The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1923-07-06


gin the harvest of real bumper small
grain crop within the next three weeks
If all the people increase their al
falfa acreage during the next year
that have told us they would, Mellette
county S alfalfa acreage during the
next year will be very nearly doubled
by the time we have another alfalfa
tour.
We ourselves were agreably sur
lriscd TO note the large amount of
new land being broken out this spring
and put under cultivation. The titled
acreage in this county Is growing by
'ea,,S and bounds and this is as It
stould be.
If another tour should be staged
next season. an entirely different
routing from that taken this season
should be made We could easily
have put in four days on this county
wide tour and then still would have
been unable to have seen it all.
During the past week we have heard
many express regret that they did not
take off little time and attend the
Alfalfa Tour. After it was all over
they seemed to realize that it was one
of the really big events that has been
pulled off III this county.
The tour last week perhaps attract. |
cd to this county the greatest agri |
cultural, livestock and general COM
munitv boster talent ever assembled in
Mellette county at one time. The
good results obtained from this tour
are hard to estimate at this time.
The trouble car that accompanied
the tourist party had little or nothing |
to do during the first day of the tour,
but on the second dav, while hitting |
the trail through the Bad Lands, sew
cral cars were in need of the trouble |
man and he was johnny on-thcspot. |
Up in the west end of the county |
the corn seemed to be little more ad
vanced than in the east end, but this |
no doubt can be explained by the fact
that we have had more rain down this |
way and the wet weather delayed our
farmers here from getting their crops
planted.
One of our distinguished visitors |
remarked to We editor Tuesday eve
ming that he was surprised at the per
centage of alfalfa in this county to
The amount of land under actual cul- |
tivation. The alfalfa fields that he
saw that day made wonderful i'm
preston on him
w, II. Jones, of the G. & n. w. Ry,
who was one of the distinguished Wis
itors on the alfalfa tour, compliment
ed Mellette county on it's mileage OF
really good roads. He said he was
agreably surprised to find so many
miles of good roads in county so
young and so large in area.
We didn't know there was sod
house in Mellette county, but we no.
ticed on or two on the trip through
the Bad Lands last week. 1t took US
back to the sos on the plains of Kan.
sas when the sod shanty was a very
common sight to We editor, in fact we
lived in one during our boyhood days.
We have heard number express
themselves as being very much in
favor of making the Alfalfa Tour al
annual event, and in the future make
special effort to get number OF
visitors, actual dirt farmers from east
of the river and Iowa and Nebraska
to make the tour with us, and thus
show them what we really have In
Mellette county.
The editor and wife had the plea
sure of making the second days
tour in C. f. Kell's fine Nash sedan
Mr.. Kell certainly has fine car and
we enjoyed making the trip in closed
car as the day was rather disagreable.
Mr.. Kell owns farm on Cottonwood
creek and has about twenty acres
under cultivation, and he told We
editor that next year he expected to
seed the entire cultivated area OF his
farm to certified alfalfa.
.
We have often wondered why that
wonderful strip Of scenic country IN
Mellette county commonly known as
the bad Lands" is given such re-
pulsiva name Nine out of every ten |