The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1921-05-26
CROP OUTLOOK IDEAL
ACREAGE SHOWS NO REDUCTION
MUCH NEW LAND
BEING BROKEN

unQCl way IA nldng oC1lAOhos WhA@O
in the Missouri valley and west of the
river the breaking plows are turning
over many acres OF sod for increase
OF crop acreage. 1t is hard to esti-
mate at this time just how much new
acreage will be put in on sod for
the year. Most Of the breaking will
be seeded to flax, but not all of it, as
some Of the farmers find that they
can get e good corn crop IN sod If it
is properly handled. and a part OF the
new acreage will be in corn. Appar-
emily the talk Of farmers reducing
acreage this year had no foundation
other than mere gossip, as the acre
age in practically all classes OF farm
crops is being increased instead of
reduced. Just how much that in
assessors figures when they are com
piled, but TO date it would be mere
guess work to say how extensive it is.
One Of the features put forward last
fall as a basis for acreage reduction
this year was the high price of farm
help. as farm hands had been getting
from $50 to 500 per month generally
for the past few years. But this fig
ure ha sshown a material shrinkage,
even though the trades are fighting
reduction in their wages. Farm help
is being placed at from S35 to $45 per
month all over the state and there is
no apparent shortage so far.
Tat the problem resulting from the
general effort on the part of rural
schoo boards to decrease the salaries
of all rural teachers in South Dakota
is a serious one is proven by the fact
that there are fully 90 per cent fewer
names placed on the records of the
state placement bureau at this time
than on any similar date since the bu-
reau was established by the legisla-
tive act of 1917. This placement bu-
reau which is under the supervision of
the department. of public instruction,
is a free employment bureau where
names and qualifications of teachers
wanting positions are recorded ana
supplied to superintendent or those
who have charge of employing teach
ers. Usually there are about 400
anne entered at the bureau. The APP
parent lack of interest this year, indi-
Gates, in the opinion of G. T. King.
deputy state superintendent OF public
instruction, that teachers either think
it will be unnecessary to enroll in a
placement bureau to secure positions
in South Dakota next year or they
have made up their minds to go to
other states where salaries are being
held stationary or increased rather
than decreased.
The state convention of the Ameri-
can Legion Auxiliary in its Aberdeen
meeting placed South Dakota in the
front rank in a movement that is
likely to become second only to that
of Americanization throughout the n a
ton. 1t has decided to take up as its
special functioning promoting Ameri-
canism the organization of citizenship
clubs among young people about 20
years of age as a preparation for the
responsibilities of voters. Because
the national movement has not yet
been launched, this action of the auxil.
larry places South Dakota in the lead
in this movement.
BY q vote of 294 to 40, the House
Of Representatives passed a bill
authorizing producers of agriculture
products to form associations collect
lively to market their produce with
immunity from prosecution under the
Sherman antitrust law. This is prac
tically the sane as the Capper-Vol-
stead bill of a year ago, and it has
advanced to the point where 1t was
made useless last year by the action
of the senate in amending and chang.
Ing the bill so that ii would have
been of little or no value if passed.
Capturing a live eagle with a lariat
was the feat of Tom Hale, one of the
cowboys on the Mulehead ranch
From a distance Hale saw the eagle
swoop down and kill a calf. Know
ing that the eagle is a natural born
glutton when given the opportunity
Hale waited until the bird had eaten
SO much that it was unable to fly. He
then rode his pony full tilt at the
bird, roped it and carried it home to
the ranch house, where it is now
Gagged. 1t will be sent to the Smith.
sonian institution at Washington, DC.
The March influx OF immigrants
into western South Dakota over the
lines of the Milwaukee system, which
has made a report to State Immigra-
ton Commissioner /. ID. Aldrich,
shows that there was a good move
ment from the eastern to the western
part of the state, as well as in brig
ing immigrants from points outside
the state.
That section of the Philip business
district which was destroyed by fire
some months 6 rapidly is being re,
built.
J. E. Brooke. secretary of the com.
mercial club Of ierre, has presented
to the state historical department an
authenticated copy Of the first issue