Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1912 — A letter from South Dakota. [ARTICLE]

A letter from South Dakota.

Acme, So. Dak., Feb. 23. Mr. F. E. Babcock. Dear Sir:—Please change my Democrat from Middle Creek, So. Dak., to Acme, So. Dak., as Middle Creek P. O. is discontinued. We could not get along without the home paper. Would say we are having fine weather all of this month, February, much better than the paper reports for Indiana, but had four weeks of severe cold last of December and first three weeks of January. It got as low as 34 below and was above but about five times in that put up ice 24% inches thick'-by measurement. No loss of life in this part of the country that We heaid of, but stock died in every direction, mostly from the lack of feed as the weather was so bad people could not get to town to haul feed, and hay was from sl9 to $23 per ton. Corn was $1.50 per TOO pounds; potatoes at present are 3%c per pound; apples 6% to 8 1-3 -cents per pound. Flour is $1.50 per sack, made in the hill towns, but they ship in flour front Nebraska for $1.35 just as good. We raised nothing last year, and 1 worked out most all summer. I put in 55 acres of small grain, but owing to drought it did not come up till the first of October. We have a good supply of moisture to stait with this year, but seed grain is high and very few have money enough to buy it with. As for myself I have none and will have to work out and make a living, but will try to put in corn if /Van get good seed as it is veryCpoor in both the Dakotas this year. All well. Yours, H. H.. HAYES.