Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1911-11-18
STICK TO SOUTH DAKOTA.
Go Slow, Plan Well and Follow tho
Experience Of Others.

To the hundreds who have made set
tlement on the free honesteads west oi
the Missouri River in South Dakota dur.
ing the past twelve months, and to the
thousands who will make bona fde set.
Element here during the next year, hop.
ing to dnd permanent homes with all oi
the satisfaction, prosperity and comfort
the name implies, South Dakota has a
hearty welcome and Godspeed. South
Dakota knows the value and the limita.
tions Of the lands she offers to you, and
her advice to you is to come and take
them. There is dormant in these lands
all of the BODYBUILDING qualities your
anticipation has pointed out. Families
will be established upon them which
with genuine pride of home will hand
down the homestead from generation to
generation. There Is not left of the pub
lie domain any lands more fertile or
more promising.
South Dakota wants within her bor-
ders only contented, successful people,
whose honest toll shall return to them
competence. Toll applied to the home
stead lands will certainly do this if it be
intelligently applied.
Therefore, South Dakota's advice to
her new homesteading citizens is to 60
very slowly, intelligently observing and
following the methods of those who
have already made successful ventures
in the region. 1t is not wise at the
outset to break up wide tracts of land
and place dependence upon general ag-
rculture. In the early days, at least,
it is wisest to farm chiefly with "the
sod on"
If your means are limited, secure a
few cows, a few chickens, a few sheep.
Cultivate a small portion of the land
to diversity of crops. Avoid debt
Buy little expensive machinery. Be
prudent. Do not expect great riches to
be showered upon you, but be satisfied
with good living for yourself and fam
lily, realizing that your little flock is
growing into a larger one, that your
herd is increasing, and that your land
will year by year become more valuable.
Give much of your personal time and
attention to making your home snug,
comfortable and attractive. It's aston
ishing how much you can do in this dir
ection with very small expenditure of
cash. Make good garden. Live as far
as possible within the production of your
homestead, and make your homestead
produce to you all of the real necess.
ties of your living. Fresh eggs, sweet
milk, baked potatoes, a pullet for Sun
day, vegetables from your own garden,
an occasional mutton, a beef salted
away for winter, a couple of sweet hams
for the spring smoking-why, you can
live like a King and almost indepen-
dent of the outer world. 1t is the only
sure way. In such life there is com
fort, satisfaction and contentment. Men
and women who live that way become
the very sinew of the state and the ma
tion's pride.
A career undertaken upon the careful
and frugal lines indicated is certain to
result, if not in wealth, at least, in the
accumulation of a comfortable estate
within few years, and while getting it
you have not destroyed your health with
fret, killing labor in the discourage ments
which are likely to come to the man in
debt and seeking to do large things with
small means.
Come, take land; take it with the in
tention of making a permanent home
upon it. Build slowly, honestly, intel
ligently. Keep out of debt. Get free
Government title to your home in five
years. Rely chiefly upon live stock :;
live within your means; educate your
children keep gaining bit and you
will be astouished to discover how soon
you will become forehanded, respon.
sible and respe cted citizen, whom your
neghbors will be liable at any day, to
elect Governor. Rapid City Guide.