Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1911 — From the Drouth-Stricken District. [ARTICLE]

From the Drouth-Stricken District.

H. M. Shipman, who has been spending the summer with his daughter, Mrs. Everett Smith at Burke, So. Dak., returned yesterday. Crops are very poor there, generally speaking, but a strip a few milfes wida where Everett lives, the corn is very good, but west of there they have nothing. The tenant on Everett’s i farm, west of Burke (Everett himself lives on a farm 'northeast of Burke) got _onlv bushels oi oats to the acre, and his corn was all caught by the frost in August. Mr. Shipman says from a dozen to twenty teams pass through Burke every day, getting back to -the blder settled localities, and to tljeir old homes ■ :-jr • 1 '• V ■ * •- XT v * I ' :

in the east. Some are not financially able to get out, and must remain there. Mr. Shipman says that Everett is doing quite well, despite the drouth, and has acres of corn that is exceptionally good for that country. There was more rain in the strip cf country where he is farming,