Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Organization of Farms in Western South Dakota and Progress of Farmers Who Have Settled in the Area
The slow financial advancement of many ranchers and farmers in west ern South Dakota has been due in large part to the strained economic condi tions during the past 5 years. But other factors for a much longer periofi have had a more or less important part in the fir nancial progress of those who have settled in this area. Ranchers who failed to prov1de forage in dry years Dy a l1beral carry over of surplus feed from years of heavy: production or who neglected to allow for the occasional long hard winter in which stoolr could not rustle their own feed have occas1 onally su1fered large losses. Animal diseases and crop pests lave talce 11 their toll. In some areas the lfm gress of ranchers as well as farmers has oeen retarded by the-lack: 01 adequate transportation facilities. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
