Philip weekly review and Bad River news. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 1912-1918, 1916-06-15
GOOD FARMING IS THE SUBJECT
/. II. c. Lecturers In An Inuo-
sion of the Trans-M
souri, Region.
ny S. e. Travis, of Pierre }

| 10y y. u. ITdNlS, OF PIeTTe J
Farm extension work has been
pushed i'm the western part of the
state and alfalfa and the dairy COW
was given a boost by the CORPS
# lecturers which is kept fin the
Held by the fund which has been
placed by the Information Harves
Ter company for this GLASS of work.
\ E. Ghamberlai i'm who is at the
kead Of a corps Of active work ers
spread them over that part of the
state Ntsf Of the Missouri river
ior the past few days and from tn e
manner i'm which the farmers came
out to hear what the lecturers lad
10 say the invasion was to th cir
liking. The territory in Stanley
flaahon. Jacks and Lyman coun-
ties was covered for the pradries
work and the Black Hills was gone
over the latter part of the week.
One of the principal, or rather
the two principal features covered
| in this section Of the state was
alfalfa both for hay and seed, and
| he feed Of cattle both for dairy
and beef purposes. The alfalfa doc
| trine which has been preached for
a number of years by such men
| an rtkil ROY. af
enne river country, Henry Jeffries
of Sansarc ,anld the Robinson BROTH
ers of Phillip, has already borne
| fruit in that part of the state be-
| tween the Hills and the Mi ssouri
Iqiver, and the acreage has been
increased wonderfully sn the past
| few years, practically every farmer,
| that is the actual farmer ON his
land, having seeded a part of his
land in this crop, which has been
proven one of the best paying
crops which can be raised in tina
section, and which has also proven
in the dry years that when it
once gets a hold it will stand more
grief than amy other farm pro duct.
THE dairy COW was given her
share of attention by the lecturers,
who urged the farmers to take up
t. hat feature of the work, and help
| make their farms more profitable
| This has also been a growing prp-
position in the western part OF the
state, not only through the ageicuil-
tural ext ension work of the Interna-
tlcnal, but by the state workers ais
wem, who have been pushlng this
line for several years AS a Result
the cream shipm ents from practi-
lily every shipping station west
Of the Missouri are far ahead of
| th sc of hast year. AT the little
| country store at Milesville, thirty
| five miles from a railroad the
cream payments often run to more
| than a hundred dollars day,
and the cream lis hauled to the
ailmoad i'm a large mo tor truck
which makes the trip daily to get
the shipments out.
The lecturers who are sent out
by this company cover large
scope Of country in few days
Of time, SO they are sent out in
groups, from central railway points
and by this method cover a Large
gelwitcry.
A trip out over the country in
the vicinity Of Phillip shows that
the country lis prosperous and that
the farmers are getting th en-
selves into far more prosperous
condition than that of the first
pioneer years.
Further west, where alfalfa has
been push ed for a number OF years,
some of the fields having been
seeded THIRTY years ago, there are
large acreages on many ranches. OnI
the Staneer randi ON Spring creek
twelve hum dred acres are seeded
10 this crop, while other ranches
are carrying that amount down
, a hundred acres. This is especi-
ally so along the valleys of Ra-
pid, Box Elder and Elm creeks
where alfalfa has been used for
many years.
Besides the men who lecture on
farm extension several Ladies' ac-
company the PARTY TO talk to the
farmers wives on the subject of
me economics, Including cookin e,
baking and making the home more
attractive, and are a feature which
The wives of the farmers ap-
panently appreciate for the home