The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1923-06-29

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Farmer at Aberdeen, p. Hicks Cadle,
representative of the Rapid
City Daily Journal, Mr.. Beetham OF
the Murdo Coyote, \. A. Gerig of the
Mellette County News, and the Editor
of the Pioneer represented the mem
bers of the press who made the tour
C.. H. Blakelv Of White River acted
as representative of the Norfolk News
and Mr.. LANCE of Winner, W. under
stand, also represented one or two
large magazines.
The second day of the tour was
made in the western part of the coun-
ty, and the start was made at White
River. This Editor was very tired
from, the strenuous first days act
ivities, and did not reach White River
until after the tourist party had been
on their way for some time. How.
ever we caught the main party at
the Albert Arp farm up in the Scham-
Der community and arrived in amp'e
time to get in on tie big barbecued
dinner, which was enjoyed by all
present. The band played several Sc.
l~ections and some speeches were made.
We understand there were two short
stops made on the trip in the morn
ing, n at C~edarbutte and n at Alex
Peterson's, where alfalfa fields were
inspected and short talks made. Aft
Ell leaving the barbecued dinner n trip
was made to Mr.. Apps large alfalfa
field and a very interesting meeting
was held there with talks by Prof.
Ralph Johnson and Nick Casper. The
next stop was made at the Crissman
farm, where a field of spring break
ing that had been planted to corn and
sown to alfalfa was inspected. Mr..
Crissman expects to hog down this
field this fall and give his pigs a
ration of alfalfa and corr right in the
field. Many were much interested In
this experimental field and were we'll
pleased with the showing made by this
rather new experiment. From there
the ava %journeyed on to the Frank
Day ranch, where they saw perhaps
the largest herd of young Mellette
county bred mules in the county, also
some good cattle. Mr.. Day has a very
fine ranch on Cottonwood Creek and
he is prospecting. He has some fine
alfalfa, and gives considerable atten-
ton to the breeding of mules and white
faced cattle. From the Day ranch the
party went to the Wesley Teutsch
farm and inspected a herd of thorough
bred Hampshire hogs, and then into
White River, where the drawing was
held and the fine two-acre orchard Of
fered by the Humphrey Nurseries, Of
Nebraska, was given away.
Mr.. George Dill Of the Schamber com
munity proved to be the lucky man in
this drawing and he was presented
with the fine orchard.
The skies were more or less overcast
with heavy clouds most of the second
day and at times a fine rain was fall
ing and a rather cold wind was blow
ing from the northwest most of the
second day, which rather detracted
from the enjoyment of the second
days tour. However, some fine
farms were visited in the west end of
the county and some mighty nice ma
tural scenery in the Bad Lands was
observed by the tourists. The second
days trip starting form White River
and return registered right around
n hundred miles, and notwithstand.
ing the rather disagreable weather,
the tourists enjoyed every bit of the
entire trip.
The tour ended officially with the
presenting Of the orchard, and we
have yet to hear of a single person
who did not think it was .one of the
biggest things ever pulled off in the
county and who did not think it was
worth every bit of effort that it
cost to make it the success that it
was. Even some of our wi people
who have lived here for a number OF
years know more about their own Mel
lette county since making the tour
than they did before. There were
some thirty cars in line the second
day Of the tour.
There was a big banquet at the
Jones hotel in White River after the
tour, given in honor of the disting-
uished visitors and attended by the
husiEess man of the countv A free