Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1879-09-25

THE pRoGREs of the ROCKY MoUNTAIN
HUsBANDMAN, although slow, has, like the
interest it represents, been steadily onward
and upward. The warm support extended
to it all over Montana since the day of its
Introduction assures us that the people are
fully alive to the necessity Of an agricultu-
raj paper in the territory, and warrants us
in the effort to place before them a journal
second to none in the country.
We take pleasure in announcing to our
friends that the time for enlargement is now
near at hand. A large cylinder power press
has been ordered from New York, and
about the beginning of the next volume, or
upon the arrival of the new press, the HUs-
ANDMA will be enlarged to a forty-column
paper and otherwise materially improved.
We will also remove our Office of publica-
ton to White Sulphur Springs, a point
affording better facilities for a publishing
house.
The publication Of a live newspaper in
Montana is attended with heavy expense at
best, and this enlargement and change Of
base, which has become necessary to meet
the demands of the public, entails a still
greater outlay. Therefore, those in Arrears
tor subscription are requested to be prepared
to settle the same, that we may press on
from venture to success. "
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THE CROP OF both wheat and oats has
been good in all sections of Montana the
only failures being in those sections. where
the hail storms swept them, and these are
confined to less than twenty farms-a small
area.
Our attention has been called to,an article
in the Bozeman Courier, urging farmers to
hold for nemunerative prices, but a note
some weeks since, recognizes sixty cents
per bushel as remunerative. If this is the
figure they would have the farmers hold
for they are not very well posted on the
present cost of farming in Montana. We
uIli OIdU eliC UliAC i . COL5IIS WHICH, WHICH,
can be raised here for a small sum-perhaps
as low as fifty cents per bushel-but we
know too we'll the difficulties and uncertain
ties with which the farmers have to contend
to entertain for a moment the thought that
we have reached that stage or time. The
selling of grain at such a sacrifice cannot be
tolerated, and should not be done. 1t has a
tendency to be detrimental to the growth
of our c~ountry-to drive men from the voca-
ton, and cause a great scarcity another
season. Our farmers should bear in mind
that there has been a gain In population this
that there is a large increase in tie demand
for bread stuffs in our northern markets
while it is not improbable that the light
crop in Utah the present season may mate
rally improve our flour trade by Supplying
eastern Idaho and the Utah & Northern
railroad terminus with flour. We can sup
ply the demand in that quarter at a less fig
ure than it can be had elsewhere.
As to the oat market. though there is a
good crop there is little reason to tear that
prices will be unusually low or rather,
that there is just cause for low prices. The
increase of mining operations in the several
districts will cause a corresponding increase
of teaming during the winter season to-
gether with the improved market at the
north, as well as the continuous freighting
to and from the railroad terminus, assures
us that al, the oats raised this season will
find a ready market at fair prices. The
need of cash by some farmers to pay har-
vest hands, t.eeshing bills, and to settle