The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1917-05-25
More Grace for Rooster.

poultry state Food Commissioner Fra
nv will set the date for Rooster day"
much later than usual, in order that
the maximum number Of chickens
may be Matched. The late spring has
delayed Matching in South Dakota as
in other northern states and Commits
sioner Frary recommends that hatch
ing be continued ever into July this
year. These late Matched chicks, Il
given proper care, will make good
broilers and roasters by Christmas,
and the pullets will help increase the
egg production next spring.
According to the state nsu re-
port there are something over 100 900
farms occupied in the state. Frary
says II on each Of these ten extra
chickens are hatched this spring
South Dakota should add no less than
1000, 900 pounds OF poultry to the nor.
NAL amount produced by the state.
The food commissioner urges every
farmer to set at least one more hen
than originally planned, in order that
South Dakota may do her part in
increasing the supply Of meat and
eggs.
On account of the unprecedented
high prices being paid for eggs this
year farmers and merchants cannot
afford to take any risks in the hand
ling Of this product, according to
State Food Commissioner Frary. With
the first real warm weather of the
spring comes the danger of spoilage OF
0ouc Nrhn v,iucir~nw 60 ,,rrinO
farmers and merchants to take great
err care than ever this year to reduce
the loss from eggs gone bad In
spectors of the department are look
ing for bad eggs and the law prohib-
iting the sale of such will be enforced
this year as strictly as the resources
Of the food department permit, accord
ing to the commissioner.
Forty Are Entered.
Captain Joseph Matson. in charge OF
State college cadets, has examined $50
applicants for admission to the Of
ficers training camp at Fort Smelling.
40 Of whom have been notified to re-
port at the camp. The following
State college students have already
reported for duty at Fort Snelling:
C. H. Karlstad. Dempster; j. p. Law
lor, Miller; l.. l.. Bennett, Canton:
Glenn Hoon. kadoka; Adlai E. An
derson, Mitchell; VIM. H. Emerson.
Castlewood; Earl H. Erp, Canton;
Oscar X. Wolbur, Bookings; Leo l..
Stevens, Sioux City; Verne Collinge,
Sturgis; Clarence r. Smith, Henry;
Arthur S. Mitchell, Bookings; and
H. H. Pickett, Brookings. There are
only II students left at State college
who could report for the annual in
spection on the campus on May % and
the college II. O. T. C. is almost a
minus quantity.
Plant Prose-, Advises Expert.
II the usual grain crops show signs
of failure. then plant prose-, suggests
Prof. N. E. Hansen of South Dakota
State college. Prose- may be sown up
to the first Of July, although any time
during the first half of June is proba-
bly, better. "Proso is a large-seeded
millet,' says Prof. Hansen. land it is
an excellent food for both man and
beast-in fact, it is a staple food for
millions Of human beings from India
northward to the dry parts OF Asia and
through Mongolia. China, and ex-
tending westward into Russia. 1t may
be sown with a press drill and cut like
any other small grain. For table use
the hulling may be done with a 60
cent coffee mill and a 1O-cent sieve.
The best prose- to plant, in my opin.
ion, is the white variety, which l
brought from Siberia in 1913-the kerr
mel is large and easily hulled.
Character Education Planned.
DR.. Craig S. Thoms, head of the
department of sociology at the Univer-
| sity OF South Dakota, received notice
from the National Institution for
Moral Instruction Of Washington, D.
c., that prizes a~ggregating $40, 900 are
offered for the best plans for thor
ough character education for children
in the public schools. This COMPETE
ton will begin February %, 1918, and
will conclude n veal later. Doctor
Thoms said: Anyone in South Dakota
lItCl CSlSu Ia AAlo SoA1lpCllIlOH dill I'll.
tain full information about the condi.
tons and purposes of the contest by
addressing the National Institution for
Moral Instruction, $3.50 Mckinley
stree, N. W., Washington, d. C.
Dakota y Men Enlist.
Prof. James b. Shouse of the de-
partment Of education at the Universe
ty Of South Dakota, was among those
notified of admission to the officers
training camp at Fort Smelling, MINI.
More than a dozen students OF the
University OF South Dakota have been
notified of their admission to the Fort
Smelling camp and will be given full
credit for the school work for the re-
mainder Of the semester so they can
report for duty at once.
Work 10 Thorough.
AZ an evidence of the thoroughness
| NJ tie work the Nnrthnrn Nnrmal onA