The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1915-10-07
GROW EARLY CORN
~G.H.CARROLL SAYS
Corn Is Universal Crop i'm North
west

The spring was late, but so is the
fall. The frost in some places has
no doubt done damage. but the u.
S. weather bureau at Huron which
gathers It's news from all points in
the state says this damage IS slight.
Anyway. u farmers ought to feel
encouraged this year at their sue
cess in corn growing in South Dako-
ia.
We all know well enough that corn
is the great. universal crop for this
northwest country. 1t always will
be. Any man so belated as not to
be able to see that, is like Rip Van
Wrinkle, been asleep for years.
We all know that wherever corn
is grown there you find rich, pros.
porous communities and high priced
land. What other crop makes land
so valuable?
The seed for an acre of corn costs
five cents. What other seed is so
cheap?
What a job it is to harvest the
small grain Men excited, helping
one another. watching the weather
and lodging the rain. Consterna-
ton in the kitchen when the women
see threshers coming and always
glad when they r gone. Not so
in harvesting the corn. A farmer
can take all the time he wants, then
if he does not get done, he can turn
his hogs in. They will finish it. l
did not intend to mention the hog
when | started out, altho corn and
hogs 60 together. But | cannot re-
sist the temptation to say this much:
The hog has bought more land. paid
off more mortgages, sent more boys
and girls to college. and put more
pianos in the homes of Iowa and H.
inois farmers than any other one
agency. Will he do as much here?
Why not? When you count the
strips in a pound of breakfast ba-
con. costing 35cts. it is time for the
people to talk about the hog. and
try to make his tribe increase.
The average yield of corn per
ere in the United States is Is BUSH
els. 1t is safe enough to say that
South Dakota is up to that average.
Suppose some one from a great
distance should offer to sell us a
grain that would weld two hundred
bushels from one bushel of seed
planted. Would we not be willing
to give 500 for a bushel of. that
seed just to get a start and consider
it cheap at that? Well, corn will do
that very thing. 1t will return 200
bushels of golden grain in Novem-
Der for every bushel planted IN May.
What other grain will do that?
am using mild language when |
say that corn IS the grandest bene-
diction that has ever been handed
down to the farmer from the Great
King. commonly called God.
The preacher asks what must we
do to be saved? Let that stand.
But let US supplement that by asking
what must we do to be fed? The
answer IS easy. plant more corn.
Give the world more beef and ba-
con. The price of these products is
certainly encouraging to the farm
er, | mean.
Every farmer knows that we can
raise anything after a crop of corn
wheat. oats, barley, and small
grain. He will get twice the yield
per acre after corn that he will get
in any other known way. Any body
will rent corn stalk ground-be glad
to get it-when other land goes beg
ging for renters.
No place in the world | suppose
where a farmer can cultivate such
big fields of corn no stumps. no
sloughs. no short turns. No place
where he can use such big horse
power with such little man power.
No limit to what man can do if he
can only handle enough power.
Last year the world produced
three and one half billion bushels of
corn. Our United states contribut-
ed just two thirds of this tremend-
GUS amount. Where is the man who
is not proud of the part we play in
feeding the world?
Here in the United States one
farmer is already feeding IL people
3 times a day: take your pencil TO it
3 million farmers, So million peo-
pie. He is doing well. But he will