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The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1917-08-10
Mr.. Reed Surely
Mistaken

Dave M. Reed, of the collection
department of the International
Harvester company, has returned
from a trip west of the river. He
says that crops and grass are un-
known quantities In that section
of the state around Kadoka, and
that Stockmen are getting rid of
rid of their cattle as rapidly as
possible. -Areus-Leader.
The above from the Sioux Falls
Ar9us-Leader certainly does not
speak very highly for crop con-
ditions as they really are in the
vicinity of Kadoka and thruout
Jackson county. 1t is true, we
are undergoing a dry year, but
as to everything being as repres-
ented by Mr.. Reed, The Press de-
sires to say that he is woefully
mistaken. Never before have we
had a better year to fatten our
cattle. and small grain, while very
short. will make from one thirdto
one halt an average crop. Hay
is turning out much better than
expected, and few will be the
Jackson county farmer who does
not have a nice little balance to
to put in the bank after the seas
sons shipment of cattle and pro-
duce is sold.
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1917-08-10
Otto BOrk Of Stamford
Killed By Lightning

Otto Bork of Stamford, was
struck by lightning during the
storm last Saturday afternoon and
instantly killed. He was cutting
oats at the time the storm came
up and one of the first bolts of
lightning struck him. The con-
dition of the corpse indicated that
he was struck on the head, the
current passing thru his hand in
to the binder. He presumably had
his hand on lever at the time he
was struck.
The death of Mr.. Bork takes
from the community one of its
most substantial farmers. He
had lived in this country for a
number of years and built up a
we'll improved place. He leaves
a wife and five children, who will
continue to reside on the farm.
Funeral services were held at
the German Lutheran church
south of Midland Monday after
noon and burial made in the
church cemetery. The wife and
children have the sincere SYM
pathy of all in their sad bereave-
ment. Midland Mall.
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1917-08-10
The Coal Question

The state Council of Defense
has rec ceived reports from many
many of the largest coal dealers
of the state and from others in
tereSted and as a result the Coun-
cikadvises the farmers and all
others using a large amount of bi-
luminous coal to lay in their win
ter supply as fast as possible.
While it is true that prices may
be lower before winter, vet there
is nothing sure about that while
there is a strong probability that
our people may have some trouble
in getting all of theCo they may
need for this year. While a.
strong effort is being made by
representatives of various states
as well as by governmental au-
thoritieS to secure ample fuel sup
plv vet for various reasons there
has been no satisfactory solution
of the problem. If our people
wait until winter is here before
beginning to lay in their stock of
coal they are liable to find that in
less than 80 days the stock on
hand in local yards will be eX
hausted and that the railroads
would be unable to furnish more
within a reasonable time owing
to the demand being made upon
them for the movement of large
crop, as well as attention to trans
portation of army supplies and
equipment. The coal movement
from the docks, is being carefully
checked out and South Dakota
has been promised It's proportion
ate share thereof. The railroads
anticipating scarcity later, are
very properly, supplying them
selves. The dealers thruout the
State are doing their best to sup
ply their customers and as fast as
they can get coal on hand from
this time on it should be prompt
ly taken by those who should be
laying in their supply.
Cash for good wild land. Write
all about it to
F. A. Bidwell,
5-tf Mitchell, S. d.
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1917-08-10

Elmer Richards home on the
Big Buffalo, is entertaining a new
daughter since July 28. Con9rat-
ulations.
VIM. TruXes and bride visited
last Saturday with Ray E. Mill
ken, while they were on their
wedding trip from Yankton to
the Black Hills.
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1917-08-10
BIGGER AND BETTER THAN EVER
a
With our two Hotels and Res
taurants we can accommodate
the Public.
Plan now to attend and make reser-
vations for your rooms.

For Sale: Several young pigs
See ]. H. Fryber9er or c. N. Lee
dom.
Mr.. and Mrs. K. E. Thomas
and son James, came over from
Gordon, Neb., Sunday and are
spending the week at the Leedom
home Mrs. Thomas is a sister
of Mr.. LeedOm.
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1917-08-10

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The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1917-08-10

MERRY-GO-ROUND BOTH DAYS
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1917-03-21

ing out this. program unless they are
assured a reasonable tenure of the
land. The land owner should assure
his tenant that he will not be re-
quired to move as long as he carries
out this rotation and properly cult
Yates his crop.
One of the most attractive features
of the program outlined above is that
it is safe and practicable even if the
boil weevil should delay or entirely
cease his progress "a theory for which
there is no warrant) If adopted, it
will result in the enrichment of the
soils, the increase of live stock, big
reduction in farm expense, and an all
round sane farming system.
Another most compelling reason for
greatly increasing the production of
grains and live stock is the world
war in which it seems this nation will
be forced to become participant. A
food famine threatens half the world
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1917-03-21
Next year, (1918) have him plant

Next year, (1918) have him plant
nine acres of corn with velvet beans
and fifteen acres of cotton. Six acres
of these fifteen will be behind the pre-
vious years velvet bean crop and will
require no fertilizing except Acid
Phosphate or Ground Phosphate Rock,
costing $500 to $500 per acre.
In 1919 the corn and velvet bean
crop should be increased to twelve
acres and the cotto1. reduced to
twelve, nine of which will be behind
the previous years velvet beans and
require but small outlay for fer
tilizer.
In 1920 the cotton acreage may re-
main at twelve acres and the other
twelve should again be put into corn
and beans and each year thereafter
the cotton will follow the bean crop
and the beans follow the cotton crop.
A cover crop of Abruzzi rye Tor in
some Crimson clover) should each
year be put in the cotton.
While the boil weevil may be ex
pected TO arrive here within two
years, it is probable tnat his maxi
mum damage will not come before
1920. If this scheme is followed, our
cotton acreage will by then all be
upon land which has the previous year
produced the finest Of humus and nj
trogen crops-velvet beans-the fcrti-
lizer requirement being less than SO
per cent. Of that now considered nee
essary. Upon such land and with such
fertilizing we may, by following the
government recipe for the production
of cotton under boil we.vil conditions,
expect to make at least as much cot
ton per acre as is now being made.
With moderate fertilizing the corn
may be expected to make not less
than ten bushels per acre and the
beans not less than fifteen bushels.
Three hundred bushels of grain is
now more than half the value of the
product of the average twcnty-four
acres rented or share cropped, and is
quite equal in value to the average
cotton crop upon the same acreage.
1t will in most cases be necessary to
plant for horse feed about two acres
in oats followed by peas or beans to
each twcnty-four acre crop. This will
come out of the corn and velvet bean
acreage and will not interfere with
the efficiency Of the scheme. If to-
bacco is planted, it should come out
of the cotton acreage.
The worst infested boil wccvil areas
in south Georgia, Alabama, and Miss
issippi. are now using this velvet bean
prOlitably. The farmers claim that
they can raise from twenty to thirty
bushels per acre Of beans besides an
average corn crop. Wherever they
are being raised in any quantity oil
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1917-03-21

mills and merchants have prepared
themselves to grind them for feed
and the farmers, understand, are
receiving about $4,000 per ton for
them in the hull. We, ourselves, this
year planted fifty-nine acres of these
beans in corn, on poor, sandy soil.
We made from ten to sixteen bushels
of corn and from fifteen to twenty
seven bushels of beans per acre, the
average yield of beans being twenty
and one-half bushels per acre (fgur-
ing ninety pounds per busheD. We
had seven acres of these beans on
better land which produced thirty
three and one-third bushels per acre.
They are magnificenC feed, suitable
for feeding to mules and cattle with
out grinding. Hogs will also de well
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1917-03-21

and seyen this great food pro ducing
nation has no adequate surplus with
which to relieve the necessity ofsother
peoples, and is itself feeling most
acutely the high; cost Of the neces-
saries Of life. Both self-interest and
patriotism shold at this juncture in
duce every farmer in this country to
produce all the foodstuff possible.
Y / hope very much that every sland-
owner, banker and merchant in the
State will realize the absolute neces-
sity of using his most earnest efforts
to seizure the adoption of this or tsome
closely similar program this very
year by all our farmers, both aarge
and small, white and black. It Is not
mainly Ia question Of philanthropy;
1t is one Of actual bread and bdtter,
in which the banker, merchant and
professional man in just as much in
terested as is the farmer. Let usI then
alliiwafle%up before it is too late and
do the; obviously necessary thing for
our own and the States safety and
prosperity
DAVID R. COKER.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1917-03-21
DELINQUENT TAX SALE

By virtue of Sundry executions is
sued by L.. L. Wells, county Treas
urer, and to me directed, I will offer
for sale on Monday the End day of
April, 1917, at IL o'clock, in front Of
the Court House at Manning, the fol
lowing real estate for taxes for 1916.
Santee,
Elon Mcknight, 35 acres, 1 build
ing.
Est Moses Dingle, 81 acres.
Laura Green, 18 acres, building.
Moses Marrant, as acres.
Est Doublin Fielder, &c 1-2 acres,
building.
st. Marks.
Rev. L. B. Murray, 118 acres, 2
buildings.
Sammy Swamp.
Charles McCants, lot, L building.
Manning.
Harriet Benbow, 2 lots, 2 buildings.
Eli Benjamin, lots.
John N. Boyd, lot, 1 building.
Henrietta Bradley, 1 lot, 1 building.
Paul Charles, lot, 2 buildings.
A Collins, lot, 1 building.
Est H. G. Dickson, 1 lot, 1 build
ing.
Fledie Henry, lot.
Jodie James, lot, buildings.
William Nelson, lot, 1 building.
David Nelson, lot.
Preston Pierson, 1 lot.
Harriet Pompey, lot, 1 building.
H. B. Thames, lot.
Myer & Bette Tindal, 1 lot.
James Witherspoon, 2 lots, build
ing.
Mt. Zion.
Est S. A. Ballard, AZ acres.
S. e. DuPree, 10 acres, buildings.
Cora Fielder, 10 3-4 acres.
Ella Hicks, 3-4 of an acre.
Robt. Hicks, 8 acres.
Brewington.
Susan Brown or Broom, 6 acres.
Rachel Thompson, 18 acres.
j. w. Pendergrass, 10 acres.
E. B. GAMBLE,
Sheriff Of Clarendon County.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1917-03-21
on beans, though it is better to feed

on beans, though it is better to feed
them ground.
In order to grow velvet beans sue
cessfully it is necessary to get them
in early. We recommend the plant
ing of corn in seven-foot rows and the
planting of velvet beans in an open
shovel furrow in the middles from
April Goth to May 1st. On poor land
plant one bean every eighteen to
twenty-four inches, on rich land one
or two beans every three or four
feet. If preferred, the beans may be
planted between the hills of corn. 1t
IS absolutely necessary, however, to
get them in very early if a full crop
is to be made.
1t will be impossible to get the CO.
operation of the tenant class in carry
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1917-03-21
INTERESTING ARTICLE
8Deiinite Program of Preparation
for the Boil Weevil.
(By David r. Coker.)

(By David r. Coker.)
lumber of bankers, merchants and
mers Of the State are aroused to
SSs danger of the advancing boil wee
M but many of them have no definite
Il easily followed program which
prove effective in making the sit
zion livable when the weevil ar
@ les. Any crop rotation proposed
take into account renters and
are croppers who are a majority of
S3r4 farmers, and it must at the time
Sbpeal to the large landholder whose
S}tive cooperation will be absolutely
Necessary. Every authority on the
shbject agrees, first, that the cotton
Sfop should be reduced; second, that
pod crops should be increased. third,
Shat he soil should be enriched, be-
pre the weevil arrives. The increas-
Id food crops should, Of course, be
3eadily marketable, and should afford
Ihe maximum Improvement to the
POLL. believe we have one crop-the
30 or 100 day velvet bean--which is
admirably suited to this purpose, and
4propose the following recipe for the
lle-horse tenant farmer which may
,s readily adapted to use by farmers
II any size.
The average onc-horsc farmer now
Dlants say twenty acres of cotton and
Our acres Of grain (corn and oats).
Let his merchant and landlord insist
N his planting this year six acres or
more Of corn and eighteen acres or
ess of cotton. In the six acres of
,orn insist that he plants early vel
yet beans.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1917-03-21
Five Firemen Jailed.

New York, March 19.-Five firemen
of the United States revenue cutter
Seneca ere landed in shackles today
and jailed pending their courtmartial
on charges of mutiny. There was no
official explanation made of the ar
rests. The men said that their arrest
had been the result Of fist fight.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1917-11-02
sMOoTHED OVER BUT NOT SETTLED.

Lest the members of the Olympia school board
and the school authorities pat each other on the
back too quickly, let it be said that the adjustment
which resulted in calling off the high school
strike" this week does not mean that the condi-
ton which produced it is settled. 1t is not 1t is
only smOothed over for the present. 1t is apt to
break out again any time.
While it lasted it focused public attention on
regrettable state of affairs in the high school and
gave rise to surprising amount of criticism of
the man who is at the head of affairs there 1t re-
vealed plainly that there ism the proper spirit in
the school, that the principal and pupils are work
ing at odds instead of pulling together and that
there is very pronounced feeling among the
parents that N. j. Aiken is not the proper man for
the place to which he has been assigned That
feeling is the elimination of several years of more
or less friction and is not sporadic outburst The
school authorities cannot continue to ignore it.
1t is likely that the situation will come acutely
to the head next spring, when contracts are made
for the following year for unless tn. parents Of the
city district fall back into the lethargy which has
characterized their general attitude toward local
school affairs for some years, we look for not
to-be-denied demand for the employment of some
body else as the principal of the high school next
year. The school board will then have to give
heed.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1917-11-02
HERE A JOB FOR YOU.

Every father and mother brother, sister or wit.
of the one hundred and fortyone young men
whom Thurston county will have contributed to
the new national army when the last contingent
goes the end of this Week--every one of these is
directly interested in seeing to il that the six de-
scrtcrS from this county ar quickly unprecedented
and turned over to Uncle Sam. Their bows are
dong their duty, answering their country's call
these others, towards and near traitors should be
compelled to do so. and punished in the bargain
No greater consideration should be shown the
hundred others who failed to report for phys
zeal examination when called, out of the first one
thousand summoned. The fact that most of them
are foreigners somewhat relieves the odilm that
might otherwise be placed on the county, but les
sens none the whit the individual duty of each one
of us to that they, too, are unprecedented
Thurston county has made glorious record in the
Liberty Loan, in Red Cross work and in kindred
activities and more than twice as many of it's
young men have volunteered for either the army
or navy as have answered the draft call. 1t must
make good record in this respect, too.
With the most pressing duties of the first draft
call attended to, the county authorities are now
engaged in seeking the deserters and slackers.
Cooperating with them is group of patriotic
men from different sections of the county. One or
two particularly fragrant and defiant cases are
known and will be disposed of Immediately. De-
tailed information being sought in regard to all
others. In that you can help and help materially.
1t is your patriotic duty. Likewise it is duty
you owe the boys who have already gone to camp
And you can help by finding out all you can about
any one or several of those whose names are pub
lished elsewhere in this issue, and notifying a
member of the selection board
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1917-11-02

: WHAT OUR FATHERS READ ABOUT !
: IN THIS PAPER FIFTY YEARS AGO /

From The Washington Standard for
Saturday Morning, November 2,
1867. Vol. VII. No. 81.
This issue closes the present vol
ume of the Standard. Seven years
have elapsed since we launched our
bark upon the tempestuous and un-
certain sea of journalism. That our
efforts to establish an Independent
journal upon firm basis have been
crowned with complete success is
now apparent to those who have
hitherto been skeptical.
The treaty for the sale of Alaska
has been ratified by the Russian gov
eminent.
Mr.. Young furnished US some po-
tatoes last week, an average one of
which weighed three and one-half
pounds.
Leading Republican senators de-
clare the senate will impeach the
president and that within 40 days i'm
parchment articles will be presented.
There is an extended article in this
issue on THE Rivers and Bays on
the Coast of Washington Territory"
Horace Greeley, who is member
of the New York constitutional con-
vention, has introduced into that
body a proposition for cumulative
voting. He proposes to divide the
state into Is senatorial districts, each
to choose three senators. Each voter
may then cast them for three differ
ent candidates or concentrate them
all upon one candidate, as he chooses
BY this plan it is expected that in
districts where either party has de-
cided majority, the minority will be
enabled to elect one senator by con-
centrating its votes upon him.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1917-11-02
MOURNING A GREAT LEADER.

One Of the fighting, assertive, aggressive sort of
men who make the world 60" c. B. Kegley had
been powerful figure in Grange affairs for twelve
years, strong leader of the progressive-reform
element in this state for nearly as long, and had
attained considerable national prominence in af-
fairs pertaining to the well being of farmers, when
death claimed him this week. His place will be
hard to fill, for few indeed, have his qualities of
fearlessness, earnestness and effectiveness and
devote them, as he did, to the farmers cause
Few there are in fact, among the general run of
us, who can keep the chief aim always in mind
while beset with pettier side problems, influences
and even malice, SO persistently and as ardently
as he did those things which had come to be his
life work. leader he was, truly, in the activity
and the oufspokenness with which he carried on
his public work, and none the less good friend
and an ardent one, common, everyday sort of
man, in his personal life. It was our privilege to
have known him, to have had considerable deal
ings with him. and to have read nearly all that he
wrote during the past two years. And from these
contacts we know him to have been actuated by
the greatest sincerity for the cause he esopused
to have been always the job and a little bit
ahead OF many of those for whom he labored and
to have been dominated always by his ambition to
improve the farmers lot In his passing they
have lost an ardent an aggressive friend, and the
orange true Patron who sought always to lead
It on to greater fields of usefulness
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1917-11-02
FOOD WILL WIN THE WAR"

Food economy at least that feature of it
prompted by high prices, has come to be quite a
common practice for most of us during the past
year. and yet few of us realize how much further
economy we could put into effect in our own
households without having to 60 without those
things we need. That is what the Food Admins
tration seeks to teach and the first step in that
teaching is the signing of the pledge card the
campaign for which is in progress this week.
There is no thought of personal deprivation in
what the Administration proposes. What it does
want is that sort of economy which is the result
of .headwork," the careful planning and
rangement of our meals.
We do not know real hunger in this country
and there will be no need or chance of our know
ing it, if the Food Administration enlists large
proportion of the housewives of the country in
the conservation campaign. But the women and
children of our allies in Europe know hunger in
its most bitter forms Millions Of European farm
have left their fields to fight for their own
safety, the safety of America and the world.
Those fields therefore haven't been producing
much. Ours have. Europe's food has got to come
from somewhere America is the place
It's mighty little thing to ask the individual
American to conserve what our fields produce so
our European brethren can have plenty and keep
up the fight. There is no need that the women
and children of America should be hungry-they
may eat abundantly but wisely and without
waste, and still save the women and children of
our allies from the extreme Of hunger. That is
Why every woman is urged to enrol as a member
Of the Food Administration. Her preparations
FOR dinner are just as important in their way as
General Haig's plans for night attack. Hag
aims to get the maximum Of results with the min
imum of material. He uses plenty but he DOM
waste any. That s what the Food Administration
wants the housewife to do
And there is another feature of it. Banded to-
gether in this way we can help Herbert Hoover
the national food administrator, force down and
keep down retail food prices in this country
That's q big job and it won't be finished in day
or = week or q month, but we can all help. We
can do "0ur bit for our country in this way, and
while we are helping those across the sea we will
be helping ourselves, by eating more wisely and
buying less and more closely, and also helping
every other family by cooperating with the Food
Administration in controlling retail prices
Sign up as member of the Food Administra-
ton Help those who are fighting our battles as
well as their own.