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The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1908-12-05
VIA Good Cotton Crop.


used Dunn pl0w With long point
and long i.ft-hand sange. max
tnw q plow much Ike an eighteen
9ach @wesp. but one that does better
work IT, this atI-. hard lAna. wtth
shln / plowea vrTy shallow TIL eulu-
vat4on waa completed. About the
arwt of JalT I put oam hundred
poanda 90 cottnnme~d meal per acre.
pmttAaE * down by the aide OF the
cottun witA 3 waaao distributor. The
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1908-12-05

cotton grew I'll the frost. about No
wesnbcr list. and ls NOT yet all out.
bat / shall get about ten 400-pound
bales. hope 60 raise a tne crop OF
corn there next year.
estimate the cost Of the manure
at Sis. the cost OF hootng vas
about tI2.se. the hauling straw and
manure and the preparation Of the
land and blowing tho crop required
about thirty days for two men and
tao horses The lot manure Is not
lnclaGed Ia above item Of cost. "a the
cattle. ~tth the manure In stables
not used on this Geld. would more
than pay for feed given them.
have paid farfy cents per hundred
for picking thus far. bat viii hare 20
pay more for the remainder The
land In Improved and wiil be- more
productive next rear.
". Y. GuLLEY.
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1908-12-05

4 company of campers allowed p
blaze 60 start from their camp fire
in the Belle Fouche forest reserva-
lion in South Dakota which swept
a strip Two miles wide and ten miles
long through the very finest young
timber in the reservation. Forest
fres are almost always the result of
rareieasneaa: and their destructive
effects are just beginning To be ap-
prer4at
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1908-12-05

Push Lima beans
have been grown
on this land but the
dead and withered
stalks YOU see are all
tha, Is left OF them.
he CRIMSON clover
among them. howev-
CT. Is fresh and green.
Jus, beginning to grow.
and ready to hold and
prosec; the soil and
gather nitrogen for
next seasons crops all
winter long.
our fields should
DC covered like this.
They would not then
be losing their fertility
by washing and leach
rng. bu, would be get
ting better all the tirrr.
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1908-12-05

wssxrs. Editors. II the spring Of
1905 I had about ten acres of poor.
worn. hillside land grown up ia sr1sn
and bushes. I cut up the few pines
and pIowed IN tho hToor1-aeiEe and
planted IL IN corn. II scarcely paid
for tha planting. In 1907 tx .as
sown la oats. and fair crop unly
was harvested had hoped 10 fol-
bow the oats with cowp@nn. bat the
price CT seed convinced me that X
would not pay. 30 the land waa left
To gruw weeds.
Around EFT bArz IH al open lot n
wh4ch about lea bead of cattle. from
oae 10 twn years old. were p@nrssd-
They lad access TO shelter ard weTe
aglowea 60 run out lE pasture part q
evwry day for exercise and wafrr,
Enfo this lot haml~4 pine atraw III
II wns about SIX inches deep. After
shla wh~n wAnh~d 20 haaI Ia more
mraw wUuid ncatser some acid phns-
hale ana kalnat and pat sAe fFwah
mraw ca top uf e. Th2a Mna Goa
M@ak1 &ANk4A @@@ ~@##* -
r.nswat Intervals. USED about fhr~w
tors ot phosphate ana oSe Ton OF
kalnit. lad b. Sprlnw about 80
hHn4rea two-hcr2n loads ~ this stat
Which hrua1raafsd on this ten
srrr2 IN TIC latter part of April and
piowea n an4nr wtth a two-hcFae
pIow. ca aay rough places ] nnesi
ne asAE harruw. thea used TIE
smoothing hArruw over u all Th"n
took . mixture ~ nfFy pounds each
nitrate 81 soda and acid phosphate.
and distributed il with he costna
pianser 81 he aAme ttsnr planted
the eotton. Thaa Laid 90 the ross
distributed the fertilizer. and pAaas'
ID INT seed al With one trip across
the Geld.
The seed were plated darins thn
1rsR Week ia May There came 2
rzla before the cotton came an. ard
] aSeG q weeder Ia break the rfnn'
"a soon As IL beEan to form. In .
fsw days Z gseA the king hAFro~. so
ag twice to the raw and stirring TIC
fnrtAce oi the earth er@ctaally
Beat Aoed t 20 q stand and followed
viii The hnrruw When the rains
fAfns = lln.e more freely and ths
seedA ard evAHs began To gru@
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1908-12-05
TELL 1T NOW


Information is asked on what WIZ
Improve the Conditions IT asr7cui-
tnrai "orATrs.
Much has been nahltshss about the
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what can be done To improve the con-
Gitions ~ the agricultural class. The
corn.,taegor has n r.n.hla r,ar,he~-
psiAh mach Tor agricaitnTaA people
Great efforts are being made tn Va
rgouw wars 10 get suggestions on
wha. ..t.h. -. L.. =. ..,s...
ss0
sion ~As appointed IL - thought tnat
this paper can do M better service
than to AK the Agricultural p..onle
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The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1908-12-05

la very necessary for the sweet POI
tatn. have never been able to get
any sweet potatoes out % piece of
hta~~b0uaa land
". II. TTRRENTINE.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-01-09
THE REAL FACTS

Disregarding all facts and figures the
Argus Leader and other stalwart pa
pers of the state continue to harp
about the excessive taxation. The sole
the present administration. They care
not how they do it. They utterly dis
regard the truth. They dare not dis
cuss the records as any fair minded
man would do.
They continually state that the taxes
are higher this year than ever before
and lay the blame upon the Crawford
administration. The facts have been
laid before them but they will not be
fair and publish them.
These are the facts as any man iaay
find them who will go to the County
Auditors Office in any county in the
state
BY an overwhelming majority the
people of South Dakota voted a IL
mill tax for Irvine plant. No Stall.
wart paper can deny that This much
then cannot be charged against the
State Board of Equalization. This be-
ing eliminated what do we End?
That taxes are lower this year than
at any post-eIection year for many
years.
Do you understand this? Look at
the records and be convinced.
We examined the records regarding
one representative farm in Jerauld
County and find As follows: The state
taxes on this farm fer 1898 were So. Sc;
1905-s336 19o7--$3.0S. an actual low.
ering of state taxes of 2Sc over 1905
and 4Sc over 1903. The years 1904 and
1906 can not be placed in the compGri-
son against the present year because
they were years when election eXpens-
es were not figured in, these expenses
always coming up for settlement the
year following the election. But COM
pairing 1906 with 1904 we find an in
crease of nearly S1.00 in the last Ell
rod year, over 1904. Now note the
change in what the railroads pay in
taxes. In 1905 in Jerauld County the
c. NJ. & st. p. paid in taxes S1507.13;
in 1906 it paid $l,452.47 in 1907-the
reform year-it paid $2,593.96, an in
crease of $1,O86.83 over 1905.
We respectfully ask of the Argus
Leader or any other machine rail-
road organ if this is the increase
which it is raising it's voice against
Jerauld Co. Review.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-01-09
NATIONAL DELEGATES

South Dakota's delegates to national
party conventions must be chosen by
both parties on the first Tuesday in
April. County conventions for the
election OF delegates to such state con.
yentions shall be held by each party
I'm each county on the fourth Tuesday
in March. upon thirty days notice. The
county central committee shall deter
mine the basis Of representation in
each county convention. Primaries fol
the selection of delegates to the county
convention must be held ON the second
Tuesday of March, from to p. m
Judges and clerks shall be appointed
for such primaries, ballots prepared
voters registered and votes counted
as at the June primaries. However
two-thirds of the central committee q
any county may declare unnecessar,
4 county convention and tnemselye.
name the delegates to the state con
.vention. Sioux Falls Press.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-01-09
CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR

Senator Vessey, Of Jerauld county,
was a Yankton visitor today, and met
"a number of Yankton people under
the escort of our home senator, Mr.
c. H. Dillon. Mr.. Vessey has recently
announced his candidacy for the gov
ernorship 10 succeed Governor Craw
ford, and it is noticeable that his an.
nouncement has met with very favor
able comment from the press of the
state. Mr.. Vessey's repubicanism is
unquestioned, his abilities are admit
ed, and his location cannot fail to be
generally satisfactory, and is much
nearer the central portion of the state
than that of any governor South Dako
ia has elected. The Press and DakO
tan is favorably impressed with Sena
tor Vessey and most cordially recon-.
mends him to the favor of the people
-Yankton Press and Dakotan.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-01-09
COL. SETH BULLOCK SPEAKS
Nominee Of the National Convention
Will Not Be the Result Of Bicker

Col Seth Bullock who is in Wash
ington the guest of President Roose-
welt in an interview relating to the
political situation said: when the
convention meets you will find that all
this plotting and planning hasn't got
anywhere. The masses of the voters
are going to have more to say about
the character of men who go to the
convention this year than they ever
did before. When the time for select
ing delegates arrives you just watch
the boys in the trenches get busy.
There will be more delegates in the
next national convention chosen by
primaries than ever before. That will
mean something. The politicians VINO
expect that they will meet in Chicago
with lot of delegates done up in
packages ready for delivery will be
mistaken. The nominee OF the next
national convention will not be the re.
suit of decker. II he is he will be
beaten"
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-01-09

The all important question that is
first to be decided by the Republicans
OF this state is. whether Il delegation
shall be chosen to represent them in
the national convention, who stands
first last and all the time for Roose-
yeltism, or shall the delegation be one
that can be manipulated by those OPP
posed to the reforms which the pres
ident mas under way. DO not be
deceived by side issues Keep your
eye on the fellows who are trying to
blind the voters through misrepre-
sentation. If South Dakota sends any
other than a Roosevelt" delegation
she will administer a direct slap at
President Roosevelt and his admins
tration.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-01-09
"ONLY A NORWEGIAN"

Canton Leader: When State Super
intendent Ustrud recently published
his review of Kittredge and showed up
the duplicity and corporation character
of the man who had no time to read
the rate bill, he expected that every
corporation tool in the state would as
sail him and his work When Superin-
tendent UStrud was at Mlbank in the
interests of the schools of that coun-
try, a dirty contemplate correspon-
dent up there wrote letter to the
Argus-Lead full of lies concerning his
work at that place. Mr.. Ustrud is not
disappointed in his estimate of the
Kittredge gang nor is he disturbed by
the base and cowardly assaults of the
ringsters The splendid work that the
state superintendent is doing for the
schools of the state will live and grow
in popular favor long after every one
of his detractors are laid away in a
towards grave. Hans Ustrud may
not be the ablest man in the state for
the office he fills, but he is a thousand
times more patriotic, honorable, intelli-
gent and sincere than any one of those
miserable ours that bark at his heels.
He was born in Minnehaha. raised and
educated in Minnehaha, county and
Minnehaha county stood by him and
turned down Kittredge which is a fair
estimate of what he people of Mime
haha county think of its gallant son.
and in the coming political struggle
Minnehaha will again show that it
thinks more of him than the big cor
poration boss. Hans Ustrud is one
of the coming men of the state and
the fellows who are barking at his
heels now will some day be seeking
favors at his hands. He is only a
Norwegian" says one machine cur,
and another says The is ignorant, bat
what can one expect from the political
tools anyway? The more the machIHe
liars abuse Hans CStrld The stronger
and more popular he will grow among
honest men and good citizens.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-01-09

the City of Brookings was assessed q,
$1S,S74.0O In 1907 the same propertv
was assessed at $34,0160O.
At Watertown in 1906-$2O. O0G and
in 1907 at $5S,S33.
At Huron in 1906, $l3,931 anrd in
1907 at $1O2,119OO.
At Pierre in 1906, $20,5OS.00 and in
1907 at $SS,i25O0.
The only fair way to compare the
assessments of the railroads with each
other is to ascertain the average vain.
alton of each road per mile in the
state both in and outside of cities and
town as made by the state board in
1907.
This is shown on page 313 of the
State Auditors report for 1907, as fol.
lows:
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
per mile ................. Sc, 1874
Great Northern, per mile. go. 6,736
Omaha, per mile ........... $685.
ShASo6O " ANOl III w C0lcIu, pei
mile ................... 6,749
Illinois Central, per mile ...... 9,276
ROCK Island, per mile. ......... 1921
Minneapolis st. l.. per mile. 1857
burlington, per mile .......... 1888
S. ID. Central, per mile ........ 1856
NJ. & S. st. Marie, per mile. .... 4,O98
Thn
of road in the state, and the Rock Is
land has less than SO miles. Both
come into the most populous portions
along the eastern border of the state,
and have no lines extending into the
sparcely settled districts. The net
earnings of the Milwaukee road ex.
coed those of the Northwestern.
When these facts are considered,
the assessment is an equitable one
between the roads. The auditors re.
port, page 313, shows that the value
of railroad property was raised by the
state board over last years valuation
34SS per cent. This does not include
the lines not built in 1906. The same
report shows that the total increase in
the value Of lands over last year is
1851 per cent. This shows clearly
enough that the Brookings Press is
lying as usual and that Gov Crawford
is perfectly safe against the insinu-
ationS that he is in with the Chi
cago e. Northwestern Ry. The at
tempt of the soreheads to fight be
hind mask is too transparent.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-01-09
TAXATION OF RAILROADS

The corrupt sorehead ring is busy
these days trying to create the i'm
preston that Governor Crawford ia
vored the Chicago and Northwestern
Railway Company in the assessment of
railroad property.
AS usual, the real facts when known,
show scheme to throw dust into
the eyes of the people by misrepre-
sentation and falsehood.
The new railroad revenue law pass
ed last winter required the railway
companies to make to the State Audi
tor for the year ending April Both a
statement under oath for use by the
State Board of Assessment. showing
among other things the following:
The number of miles of main line,
and the number of miles of side-track
and passing tracks, and value thereon,
the width and length of right of way.
the number and size of warehouse
lots upon, or contiguous to the right
of way, the size, cost, and character OF
the passenger depot, freight depot,
ware house or warehouse, shops, turn
tables, round-house, engine stables,
coal houses, stock-yards, and OF all
other buildings, the amount of grounds
used for yards, in addition to the
ground already specified, and the guam
tity of unplatted land held or
used exclusively for railway purposes,
owned by said company and situated
within the incorporated limits of each
city or town, and the value thereof,
and of any terminals therein owned
by said company.
Section =, Chapter GA, Session Laws
1907. This had never been required
before.
The Milwaukee, the Omaha, and the
Northwestern roads complied with
this law strictly. The Burlington and
Great Northern complied with it very
imperfectly and the Illinois Central,
Rock Island and NJ e st. l.. practi-
cally ignored it, and were liable to a
raise of twenty five per cent for fail
ure to comply with it. Having failed
to make the report as the law required,
the State Board was compelled to get
the information as to the value of Ine
property of these roads in cities and
towns as best it could from other
sources.
If they suffered, they have no one
to blame but themselves, and they
may conclude hereafter to comply with
the law and furnish the accurate in
formation required. Besides this, what
one railway company has in the way
of acreage, buildings and right of way
in one town does not indicate what
some other company may have in the
same town, and such comparisons are
absolutely worthless.
The following figures will show how
the State Board favored" the North
Western road.
In 1906 the property of that road in
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-01-09

Artesian Commonwealth: State Su
perintendent Ustrud held a meeting in
Mibank school officers meeting, we
believe, and it was followed by a
"screed' from there to the August Lead
er, making a scurrilous attack on the
superintendent. Milbank is the home
of eX-Asistant Superintendent Ramer
supposedly the stalwart candidate for
superintendent. We are not acquaint-
ed with either of the candidates, but
1t seems to us that common decency
would be enough to keep any OF Mr.
Ramers friends from making such an
attack on Mr.. Ustrud in Mr.. Ramer's
own town and if it was with Mr.
Ramer's knowledge and consent, he
is not fit to superintend the schools
of the state.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-01-09

The tublic-Opinion says it took Gov
ernor Crawford fifty years to find out
that the world needed reform. 1t
might have added that the Savior of
man occupied several years in demon.
strating the necessity of reform. In
modern ages Washington, Lincoln and
Roosevelt have fought for reforms.
Governor Crawford is in fairly good
company when, as admitted by the
opposition, he is advocating reforms
Some men never discover the advant-
ages of reformation or the worthiness
of progressive ideas, but go blindly
on, following the dictation of bossism
and the money god. If anyone sug-
gests that conditions might be im-
proved they at once get out their lit
tie hammer and beat the brass platter,
trying to create noise enough to DIES.
troy the efforts of those who would
have the world better.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-01-09
NOTICE TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS

To meet the conditions imposed by
the heavily increased cost Of print
paper and other expenses, and follow
ing the course already assumed by
other public atoms we will discontinue
the $1.00 in advance rate for subsc rip
tions to the Register on and after jan
uary list, 1908. The regular price Of
$3.50 per year will be charged if paid
in advance or during the year. To all
subscribers paying $3.50 in advance
we will mail both the Brookines Regis
ter and the Minnesota and Dakota
Farmer for one year. You may have
the Farmer mailed to any address in
the United States IL so desired.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-01-09

Hyde county tax receipt No. l for
1907 tax was brought to the Bulletin
office for inspection. 1t was on s. f..
A-110-72. The general tax was $500
school $500 and fire guard IS cts a
total OF S12.7S. Last year the tax on
this tract was SLIPS or only $3.50
more this year, with levy of IA
mills for the Irvine plant included And
this Is what the machine calls robbing
the farmers. Shame on such shame
less falsifiers.--Hyde Co. Bulletin.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-01-09

whatever the lines may be with re-
gard to which Senator Kttredge will
conduct his campaign "vituperation
and abuse will not be part of his
policy" During Senator Kittredge's
approximately twenty years of public
life. in one capacity or another, he
has never been knwon to descend to
abuse and yilificatiOn.-Public Opinion.
Would that the same might be said
Of his hirelings.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-01-09

The old saying is true, that figures
will not lie but liars will figure.
In the figures used by the Kittredge
ring, they figure the levy of 1907 with
the twine plant levy in, and they COM
pare it with 1906 when no deficiency
levy was made. the failure to make
which caused $250000 of outstanding
warrants to remain unpaid, and to
pay which the deficiency levy of mill
in 1907 was necessary.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-01-09
is THE CRITICISM UNSUITABLE

In hastily scanning the columns Of
the Daily ArgusLeader, newspaper,
which we understand has its origin in
Sioux Falls, the one item which caught
and held our innocent attention was
the mention made of the failure of the
new Pure Food Law with reference TO
patent medicines.
Unfortunate indeed was it that this
piratical trade against the ever-ready-
to be-taken-in and gullible public. We
bemoan this mistake but we would
ponder long and deeply before BELT
Ting directly or indirectly the good
work of a man whose calibre is so
we'll known by the public of South
Dakota as that of Mr.. Wheaton. Per
haps it would be as well to say here,
and at once, that the editor of the
Herald has never met Mr.. Wheaton
nor come in contact with him person
ally or otherwise; but nevertheless,
we honor and rever him, not neces-
sarily as lawmaker or legislator-an
experienced jugler of legal terms and
phrases and a detective of the weak
points in a statute drawn up for the
protection of the people of our state
but as gentleman in the true
and of soul that would be adjudged
patriotic by that good old American
standard-the individual who accom-
plishes the greatest good without
thought or idea of recompense.
Perhaps the aforementioned paper
never thought of the new law in this :
light Perhaps they were innocenty
unjust to a good man. We would far
rather think of them as an erring one
than as a lost one-lost to the sense
of justice and appreciation.
And then again, is the Argus Leader
correct in locating the real source OF
the error in this law? We all know,
or should be acquainted with Mr.
Wheaton's ideas and intent in con
nection with the same, else why his
concentrated effort to test the statute
by bringing this action against the
Sioux Falls drug firm personally. Is
it not sad that he should be forced
to do this-that We had no other way
of testing the rightly and firmness Of S
a statute that was born in the brain y
of so public spirited man and was
virtually copied yerbatum by one
body of lawmakers at the state cap n
itol is it not fact to grieve over thai s.
we did not have in the employ Of the y
state a corporation lawyer OF eXper KS
fence, one who had spent seyeraI 5
years as the hiring of a syndicate 8.
or company and was employed not U s6
uphold the statutes, but to locate these &
same loop-holes and weaknesses ana
to thereby evade their honest intent 8
Can there be any doubt in the min'
Of the fair-minded reader OF the GU
come and the strength Of the statuV
had such been the case?
We, at least, think not. Would as&
apology look well from the erring one @
NO, decidedly no. They have NAV t
their criticism in the wrong sHr
In wording it as news item Wy,
have evaded all responsibility non"
Gus or otherwise. We are not neoe
sarily Indignant over this error oil o.
esteemed contemporary but we %JZ
sorely wounded that a newspapei
such strength should stOOp to wou'
an individual.-Hayti Herald.