Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1912 — Henry Hayes Writes From Acme, South Dakota, [ARTICLE]

Henry Hayes Writes From Acme, South Dakota,

Henry Hayes, a former resident Of north of Rensselaer, who went west a few years ago and has fared badly with poor crops in South Dakota, j. writes The Democrat under date of May 27, and among other things says: “My wife has been very sick with rheumatism and heart trouble. She is getting better now, but unable to walk very well yet. We have had plenty of rain this spring and everything is booming. Corn is all planted and some is coming up. Prospects were never better. Not much small grain sown, but w’hat there is, is doing fine. Lots of corn and millet in. Seed corn w r as $4 per bushel, millet 32.50 per bushel and potatoes 31.95 per bushel or 33.25 per cwt, as nearly everything sells by the hundred. Feed corn shelled is 31-85 per cwt., now and oats 32.30. “I have out 65 acres of crops, corn, millet and some alfalfa and many beans, so maybe can get back some bf wha/t we lost during the drouth. This is a great alfalfa country, as the soil is a heavy clay and gumbo. I see there is some talk and effort of raising alfalfa in Indiana, and don’t see but why it could be raised there on some land. It should be sown on heavy clay or sand and clay, but the land sJhould be well drained and rolling, as any ice standing on it.jrill kill it, and they need not expect seed every year, as it only forms seed in •very dry seasons. “There has been quite a few returned this spring that left last fall. They are how farming, and with a crop this year, business will start off right next spring.”

Our roofing paints in red, green and black are striefiy pure asphalt paints. And not tar dope with which the market is flooded at a low price. The real stuff costs only slightly more and you get a paint that will preserve your roof instead of eating it up. See me or A. E. Kirk about that rusty roof.

HIRAM DAY.