The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-02-04
TWO GOOD ADDRESSES
Stockmen Listened to Two Fine Adj
dresses at. the Meeting Held
Wednesday Evening.

The rooms of the Mitchell Club
were filled to the utmost Wednesday
evening meeting of the South Dakota
Improved Live Stock Breeders. The
afternoon had been p%roftably spent
In attending the sale of the register
ed swine and many farmers made
good purchases with which to start
a herd or improve the one they had.
The attendance at the meeting of the
association was the largest in sew
interest In 1t is far from falling off.
The cattle inspectors made their
report of their work of the after
noon In inspecting the cattle which
had been shipped to the sale. They
that the animals they inspect
ed was perhaps the finest bunch of
animals that has ever been sent to
Mitchell for the sale, and they were
especially proud of the Offering that
had been sent. It indicated that the
association In years past had been
OF much tenef1t to the stock growers
and that they were learning the ne
cessity of growing better cattle. The
inspectors stated that three COWS had
been eliminated from the sale on
the ground that they did not come
up to the standard required by the
association, which permits only of
good animals being sold under its
auspices.
Secretary Wilson read a paper on
Tuberculosis, Human and Bovine"
The paper was prepared by DR.. A.
H. Keller, of Sioux Falls, but owing
to a pressing business engagement
he was unable to be present and
read his OWE paper. This address will
be found in full on another page of
The Republican today and is worthy
of a careful persual, for there is no
subject pertaining to the health of
the people which is under greater
consideration. than his.
p. F. Wickham was down on the
program for an address on "South
Dakota Farmer" and, the "orator of
the Jim River Valley" as Mr.. Wick
ham is popularity known, made n of
in Mitchell. He started back with the
pioneer days of this section of the
state, and told of the trials and tri-
bulations which the pioneer went
through to raise a crop. He told of
the Indifferent farming that was car
ried IN, and how this was followed
in later years by dry conditions which
by the way have disappeared in the
last ten years. and then he lead up
to the methods of farming today.
! Mr.. Wickham said that while he
was not a practical farmer, yet he
directed the work of the men he had
under him and they followed his
suggestions through the year. He
urged the farmers to give more at
tention to the preparation of the
land In which they sowed their seed
and expected to get full returns. He
deprecated the idea that a farmer
can 60 into the field and pillow it
over and drag it once and expect
to raise q good crop. He stated that
on his farm he Iaid the greatest at
tention to the manner in which the
land was prepared, and to this he at
tributed much of the success OF
his crops. He said that he plowed
the land and narrowed it over a suf-
fcient number of times so that the
earth was smooth and level and
which permitted the subsoil to pack
nicely. BY this method of prepare.
ltion Mr.. Wickham said that in SOW.
ing oats he only used one bushel te
the acre where he had formerly used
two and that he raised a larger cror
from that one bushel than he die
from the two, one of which averaged
65 bushels per acre and another
year nearly Is good. He also spoke
Of raising barley last year when h
hut in 100 acres and produced AZ
bushels per acre from seed which HI
knew to be pure and having the ger
maniating quality. He stated h
knew Of another farmer who ha,
fused the same seed but whose crol
only yielded % bushels per acre
This, he thought, was due wholly t