The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-08-13

Mrs. Claude Mccoy and baby motor
ed to Flandreau where she will visit
for a few days. She was accompanied
by her mother, Mrs. Grange, who has
been with her daughter for about a
week.
Bookings has enjoyed one of the
best seasons of band concerts OF all
time and it is hoped that they will con-
tinue as successful as they have been
in the past. The school house square
has been a fine place on which TO have
such concerts but there are many peo-
pie in the city who would favor a NOV
ing of the band stand from its present
location to the court house square,
where it stood for so long. There is
an objection to the present location in
that the stand is so close to the school
building that that structure seems to
break up the sound waves before they
are we'll discussed. Because of this the
residents east of the school building
are practically unable to hear the band.
1t would seem that it would be a good
plan to move the stand back to the
court house square for there the
sound has a better chance to so in the
direction wherein most of the people
of the city live.
NJ. NJ. Guhin, superintendent of
schools in Brown county, outlined
some practical ideas for rural life i'm
proyement at the recent Country Life
Conference at State College. The four
concrete steps expanded by him are
briefly as follows: /. The country
child should have Access to a supple
mentary reading library so that his
opportunity will be equal to the chill
dren of the city or town. 3. School
boards should be induced to provide
nine months terms in all schools. This
is the normal term contemplated by
the course of study, and there is no
' anu dI SuIlitIlI dSdluSl IL tACNpI IL"I
it costs $1.35 per quarter section,
nearly a ent an acre, more than an
eight months term. Statistics in
Brown county show that attendance is
best in nine months schools, while
the proportion of graduates in the
former is four times that of the latter.
8. School officials should be induced to
secure the best teachers possible, even
at an increase in salary. Rural teach
of workers who are more earnest, con-
scientiOus and self-sacriticing than
they. 4. We can work for two amend
ments to the constitution-G) To pro-
vide for removing the term limit from
the office of county superintendent. 1t
takes two years for a superintendent
to become familiar with conditions in
his office and to establish a definite ad-
min~istrative policy. (2) To give wo-
men the right of suffrage. A long step
toward the solution of the rural school
problem will be taken when the
mothers of South Dakota are allowed
to express themselves in an election
on the questions concerning the
neglected schools.
supplement your pastures at this
time of year with silage or other green
feed,' says Prof. c.. Larsen, dairy
h~usbandryman at the State College,
IF you want your COWS to keep up
their milk flow, and the young stock
to continue a desirable growth. The
weather of late has been hot and the
ingly. In most parts of South Dakota
pastures do not supply a sufficient
amount of feed, and in addition to this
shortage the flies and mosquitoes are
very troublesome to the COWS. In low
lands the mosquitoes trouble the COWS
at night and the flies trouble during
the day time. Practically all COWS
exposed to such conditions have been
going down in their flow of milk. Many
people consider this as a natural thing
for COWS to do this time of the year
but it is not. If COWS get sufficient
feed and are protected against the
other unfavorable conditions, they will
not shrink to the extent that they do
now. 1t is difficult to protect the coWs
against the flies and mosquitoes, al
though this can be done, to some eX
tent, by the use of fly repellants and
by having a dark shed for the COWS to
go into during the middle of the day.
Without much difficulty, however. the
shortage of pasture can be supplied by
giving the cows some green feed every
morning and every night. Usually the
corn field is close to the pasture and
only a few minutes are required to cut
a few armfulls of corn fodder and
throw it over the fence twice a day.
Possibly some farmers have a patch Of
alfalfa from which a little green feed
could be cut. Others again may have