The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1911-08-10
Satisfactory Year Is As
sllred to Mitchell
Territory
CORN BIC CROP
This With Plenty of Forage
Makes UP Any Small
Grain Shortage

Cribs news item was prepared un-
der the direction and with the APP
proval of the Mitchell Commercial
IClub.)
That South Dakota crop condi-
year is already best indicated by the
plans that are being made for the
annual Corn Palace at Mitchell, S.
i d. and the South Dakota State Fair.
The Mitchell Corn Palace will be
open one week following the week
iof the State Fair. The State Fair
has booked some of the bcst attrat
Itions ever offered by it and fully as
much can be said of the Mitchell
Corn Palace. Elery's BanG of fifty
pieces which this summer has gone
ITO Scotland and then direct to the
Pacific Coast, will furnish the music
for the occasion. Some OF the finest
agricultural exhibits ever seen at the
Corn Palace will be at hand this
year as indicated by the reports all
exhibits. Other attractions of the
| highest class will be found at the
Mitchell Corn Palace. Mitchell pee
Iple, have this year as in other years,
I-
| the extent Of $4,000 TO $4,000 in
cash and, Of course, this would not
be done if the committee after a
Thorough canvass of the conditions
| in South Dakota had not been con-
IN'nced that there was every reason
Ito expect a successful Carn Palace
week. Already grasses and grain
are being brought in with which to
begin the work of decorating the
big exposition building in which the
Corn Palace events are to be seen.
South Dakota is a big state; some
425 miles long. II is some $50 miles
/ from one corner of the state to the
other. Practically all of the crops of
South Dakota up to this time have
lbeen produced east OF the Missouri!
River.
Corn the Leading Crop.
| The principal crop in South Dako-
ia is that of corn. For the last five
year the annual production of corn
in South Dakota was 7l4073
bushels as compared with only &c.
3S0.S05 bushels of wheat This yeal
/, both on account of the steady in
crease of the corn acreage during the
production of corn in the state prom
ises to run we'll up toward 100 ,000,-
1000 bushels, considerably in excess
OF the five year average. Perhaps, il
/ is not generally known that South
/ Dakota stands sixth among the greet
corn producing states of the United
States in the average yield OF cor,
for the last five years. This average
in South Dakota is 29.01 bushels
while Iowa has an average OF 80
Each year the corn crop is bccomin
more important in the State of Soutl
| Dakota as the farmers of the State
become more acquainted with tho
methods required for it's successful
culture. This year promises n,
good, if not a better yield in Soutl
/ Dakota than in the best previou
year which was in 1906 when the al
erage yield in South Dakota was
1905 bushels.
In Dawson and surrounding cour
ties there is no question, accordin
to the reports from many observe:
who have made auto trips and gor
in the corn fields and examined thel
carefully but that the corn crop is t
be the best ever.
i WfIv Corn is Good
The reasons for the splendid cor
4 will realize this year are twofol
; First, the rain fall has been abun,
ant, with total of OF inches fro.
the 1st of April to the 1st of Angus
Last year but s inches Of rain f,
in this period and yet the averac
yield of corn last year in South d
kota was &c bushels per acre. Secon
!. ly. the exceedingly warm weather j
the middle of June which damage
the small grain to some extent w;
just what the corn needed and as
result it is fully two weeks Garlic
than usual in this state. On accou,
Of the warm weather prevailing
cry seed terminated and grew al
go the growth of the stalk has bee