The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-10-03
BAD GRAIN GOOD FEED
Is WORTH MORE FOR PIG FEED
THAN ON WHEAT
MARKET.

With the high price on hogs,
%shrunken wheat as pig feed is worth
about as much as the governments
guarantee, says j. w. Wilson, probes
sor Of animal husbandry at State col
lege. Prof. Wilson bases this state
ment upon the results Of experiments
conducted at the college some years
ago in feeding 44-pound wheat in com
parison with 57-pound wheat. Pigs
receiving ground shrunken wheat
made an average daily gain per head
Of two pounds, the good wheat pro-
ducing only three-tenths of a pound
more per day per head. Although the
experiment station bulletin giving The
details of the experiment is exhaust
ed, Prof. Wilson will supply any farm
er with the information upon request.
One OF the most successful Of the
community halls thus far erected in
South Dakota is a hall which was
opened for the benefit Of the young
people of the Badger district, some
miles from Arlington. The plan is to
untilize the hall as a recreational CEN
ter. A circulating library OF books
will be one Of the features OF the
plan. 1t also is planned at intervals
to show ~stereoptican views and have
other features which will make the
community hall an interesting place
for the young people of the district.
The engineers employed by the
state to investigate and survey differ
ent locations of dam sites suitable
for power urposes which the state
is planning to utilize, have been in
Mobridge investigating the place
known as the Bad Hair site. The en-
g~ineers report that this is by far the
best proposition that they have in
vestigated. owing to the fact that the
river at this point has rock foundation
on which to build the dam, also that
it will develop more power than any
other site in the state.
Fifteen county farm bureaus in
, South Dakota procured nearly $4,000
more for their wool clip than the
usual income, through organization
for marketing, according to the report
of the county agent office OF the State
! college extension division. The aver
age prices received for the o were
from so to 81 cents per pound, while
previous to the work of the farm bur
eaus the prices offered to local farm
ers were 3 to 10 cents less per pound.
1t has been announced at Sioux
MILL. @Iat 80 natnh2. 1 4 C;n,,v E'nIlc
will be the scene of an old fashioned
spelling bee" in which teams from
the four states of Minnesota, Iowa,
Nebraska and South Dakota will com-
pete for honors. 1t is planned as a
part Of the nationwide movement for
better rural schools.
Except for a few late fields, the
corn crop in South Dakota is free
from danger Of frost damage, the sum
mary of weather and crop conditions
for South Dakota issued by the Huron
weather bureau says. The crop is
mostly good to excellent and bumper
yields are predicted.
The Episcopal church in Vermillion
has come to the rescue of students
who cannot afford to pay high prices
for rooms. 1t is announced that the
parish will open a dormitory to be
known as st. Paul's hall this fall, with
accommodations for twenty boys.
The girls of South Dakota are just
coming into their own at State col
lege. When the college opens they
will discard their cramped quarters
in the old north building for newly
equipped rooms in the administration
building.
The state land department has dis
posed of the large tract of land ih
Lincoln county and received the high.
est price ever paid for that kind of
land in this state, the tract Of forty
acres being bid in at s205 an acre.
A Moody county farmer marketed
the flax crop raised this year on nine
teen and one-half acres of his farm
and in payment received a check for
$1,400. Thus the fax gave him a re-
turn of more than $40 an acre.
The Gayville bank, of which Lieut..
Gov. w. H. McMaster is the cashier
and principal owner, was entered by
cracksmen. They made away with
Liberty bonds v~ariously estimated at
10000 to $4,000.
The WATERFOWL ~postoffce has been
designated the money order deposi-
tory for offices in the surrounding
territory, according to advices re-
ceived from the department at Wash
ington.
Huron is to have an airplane land
ing field, provided present plans Of
the Associated Highways of America
carry.
At a special election at Hartford,
e a Sioux Falls, school consolidation
failed to carry b our votes.
J. The Free Methodist conference of
South Dakota will convene in Sioux
Falls on October s.
Work has commenced on a sewer
age system in Lake Preston.
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