The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-01-10
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Sioux Falls and other points in South
Dakota have very materially increased
during the past month, butter now
selling at the highest prices ever com
manded In the state. According to the
manufacturers there was a large do
crease in the production Of butter for
storage purposes because Of an alleg-
ed shortage of help during the sum-
mer months. They also claim that
lack of pasturage among dairymen
made it necessary to use high priced
feed in order to keep the creameries
supplied. 1t is believed, however, that
with the announcement that butter
prices may be investigated by federal
agents that the South Dakota manu-
facturers Of butter may find a way to
adjust the retail market conditions so
that the may be able to pur.
chase butter at fair price. Owing to
the present high prices numerous con
sumers are using butter substitutes,
which can be purchased at about one.
half the price charged for creamery
butter.
1t would not be necessary to go
back very many years to find the
time when a traveller in the west part
Of the state could make the trip from
the Missouri river to the Black Hills
and not see a hog on the trip. The
ranCher had no use for these animals,
as ii mean raising corn in his mind,
and no farming was d~esirer. Just a
few days ago there was shipped out
OF Pierre two train loads Of hogs.
While most of these shipments are OF
corn fed hogs, the west river ranCher
is learning that corn raising Is not
necessary for profitable hog raising.
All he needs is a good alfalfa pasture,
on which the hogs thrive and make a
rapid growth, and while such pasture
does not put the animals in shape for
the market it gives them a good
market price in the corn belt farther
south, and they are picked up at a
good profit to the breeder to be finish
ed for market by the corn raisers. All
Of which mean that the west country
will increase it's hog production every
year under the conditions which they
can most easily handle.
Arrangements have been completed
for the sixth annual exhibition Of the
Northwest Poultry association, which
will be held in Waterloo on January
3, 4, 5, 6 and Z. Three hundred dollars
in prizes will be offered. The exhibit
is expected to be the largest and best
in the history Of the association. The
judging will be done by G. d. Holden,
of Owatonna, Mimi, one of the oldest
and ablest judges Of the fine points Of
poultry to be found in America. In
addition to the IL classes for chickens
there will be classes for turkeys.
ducks, geese, guinea fowls and
pigeons. ribbits, hares and CAVES.
Thirteen months ago City Commits.
sioner Joseph Henktn, of Madison,
mailed a draft to his mother, whose
residence is or was In the province
Of Paltova, In Russian Ukrania. The
letter now has been returned to Mr..
Henkin marked service suspended"
Just where the letter was for Is
months without leaving the United
States is a mystern known only to
the proper officials Of the postal serv-
ice. Because of the cutting off OF
mail service to the Ukraine, as this
would indicate, Henkin's mother is
minus a helpful remittance OF several
hundred rubles.
Aberdeen is informally enrolled as
a candidate for the pleasure Of ten
dering a reception and welcome homo
to South Dakota's soldiers at a time,
sometime not too far in the future,
when the states soldiers who have
fought in the world war have in the
main returned home and gathere for
q reunion. Steps to extend an invita-
ton to the soldiers to hold their first
state reunion in Aberdeen have been
taken. and there is no doubt but that
Aberdeen will be a strong contender
for the honor at the proper time.
The hen that gets out the fashion
plates in August, September or early
October and dresses up in swell new
winter costume is invariably q poor
layer. The proftble poultry raiser
will have culled these birds out Of his
flock, says E. l.. Dakan, head Of the
poultry department at South Dakota
State college. Mr.. Daken last fall
culled a flock of 500 trap-nested hens,
none of which he knew the yearly &
record. In comparing records it wal
found that in every instance the early
moulter vas a poor layer.
When bids for inherited Indian lands
were opened at Greenwood they indi.
Gated a substantial demand for the
land. About $50 bids we're submitted.
The land sold for from 500 to $137.50
an acre. The total amount realized
was 1922, 519. Bona f1de homemakers
procured the greater share Of the land.
Heretofore in sales of this kind the
Spectator has been a prominent
figure.
Pat Ryan is the name given by an
individual who has disappeared after
several CartbaSe huainess