The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1911-05-18
OF INTEREST
TO ARMER
Some Valuable Hints and In
formation Taken From
Farm Papers

10 dakota Farmer: | am glad 70
see you have so kindly taken pains
and space in YOUR April LIST issue to
lay before the readers of the Dakota
Farmer the new road law as passed
by the last legislature, and which
should be adopted by everv county
in the state.
| remember whe n the same thing
occurred back in eastern Iowa. |
and MANY others voted against it,
but lost our vote as the law carried.
And | am sure there was not n of
US who voted against it but that
was always afterwards glad it went
the other fellows way as we we're
greatly in the wrong. have seen
the old way worked out in many
sections and the same thing always
prevailed. While some districts
would work diligently others would
put in their time in the shade tell
ing stories. Again | have seen par
ties tell the road boss to make him
out a receipt for his work and he
did without the parties ever going
to the road to work or sending any
one else. Paying the road overseer
higher salary would not remedy the
thing one bit. | find it isn't the
man | pay the most that is the best
man. In fact those looking for the
highest salary are those who are
afraid they might find work.
There are districts where very
little road work is necessary while
others need more than the present
system can have work to complete.
This is where the new law comes in
good play; the two districts pay in
cash and the right place is fixed and
vet the cash paying system is much
the cheaper. Again the road work
ing season comes in the very busiest
season Of the year. When most
any farmer would not consider STOP
ping several teams in the field for
S25 a day. And he must do this
very thing under the present system
and receive for himself and team
only So per day. | don t believe
there is one farmer, no difference
how he may feel about it now, but
that when the time was at hand to
go to work the road would gladly
give the SO per day ii he could only
keep his teams all going in the field
which he could do under the new
law only that he would pay less
than the SO per day.
We must have the roads that is
sure and the only and best way 10
get them is the new way. In this
vicinity there are places that cannot
be fixed when the road work is be-
ing done which is always in the
spring time. The worst of our
roads lie in lake beds and should be
graded and do not get graded be-
cause help cannot be had from farm
ers when those places r dry and
can be worked. Under the new law
the supervisors could take the
money, hire the help and grade
those places when they could be
graded instead Of the farmers of
the district putting in their time
telling stories in the shade because
the pond is full of water and cannot
be worked and the rest of the road
doesn't need it.
Another item which every tenant
farmer should look at is, in many
places the landlords are not only
charging the tenant the regular
rent for the farm, but are increas-
ing 1t as fast as they can and also
compel the tenant besides to work
the taxes out free gratis, taking
! him from his work in the field with.
out remunsrati IN. Tenant farmers
should help to adopt this law for
their own protection and let the
landlord pay his own taxes as he
gets the raise of value on the land
and the tenant makes it raise in
value by caring for it properly and
doing hundreds of little jobs on the
farm to improve it and make it look
better, and the only remuneration
he gets for it is the refusal by the
landlord of a board to fix the old
gate, a wire to put on the fence CT
a broken pump replaced with a new
one A Subscriber. Mlnnehaha Co.
S. d.