Seeds Tested For Certification In Potter County
Gettysounc July 25 A total of 1150 acres of grain were inspected for pure seed certification in Potter county this week by Archie Joy for the South Dakota Crop Improvement Association per county agent Lewis I Thompson. Fields were sown to certified seed from North Dakota and Canada and must pass field inspection weed tests and a purity test before sealing as registered seed. Varieties included Budaard Bison flax Ceres wheat Mindum durum Velvet barley and Gopher oats on farms owned by Sloat Thelin Westphall Jones Briscoe and son McDonnell Hurley Primus Anderson Millhouse Hinkley Palmer McGinty and others.
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Gettysounc
Wpeaa
Potter County
Archie Joy
Bouth Dakota Crop Improvement Association
Lewis I Thompson
North Dakota
Canada
Crop Improvement Association
Mr. Thompson
C. B. Sloat
Hoven
A. L. Thelin
Summer Students Plan For Next Year In Vermillion
High school superintendents coaches and instructors who attended the University of South Dakota summer session have outlined plans for 1931. A new organization the Wahoo Club formed before the session closed will organize next summer's activities with baseball as the leading pursuit. J A Erickson superintendent of Kennebec was elected captain of the club. The men will play a regular schedule of games arranged before the session opens.
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Vermillion
University of South Dakota
Wahoo” Club
J. A. Erickson
Kennebec
Lake Norden to Park on Lake Shore
Public park project for Lake Norden aims to use a land tract on the lake s south shore held by no one due to surveying discrepancies. A non profit group, with Hayti Bryant and local business interests, plans to develop and care for the park and link it by highway to the region.
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Lake Norden
Haytis and
Bryant
Gods Fast
Warm Poultry Houses Will Repay Farmers
Brookings reports preliminary experiments over three winters show poultry houses kept above freezing yield higher egg production. Farmers may gain by investing in winterized housing to boost output and profitability.
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Brookings
Poultry House Heating at State College Showed Net Gain
Prof. G. L. Stevenson reports Dakota State College used a brooder stove to heat a poultry house for young chicks in spring. Heated flocks needed less feed and produced more eggs, with feed savings nearly offsetting fuel costs for a net gain.
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Dakota’ State College
G. L. Stevenson
May Link Capitals With Graveled Road
Pierre July 25 A gravelled highway between the capitals of North and South Dakota could be completed this year if the South Dakota highway commission finishes surfacing State Highway No 83 to the North Dakota line. A gravel crew finished surfacing an eight mile stretch on Highway 83 between U S 212 and the south Potter county line leaving a 20 mile gap to Mobridge and an additional eight mile gap from Herried to the North Dakota line needing gravel. The commission plans to let contracts for surfacing the two gaps if arrangements are made.
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Herried
North Dakota Line
Road repair notice for Bismarck to South Dakota line
A fragment notes fall conditions and highway department notification about road grading from Bismarck toward the South Dakota border. The incomplete text references graveling and maintenance plans along the route, indicating local infrastructure attention during autumn.
Wild Asiatic Fowl Sought For Show in London
A wild ancestral fowl from central Asia, related to the modern chicken, is sought for the International Poultry Congress in London beginning in July. H A Nourse of St Paul, president of the American Poultry Association, says the bird, named gallus bankiva, is still elusive to capture for England. The species runs wild, is smaller than present chickens, and can fly well. London will mark gallus bankiva's first formal bow to civilization.
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ST. Paul
International Poultey Congress
London
Central Asia
H. A. Nourse
American Poultry Association
Nourse
England
Wall
Quarry Stone For Memorial Hot Springs
July 25 Henry Berling manager of the Hot Springs Stone company is busy getting out a stone for the Legion Memorial building at Pierre. Sixteen men are at work quarrying the stone. Machinery is being moved from the Burke quarry to the Fall River one and an allotment of new machinery valued at 70000 has been ordered and will arrive soon.
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Memorial Hot Springs
Henry Berling
Hot Springs Stone Company
Legion Memorial
Pierre
Burke Quivery
Fall River
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South Dakota Line
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Libby, McNeill & Libby
Chicago
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Wahexip Food
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Velvet
Cheose
South Dakota
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