Judith Gap journal. [volume] (Judith Gap, Mont.) 1908-19??, 1910-07-15

supporting home where the family
needs are produced, where economy
dictates, and where one or more
specialties are followed for the crea-
ton of a money crop. Thus we have
diversified farming as the character
istic and necessary thing. There are
many reasons why mixed farming is
desirable. such rs the necessity for II
rotation, the preservation of fertility
by keeping farm animals, etc. Certain
it is that the farm of this class will
ever be the bone and sinew of this
nation, and under this head will he
found the independent farmer. While
there are ample opportunities for
specializing in various forms of live
stock grown OH irrigated tracts and
for other kinds of one crop farming.
the best returns in all respects will
be made for mixed farming, and for
this purpose the sections are well
adapted. In variety of crops the ir-
rigated districts are unexcelled.
All kinds of small grain. alfalfa
and timothy hay, garden vegetables
and small fruits grow luxuriantly;
the climate is a hospitable one for
stock growing: irrigation enables one
to produce as much from eighty acres
as from twice the area in the best
lands of the middle west. The UNI
supplied markets of Montana SHINING
cities: the demands of the range men
for winter forage for their tlOcks of
sheep and herds of cattle and horses
all these give more certain promise
for the average farmer than any other
form of agriculture.
and scenery do not go together, and
when one thinks OF the rocky hillsides
of New England, with it's thin soil
and excess Of scenery, or the level
prairies of Iowa, or the DakOtas with
their rich soils. but amending mOnot-
ony OF landscape, it is quite true.
In the same manner that poultry
promises ample rewards for intelli-
gent care, does dairying hold out UNI
usual profits to the man who knows
how to care for dairy cattle and is
willing to build upa tirst-class herd of
good mixers. Especially at the pre-
sent writing, does this industry give
absolute insurance of big money.
The western country knows little of
special dairy cattle, nor do first set
tiers realize the Importance of bring
ing with them milch cows of high
power at the pail.
Montana, except in spots, is addic-
ted to the beef habit, and it is a COM
mon sight to see white faced Here
ford grade cows yielding their little
Montana ranchers, large and smallR
will realize the value Of employing
special breeds for special purposes.
The Hereford can not be eXcelled as
plain rustler: the Shorthorn will
always be favOrite and Il close COM
petitOr along with the Black Angus,
in the producing of beef, but none of
them score as milk producers. On
the other hand the man who would
start to grow Holsteins, Jerseys or
Guernseys for the butcher, would
soon be IN the poorhouse or the sana-
forum. 1t is not necessary for the
average farmer to raise thorOughbreds
to make profit by turning roughage
into more highly finished product.
1t is necessary, however that he
choose that general type best cult
waited for the purpose intended by
form-in strict, long breeding and
selection.
Where such crops as alfalfa, tim
othy, Canada peas, barley and oats
can be grown in Il country which has
nearby cheap grazing lands, it is GER
tain that such country will become
in a few years Il great stock raising
country. Add to this the increasing
price of meat and the increasing dis.
crepancy between our cities and the
slower growing rural sections. and i,
! Will be seen that livestock and diver
sitied agriculture offers opportunities
of Independence and even compare
tive wealth, along the lines of intelli
gent prosecution of an ideal.
Germany Won't Intervene.
Berlin, July l2.-Gprma, y has tax
Ell no stand in opposition to the Unit
ed States in the affairs Of Central an,
South America. Germany has issue.
no statement that could be construct
ed into antagonism of the American
government in what that government
has done. is doing or may do in Mic
aragua. This declaration was made Il
the German foreign office this even
ing.