Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-08-04
A|RsH|PS AT FAIR
GLENN CURTIS AVIATORs WILL
GIVE TWO FLIGHTS DAILY
AT HURON.
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
From the Capital Cityt, the Various
State Institutions and Diff
ferent Parts Of the
state.

board Of agriculture will spare no ex-
pense or labor to make the 1911 fair
greater than any previous year.
Glenn H. Curtiss' famous birdmen
will appear in their many aeroplane
maneuvers on the opening, Septsm-
Der II, including a five mile race with
a 70-horse-power automobile over the
race track. Aeroplane flights will be
made every day of the fair, morning
and afternoon.
The speed program will consist OF
three harness races each afternoon
and one running "a The races will
commence at 1880 and close at 4:30.
The evening entertainment will com
prise the attractions, music by the
Fourth Infantry band, automobile rae
ing ON the track which will be illumin-
ated by electric nights, together with
two powerful search lights.
Sheep dog trials will be made each
afternoon. The greatest novelty and
educational feature ever imported to
this country. This makes a new era
in attractions at state fairs.
In premiums, $4,000 ia offered IN
all.
Use Hopper Dozer.
Brookings.- Sixty thousand grass.
hoppers were caught and killed in one
hour during an experiment with q
small hopper-dozer at the State Col
lege recently. The hopper-dozer use
was eight and one half feet in length
which Is but one half the size that
should be used for practical farm work
Hundreds Of grasshoppers which were
collected in the hopper-dozer fell ou
and could not be counted but they are
numbered among the dead because nc
grasshopper can touch the bottom OF
the hopper-dozer while filled with Goa
oil without being killed.
Professor A. N. Hume estimates
that half of these grasshoppers were
egglaying females and that each in
sect deposits one hundred eggs pei
year., therefore, in the hours expert
ment the grasshopper crop for the mex
year have been reduced by 2,671,2 200
According to Professor Hume mar
velous results can be obtained by the
use of the hopper -dozer in severa
hours work on the farm.
Professor H. C. SEVERN, has worked
out directions for the making Of 6
simple hopper-dozer which will b<
furnished to anyone inquiring for the
same.
Railroads Assessed.
Pierre.-The state board of assess
ment of railroads have finished the
assessment for 1911, The values were
left practically the same as in 1910
| None of the railroads were raised ex
cept the branch of the Chicago, Mil
waukee and ST. Paul, known as the
coast line from Aberdeen west which
division was assessed at $4,000 pei
mile. A raise Of $740 per mile ovel
last year. The board assessed all new
lines, being the branch of the Chicago
and Northwestern from Belle Fourche
to Newell and from Gettysburg tc
Blunt, and the Milwaukee extensions
in the Cheyenne river reservations a
$4,000 per mile. This will make
considerable increase in the total as
sessment Of railroad property in the
state. Some of the other lines were
increased in cities where local i'm
provements had been made in the way
of sidetracks and company buildings
Investigating "Tip-Burn."
Brookings.-Professors A. N. Hume
and e. w. Olive Of the State College
have been investigating the prevailing
tip-burn" of corn. 1t was at frs
thought hat possibly some fungus
disease was affecting the cor fields
but a microscopic examination of dis
eased plants did not disclose the
threads of fungi or bacteria. The
plant PSYCHOLOGISTS of the college whe