Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1919-09-18

Good wheat yields have been report.
cd by most of the farmers In the
nsighborhood of Plankinton.
Approximately thirty-fve blocks OF
paving will be laid In Huron this year,
city officials estimate.
Wednesday. September 10, has been
fixed as the time for the annual picnic
and celebration of the old settlers a.
ISOLATION Of Lincoln county, to be held
In Canton.
1t has been decided by the directors
Of the Lake County Fair association
to hold county fair at Madison this
year, and September 2, 8. 4 and have
been fixed as the dates.
Deciding to make the Turner county
farm bureau a permanent factor in the
development OF the agricultural re-
sources of the county, the county farm
bureau has been reorganized
AT the recent session of the com.
missioners Of Meade county 1t was de-
cided to build bridge across the Belle
Fourche river at what is known as the
Pratt crossing. Bids arc to be called
for at once.
The state board OF roadroad commits.
sioners will hold hearing in Sioux
Falls on September on a petition
asking that the two telephone systems
be consolidated and conducted in fu
ture as one system.
The Meade County Fair association
Is doing its utmost to make the com.
ing county fair far surpass any ever
given. The fair will be held on the
Meade County Fair grounds near Stur-
gis on September "a. rs and 26.
The Black Hills Sioux Trail associa.
ton members were guests of the Win
ner Commercial club recently at q
banquet in the clubrooms after an all
day session of the two organizations.
The visitors fere welcomed by Mayor
Davis. of Winner. Good roads was tho
topic discussed.
| With the harvesting OF Beadle coun.
TVS crop about over. the yield of wheat
is estimated by farmers to average
from to Is bushels to the acre. The
normal wheat crop in the state Is
about IL bushels to the acre. This
yield Of wheat is much larger than was
anticipated earlier in the year. Oats
are yielding about 40 bushels to the
acre.
Probably the only mining camp in
the United States where old fashioned
placer mining, in the old fashioned
way, with string of horses and rifles,
is being carried on is in the Black
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being done in California and some 9th.
or mining sections of the county, but
only in the Black Hills is placer min.
ing being done.
The extension division Of the South
Dakota State college will offer this
fall, correspondence courses in agri-
culture and home economics for rural
teachers. These courses will lead to
college credit and will be under the
supervision Of H. e. Dawes, now su.
perintendent of short courses. The
subject matter of the short courses
will be supplied by members of the
State college faculty.
At meeting of the county commits.
sioners of McCook county, the pro-
posed county highway system was des-
lgnated. The work on the county sys-
tenn will commence as soon as ar.
engagements for the actual construc-
ton can be made. 1t is reported that
the state highway commission has des-
ignated the Washington highway from
Salem east toward Sioux Falls as one
OF the state trunk highways.
A former Iowa farmer, who moved
to farm near White Lake last spring.
has shown his neighbors something
about oats. He has finished havest-
ing special tract of oats, which he
planted with what he calls Iowa 103."
a seed he brought with him from Iowa.
The tract gave him the tremendous
yield Of Sc bushels an acre. An ad-
Joining field, planted with the ordinary
oats used in that locality, netted him
only forty bushels to the acre.
The Indians on Cheyenne river res
ervation will hold several agricultural
fairs this fall, one at the agency and
likely one in the northwest part of the
reservation, and one in the southwest
ern portion. These annual fairs ara
Fwell attended and the showing made
at them are an indication of the prog
ress Of the Sioux along agricultural
lines. While the live stock industry
appeals 10 the Indian to larger ex.
tent than does grain raising, yet a
number Of the more progressive among,
then are developing into good farmers.
The open weather OF last winter is
having its effect in many communities
in the state. In many of the smaller
towns the ice man IL announcing that
his supply is gone, and the only way
that these communities can got ice IL
to have 1t shipped in. which means a.
heavy loss in shrinkage as we'll an
express charges, with the result that
in scme small towns the price IL i've
cents a pound, and in others, 1t Is not
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