The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1924-02-29
SHOULD COUNTY HOLD
SECOND ALFALFA TOUR?

More and more people are asking us
whether or not there is TO be another
alfalfa tour this year. This week Mr.
Langley, of Rosebud Valley made IN
quiry as to the prospects OF another
tour. He said that he had been IN
correspondence with some Iowa par
ties and he thought he could interest
them in coming out to make the tour
this year If one was arranged for.
The county agent was down last week
and he also was talking alfalfa tour
Hugh Sinclair of Butte Valley is also
greatly interested in the tour and said
he thought we ought to have another
one this wear, as last years tour did
a lot OF good. We are inclined to
think that matters will so shape them
selves that we will have another al
falta tour along in May or June OF
this year.
Personally we are very much inter
ested in seing another tour pulled Off
in this county this year. First, be
cause it stimulates interest in the
greatest money making crop that the
MelIctte county farmer can grow, and
second, because it gives our county
the sort OF publicity that we want
and il gives Us tlns publicity tor
less money than we could possibly Get
it for in any other way. Third, be
cause by profiting by the experience
OF last years tour this can be made
one of the greatest get-together events
ever held in the county. We have one
or two ideas about the tour this year
that we would like very much to see
carried out if tour is actually held
We would want to see the tour con
Quoted pretty much along the lines
it was last year, but we would want
to see a little more attention paid to
the details or arranging community
exhibits Of fine stock at the principal
stops in a community. We would like
to see the routing Of this year S tour
changed 80 as to take in as much dit
ferent territory than it did last year
as possible.
We would like to see the tour detl-
nitely determined upon at the earliest
date possible and the dates set per
manentlv. and then we would want to
see everyone interested in alfalfa IN
Neliettc county to write to their
friends in the east and invite them
TO pay a visit to Mcllctte county at
that time. take in the tour and see
Melleite county in the only sensible
way il can be seen. In extending such
invitations to Your friends impress
mon them that they would be at ne
expense either for entertainment OF
TRANSPORTATION in making the tour
and il such an invitation were ISSUED
i'm time we believe that several hund
red farmers who are now trying TO exc
out scant living in the hlgli priced
land districts would be glad OF the op.
portmity to make the tour and view
this land of real promise, see the tine
fields of alfalfa, the herds OF tine
porkers, the sleek, well-fed cattle, and
the fine thoroughbred poultry, and
seeing all these advantages don you
think it would be big inducement
for them to come to Mellette county
and help us develop this, the richest
agricultural section in the Union? We
do
It's really time to begin thinking
about the details OF this years alfalfa
tour if we are to have one. is time
to begin thinking about increasing
your alfalfa acreage. at any rate. lie
US hear from some of you farmer
who made the tour last year, or ii
YOU didn t make the tour let us hear
from YOU, anyway. If YOU don t think
the tour is worth the time and effort
spent, tell us about it. We wan,
both sides, although personally We
think there is only one side to the
question.