The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-09
NORTHWEST NEWS.
MONTANA.

MONTANA.
Virginia City il supplied with home
raised strawberries and early vegetables.
A postofice has been established ct
Bowen, Beaverhead county, with Ella w.
Pemba, postmistress.
The Northern Pacific railway company
have placed on their through trains to the
Pacific q lot of elegant day coaches.
These cars are finished In the most taste
full manner In m~ahogony and Nile-green
plush. each seat having q patent revolving
head rest, making the ride as pleasant ms
II taken In n reclining chair car. The
road has received twenty-seven OF these
cars and have placed them oil on the
road.
The Helena Herald, describing the im-
provements made on the Helena track,
says: There is a half mile home stretch
and a back stretch OF equal distance,
while the turns are o o~ne-quarter
, each" These distances according to our
arithmetic would make the new track
''about" one mile and a half long. but q
little matter of a half mile discrepancy In
a mile track Is hardly worth speaking
about.-YeIiopsfone Journal.
e John Mardis, aged about 20, living near
Bohemian, met with a serious accident
. Friday night while on his way TO Central
Park TO attend a dance. While riding
along the highway his horse got scared
and jumped against a wire fence. The
wire caugh. in the calf of his leg and cut
and tore the flesh to the bone. The horse
soon jumped the fence, when his rider
fell off and lay some time unconscious.
After a while he crawled on his hands
... h..aa about throa-
quarters of a mile distant, where his leg
was bandaged, and late at night he was
brought into town.. The wound is an ugly
one.
Government work on the roads in the
/. National Park is increasing. A large
force of men are engaged i'm building q
road along Yellowstone lake, which will
be continued over the divide to the upper
geyser basin, which, when completed, will
add materially to the pleasure and COM
fort of a trip through that portion of the
park, and open up to tourists the Sho-
shone geyser basin. which has only been
. accessible heretofore by means of saddle
y horses. Tourist travel TO the park is rap
idly increasing and the prospect is good
for a much larger number of visitors 10
the national pleasure ground than any
previous season.
The question as TO the successful grow
ing of alfalfa in Montana is not fully un-
derstood by our people. There have been
a great many experiments made i'm this
direction, and we nave quite a number of
signal failures. We are also able TO. point
to many instances i'm which a most bril-.
liant success has been chronicled. But
note with regret that there is a strong in
alinats.n ~ .,tpta fha fatlura and fnrUaf
the success. II is also noticeable. in
speaking Of the failures, that all the facts
are seldom mentioned, and hence alfalfa
does not stand very high as n forage plant
for Montana among the great bulk OF our
people. Yet, as a matter of fact, il is one
of the best crops that can be grown, and
is about as easily propagatee as
any other perennial. In the first
place. when alfalfa was first intro
duced, the idea was advanced that il was
adapted to our bench lands which are not
supplied with water, and many tried to
grow it without irrigation, which was, OF
course, a mistake. Many farmers have
also made the mistake Of not giving a SUIT
ficient attention, INT many ave pastured
the young crop too severely before il had
attained an age that would warrant pas
turage at all, and we have yet to hear Of a
\ failure where the proper ~precaution has
' been used. Alfalfa has made a new state
of Colorado, and has for years been the
main stay of Utah, and we believe the
day is not far distant when il will become
one of Montana's best products. But we
would not by any means hold out the idea
that il may be grown in any kind of hap
hazard way, or that there is nothing re-
quired but to SOW the seed. 1t requires
rmuch more care and attention here, for
the first three years at least, than in any
of the countries where il is now extensive
" grown, and we very much doubt IL II is
adapted to very close pasturing at any age.
At least, we would advise against risking
grazing II very closely at my time. We
would say put the seed in well and water
as any other crop. Protect the plant in
A the fall from stock and give IL full irriga-
= ticn, just as Is advised In the case Of win
tee wheat, and it will prove profitable
~Hhsbandman.