The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1921-08-12
Willow Creek, Mont,
july 27, 1921.

Editor Herald Advance: AS there
are several Milbank and Grant county
families located here / thought per-
haps .oma of your readers might be
interested in hearing Of them. Among
these are the E. d. Thorndike and
Fred Nelson families. They conduct
the bank and lumber business and as
the little town is the marketing place
for the Willow Creek Valley and for
wide stretch of the bench and wheat
lands surrounding the valley, tney
have established a very successful
buSines 5, and alc active agents in all
the various rubllc. enterprises that 20
toward building UP the community's
Enthusiastically and morally. Mr..
Nelson has recently erected and mov-
ed his family into fine new resi-
dence, and is ENJOYING a visit from
his mother from California. Another
former citizen who has his home here
is Ralph Briggs, who in company with
a Mr.. Cooper, has the meat market
and grocery business. "Roxy'' also
has quite a tract of land in wheat on
the benches, or dry farming lands.
The ,n,sual]v drv seasons Of the mast
two or three years, have temporarily
checked TIE deNeloumenl of farming
inte,e s is nearly all o, this western
country. hrt ihis r,o,ntain region has
not offered rea1ly so much AZ has
the eastern rart ol tho state leca,se
-qaI.;. all Of the valleys haye la,ua
tY4et. of i.,iuatcd lands To This nar
ti..illl. rar; of tha state the loss of
live 40ol, ,Iur;n. fba Writer and
.p.ira az 1q2q and the low, nrices fo1.
far. .alov,i7r 10 na>t roar va
more @arionsly foi. ;han tho ehort
crop.. However lhis year there y
great in,n,o, eroen+ !, ,roo cordaion1
on The benches. have been over a
po,+ion ~ the coun-r.,
dnino thn noel, a,d b.,e seem eon,a
OF the fnes. fields Of wheat ono co,,l4
wish 10 500 and the,. 3ejl nae ,..,
these will th,xL ont r,.,,a, 70 4o N
bushels 10 The acre--and do NOT
doubt it. These fields were il, .Tln,
KEY Red" q winter wheat variety or
course these yicids arc excentiooaI
for there are other tielus thai would
hardIv pay for the harvesting The
hest fields are moetly of +he nin.a,.
wheat. The spripp wheat beino la.er
seemed to have caught the drv I,a4
weather. at a more critical stage of
growth than the fall sown Drain rhis
and the fact that there Is q c,e,t
difference in the wa- the o,a;n had
heen mt in must acco,,r. fo, muc,,
of the difference in these fields--show-
ing that good farming ha., results
here as elsewhere. Where the acreage
is large for the Individual farmer, the
temptation to slight the cultivation of
the lard is always greet. and in the
bad seasons the growing grain shows
where this has been done. However
some of this difference can we'll be at
to The spotted character of
the soil and suh-soil, which shows up
in the same field in many cases. As
the crcp last year was a pretty gen
eral allure for lack Of rain, the pros
poets this year are encouraging even
though disnuicting feature has been
the appearance in places of the grass
hoppe" plague. However, the des-
truotlcn has not been extensive fronn
ms cause ana where the pests have
h'aoe 'heif appearance the farmers
nave heen successfully fighting them
"lth POISONED bran 'nush, furnished
oV 'n' county ana state, the farmer
oaiH rtinS 70 me expense OF putting