The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1919-10-17
OF THE STATE
4 RESUME or IMPORTANT NAP
pGNlNo9 OF THE
WEEK.

aome OF the knights Of PythiaS lodge.
The building Is to cost approximately
t100, O00.
Dissolution OF the Hnetterische
3ruder Gemeinde. Russian colonists,
vas ordered by Judge Alv2 e. Taylor,
" the circuit court. The cOlonists
we're ordered to cease action as q
BUSINESS corporation.
The Stanley county farm bureau
poisoned $4,000 acres Of prairie dogs
n one month this summer. A squad
u six men, a cook and a federal rd-
lent control agent had the Job in
charge in cooperation with the United
States Biological survey.
The new six-story hotel building TO
70 erected by the Huron lodge Of Elks
8 to cost $4GO, 900, it is announced
" Elks following a meeting OF the
building committee. Bonds in the
,um OF not less than 500, 600. to draw
per cent interest, will be sold for
he construction Of the building.
Now hat the potato harvest is on,
he state market department is re-
sewing inquiries from the potato
growers OF the state who have a sur.
,lus, asking for a market. II any
iealer in the state desires to purchase
potatoes, a communication to the
,tate market department will put
hem in touch with the potato grow
.rs who have potatoes for sale.
South Dakota potato growers are
urged to be IN the lookout for pota-
20 wart disease at digging time this
TALL, and to send suspected samples
TO the state college agrOnOmy depart
ment for examination and report. Ac-
cording to Manley Champlin, associ-
ate agrOnOmist, potato wart disease
has already made its appearance in
Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
through the use Of European potatoes
for seed.
The average herd of twenty grade
COWS in South Dakota made $540
more profit last year by the use Of
pure bred sires than where grade or
scrub sires were used, according to
4 survey Of fourteen representative
counties by the various farm bureaus.
The GAG breeding herds Of cattle in
the average of the fourteen counties
would return an increased profit OF
1892, 100 by using all purchased sires.
The survey shows that 65 per cent Of
all the sires are grades or scrubs.
Purebred sires in all counties would
therefore give the live stock men
s21.6 2 500 more profit than they o
get.
The coil boom" in the northwestern
part Of the state apparently is yet a
going proposition. without any definite
sign as to what there really is in 1t.
But it is good so far for the organiza.
ton OF a number OF companies which
VIII be Offering stock to investors,
with alluring pamphlets, il the CON-.
panies can get past the state securi-
ties commission. So far none OF them
have got over the barrier and pro-
cured any permission to sell stock
In this state, but that in no way ham
pers them in Offering what they have
to sell in other states. There may
be Oil in that section, but it has never
been proved, and the rush to lease
the whole country is much like that
which went on in this part OF the
state shortly after natural gas was
discovered in the artesian flow, and
thousands OF acres were leased by
would be promoters. No actual devel-
opment work was ever attempted by
any OF them. however.
Some of the foremost educators OF
the United States will be Entertained
at the national conference on rural
education and country life. which Is
to be held in Sioux Falls commenc.
ing October IL and ending October Is.
Preparations for the conference now
are we'll under way. 1t is estimated
that the conference will attract from
1900 to 1000 people. coming from all
parts of the United States, as it will
be held by the United States bureau
OF education through the South Da-
kota department Of public instruction.
and is to precede the first statewide
drive for better school facilities In
rural sections that the country will
see. Other states will watch with
keen interest the result of this con-
ference and drive. as upon them will
depend the extension Of the work
through the United States and the
progress of the movement for improv.
ing the educational opportunities OF
the country boy and girl to a stand.
ard more nearly equal those provided
the boys and girls in the cities. The
conference will be in direct charge
Of DR.. ]. L. McBrien, director OF rural
school extension for the government.
who will come here from Washington
for the purpose. Several governors
are scheduled to make addresses dur.
ing the conference.
Indications at the end Of the sec
Ond day Of registration at the Uni
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