The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-01-12
STATE CHARITIES
IMPROVEMENTS COUNT UP INTO
THE THOUSANDS OF
DOLLARS. q

Sioux Falls, Jan. 12.-It has been
a busy year at the state penal and
charitable institutions OF the state.
At custer, where the state tuberculo-
sis sanitorium is loated, the improve
mgents include a $4,000 central
heating plant, new cottages and an
administration building, represent
ing, all told, an outlay Of $4,000.
The main cottage is nearing compile
ton and will soon be ready to receive
patients. The work has been handi-
capped by a shortage of labor and
a scarcity of building materials.
At Plankinton, a fine new heat
ing plant has been installed and Is
In successful operation. A neat lit
tie building was erected for the boil
err house, and the training school Is
now better prepared than 1t has ever
been to do its important work.
Deaf Mute school.
At the deaf mute school a new
barn has been erected to house the
20 head of pure bred Holstein cat
tie, which are the pride of Superin-
tendent Simpsons life. During the
summer 1913 acres of good farm land,
adjoining the school, have been
bought and next year a farming
course will be added to the work of
the school. The school next spring
will close April 30-six weeks earlier
than usual, in order to permit the
larger boys to go to their homes and
help with the important work OF the
spring. Holidays and Saturdays are
being cut out so that the same
amount of school work will be done
this year as usual.
The Penitentiary. :.
At the pe~nitentiary. a fine new
dairy barn. SO by 80 with a capaci-
ty 10 house SO head of cattle, with
a iced ROOF and a sanitary milk
room, and cement floor has beer
built. A new warehouse IS by 80
has been added to the equipment oil
the Irvine plant and a new wall has
been built. The farm this year pro-
duced 1900 bushels of oats, $500 OF
potatoes, 400 of barley. 1000 of corn.
$500 Of COW beets. 1000 of onions,
and from the dairy barn came 10000
gallons Of milk. Twenty barrels OF
%sauerkraut, 400 bushels OF carrots
and 5000 gallons of canned stuff
were put up. The farm now has 81
head OF pure bred Holsteins. AS
feeders, 500 head of hogs and $50
chickens.
Other state Institutions.
The story OF the farm at the hos
pital for the insane at Yankton has
been told. This Is a house OF plen-
ty in a land of plenty" says DR.. L,
C. Mead, the superintendent. II Is
declared that the gross value of the
products of the Yankton farm will
exceed $4,000 this year. DR.. Mead
will have over 1000 bushels of seed
corn to sell in the spring and he car
get $40 a bushel for 1t, "if he wants
to show the bristles," as President
Warren Greene of the state board Of
charities and corrections puts 1t. The
record-breaking crop at Yankton viii
do much to overcome the hard prob
lem OF the increased cost OF living
for that institution, which now ha.
more inmates than ever before In III
history-some 1860. The new
building, which will be one of the
finest In the state. is growing under
the watchful eye of the superintend'
emit.
At Redfield a new $4,000 build
ing is being erected. Here as at Gus.
ter, labor and material problems have
been hard. but the building Is being
rushed to meet the ever-increasins
pressure on this important institu
ton. When this new building Is com
pleted, 1t will be one of the very bes
In the state, v DR.. Mead confess
ing a willingness to take off his hat Il
1t. DR.. Kutnewsky Is very proud o.
| his big herd of Holsteins.