The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-02-01
PERISHO SPOKE
TO PRODUCERS
WHAT STATE COLLEGE HAS DONE
FOR LIVESTOCK AND GRAIN
IN SOUTH DAKOTA
COLLEGE EAGER TO SERVE THE FARMERS
An Address Before the Stock Breed
ers and Corn Growers Meeting
at Mitchell

In addressing the Livestock Breed
ers and Grain Growers Association
meetings at Mitchell, President Peri.
sho of the State College spoke in part
as follows:
Last year when | had the privilege
of addressing the stock breeders and
grain growers associations of South
Dakota, | recall that the special fea-
ture which / then attempted to en-
phasize was the necessity of our con-
Stunning at home the grain grown in
our state. South Dakota is annually
losing millions of dollars because we
than feeding or preparing it for market
here. Not only do we lose these mil
lions of dollars worth of by-prOducts
when sending our grain outside the
state, but what is still more detriment-
al it reduces the amount of livestock
which we should retain on our farms.
Last year il South Dakota had fed the
grain which was shipped beyond the
boundaries of the state, we could east.
ly have maintained 200, 900 to 300. 900
more cattle and many more hogs upon
our farms. Considering the very high
prices received for livestock this be-
comes a great loss to the state.
l have been requested to speak to
you upon this occasion with refer
ence especially to what the State Col.
lege of South Dakota is doing for the
livestock and grain interests OF the
state. The topics Of grain growing
separated on account Of their close
and intimate relation. The more grain
we produce, the larger number of cat
tie and hogs may be maintained. Then
in turn, on account of the possibilities
of increasing fertility of the land, the
larger number of livestock fed upon
the farm will produce much more
grain.
The State College maintains expert
ment stations at Bookings, Highmore,
Eureka, Cottonwood and Vivian. The
purpose Of these farms is to save the
farmers Of the state much time and
effort in experimentation and in de-
termining the best crops to be grown
in the various parts of the state. 1t is
doubtful if any effort upon the part of
the people of South Dakota has yer
received such valuable returns for the
amount OF money expended as comes
from the appropriations to maintain
the experiment stations.
For a number of years the college
experimental upon various varieties
of wheat, oats, rye, barley, etc. After
seven years of such experimentation
the State College gave to the farmers
Of South Dakota Kubanka wheat, black
barley and S%ixty-day oats, all of which
have proved most successful grain
crops. 1t is well known that in one
year alone the farmers sold for cash
more Kubanka wheat than all the ex-
pertinent stations cost the state. At
the present time the State College Is
making a specially of developing a
series of drought-resistant crops. 1t is
our ambition to place upon the Some
times-too-dry" land west of the Mis-
souri, river as well as certain counties
character that a farmer may depend
with reasonable certainty upon an an
nual harvest. Now we are experiment.
ing in both field and laboratory and
home economics department with
hardy alfalfa, prose-, kaoliang, etc. to
accomplish this desired end.
AS early as 1897 Prof. N. E. Han
sen Of the State College brought from
Asia a number of varieties of durum
or hard wheat; among these was our
now celebrated Kubanka wheat. The
same year Professor Hansen brought
to the state e number of hardy varie-
ties of alfalfa, predicting that this
generation would see alfalfa in North
America from Mexico to the Arctic cir.
Gle. The great fields of alfalfa now in
New Mexico and Arizona and the
South and extending extensively
through Alberta, Manitoba and Sas.
katchewan in Canada and the success
FIJI experiments now being tried In