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The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-06-12

produced only IL bushels OF wheat per
acre in a four-year rotation Including
clover; while % bushels Is the average
in the same rotation where the SOIL
was ~replenished. Likewise the Ohio
Experiment Station has changed the
| yield of wheat from 10 to q bushels
per acre by soil enrichment in a five
year rotation as a 19-year average.
Furthermore, where wheat has been
grown year after year on the same
land for two-thirds of a century at
Rothamstad, England, the average
yield of the last twenty years Is 11.2
bushels per acre on unfertilized land,
and 37.9 bushels where the command
ment to "replenish the earth was
obeyed.
In Illinois we 10Y have Swear aver
age yields Of wheat varying from B
bushels to SO bushels per acre with a
good crop rotation including clover in
both cases. And here, too, this enor-
nous difference in average yield is e
planned by a single word: fertility.
One of the reasons why South Da-
kota now produces more corn than
wheat is because the corn crop gives
a better opportunity to work the land
for all that's in il. But you will be in
terested to know that on our old ex-
pertinent fields in Illinois, the Oldest
in the United States, We now have
average yields of corr varying from
25.2 bushels to S6.6 bushels per acre
the same variety of corn on the same
kind Of soil, plowed, prepared and
planted exactly alike; the fields both
cultivated the same, watered by the
same rains and warmed by the same
sun.
Only two factors OF influence make
this difference: One of these is crop
rotation which changes the yield tenn
! porarily from 25.3 to 49.4 bushels by
a system of more rapid soil depletion.
The other factor Is profitable soil en-
richment, which changes the average
yield from 49.4 to S6.6 bushels in a
system of truly permanent agriculture.
There are now 26 million acres OF
farm land in South Dakota; n there
Is no other use the state could make OF
revenues that would render SO great
service to the commonwealth as to
appropriate one cent per acre per
annum for the investigation OF South
Dakota soils. Restore, increase, and
preserve the fertility of the land, and
all things else will be provided.
The institution established to sur
vey soils, to collect trustworthy sam
pies representative of all soil types, to
make analyses to ascertain the stock
of fertility and physical character of
each, and to carefully conduct well
planned field experiments to supple
ment the other sources OF information,
is the Agricultural Experiment Station
of the State College; and there ought
to be, and must be IL duty is done, a
persistent, welEorganized, and success
full movement to secure adequate APP
preparations for the Inauguration and
prosecution of this most fundamental
work.
1t can be started with $4,000 a year,
but as fast as a force "a lie secured
and developed, the fund should be in
creased until it approaches the one
cent per acre. The question should be
not how little the appropriation can
be, but rather how much money can be
used to advantage in pushing this
work to completion.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-06-12

bushels in 1899, to 4513 million bushels
in 1900, while the number of food
producing animals (cattle, sheep and
swine) decreased by more than 10 per-
cent (from 1913 million to 173 million
head. How then have We fed the in
crease of 81 percent in our population?
BY decreasing our expectation of food
stuffs. Thus, as an average, our an
nual expectations decreased during the
decade from 210 million to 10S million
bushels of wheat, and from 1876 million
to only 40 million bushels of corn.
Only a third of a century has passed
since my father came with his family
and selected the first half section of
land from a township of virgin soil in
an eastern border county of the great
Dakota Territory-land that is now
worth perhaps 500 an acre. Why is it
worth 500 an acre? Because there is
10 more land of good quality in the
humid or s%emi-humid sections of the
United States.
Listen, friends: During the thirty
years from 1870 to 1900 the population
of the United States increased by SO
percent and the land in farms increas.
ed by 105 percent; and during the de-
cade from 1890 to 1900 the population
increased by 20.S percent and the farm
land by 34.6 percent; but from 1900 to
1910 the population increased by II
percent and the farm land by less than
> percent; and in his address before
the National Conservation Congress at
Kansas City in 1911, the President of
the United States reported that all pos,
sible future increase in our farm lands
is only 9 percent, and this only by ex-
pensive drainage or irrigation.
Heretofore We have fed our increas-
ing population first by increasing our
acreage of farm land, and finally by
decreasing III expectation Of food
stuffs; but We have almost reached the
limit of our relief in both of these di-
rections. Now the great practical prob.
lem for us is to increase production
by increasing the yield per acre; and
we should also do what we can to set
up high standards of true altruism in a
public sentiment that will ultimately
enable our children to solve their still
greater problem; namely, to limit pop
u~lation, especially the reproduction OF
all classes of d~egenerates for whose
ultimate support in charitable
and penal institutions half the re-
venue in most states is already requir.
ed, while Investigations and education
for the productive people suffer from
inadequate support.
AS stated, the production of all GER
cal crops in the United States ~increas
ed by less than 2 percent during the
last decade; but the acreage of farmed
land Improved farm land) increased
by 1874 percent, thus revealing the
fact of decreased yield per acre; and il
we permit the continuation of decreas
ing fertility and of increasing popula
ton, then poverty is the only future
for the American Aryan, our children's
children.
Is this a country or a state
So morally inanimate
Our children's future to efface;
To sell the birthright of the race?
For present greed of power and gail
Shall We ignore the future pain
OF poverty to those We love;
Then dare to meet a God above?
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-06-12

State appropriations are not secured
by wishing, but by work, by organized
effort; and no greater service could be
rendered by those who have at heart
the welfare and future prosperity of
the state than by working as individ-
uals and through associations to
awaken the public conscience and in-
tellect and to secure the necessary
initial appropriation, perhaps from the
next session of the state legislature.
To exert influence will require
thought, earnest intelligent thought;
and it may require time and travel
now a minute, then an hour, some
times, perhaps, a day or two, and may
be a dollar or two, or twenty, of hard
learned money, for travelling expenses
We NAV call it sacrifice, or redeeming
the debt we owe humanity. 1t is both
of these, but it hastens the coming of
the Kingdom of God on earth by loyal,
~unselish service, included in the
Masters mind when He said:
There is no man that hath left
house, or parents, or brethren, or wife,
or children Tor land, for the Kingdom
of Gods sake, who shall not receive
manifold more in this present time,
and in the world to come life everlast.
ing
Such a movement is not for the
special benefit of the farmers and land
owners; but for all lines of business,
manufacture and commerce, as we'll as
for every consumer. 1t should meet
with universal favor and ! venture to
predict that from no source will come
any stronger support than from the
best organized Better Farming Assoc
Citations.
Not even the best trained agricul.
tural advisers employed by such asso-
Citations can impart information which
does not exist; and they are among
the first to feel the need of such de-
tailed and thorough soil surveys and
soil Investigations as can be made only
by a state-supported public-service in.
%stitution such as this. Ten counties
should be surveyed before the first re-
port is published: and this should have
the benefit of the combined experience
and information thus secured. A
colored county soil map has no value
unless accompanied by trustworthy in.
formation from field and laboratory in.
vestigations, preferably supported by
the results of from other comparable
counties.
We boast of the rich soils of Da.
kota, but the greatest need Dakota has
Is for positive information regarding
the composition and profitable enrich,
ment and permanent preservation OF
these soils. Sometime the people OF
this great state will realize that saving
the soil is second in Importance only
to saving the soul.
He is only half informed who says
the great agricultural problem Of Da
kota is to save moisture. BY no means
should we neglect the conservation Of
moisture, but to produce larger crops
with a limited supply of moisture re
quires soil enrichment. The know
ledge that rich soils have much greater
ability than poor soils to resist droutf
is already widespread, though not
widely applied, as witness vast area.
of depleted soils.
According to the Bureau of Census
our total production Of all cereal crops
increased by less than 2 percent dur
ing the last decade (from 4439 million
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-06-12
HOT 1 FLAT IRON

This electric iron has proven such univer-
sal satisfaction that we can not hardly get
them fast enough. The heat being located
In the point of your iron It always insures
you q hot iron which makes ironing q pleas
ure rather than q drudge. Al far as ex-
pense is concerned the current of electricity
VIII not cost you half as much per ironing
as the gasoline you would burn, and you will
save all that Inconvenience and unpleaEant-
ness. Every iron guaranteed for ten years.
Price ..... $3.50
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-06-12

For . good clean cutting edge nothing
beats the old grind stone. Our grind stones
al have the iron frsms which IL very rigid
ana lasting. All are Of an Ohio stone which
makes them exceptionally good grit.
p,sc. $3.50 and ss.So
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1913-09-12
HE7E TO SAFE 3Ut6D M03iL.
fomca pollceue o. E-eterH Beache.
Like TO T,ad Fionty Of Work
Ready at Hand.

The very conservative little city OF
Newport has placed women police
zen on its beach, remarks the New
York Mail. They are supposed to
'ook out for the safety of women and
.hildren and incidentally, no doubt.
% supervise the moral interests of
The beach. If the authority which
they may exercise is regarded as a
success, after a trial, We may yet see
woman policemen all along the
beaches. They would certainly find
plenty Of work to do if they should
attempt to bring Coney island up to
the conventional standard Of conduct
which prevails at that sanctuary of
riparian proprieties-Bailey's beach
at Newport. After they have re-
formed public manners and abol-
ished "spOoning" at the beaches, nc
doubt we shall see the woman police
men on duty in the public parks.
When they have reformed the parks
the only refuge of the spoons will
doubtless be the Coney island boats,
which, being run on n~ayigable wa
ters, are under the authority Of the
United States government. 1t takes
so long time to get anything done by
the government that the manipula-
tons of endearment common on these
boats are probably safeguarded for a
number of years.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1913-09-12
E EDIBLE BEAN.

A new variety of bean adapted for
dry climates was discovered under in
teresting circumstances by Prof. R.
W. Clothier Of the University of
Arizona, as reported by him in a re-
cent magazine article. During a L.
300-mile wagon journey over the
deserts and mountains Of Arizona in
the summer of 1908 he visited the
Papago Indians and obtained from
hem several hundred brownish-yel-
low beans of an unknown variety.
These were grown on experimental
plots at the Arizona experimental
station for four years before the dis
aoyery was announced. 1t appears
that the new bean, which has been
named "tepary," is more prolific I'M
Ter dry conditions than any other
known variety, yielding as high as
13O pounds to the acre, with no wa
ter other than the scanty rainfall of
Arizona. Under the same conditions
ordinary beans yield only from sc to
l44 pounds to the acre.-Scientifc
american.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1913-09-12
GOT AWAY WITH FARM PEST
Peculiar Bugs Have pevoured Niue
tard Crop Which MAJ the 5ane
Of a Wheat Grower.

A valuable beetle has been discov-
red by a farmer, who owns a wheat
arm neal Lowden, Wash. These in
Gets, which are black and beetlelike,
lay mean thousands of dollars to
farmers of this valley and hundreds
f thousands to those of the nation.
hey are half an inch long and half
8 wide, and have taken possession Of
re farm by millions, and are killing
Il the mustard crop on the place.
month ago, when a trip was made
yer the ranch, it was so covered with
q mustard that it was decided to
the grain for hay. The mustard
cow dead and dying and the wheat
1~urishing. The bugs eat the seed
"a leaves Of the plant, leaving only
stalk, and it is not able TO propa-
,te itself. No one seems to know
q na,ae Of the insect or anything
ont it, Even those around Low
"a Lad never heard Of it before
70 foreman has orders to collect
ome Of the bugs, and an effort vii
@ made to determine the species
! whether hey can be propagated
ON bugs s year ago saved some o
r. EraitI aheat in Franklin coa
IN a similar fashion.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1913-09-12
Ice Cream and Ices.

Delivered to any part of the
town. Vanilla cream $1.OO a
gallon, Chocolate cream $l.2O a
gallon, Fruit cream $1.3O a gal
lon Brick cream so cents a
brick. Five gallons or more
less money per gallon. Watch
for the wagon and listen for
the bell, will sell in town nearly
every day. Try my cream once,
if not good tell me. l want
your trade and I will treat you
Phone your wants to 694.
Also good pasture for stock.
Phone your wants to GOA.
G. H. NEER.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1913-09-12

Mr. and Mrs. Lilburn Cole re-
turned Sunday evening to their
home in Kansas City after a visit
here with relatives.
Roy Cole of Kansas City spent
Sunday here with homefolks.
Miss Bessie Dawson went to
Liberty, Mo-, Saturday evening
for a short visit.
Mrs. Rob Nicholson returned
Sunday evening to her home in
Kansas City after a visit here
with relatives.
Miss Mable Ellis of Kansas
City, who has been visiting rela-
tiyes here, went to Aullville Mon
day morning for a visit.
Raymond Rice of Kansas City
arrived Sunday evening, being
called here by the death of
his grandfather, VIM. II. Greer.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. W. Jewett
went to Kansas City Sunday
morning for a few days visit.
Miss Atha Deweese of Trenton,
Mo, arrived Sunday evening
for a visit here with Miss Ruth
Craig.
Manley and Floyd Clark went
to Liberty Sunday evening
where they will attend William
Jewell College.
Mrs. NJ. +. Russell and daugh-
ter, Miss Constance, returned
Sunday evening to their home in
independence after a visit here
with Mrs. Emma Taubman.
Cinnie II. Wlcoxon Monday
sold his residence property on
North 18th street to John c..
Young, Jr. Consideration pri-
yate.
Mrs. Lucy Young returned
Sunday evening to her home in
Kansas City after a visit here
with her son, B. R. Young. Mr..
and Mrs. B. R. Young accompan-
led her home for a visit.
Miss Elizabeth ToIand returned
this morning to her home in Kan
sas City after a visit here with
Mrs. James O'Malley.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. w. Roberts
went to Kansas City Sunday
n orning for a few days visit.
Mrs. William Aull went to
Kansas City Monday for a
few days visit.
w. H, Chiles went to Marshall
Monday on legal business.
Edward Aull went to Kansas
City Monday to spend the
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. j.. NJ. Poage went
to Kansas City Monday to
spend the day.
Mrs. Robert Taubman and Mr..
and Mrs. N. e. Basket and
daughter, Amelia, went to Kansas
City Monday for a visit.
Mrs. J. S. Bell and little daugh
ter, Marjorie, left Monday
Tor their home in Bellwood, Nebr.
Miss Ella Ramey accompanied her
for a visit.
Ed Barron spent Sunday in
Sedalia.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1913-09-12
HIS EXPERIENCE.

"On the whole" said the ageo
weather prophet, 81 have found that
the safest course is to predict bad
feather"
"How SOP" asked the neophyte.
Because people are much more
ready to forgive you if the predic-
ton does not come ue."-Puck.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1913-09-12

The following Lexingtonians
went to Marshall Thursday to
zee the Barnum & Bailey circus;
Mr.. and Mrs. j. c. McGrew and
,n Billie, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. W.
Sgdnor, Mr.. and Mrs. C. W.
johnson. Mr.. and Mrs. Ben
,ratz, Mr.. and Mrs. J. f. Fores-
ter and son, Franklin, and Mr..
I'd Mrs. j. n Sturgis and son,
Irwin. The trip was made in
automobiles.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1913-09-12
REALLY QUITE SIMPLE.

'How does it happen, Pilkins, that
| catch you coming out of a saloon ?"
Gust this way, Towels: You
we're passing the door when l stepped
out"
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1913-09-12

ter, Miss Helen, returned Satur-
Mrs. VIM. Shacklett and daugh
day evening from a visit in
Colorado.
Miss Eta Matter went to Well
ington Saturday evening for a
visit.
Misses Margaret and Nancy
Chamberlain returned Saturday
evening to their home in Kansas
City after an extended visit
here with relatives.
Leslie Roberts and Burlet
Cope went to Kansas City Satur-
cay evening for a visit.
John B. Howe returned Satur-
day evening to independence af-
~ a visit here with friends.
Mrs. Sarah Evans and son,
Frank, returned Saturday even
ing from a visit in Danville, III.
Ben Hislop spent Sunday in
Kansas City.
Miss Marie Cohrs returned
home Sunday evening from a
visit in Kansas City.
Miss Ella Nickel returned Sun
day evening from a visit in Kan
sas City.
DR.. u. NJ. Williams spent Sun
cay in Kansas City.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Wiley spent
Sunday in Kansas City.
Mrs. NJ. F. Cockrell returned
Sunday morning to her home in
Kansas City after a visit here
with her mother, Mrs. Mamie c..
Steele.
Miss Bernice White returned to
Kansas City Sunday morning af-
ter a visit here with relatives.
J. r. M@oorehead, dr., left Mon
day for Fulton, where he
viii attend Westminster College.
Mrs. Mary Penn returned to
her home in Pawhuska, Oklaho-
ma, Sunday evening after attend
ing the funeral of Mrs. Earl Wal
lace.
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. Ladeson and
Miss Bessie Schienberg went to
Excelsior Springs Sunday morn
ing for a two days stay.
Stanley Gordon left Wednes-
day for Fayette, where he will
attend Central College.
Mrs. T. W. Wright and daugh-
ter, Mrs. NJ. R. McClelland, and
infant son, NJ. r., Jr,, spent We'd
nosday in Wellington.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1913-09-12

Mrs. Logan Chappell and three
daughters, Misses Hazel, Theresa
and Doris, Of Marshall, who are
the guests Of Mrs. Chappell's sis
ter, Mrs. Mamie G. Steele, will
sail the 10th Of this month for
Paris, for a two years stay,
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1913-09-12

A message has been received
here announcing the sudden
death in TT. Worth, Texas, Tues
Gay, September 2nd, of Paul
Min tt. Mr.. Millett is survived
by his wife, who was Miss Anna
lldball, a niece of Mrs. W.. G.
NcCauSland and. Miss Florence
Arnold, and one son.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1913-09-12
NICE DISTINCTION.

Lawyer-Do you mean to tell me
The plaintiff was drunk?
Witness-Well, no; but you
ouldn't call him ostentatiously
sober. Judge.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1913-09-12
Washington Letter.
LClNde II. Tavenne

article that it could manufacture
itself for $12.52?
Eut il has been doing this very
thing for a great many
years. The government is pay
ing $25 for IT. inch shrapnel, the
character of ammunition used in
heavy field guns. and at the same
time il has been manufacturing
at frankfort Arsenal. Philadel-
phia, a portion of its supply for
Sl2.52, all overhead charges in
Guided.
Field artillery ammunition is
not an exception. The records of
the War Department show that
the government has been paying
private manufacturers from % to
5o per cent more for small arms
cartridges, and from 80 to 30
per cent more for field artillery
ammunition and equipment, than
IT. van manufacture ''e'" III
"S "~iSei''''
The question that naturally
wy mas "''
"'eN' 'y'1 "'S''DS Vle PeoIIe >
''''y -" '''-s "''i'i''' ''"
'N ~ e'i'''o' answer
now '-H'l'5 'oN'l""'" "I''e 10" =
" i''''ii '''' '"' s''
""s si''I'9 ','i' '""'S 1T anu we
wiz nave 10 le' 20 aV 'la''
"U' WEI '',e 80. eFni'''"' '"i'-
.''''e ~ i"J .''e P''I''e "I-
I'r'rS ~7N''NSI'e prices lna'
'."''S vi whether ="
t'op,' are iH''i 'S'cu' 'ne
P'oIie nave no o'Je'O'on' " -
70 pIesu'Il 'l!e gov
H''ei" WEI no' 80 eA'i''u'
J nave introduced IN Congress
d series OF SIX Dllls providing Tor
a Total appropriation OF $l,o3o,OO
to enlarge the plant at the Rock
Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Ill.,
so that the government may man
fracture It's own field artillery
equipment and ammunition and
small arms cartridges.
Inc program OF the War De-
Partment calls for $2O,OOO,OOO,
worth OF field artillery ammunl-
tion' l believe the government
could save $o,OOO,OOO on this or
der alone
baIl cartridges callDer 80
Tor the regulation service rifles
were made at the Frankford Ar
senal IN 1872 for $26.95 per LOO
including all overhead charges.
or the same cartridge private
manufactures are receiving S3S.-
Va.
why should the government
pay private manufacturers 81
'oo Tor a three inch calSSon when
Il IS manufacturing the luehIlcal
9fllcle at hock Island Arsenal
Ior @l'Ool, all overhead charges
lpcluuedI
why snouId the government
pay private manufacturers 70
zoo Tor a three men gun carriage
proper "heh II Is manufacturing
Ihe same tllhg at the Rock Is
l7nd Arsenal Tor 9z'o+IE
oro@ler, neau Oh Vne
onl'eu ol"'eS war OolIeSe' eA-
presses Ille oPillloll 'nal III Vhe
in"hul"cIuIe Oh IItIu dFJiIlery gu
The San Francisco call., 1913-07-20

had endured disappointments and humations such
as she had never dream of before she left comfort
able home.
What is the fascination that drew her and is still
drawing thousands of men and women into pro-
fession in which SO few rise above mediocrity, and
from whom many sacrifices demanded to
attain even medocrity? prominent actor defn-
ing the fascination Of the stage, ventured: 1.-The
desire to give expression to that which we feel is
within u.s.
While that may be the case in some instances,
inclined to the belief that it is only the minority
who adopt the stage for this psychological reason,
and that the great majority take the step from en-
trely different motives. There many magnets,
of course; for human beings are not all born with
the same tastes and emperaments. There are certain
desires and ambitions however, to which we may
point as being almost, if not quite, universal IN
mankind.
The most poignant Of all human longings IS to be
admired and in no other walk of life is the oppor-
tunity to crafty this ambition great as behind
the footlighs for there was never an actor so lncom
petent that some one would not tell him that he was
good and there face so PLAIN that grease
paint and powder would not soften, or quite eiface,
the blemishes that unkind nature bestowed upon 1t.
Where is the man woman who wishes to appear
old? Who is there in the wide wide world who IS
not pleased when says: "How young you
look' Would you like to start out on search for