The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1910-07-21

those who, for the present, get thelr
surplus fate of natures vintage, with
out outstanding our and lay
ing a foundation that will support ana
make contented a population OF mil
lions more?
Future Possibilities
Ii has often occurred TO me as l
have thought of our many beautiful
towns at the limit of their growth
as far as an agricultural country can
DIDO them, what they might speed
ily become in population and enter
prise if they would raise a cOnmon
fund of a few thousands OF dollars
and wisely expend it in endowlng
a few manufacturing plants Tor the
production of the necessaries and
even the Injuries Of life. Here a can
ming factor, there a til.lg or culYe!t
factor, again an oatmeal, starch or
syrup factory and the much needed
cement factory. What wonderful pos
siblities there would be in these for
increased population TO the state Tor
opportunities TO our rising genera
tions. for the sure and independent
supply of the necessaries OF lie with
out our own commonwealth!
Creamerics
And, then again, | have thought:
What Is the state doing to encourage
the planting and building OF these?
What would II do to foster and pro
tect them If planted? What has 1t
done with those 1t already has?
Thus far our principal manufac-
turing industries are mining Of 1t may
be so called, cigar making, dairylng
and -four mills. The W former are
practically controlled by national in
%1uence. except as to laws safeguarding
employees. The two latter are strictly
home industries, and can be made and
unmade in a large measure by the
state itself. But what has the state
lone to protect and encourage them?
Made In Dakota" butter used 10 be
the pride of New York and Boston.
| do not hear IL very often so highly
spoken Of now. Dairying today in
South Dakota is a struggle for exis-
tence of the local creamery against
the unfair methods resorted 10 by cen
tralized concerns beyond the limits or
the state. Every pound Of cream pro
duced I'm the state should be manu-
featured In the state under wholesome
conditions and favoring laws. The
more people engaged in its manufac-
ture the better, the more people In
the state to eat the butter the better.
The drain Of the raw products from the
state should be prevented as much as
possible by wise and beneficent legis-
lation.
The Milling Industry
And. what of our milling industry?
We raise on an average of 40,OO0,OOo
bushels of wheat a year. We grind
about 5000, 900 bushels of 1t, eat half
that amount and ship the rest-flour
and wheat-to the outside world. Why
don't we grind II all at home, and
have the invested capital, the addition
al population to help eat it up, the
b~y-products to feed Il stock, make
butter, beef and pork, manure to re-
plenish and enrich our soil, and last
of all, get the profit of the entire man
u~factured product.
Wasted Money
OF the half million barrels of flour
we consume in this state annually,
one-ffth of it is manufactured outside,
We pay $37. 800 annually to haul the
wheat to eastern Minnesota mills
which manufacture that portion
of our flour supply, then we pay $37,-
500 to haul the flour back again, then
we pay at least five cents a sack or
S25, 900 more profit to the Minnesota
manufacturer: 100000 annually Is
thus taken out OF this state, lost to-
us, on this small item of flour which
we could buy and should buy at home.
South Dakota mills manufacture the
best -four in the world and there is
no Reuse for this waste. We are not
LOYAL TO our own state not to our own
industries. Our motto in everything
we eat. use or manufacture should be:
Made in Dakota, that is what want"
Still worse than this, of that twenty
per cent of wheat hauled from us,
and returned to us, same weight IN
-four. the eastern miller kept the or
falls (bran and shorts) valued at $500
600 and sold them to the Minnesota,
Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois farmer
Now. the loss Of that money, was not
all the loss to us? These offals, by
products, should have fattened our
cattle and hogs to feed and enrich
us. and to make fertilizer for u soil
which is being robbed and starved by
cropping year after year. This Is an
>aAAN IN