The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-04-10
A HOME INDUSTRY
Of GREAT VALUE
IN PLANNING FOR NEW ENTER
PRiSES DO NOT LOSE SIGHT
OF THIS ONE
IMPORTANT HELP TO FARMING INDUSTRY
turing Co. Advertising Brookings
In Many Other States

A the desire to build a Greater
Brookings" is being talked and plans
are being developed for a campaign
to inform other people and other
states OF our advantages and utilities,
it is we'll to remember that we are
not entirely without a start along the
line OF manufacturing interests. The
Register believes hal we have one in.
duStrial plant in particular that de-
erves mention and the attention of
our wi people called to the work it
is doing, the advertising hat the city
gets from the advertising sent out by
Mr.. Frank Sherwin, and from the adj
vertisements published IN the leading
farm journals of the country.
II was our pleasure one day this
week 20 visit the farm implement fac
tory of the Sherwin Mfg. Co, located
We found Mr.. Sherwin at the factory
and in a visiting mood, and he gave
us a little OF the history of the bust
less and its growth and a peep into
prise. Mr.. Sherwin came to Brook
ings tw~enty-eight years ago with his
family, and bought and moved into
the home which he now occupies on
Medary ven
His object in coming to Brookings
was TO educate his children at both
the public schools and the State Col
lege. During the twenty-eight years
residence in Bookings, Mr.. Sherwin
has had extensive farming interests
in and near Brookings, and has been
a booster for Bookings, Brookings
county and the state of South Dakota,
first, last and all the time. He has
boosted the farmers institute work,
corn and alfalfa culture, pure-bred live
stock and by his personal example
and by articles in the farm papers,
has beva a sreat fJ9ce III the upbGlid.
ing of a better agriculture in the
northwest.
~ yN"AS %"i' SiiSi 81 "tt
one of the leading pure-bred hog breed.
ers in the state, and later he was one
of the largest and most successful
lamb feeders in the northwest, having
a number of acres of land covered
with sheep barns.
When his three sons were through
With their college education, he closed
out his feeding M breeding business
and turned his attention to other pur-
suits allied with the agricultural in
dustry. AS farming had become bred
into his system and become second
nature to him, and as his innate love
for advanced ideas along all lines of
agriculture had been greatly developed,
these natural and educated instincts
for better farming led him into the
culture of alfalfa and advanced
methods of corn culture. Like all 9TH
er alfalfa growers, Mr.. Sherwin had
more or less trouble in getting plants
to survive the first year Of their ex-
i~stence, and for the past fifteen years
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the study of what has become for him,
his life work. This has been accom-
plished in the perfecting of a system
of culture whereby the farmer may
During the past three years he has
given his entire time to the invention
of special machines for doing this
work and has accomplished what was
apparently an i~mpossibility, as where
before the farmer vas confronted with
problems in the growing of alfalfa, he
is today assured that by the use of
these machines he can be confident of
a sure stand in every field where the
method and machinery are used.
One particular feature of this sys-
TEN, MI. Sherwin says, is the seeding
of alfalfa in the corn field, at the time
of laying by the corn. He tried out
this system for several years till con.
vinced that il was a great advance
over old methods. But how to get
the seed into the ground in proper
shape was a puzzle to him. He
searched the markets of the whole
country, but failed to find a machine
adapted to this work and this fact
caused him to set about inventing
something that will answer the pur.
pose with the result that after three
years of study, work and experiment
ing he perfected his "Surestand Press
Drill for seeding alfalfa between tie
rows of standing corn.
During this time he also perfected
a special corn harrow, and an 1T
tachment to corn planters. which blind
plows the corn as fast as planted,
These tools and several c:sc-s IL.
Sherwin has brought to a high state
of perfection, and is now shipping
them out to the farmers in large
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