The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1909-05-21
A BRIGHT FUTURE
Geo. Swan, Assistant Secretary o
the National Dry Farming
Congress Says that
CULBERTSON HAS GREAT OPPOR.
TUNlTlES.
He Visited Farmers In the C0un-
try East and North-Re.
suit Of Interviews.

"The opportunities which Gull
bertson enjoys will make it one Of
the most important cities in the
Northeastern Montana" said
George E Swan, Assistant Secre-
tary Treasurer to John I. Burns
OF the Dry Farming Congress dur
ing a visit to our city and surround
ing country las. Saturday and Sun
day. tine farmers who have al.
ready settled on the fertile lands
in your vicinity are making good,
and there seems 10 be healthy
spirit OF rivalry among them as to
WIN can raise the most prolific
crops.
Mr.. Swan arrived here on Fri.
day aud on Saturday party cen.
sisting of G. W. Tanner, F. p
Miller and the Editor OF the Search
light made arrangements with
Donaldson Bros for an automobile
trip into the country north and
east OF Cnlbertson with him,
The first farm visited was that OF
Edgar ]. Williams, about four
miles seast of Culber,son. We
found Mr.. Williams just hitching
up to drive to town, but he cour-
teously postponed his trip for a
half hour or more in order 10 show
the party oyer his farm.
Mr. Williams is essentially a So
called dry farmer, depending en-
tirely on the natural rainfall and
the fertile soil for his success. He
has farm Of 24o acres. which he
has been cultivating for the past
FIVE years. His crops have not
been phenomenal at all, and not
more than average OF others in his
vicinity. He has 100 acres under
cultivation. In 1908 his wheat
crop averaged about "a bushels to
the acre, whil. oats went IS to 40
bushels. One year his oats aver
aged s. bushels to the acre.
This year Mr.. Williams will
summer fallow one 4o.acre field
and expects to get an increased
crop from it next season. He is
experimenting with field pease this
season and has in crop about four
acres OF this excellent feed. He
intends TO make an exhibit for the
Dry Farming Congress which
meets in Billings, October as to
29th next. Mr. Williams has an
apple orchard in fine growing con-
dition and has planted four acres
to Diamond willow slips, plowing
them in
The ground, while dry on top,
showed plenty OF molsnre under
meath. and would have been all
right Tor crops for some time yet
without the lovely rain which fell
all day Monday
We went On down the Valley to
the old Stafford Conlee. past the
farm oi Rudolph Hinz, the Cham
pion welterweight waving US a
greeting from the field which he
was cultivating, thence up the
Coulee and over the devide into
Dane Valley. Much breaking and
wire fencing is being done in this
vicinity aud every where the fields
were beginning TO show the green
of the growing crops.
The party stopped At the farm
Of L L. Fryhling and found thai
worthy gentleman out in the FIELD
turning over the virgin soil with ;
four horse breaking outfit. Mr.
Fryhling is rather new to the occu
patton oil farmer being |
tailor by trade, but wa!
cheerful and confident of success
He will have in a crop this yea
about 10 acres Of breaking in fla,
and SO acres Of older ground il
oats and wheat.
We aiSo sfonned II the iarn, q