The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1910-09-23
OVER THE STATE
STATE HISTORIAN AND STATIS-
TiCiAN ROBINSON NOTES
MUCH OF INTEREST
DANE HAS A Big Domain
Peter Aggergard a Danish immigrant
Operating in Clay Turner and
Yankton Counties Owns
2448O Broad Acres
Doane Robinson writing to the St,

Doane Robinson writing to the St.
Paul Pioneer Press says:
There is an increa ed spread OF
wiater wheat and it is a tremendo S
crop. l learned of one field which
turned fifty-two bushels per acre and
another large one which averaged for
ty-siX bushels on eighty acres. VIM
ter wheat promises to Eecome staple
crop in all of the southeast coanties.
The local millers purchase all they
can get of it and mix It with spring
UhAa., the combination making
high class product. Hay is a better
crop than reports had indicated. In
all of the region visited there is an
abundance Of hay for home consump-
tion, but not the usual amo Mt for
export.
/ did not see an apple or a plum In
all that region, which has in recent
years been satisfactory fruit coun-
try, producing very large quaint ties
for shipment. The freeze at the mid
die of April last destroyed all of the
fruit
| passed through the domain Of
Peter Aggergard, Danish farmer,
operating In Clay. Turner and Yank-
ton counties. Aggergard Is an immi-
grant who came to Dakota without
means and without education, but
with natural business gifts and great
industry and thrift He compelled
prosperity to come his way and con-
stantly invested his gains in lands
surrounding his homestead until he
is now the owner of l53 quarter sec
tlons, having an average value of SO
per acre.
l visited the state asylum for the
insane and was shown over the
premises by Superintendent Mead
There are now S51 inmates an.
though four large fireproof buildings
have been erected in the past ten
years little progress has been made in
reducing the demand upon the old
fire trap known as THE Front" 1t
is the superintendent's hope to place
the entire plant fireproof
DR.. Mead has made more than local
fame by his use of reinforced con-
crete. He has three immense build
ings in which the complete structure
save the roof is concrete, and he has
after considerable experimentation
succeeded in getting a concrete roof
ing which is absolutely water tight.
This he is now placing upon the
barracks a very large structure In
process Of erection for the a commod-
alton of chronic and dist rhed men
This roof is nodded in place, i'm
mense slabs with protected eypan-
sion intervals which seems to he a
perfect success and with it only ce-
ment. sand and steel Tor reinforce
ment enter into the construction OF
the building.
The care and real comfort provid-
ed for the patients of the instution
make it notable among like institu-
tons and that these conditions have
real therapeutic value is andy de
monstrated by the cure rate" Drop
ping in UNEXPECTEDLY at the dinner
hour, | was served q regular meal at
the patients table. where egery ap-
pointment was equal to those of
first class hotel and the wholesome
meal was served in the most apnetiz-
ing way. The patients highly appre-
ciate their surroundings and except
in cases of total dementia they de ort
themselves as ladies and gentlemen
do in such surroundings The rela-
tives of inmate will ferive satisfac-
tion from the knowledge that at the
asylum every patient is affo fded ev-
cry comfort and every liberty com
patible with his condition.
Recently this column in en1merat-
Ing the states educational nstitu-
,tions omitted to mention the new
Catholic college established at Cham
berlain under the patronage of Bsh3
op OGorman Last year the bishop
purchased from the government the
plant of the chamberlain Indian
school. and established Columbus col
lege in 1t. Almost at once a fire de-
stroyed the main building, but it has
ben rebuilt and the college has just
opened its second year.
| have come upon Dakota boom"
put out under terlitor al au-
thority in 1884, containing a table OF
figures which suggest some enlight-
ening comparisons pertaining to the
development of the region in twenty
five years:
1884 1909