The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-12-12
Big Stone TWP.

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The corn shredder is still hummin1
! in the land.
Quite crowd from the township At
tended the spelling school and liter
ary program at Big Stone Fridav
night last The spelling. school vas.
qulte 9 frost, butthe literary program
Mr.. Fredrickeoni and Mr.. VauLen-.
gen have recently had the. Tti State.
telephone installed in their homes.
Miss Francis, Brown has ,accented !.
position with. Miss Kate .Schnacke in
the Big Stone post Office. aud the most
once store. Success, to, you Miss
Brown.
Miss Florence Brown is, losing two
weeks schOol on. account Of g. broken
cOllarbone. She fell with some ether
scnoOl girls, off the teeter AT the
schoor house. She surely has GOOD,
grit. for she simply made q wry face.
when she fell, and came to school
next day. We hope she will ge, back
10 schooi soon. as she is greatly
missed by schoolmates and teacher.
Mr.. Roland Exers is, kept very busy
with his shredder schucking corn for
MS nelgubOrs. Mr.. Denver Smith +.
attending Mr.. Ever's- fall work while.
Mr. Evers is helping his friedds.
Miss Hinkles of district number. s.
ana school visited district number 2
friday afternoon December 6. The
a1ternoon was spent in regular school
work until recess time. After recess
| there n
the afternoon was ppOfitabl as we'll
as enjoyable to both schools. Manv
thanks for the visit Miss HinAles.
Mr.. Jacob Lacomhe, Mn. IT1zal
Horton and Miss Fredrir Smith, visited
district No along with district No :
Call again.
Mr.. Will Brown was a visitor at
NO : with the rest of the young folks.
We understand q great deal was
SAID ABOUT stock raising and corn
growing at the short course Rrookinp
| .ollege given at Big Stone last week
| thought some of our readers might
be Interested to know such work Is
being done and the results. Hecalled
on Mr.. Hains Buntdzen who settled
10 this vicinity about eight years ago
from Iowa. He brought his Iowa
IDEAS or corn and stock. He reports
Tor last year l2O acres Of corn and 20
acres was in sweet corn. Mr.. b. SAYS
MS yleld was about Eve bushels per
acre better than last year. He has
between 5000 and 1000 bushels of fine
corn: He i feeding 65 head OF cattle
ana . Or 30 of hogs. He says the
cholera scare caused him to hed0e on
hogs. Mr.. b. is strongly in favor OF
corn and stock rather than wheat.
he says he expects to feed out all his
corn and would rather buy more corn
than SELL
Mr.. Fredrickson, Mr.. Conraadan.
| Mr.. J. &. Brown each raised bOudt
eighty acres of good corn. Every one
| | talked with says he expects to feed
his corn. All these farmers claim
just as other corn raisers in the state
lhat the money Ia corn is in feeding it
out
IL Is safe to say that this part of
Grant county has doubled its average
OF corn within five years.
Mr.. D. A. Hoel has rented his farm
at New York Mills, Mimi. and will
move to Big Stone or Ortonville in the
spring He has taken his Big stone
township farm Off the market His
son Archie moved on the place the la st
OF September. They Will make big
Improvements on the farm. The
house and barn are to be thoroughly
overhauled. A wove wire fence will
be put entirely around the 32O acres
and the farm turned into stock
farm. They will plant from 100 to
10 acres Of corn. They will start in
with about 20 head of cattle and keen
picking cattle and hogs until the place
IS thoroughly stocked. Mr. d. A.
Hoel IS very successful farmer and
business man and he has never vet
taken hold Of farm that he did
not make 1t paying proposition.
| Mr.. Roland Evers has rented a 32O
acre farm on the Big Stone road,
which he moved onto late in September
He expects to plant over q hundred
acres of corn besides his other crops.
II Paul Koh!er wants any more corn
thunder tell him to interview Big
Stone farmers. They are moving
right up to the head Of the class.