Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1901-02-20
OFFICIAL PAPER OF FERGUS COUNTY.
LEwIsTowN. MONT, Feb. %, 1901
WANTID, FARM RS.


as badly as are magnatcs to give of
their wealth for the Development Of The
mineral resources.
Dispatches tell us that thousands of
homcseekers are now leaving the east
for the northwestern states, taking adj
vantage of the excursions offered by the
railroad companies. 1t is hoped that
many of these will come TO Fergus
county.
A great portion OF natures wealth
lies u~ndeveloped in this section. Lands
there are and plenty and good soil.
water. everything that is needed but
the hands to guide the plow, garnerth
sheaves, feed the hens and the hogs,
milk the cows and make the butter.
In Lewistown today half of the pco-
pie are using condensed milk and cream
because n milkman vas taken sick and
could not obtain help to run his dairy.
A leading merchant said u few days
since that his firm alone had sold more
than a car Neutrality-suspicious. thousand
pounds-of condensed milk and cream
in the past year.
Just think of it! Right here in the
midst of a magnificent cuuntry-a eat
tie country-one single firm has sold a
car load of milk and cream in a year
past. The COWS Of Illinois are furnish
ing the kitchens Of Lcwi,town,
Day after day, winter and summer,
butter is shipped in by freight and b.
express and Il -curch into the pantrics
of the people today would probably re-
veal that more than onc-th,ri OF them
were using the creamery products.
How many thousand pounds are brought
into Lrwistown in a year we cannot es,
innate, but the receipt Of the familiar
looking case, IS incessant.
And eggs arrive by the hundreds OF
dozens. 1t &, NO, at all a strange sight
to see a half dozen case, Of eggs uu-
loaded from mn incoming coach, ib fact
there are time, here v.lcn every coach
for days ans week. bring, it, qon~ o.
ease .rrs
81 holiday ua. o- vle0 tbsra T.
any special demand, crate, u Dressed
chie'seu, turkeys and 7csc qrg iupar,-
ed Hy our local marsgr- ur..ca 50 Grant.
Fan, or Helena from esr 'oaIs shipped
into Montana from The east.
During the last SIS months many
crates of vegetables. such as cabbage,
have also been brought into Lcwistown.
And what reaches Lrwistown is dis
tributed not only among the homes of
the town. but 20 merchants in nearby
towns,
TO to the larders Of many a ranchmar
and you will find condensed milk.
creamery butter, ease eggs, eastern la.
con and imported lard.
Why is it? Certainly not because tn,
prices do not offer inducements to HON,
growers. AZ eight and ten cents a quar-
for milk, thirty and forty cents a poun,
for butter, twenty five to fifty cents
dozen for eggs, $3.50 per hundred
pounds for oats and sl.95 for wheat
there can be no such excuse.
Is il because other lines afford n bet
ter profit? Are cattle and sheep so cx
orbinately high that men can afford 4
buy eastern farm products for their owl
consumption. rather than raise eyeI
what they want for their own useP /
does not seem possible.
There are men who have in the pas
supplied portions of the local marlSe
with ranch products and have quit tn
business. saying there was nothing i
it, the market was 50 limited" som
of these fellows have kept their hensi
dry goods boxes and expected them {
rustic for a living as do the cattle o
the ranges. When they should hay
been supplying the market they ha
not an egg TO sell. When these rang
hens began laying and everybody ha
eggs to sell and the price was down, in
stead of packing the surplus produ,
they have killed the hens and said thcr
was nothing in the business"
A Touring mill capable of turning ou
as good product as any of the mills c
the eastern states. now liesidle becaus
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