The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1918-04-26
GLOWING PICTURE
OF CROP OUTLOOK

ciouN Aity L-iNt olOIk NeCOfU.--
Although Tuesday found the
Sioux City Stock yards bunch in
a different country, so far as top.
ography is concerned, dawn of
the morning found very much
the same conditions prevalent as
were observed on the run from
Huron to Pierre. Railroads, in
their construction, always follow
the lines of least resistance, and
for this reason do not always fol
low lines that lead through the
best part of the country Thus
II is that when one remarks the
conditions seen from a car win
dow, or from the rear platform,
he is not intrequently told that
conditions become better as YOU
get away from the line of steel
ribbons over which you are be
inc hauled. Right here we want
to say to you folks down i'm the
Missouri river country, that when
we get back you will not need
bother us with any questions as
to how we found things. so far as
moisture is concerned, out in
what is generally known as the
dry country There is every evi-
dence that for the spring SO far
the whole country west of the
Missouri river so far as we have
yet traveled---iS wetter than it is
IN immediate SiouXCity territory
In tact, not IN any one of the
spring trips the writer has made
into the Black Hills country have
there been more evidences of
plentiful moisture. Grass mas
made a better start than in sec.
tons traverSed yesterday, and on
every hill is seen confederation
OF the statement IN previous notes
OF the trip to-wit: That South
Dakota is going into the spring
season with more and better cat
tie that for many years past
This is not only the observation
from the car windows but il is
the word of stockmen from sec
tons remote from the railroads
and who are being met on the
streets of Rapid City on the day
of this writing. The Record man
has met such men as Dude"
Rounds, Tom Ward, Ed Steneer,
Fred Sears, Hank Simons, Frank
Stewart, and others equally well
known of the oldtime cattle coun-
try, and the word of one upon the
live stock situation is the word of
all, and this word is that in MANY
years there has not been such
outlook as at present
Nor is the number of cattle
seen roaming the hills the only
evidence of promising season.
with each succeeding season as
we have come into this country
there has been observed a grow
ing effort at something more than
the raising of cattle. There is
on every hand the evidence OF
the coming of the farmer--even
the Oldtime range man showing
some signs OF getting into the
game. We are not going to name
the man. but one was met this
morning who six years ago
this spring secuted the idea of
raising hogs extensively in the
range country west or the Mis-
sour river in South Dakota. That
man is now counting his hogs by
the hundreds and takes as much
interest in the report of the con
ditlon of the hog market as he
does of the cattle trade in the fall
of the year. From a man of the
range he has developed into a
diversified farmer and is one of
the large producers of alfalfa seed
in the country midway between
the Missouri river and the Black
Hills.
AT Rapid City many of the
faces that have been familiar at
meetings of the Western South