The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1918-12-12
OF THE STATE
A RESUME OF IMPORTANT HAP
PENiNGS OF The
WEEK.

- 1890 -
c. A. Miss Pearl De Jarnette, secre.
tary Of town and country work of the
Y. w. c. A. In the north central field,
Is here to assist in the organization.
Heavy losses have been caused to
the farmers of Hanson county by the
among their cattle. Thus far about
sixty cattle have died from the dis.
ease. Others are affected. DIR. j. 7.
+. D~inwoodie, state extension special
ist in animal disease control, has
been summoned to the county to pre-
vent the disease spreading.
1t is claimed in behalf of Miss Rosa
Weeldryer, aged 16, and Miss Minnie
Weeldryer, aged Is, daughters of a
farmer living near Chancellor, that
they are the champion women corn
pickers of South Dakota. In n day
they each picked rs bushels OF corn in
nine hours, this record being made on
the farm OF Jacob De Neul, pear
Chancellor.
A strange duck. thought to be one
Of the oaka surf species of China, was
captured by Robert Raines while he
was hunting near Mt. Vernon. II is a
variety of game bird which is rarely
seen in this state. This duck is little
larger than a teal and has a head
like the ordinary duck, but stands
straight up unlike the ordinary water
fowl. It's eyes are yellow and its
body varicolored with green, brown
and blue predominating.
South Dakota is to be made a dis,
trict for federal animal inspection, and
will be cut off the district consisting
Of the states of North Dakota, South
Dakota, Montana and Wyoming. DR..
Wilson will be the inspector in charge,
with headquarters at Pierre, where he
can be in conference with the state
board at any time. This will also
make him head of the work of tuber.
cuiar inspection, instead of working
under an inspector from st. Paul, as
has been the procedure in the past.
The raising of popcorn was a new
industry iLaugurated this year by a
number of lake county farmers, and
the result is that at least eight car
loads Of popcorn will be shipped from
Madison to the Chicago markets. The
crop proved a very profitable one tC
the farmers who devoted a small
acreage to it. A. F. Fait, who had In
eight acres. received a return equa.
to $8S.S5 per acre for the land devoted
to the crop. Other farmers die
equally as we'll. w. H. Bergeson hat
thirty-six acres OF popcorn. This has
o yet been husked. but the indica
tions are hat the yield will be full,
up to the standard of popcorn produc
lion.
Banks of this state are being SO
iicited to take up a plan to save then
the trouble of carrying individual
Liberty bond envelopes for customer
in their vaults. The plan is the issu
ance of a certificate to the owner o
the bonds which shows the ownership
and the right to call for same at an,
time, but also authorizes the bank I,
Use the bonds as a deposit and pa,
the interest as in a savings deposit
This plan is strongly opposed by tn
state banking department, o onl.
well. This swells the deposit show
ing, and changes the standing of man,
banks which hold bonds for a mum
Der Of customers, and the plan will
not in n way meet the approval o
the banking department, even thougl
it does apparently make work easie
for the bankers who are custodian
of the bonds for their customers.
With the increase in the herds o
big game animals IL the state gam
park in the Black Hills the stat
promises in a few years to be in pos
session of one OF the best of sucl
selections in America. The gam
park, which is on the state forest re
serve between Hill City and Hermoss
is a strip Of pine clad hills IL mile
long and six miles wide, all surround
ed by a high woven wire fierce. Ii
this Enclosure there are now 300 ELI
60 buffalo, 25 antelope, and a numbe
of deer, the census of these animal
never having been taken. as the
have started from the deer which wer
on the tract at the time it was fenced
Besides these animals a number G
beaver have been located on tn
streams or the trac. and are ;scrca;
ing each year. The state has bee
purchasing the rights of the few Ian
q owners within the tract, and hopes {
soon have title to all the land on tn
tract The stream have been stool
ed with trout. and a number of gam
birds which will thrive in such loo;
tons have been released. As no hun
ing is allowed within the inclosur,
the animals and birds are becomin
more and more tame each year. Tn
: work OF construction OF good higl
ways has been commenced, and tn
whole tract will soon be an attractiv
outing place for the people of tn
state, with attractions not to be see
! In any other park.