The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1915-05-28

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legislative people, was shipped in the
exhibit.
1000 Boys and Girls Enrolled.
Brookings.-More than two thou
sand South Dakota boys and girls
are enrolled in corn, kaoliang, and po-
tato growing: and canning, baking,
sewing and poultry raising. under the
direction of w. M. MAR, superintend-
ent of Boys and Girls club work for
the State College extension depart.
ment. Some 700 boys will grow corn,
300 will experiment with kaoliang,
while 100 will devote their energies to
potatoes. Superintendent MAR is now
working on a pig raising campaign.
an enrolment letter having been sent
to 500 boys and girls. Any boy or girl
between the ages of ten and eighteen
years is eligible to compete for pig
contest prizes which are offered by the
Morrell Packing company of Sioux
Falls-$12, IS and IS for first. second
and third respectively. The boys and
girls club department at State college
will manage the contest. The basis or
awarding prizes is upon the amount OF
pork which is added to the weight OF
entered pigs between June l and Sept.
|, including an essay on "How / Fed
struction will be sent to all contest
ants from time to time, thereby giving
them practically a correspondence and
laboratory course in certain subjects.
Supt. w. NJ. MAR invites correspond.
ence with those boys and girls inter.
ested in club work and especially the
pig contest who have not been APP
preached on the subject by him OF a
county superintendent of schools.
Domestic Science in Rural Schools.
Bookings. 80 Domestic Science
should be taught to rural school girls,
as we'll as to those of the city. accord
ing to Nola X. Fromme, professor Of
home economics at State college. How
shall this be done, is the great ques-
ton. A start can be made in the con
solidated school, she suggests, by pro.
viding a suitable room and special in
struction. But in the one room coun-
try school it might be possible for the
community to furnish a small cook
stove or kerosene stove, a few utensils
and a small sewing table.
The children take their lunches to
school, and hot lunches are just as
necessary for the country child as for
the city child. This would offer a
splendid opportunity for instruction in
t'ie preparation of foods, their source,
composition, and their value to the
body. Bread and butter might be
brought from home and one article OF
food prepared at the school as a COM
mon dish, such as cocoa, baked pota-
toes, eggs, soup Tin a hay box which
could be very easily constructed at
the SCHOOL,, etc.
These suggestions would. Unnecessarily
have to be worked out differently in
different communities, but it is a II
ton which should Immediately be taxi
en- up by parents, school committees,
and teachers if we would have our
country schools abreast Of the times
and give the country girl an equal
chance with the city girl.
Deposits Near Hundred Million.
Pierre.-The March 4th, 1915. call Of
national banks by the comptroller OF
the currency shows a total deposit in
South Dakota nationals OF $35, $780,
49, so. which with the total deposits
in state banks for the same date
brings the total deposits in South Da.
kota banks. state and national, up to
nearly the billion dollar mark. for
March 4th, this year, or exactly $685.
GAS, 1916, which is an increase of
more than eight million dollars, for all
deposits of q year. ago in March, the
deposits then being $84,972, 1862. The
total national and state deposits IN
banks for the crescent March call, COM
pared with the call of last December.
show an increase Of $4.263 ,491.49
Women ealk at Figures.
Pierre.-The first census returns &C.
get to the state census department
come from one OF the newest counties
Of the state. Haakon. several Of the
townships making their returns. The
state department receives reports in
regard to the refusal Of women to give
their age.
Pierre.-Horse buyers are securing
this part Of the state for export horses
at the present time. and are accepting
animals which would not begin to paas
the INSPECTION for such horses .as. TN