The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1919-11-27
CORN QUALITY Is GOOD
SOUTH DAKOTA YIELD is SLIGHT.
~ LOWER, BUT Salts
FACTORY.

OF the bureau OF crop estimates, states
that the cor crop production Of South
Dakota for this year is 95,2ls,00 bush
els and OF a 81 per cent quality.
This years crop Is OF a quality SUI
perior to that of 1918. but the total
yield is about 5000, 900 bushels less
than last years production. The re-
port indicates that about 3h per cent
OF the 1918 crop OF corn is still in the
hands of the farmers. This would
amount to IN aggregate OF about g.
7S6, 600 bushels Of corn from the crop
of last year that the farmers Of the
state yet are holding. The report
states that the quality OF the cereals
raised in South Dakota this year is
rather poor. 1t was demonstrated by
Investigations that a measured bu-
shei of winter wheat weighed SO
pounds, spring wheat sos pounds,
oats 31.3 pounds, and barley 43.4
pounds. Later returns, it is set forth
in the report, do not show an inn
provement in the potato crop. The
production is found to be $500, 900
bushels and OF 50 per cen quality,
this being a reduction in the prOauc-
ton Of this crop Of nearly 1000. 900
bushels from the estimate for October
/ this year. The total production of
the fax crop this year is 1905, 00G
bushels, and of SO per cent quality.
This crop shows a moderate decline
from one year ago, when the estimate
.,,1 -l,..l -. 4 DDn mn I,,,In1, NNFfth
the present high prices prevailing,
the farmers of South Dakota will re-
ceive nearly as much for this years
crop as they received for the NAM
moth crop Of 1918, which was a record
breaker for the state.
That old straw stack left over from
last year is doubtless in good con.
ditiOn for use as a mulch on winter
wheat or winter rye fields. Manley
Champlin. associate ~agTonomist at the
State college, says that where the
winter wheat or winter rye has been
eown in corn stubble or grain stubble
a mulch of about two tons of old straw
per acre will be a distinct advantage
TO the crop, because it will protect
IL during winter and will also aid in
holding the moisture about the roots
in the spring.
Representatives have been sent out
from the United States attorneys Of
flee in Sioux Falls to visit the princi-
pal towns and cities Of the state for
the purpose OF investigating prices
and urging the appointment OF fair
price committees. They have just
been appointed at Pierre and Aber-
deem, and it is understood that one is
TO be appointed at WATERFOWL
Previously committees were appoint
ed at Lead, Deadwood and Rapid City.
Because OF dissatisfaction with the
service furnished by the Sphinx Coun-
ty Power company, a private concern,
the officers of the company have con-
cluded negotiations by which the plant
of the company is leased to the city
of Doland for a period Of six months.
During this time the city will operate
the system on its own responsibility.
A novelty in the way OF a convent
ence provided farmers who do trading
in town will be the fitting up, under
the direction Of the Montrose com
mercial club, of a barn for the use
of farmers vino drive in from the
country during the cold weather.
The paving program in Mitchell is
being seriously handicapped by a
shortage of gravel. Numerous gravel
concerns have announced that their
gravel output for next year already
is contracted for.
1t has been decided to cal a special
election and submit to the voters of
Brookings the proposition of author
izing the issuance OF bonds of $4,000
to pay for the paving of street inter
sections.
An unprecedented amount of build
ing is to be done in Huron next year,
according TO contractors who estimate
that 200 or more residences and sew
eral business blocks will be erected.
Pennington county has an assessed
valuation OF SIT, 550,074. which is a
substantial increase over last year,
and about double that of half a dozen
years ago.
Monroe business men and other resi-
dents have formed "A stock company
for, the purpose of providing the town
with a modern theater.
The returned service men OF Rut-
land and vicinity have perfected the
organization of a local post OF the
American Legion.
The first annual sale OF Duroc Jer-
sey swine by the boys and girls swine
club. OF Groton, brought a total of
$4,000.
A course for the training of practi-
cal printers will be established at the
South Dakota state college.
A movement has commenced at
Herreid for the erection OF a public
hall.
A new $40, 900 school building has
been completed in Chamberlain.
Some excitement was created in
Lead when a section Of land. about
twenty feet across, over a part of
the Homestake mine suddenly drop
ped, leaving a yawning hole in the
ground. The cavein occurred on the
49, $500