The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-24
HAY CROP EXCELLENT
But the Season Is Backward in
the Gallatin Valley.
IN THE EARLIER DAYS
Methods of Ranching Have Undergone
a Great Change-Au Invention
to Make Buggy Rid
ing Easier.

Special Correspondence of the Standard.
Bozeman, July 21.-A great deal of
hay has been cut this week on the
numerous ranches in the valley. The
season is somewhat backward in re-
gard to haying as it is to nearly every
thing else, but in most places where the
farmers were able to irrigate the crop
is an excellent one. In the earlier days
of ranching in the Gallatin valley the
man who raised grain did not cut any
hay, and the farmer who had hay land
did not cultivate any for grain. This
order of things is somewhat changed
now, and practically every rancher,
whether he have a hay or grain ranch,
raises enough of both to meet the ncces-
sary demand for them on the ranch.
Before the improved threshing machine
was placed in operation great deal of
grain went through the separator into
the straw stack Then the grain-ras-
ing farmers cattle and horses would
get fat around the many straw stacks
to be found throughout the valley.
Now it is different, as the modern sepa-
rator lives up to it's name and but few
kernels of wheat or barley find their
II
will not winter we'll on straw alone,
especially with such a long spell of
bad cold weather as was experienced
the winter and spring just passed. SO
every ranchpr now tries to have soma
hay and in the long run he finds it a
paying proposition, and those who can
have no other kind. cut some grain for
hay while it is still green. The out
look for good hay crop is excellent
and it need be, as practically all the
hay in the valley was used up before
summer came.
Every once in a while an inventor
appears from among the ranks of the
Galatin farmers-sometimeS his inVen
ton is an agricultural imple m mt, or
an Improvement on one. and now and
then the genius enters other fields than
those of the husbandman. Fer some
time past a rancher named Rotert
King has been exhibiting to his admir-
ing friends and fellow tillers of the
soil as well as to the curiosity seekers
of the city, the result of long thought
CLEANED from the depths of a fertile
brain. This invention, or rather in
ventions, has an agricultural turn
The aim and desire of Mr.. King is 10
lessen the strain on horses shoulders
and allow the occupant of a buggy or
wagon to ride easier. The patent con-
sists of springs on either end of the
jofts of rough roads. This patent is
also extended to double trees. The
spring is on the back of each piece
the neck yoke having two and pair
of double trees six. In miniature the
scheme seems good, but many doubt
its practicability. Mr.. King is able and
willing to prove that his patent is 10th
feasible and practicable.
The special session of the board of
county commissioners has BEN held
of the time they sat as a board Ct
tons they raised the figures of the
county assessor some $4,000 or SD
900.
The official canvass of the vote on
the county high school showed CAS- votes
for the proposition and 1856 against.
Total majority for the high school 3O9
votes. Out of the 81 school districts of
the county, 16 of them d d not hol1 any
election. The commissioners appointed
as a board of trustees of the county
high school the following gentlemen:
| ]. C. Mccarthy, Rev. Frank B. Lewis,
| w. c. Newton, A. l.. Corbly, Emil Ket-
terer and w. S. Davidson. The trus-
| tees will have to give a bond of 81 900
| for the faithful performance of their
| duties.
Another important matter taken up
| by the board was the proposition to
| bond the county for S137. 900. The bonds
| are to be paid for on Oct. /, 1899. and
| to bear interest from Jan. l. 1900, at a
rate not to exceed Az per cent per an
mum and payable in 20 years.