Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-08-13

ing breakfast, dinner and supper for
the hungry men and the guests with
good appetites, as well as caring for
her three little children and feeding
her four hundred chickens.
OF course the days are not all so
strenuous; but to run big grain and
stock farm is not an easy life by any
means. Besides the blowing and SOW
ing, the reaping and the moving, the
planting and the husking, in the good
summer time, the stock must be cared
for and the milking done twice day
throughout the entire year. Farm life
brings much hard work and more or
less grief, but it has some compensa-
tions that are not found anywhere else.
But little wheat is grown in this Sec
ton. The crops are barley, oats, hay
and corn. Ten years ago but little
corn was raised; now it is rapidly be-
coming the leading crop and will soon
rival the corn belt of Iowa. The pros
pect for fine crop this year is much
better than it is in our own state.
This section is we'll settled and well
improved and lands are selling at $40
to $40. To show that Dakota is up to
date we only need to mention that the
town of FIandreau with 1900 popula-
ton where We are visiting relatives
has not less than fifty private auto
mobiles which they greatly enjoy Oh
these good Dakota roads. If anyone
can name another town of this size
with as many atuos we should like to
hear about it.
Referring to this state as one of
great opportunities, Doan Robinson,
state superintendent of the census
speaks as follows:
Not elsewhere are so many promis-
ing opportunities for legitimate enter
prise found as in South Dakota. This
is proposition easily substantiated;
it is based upon 10000 square miles OF
fertile and productive soil, but as yet
partially developed, and with but re-
latively few people sharing in the pro-
auctions thereof. The result is that
each one of the population receives
more cash returns annually than do
the people upon the average in any
other commonwealth.
Again the opportunities are more
nearly equal here than elsewhere, as
there are SO few persons securing the
results of the labor of the many, leav-
ing the laborer iDadequately rewarded.
There is no System" here. There are
20 "interests" enslaving the masses.
Everyone, generally speaking, is upon
an equality with his neighbor.
In round figures South Dakota has
$4,000, 600 acres of arabic lands, only
one-ffth of which has yet been ploweo
and only one-third Of it utilized for
any agricultural purpose, plowland,
hayland or pasture. Only half mil
lion people as yet occupy this empire,
and on every hand lie lands at reason
able prices; farms awaiting tenants
positions awaiting farm hands; high
wages aud good homes for housemaids.
Free homesteads still are obtainable
in the western portion.
What can be done on these lands?
They produce the best wheat in tue
world; annually the state averages 49,
600, 900 bushels. They produce SPLEEN
did crops of corn; the annual product
ranges from fifty to eighty bushels.
They return 10000, coo bushels of
oats. 10000, 600 of arley, fax, pota-
toes, vegetables, fruit; everything and
anything which can be grown any
where in the northern portions of the
Union. These lands turn off S35, 000,-
600 worth of live stock annually; 49,
00O, 900 worth of dairy products and 3d.
600, 900 worth of poultry and eggs; and
all the the time bearin mind there are
only half million of US sharing in
all this.
Then the mineral interest runs up to
$4,000 eco a year, and we have only
scratched over the top of the rich de-
posts. We have endless coal treasures
not yeJeven prospected; building stone
of the best quality and inexhaustible
supply, brick clays, fire clays, pottery
clay, lime, gypsum, and thousands of
acres of cement rock and clay in COM
bination so that from single quarry
may be taken all of the ingredients
for the best Portland cement made in
America, as is proven in the extensive
Yankton works whose product is un
surpassed in uniformity and tensile
strength and will be further proven al
the Chamberlain works. The cement
age is at hand, and what pine timber
has been to Michigan, Wisconsin and
Minnesota, the cement banks of South
Dakota are to be TO the Sunshine state.
Our climate approximates the ideal.
When more eastern regions are drown
ing in floods; seed rotting 10 the wet
spring; crops rotting in the rains OF
rain enough. When eastern portions
are burning up with drouth against
which the methods employed in agri-
culture provide no relief. the South
Dakota dry farmer gathers his luxur-
ant and unframed harvest. Compare
the agricultural record of South Da-
kota for the past ten years with that OF
any other farming state If you will,
and find the complete verification of
the proposition herein set forth. Here
are the official figures OF our agricul-
tural productions for each year since
1900, when our statistical bureau was
organized:
Value Per
Year Production Increase Capita
1900 $l06, 10000 1865 SO
1901 1862. 600 S7,I52, 900 276. 80
1902 ll9,g4gOOO G.492, 900 2S5.00
1908 1856, l24, 600 Is. 10000 BIO 80
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