher prices which are sure to
come. ] believe the rent in the future will
exceed the 8 per cent. interest on the
funds We now obtain from the sale, and
from 20 to 90 per cent. could be annually
added to our future school fund by this
course. But in any event our school fund
is a legacy we bequeath to posterity, and
is an incentive to anyone seek:ng n loca-
ton in a new state.
Where can you find a more healthful
climate THAI South Dakota? You cannot
y,alids twenty years ago, hoping to pro-
long their lives a few months lave been
active farmers, ministers or teachers since
a few months after their arrival.
AS to soil, variety and quality. and
quantity Of production, YOU booths and
barns testify here today in a silent Ian
pies, plums, berries, wheat. barley. corn,
flax, rye potatoes, pumpkins, watermel-
ons are put a part of the list of agricul-
tural products; while your farm stock was
never edua1ed hy a state so Young al
ours. Our stability and progress is proved
by the fact that we have had no bank
i IAN r,ara m ID hKe years, and we are build
Nowhere else in our broad land can one
man cultivate SO many acres and produce
$40 snd m canita &C So Rsa small = an outlay of labor
~exhaustible water. ready to send IN a ner-
petual fountain If only tapped: ali here
and thought. -
$50 AN ACRE FOR DAKOTA LAND.
Huron, S. D., Sept. 2S.-The largest
price yet paid for South Dakota land
was yesterday paid to r. o. Richards.
of this city, for his 1900 acres ranch
near Forresburg, Sanborn county The
consideration being $4,000 or $50 an
acre. Inc purchasers of the large tract
of land are members Of the Hutter-
notwithstanding society, a Ger
man-Russian organization with he. d.
quarters at Olivet. Hutchinson o nty.
The Richards ranch is ore ~ the
finest in the state n the b1ildiugs are
MODERN and connlete, while the loca-
ton is exceptionally pretty and attrae-
tive.