The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1915-12-23
Local and Personal

q ant Hour FRIDAY ana SATURDAY, ~
cents. Xmas Day matinee at $3.50.
f. O. Jolley of Sioux Falls has leased
the Cottage Hotel in this city and tool
possession last Saturday. Mr.. and
Mrs. Jolley have moved their house
hold goods here and expect to remain
citizens of the city indefinitely. The
building is being thoroughly renovated,
papered and painted and will be open
to the public on Monday, December
9th.
Under the new primary law there
are no voters registering at the office
of County Auditor f. S. Ripley it was
reported Monday. The books remain
with the auditor until February l,
when they are sent to the town, town
ship and city auditors of the respective
voting districts. Because of the fact
that the primaries will be held on
April 4, 1916, instead of in June, il
will be necessary for voters to give
the matter of registration their early
attention. The time will not be any
too long as the county auditor must
make up a list of the names in alpha
betical order for the election officials
prior 10 the primaries, which work will
require three or four weeks.
Several enthusiastic breeders OF
purebred livestock met last Saturday
in the office of Secretary J. f. Brooke
of the Brookings County Fair Associa-
ton and reorganized the Brookings
County Pure Bred Stock Breeders AS
ISOLATION. Percy Kennard was elected
president, Chas. Gile, first yice-presi-
dent; Frank Telkamp second v~ice-pres-
ident; George Crawford, third vice
president; II. G.. Skinner, fourth vice
president, and James w. Wilson, sec
rotary and treasurer. The intention is
to have a sale sometime the last of
February or the first Of March. 1t is
highly desirable that all breeders of
purebred livestock of Brookings county
become a member of the association.
Other counties have successful stock
breeders associations, so why can't
we?
If the agricultural men at Brookings
State College had put much effort into
advertising sheep raising as they have
dairying. they would have created an
interest that would have placed a flock
of sheep on nearly every farm in cast
ern South Dakota, say the De Smet
Independent. Dairying is all right; it
brings in a steady revenue, helps to
make the land better, and has lifted
many a mortgage from the farm home.
But it takes close application and a lot
of labor, and no small investment in
stock and feed. The farmer engaged
in dairying is compelled to depend al
most entirely upon labor within his
own family to carry on dairying. 1t Is
next to impossible to hire help that
will take any reasonable care of cows.
Sheep raising has some advantages
over dairying. Now, someone will prob
ably stand up and call us a Sidewalk"
farmer. But we have the habit of
making observations as we journey
through life-it is a part of our bust
ness-and we know that, taken on the
average, the farmers raising sheep are
making more money out of the sheep,
considering labor and investment thar
they are making out of dairying. We
get the best evidence from the farmer
who Is doing both. There is nothing
to prevent the farmer from doing both.
and then he has two good sources of
employment and income. Brookings
county has been the center of the
sheep industry SO far developed in this
part of the state, but we notice that
the idea Is spreading. If we read the
signs rightly, five years from 10Y will
see many times the present number Of
sheep raisers in this section.