The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1914-07-10
HoLDEN'S FAREWELL MESSAGE.
The People Can Make Their Lands
Worth from 5000 to $500 an Acre.

The People Can Make Their Lands
Worth from 5000 to $500 an Acre.
Hawarden.-On closing his great
thYee-week alfalfa campaign in South
Dakota, Prof. Holden gave out the fol.
lowing message to the people of that
ate
just closing has been one Of
the best experiences Of my life. In
Of the best experiences of my life. In
bidding farewell to South Dakota, l
do so with the hope that l may return
again and shake the hands Of the good
people who have given us such a hos
pitable welcome. They invited us to
come and help them make a greater
and more prosperous state and this We
have tried to do. The future OF South
Dakota is in the hands OF her W
people-the men and women, and the
boys and girls who have shown such
a keen Interest in the efforts to put
alfalfa 0 II every farm, to have more
silos, more live stock, better schools
Dakota lard is limited only by the
efforts of the people who live on this
land. They can make it worth 5000,
$500 and ever s400 an acre. Their
day Is coming, and many Of the young
people Of South Dakota will live to see
1t, when land in a good many sections
Will sell for $400 an acre. Many OF
the people have abandoned the one
crop systematic raising OF wheat
eyclusively-and they will plant more
cor and enough alfalla to balance the
corn ration for the dairy COW and
beef cattle that they will have on
their farms. They must feed their
produce means selling fertility off the
farm-fertility that should be in.
creased and not diminished. The op.
portunities in South Dakota are equal
to those in Iowa and the sowing of
alfalfa on every farm will do
thar any one thing to help the
people use these opportunities for the
greatest profit. l have never met any.
where more intelligent and progressive
farmers and business men thar right
here in South Dakota. Most of them
tell me that they were eagerly waiting
for this campaign. They had already
begun to grow alfalfa, but they wanted
to hear the experiences of the men
who had successfully grow this won
derful plant in many sections of the
country. They wanted to know how
best to prepare their seed beds. how
best to sow, when and how to cut, and
how to put their crops in the barns
with the least possible loss of leaves.
This information We have tried to
give them. We did not come to tell
farmers how to farm, but simply TO
aid them in the things they wanted
more information about. South Da-
kota is just in the beginning of her
real prosperity. The growing of alfal-
ia on hundreds and possibly thousands
OF grain farms this year and next year
will do away with the dread Of drouthS.
Alfalfa is the greatest drouth resister
known. and when other crops fail, the
people will have alfalfa to feed and
live stock to sell. This Is the greatest
problem before the South Dakota farm
er-having something to sell when
the wheat crop fails, and this is the
problem That alfalfa will help him to
solve. All of the campaigners, as we'll
as myself, deeply appreciate the vel
come We have received on the farms
and in the towns. The people have
been kind to us, they have attended
the meetings in large numbers and
they have listened attentiyelv to what
the speakers had to say. All Of us
want to ONE back to South Dakota
again in the near future and meet
these same people whose guests We
have been Tor the last three weeks.
"P. G. Holden"