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

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surplus fate of natures vintage, with
out outstanding our resources and lay
ing a foundation that will support and
make contented a population Of mil
lions more?
Future Possibilities
II has often occurred TO me as
have thought OF our many beautiful
towns at the limit of their growth
as far as an agricultural country can
support them, what they might speed
lily become in population and enter
prise If they would raise a common
fund OF a few thousands Of dollars
and wisely eXpend it in endowing
a few manufacturing plants for the
production of the necessaries ana
even the Injuries Of life. Here a can
ming factor, there a thing or culYeit
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 10 the state for
opportunities to our rising genera
tions, for the sure and independent
supply of the necessaries OF life with
out our W commonwealth!
Creameries
And, then again, ! have thought:
What is the state doing TO encourage
the planting and building Of these?
What would it 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 or 1t may
be so called, cigar making, dairying
and four mills. The two former are
practically controlled by national In
nuence. 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
done 10 protect and encourage them?
Made I'm Dakota" butter used to be
the pride Of New York and Boston.
| do not hear ii very often so highly
spoken Of now. Dairying today I'm
South Dakota is a struggle for eXis-
tence of the local creamery against
the unfair methods resorted to by cen
tralized concerns beyond the limits Of
the state. Every pound of cream pro
duced in the state should be manu-
featured In the state under wholesome
conditions and favoring laws. The
more people engaged in it's 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-
The Milling Industry
And, what of our milling industry?
raise ON an average of 10000, 600
bushels Of wheat a year. We grind
about 5000, 900 bushels of 1t, eat half
that amount and ship the rest-flour
md wheat-to the outside world. Why
don't we grind It all at home, and
nave the invested capital, the addition
al population to help eat it up, the :
b%y-products to feed IL stock, make {
beef and pork, manure to re-
and enrich our soil, and last ,
Of all, get the profit of the entire man
ufactured product.
Wasted Money |,
OF the half million barrels OF flour ,
we consume in this state annually. I
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 -four supply, then we pay $37,- :
500 to haul the flour back again, then
we pay at least five cents a sack or
$25, 900 more profit to the Minnesota
manufacturer; 500. 900 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 hour IN the WOrlu ana theIt IL
excuse for this waste. We are not
loyal to our own state not to u W
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 cen of wheat hauled from us,
and returned to us, same weight In
flour, the eastern miller kept the Of
falls (bran and shorts) valued at 5000 /,
900 and sold them to the Minnesota. |
Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois farmer. G
Now, the loss of that money, was not
the loss to us? These offals, by I
products, should have fattened our '
and hogs to feed and enrich 7
as, and to make fertilizer for vi soil /
which Is being robbed and starved by 4
cropping year after year. This Is an G
,ther result of d~isloyalty to home in 9
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