The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1920-01-09
SOUTH DAKOTA CROPS
ALTHOUGH ACREAGE rs LARGER
THAN LAST YEAR, THE
VALUE IS LESS.

Even with a less favorable season
South Dakota produced during 1919
approximately $500 for every man,
woman and child in the state in new
wealth. This fact is shown in cereal
crop reports and estimates by III. 0.
Herbrandson, field agent in South Da-
k5ta for the bureau OF. crop estimates,
United States department Of agricul.
ture. Although the acreage was a.
S25, 1000, or 10000 more acres than in
1918, the total value Of the crops was
only $344, 764 900, as against 1898 1922
600 last year, farm prices Of December
/. But this years value was approx
mately one-third Of a billion dollars,
or 2.45 per cent OF all the agricultural
wealth that was produced in the Unit
ed States. When it is realized that
this does not include live stock and
minor crops, and that the unit value
Of the farm products has materially
increased III one year, the value OF the
estimate as a check on the agricul-
tural production Of the state in COM
10 lOOh WILL iOLO 40 " ~ oASSNs
review Of the counties where 1000 or
more acres of winter wheat was sown
and 10, 900 or more acres of rye, gives
Minnehaha county a blowing condi-
ton of 621a per cent and an average
wage of $3.50, or $3.50 per day for
harvest workers. Lake county had 70
per cent blowing; condition, $3.50
per month, or S. per day; Turner
county, 70 per cent, $40 and 1888;
Lincoln county, So per cent, SIS and
$3.50, and McCook county, 70 per cent,
$62 and S. per day.
A prominent non-partisan is quoted
in a Sioux Falls paper with the state
ment that so long as they have no
contest in their party their members
a vote at the primaries Of other par
ties and stir up plenty Of trouble in
that way. He may or may not have
made the statement, but if he did he
evidently had not looked over the cor
rupt practices section Of the primary
law. 1t has a provision making it a
misdemeanor for any voter to vote at
the primary ticket Of a party of which
he is not a member, with a fine of
500 or a Jail sentence OF thirty days.
Another section fixes the same pen.
atty for anyone who counsels or ad.
vlses another to give his vote at a
primary at which he is disqualified,
and a further penalty of a fine of $500
or six months Imprisonment for any
nnn uhn yynLog on neparc - ,yD+a II
legally at any primary in this state.
On accoun Of the heavy snow in
the northwestern part Of the state,
travel necessary to secure mail and
supplies is extremely difficult, and the
residents Of Camp Crook are using
the ice on the Little Missouri river
from that place to Marmarth as the
best trail they can travel. The wind.
ings Of the stream max The distance
considerably further than by the gen.
orally used highways, but better time
can be made ON the river course than
by attempting to buck" the drifts Oh
the trail.
All question In the position of Gen.
Leonard Wood in connection with his
nomination for president by the South
PEELED when w. H. King, district re-
publican chairman, brought back word
from Chicago that Gen. Wood would
sign the acceptance and qualify under
the Richards primary law before the
first of the year. The general will
then become the first regularly en-.
dorsed presidential candidate to come
before the public.
The state land department has made
the annual apportionment OF the com
mon school interest and income fund,
amounting to 81, 556, 224.32, which will
be sent out December 20. This goes
directly into the school funds of the
school districts Of the state, and is
apportioned on a basis Of 1892 pu-
pills of school age. giving to each $3.50.
which is $1.64 greater than any other
annual apportionment ever made.
Under new regulations Of the fed
eral bureau Of animal industry, the
matter of quarantining of stock yards,
in this state, other than the feeding
in transit points, has been placed u
der control of the state live stock
sanitary board.
The public schools in belmont will
no longer be conducted in the German
language. That has been determined
as a result OF an investigation. AS
q result of the investigation the school
board agreed to discontinue German
The state and national banks of
South Dakota at the September call
of condition showed an increase OF
$50, OOO, 900 in the year ending with
that month.
The Northwest Poultry association
has announced it's annual show will
be held in WATERFOWL January 8 to
10. 1920.
Trappers claim this is the best sea-
son in many years and their profits
will be greater than ever before.