Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1918-02-14


Of the banking affairs of state banks
in the northwest, groups those OF Min.
nesato. North Dakota. South Dakota
and Montana in a comparative group,
and says of the four states that the
showing of state banks in South Da-
kota is the most striking The in.
crease In deposits in such banks in
South Dakota was $39.0oo.o00. or 46.e
per cent. the corresponding percent
age in the other states being Mime.
sofa. 16 per cent: North Dakota, l4.3
per cent. and Montana. 11.3 per cent.
Another feature indicating the pros.
perity Of South Dakota is shown BY
money borrowed by South Dakota
banks. which is put at $3.50. 900. show.
ing in bills payable and notes redis-
counted" an average of $4S6.2S for
each of the 514 state banks in the
state.
The convention of the South Dakota
Farmers and Grain Dealers associa-
ton, in its session at WATERFOWL de.
clared itself as favoring fair and
careful consideration of the questions
Of state-owned and operated terminal
elevators, warehouses, -four mills and
packing plants. Resolutions were
adopted urging farmers elevators to
do all in their power to encourage in.
creased potato production in South
Dakota and also urging that efforts
be made to furnish the farmers with
sufficient labor to properly handle an
increased acreage Of crops needed 10
comply with the appeal for greater
food production.
H. M. Harden. a farmer living near
Lane, has just sold the seed from a
field of 20 acres which he last season
had sown to white flower seed clover.
He cut 60 tons Of hay from the field
and sold the hay for SIS per ton. He
then let the field go to seed, this be-
ing harvested in the fall. The seed
product of the field has just been
sold, bringing him the sum of 1920.
The hay crop and the seed together
brought him a total of 1920, or an
average of gill per acre for the 20
acres devoted to the crop.
On account of the extreme shortage
OF flour substitutes in the state, G. N.
Herreid, food administrator for South
Dakota. has issued the following spec
ial rule: ITO all selling -four to con.
sumers in South Dakota, commencing
Tuesday. February 5, 1918: Rule No
2, known as the 'fifty-fifty' rule, for
the sale of flour and it's substitutes
is hereby changed to four to one un.
til otherwise ordered, to-wit, for each
four pounds of wheat flour sell one
pound of the substitutes"
The Industrial Collegian, the stu
dent weekly paper at State college,
Brookings, is without editor and bust.
ness manager. Editor Art Tompkins
has taken the position of Office and
editorial assistant to 1. B. Johnson.
state leader of county agents. George
Valentine. business manager, has
gone to Douglas county as assistant
to E. G. Bird, county agent. The Stu
dents association is electing substi
tutes for the rest of the college year
Passage of amendments to the state
constitution for classification of prop
erty for taxation, for state hail insur-
ance, for state development of water
power. state authority to construct
cement plants. and the sale of public
lands on easier terms were favored in
the resolutions adopted by the South
Dakota Farmers and Grain Dealers
association at its closing business
meeting of the 18th annual convention
at Watertown.
Professor N. E. Hanson, horticultuS
ist at State college at Brookings, has
been awarded the George Robert
White medal of honor for 1917 by the
Massachusetts, Horticultural society
"in recognition of his valuable work
in the introduction and naturalization
Of new varieties of economic plants
and fruits. suitable for the arid reg.
ions Of the northwest"
Some fine new homesteads will soor
be open for settlement in the Black
Hills. Word has been received from
the secretary of agriculture that the
land classification report covering the
Black Hills National Forest has been
approved. The lands available for
homesteading will be advertised in
the Rapid City land office.
Willard Chandler and his sister,
Miss Ruth Chandler, living near De-
Smet. while driving to Miss Chand-
ler's school, had their horses killed
by railroad train and themselves
escaped without serious injury. The
buggy was torn from the running
gear and hurled to the side Of the
track.
Merchants and dispensers of food
generally must make it their business
to keep informed as to food regula.
lions. c. N. Herreid, federal food ad.
ministrator for South Dakota, said.
Many have given the excuse that they
have received no official notice from
the food administration Of its recent
orders.
The Adams school, one of the ward
schools at Aberdeen, was Quilted by