The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1914-06-25
ONE BIG STORY
OF GROWING CROPS
TRAVELLERS ALL OVER THE
NORTH PART OF THE STATE
BRING BACK THE MOST
GLOWING REPORTS.

Aberdeen, S. D.-Travelers owe
different portions of the state con-
tinue to bring in reports of splendid
crops in every section. A party of
Mobridge men recently travelled 700
miles by automobile in South Dakota,
most of the distance being west of
the Missouri river, and they report
conditions all that any one could ask.
At every point in the territory visit
ed, they found grass, alfalfa, wheat
and other small grains growing rap
idly, n farmers delighted with the
prospects for the heaviest crop in
years.
George Schafer, a former resident
of Aberdeen, but now aerancher near
Belle Fourcl1e, where he has a flock
of 1900 sheep, while in the city, re-
ported conditions could not possibly
be better. The rains have been fire.
quent and heavy throughout the
Belle Fourche country. He started
some alfalfa on his sheep ranch this
year, and expects soon to have suf-
ficient alfalfa to feed his herds.
j. w. Smith, j. A. Elliott and
David Culbert of Aberdeen and j. A.
Herman of Bennett, Neb., have just
returned from a trip through the
southern part of Brown county and a
portion of Edmunds counties, and
Mr.. Smith, who is a real estate dealer
of long experience, a pioneer of the
state, said: THE best crops are grow
ing along the Yellowstone trail and
through the southern part of Brown
and Edmunds county that i have
ever seen growing in South Dakota
in all the years l have lived here.
The corn fields, in places where
corn never grew before, are looking
fine. Nearly every farmer has be-
tween forty and e~ighty-five acres in
corn this year, in this section, and
the range of the height is from four
to ten inches. 1t has been too wet to
pillow corn, but the plows were begin
ming to show themselves Tuesday.
and the corn has a good color and
most of the fields are very free from
weeds.
alfalfa fields of this years SOW
ing are looking excellent, despite the
fact hat many of them are planted
on ground where it was claimed but
a short time ago that alfalfa would
not grow. There are a great many
dlIalIa IleluS IN lnlS SeCLlOn OF unG
state, and all are looking fine. The
livestock in the pastures is wading
in grass knee deep in many places,
and each animal is plump and slick
looking. There are more milk cows in
the pastures than | eve say before,
and more brood sows with little pigs
running about in the barn yards than
remember seeing in thirty years in
South Dakota. The rye fields and
many fields. of barley are already
headed out, and oats, bluestem and
fife wheat are also beginning to head
out a little. The wheat straw is of
a good height, but the growth is not
rank, as many had feared because OF
the frequent rains.
]. w. Parmley, president of the
Twin Observation-Disclosures
Park trail, who has Just completed a
trip through the Dakotas and into
Montana, said: THE: crop outlook
from Aberdeen through to the Mon
tana line has never been better than
now. I have been over that section of
the northwest many times during my
thirty years residence in South Da-
kota, and l never saw anything finer
at this time of the year. The good
crop prospects extend far over the
North Dakota line into Montana,
too"