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The Harlowton news. [volume] (Harlowton, Mont.) 1909-1914, 1911-10-20
EXHIBIT AT LAND SHOW

Announcement Is made from ST.
Paul that the following sections
i and communities of the American
Northwest will have special ex.
hibits at the land show to be given
in ST. Paul in December under the
auspices Of the Northwest de-
velopment League:
Yellowstone Valley, Bitter Root
Valley, Lakes Region of North
Dakota, Gallatin Valley, Northern
Minnesota, Helena, Mont, Great
Falls, Mont. Southern Idado,
Spokane Valley, Northern Idaho,
Central Oregon, Flat Head Dis
trict, Red River Valley, Judith
Basin, Wenetchee District, James
River Valley, The Musselshell
District, Western Montana, Sun
River District, The DesChutes
and Crooked River Valleys, The
Black Hills District of South
Dakota.
In addition to these the North
west will be represented by ex-
hibits to be made by the Great
Northern. Northern Pacific, the
Northwestern Lines and the Du-
luth and Iron Range Railroads.
Preparations of these exhibits
has been under way for months
while it has required almost a
year for the commissioners to col
lect the Alaska exhibit.
These special exhibits will sup
plement the displays to be made
officially by each of the seven
states and will greatly assist in
the realization of the managers to
bring the American northwest to
the prospective home seekers
and settlers of the middle west"
While there have been half a
dozen so called land show enter
prises in the field, all claiming for
their object the exploitation of
west and northwest, the commune.
ties of the northwest have stood
almost solidly behind the show to
be held in St. Paul because it is
really their own show. Different
from any other land show the ex-
hibition of ives tern pro
duets to be given in ST. Paul is
one which the commercial clubs
and transportation companies of
the northwest have planned and
on which no private interests
stands any chance of making a
cent. The large amount of space
in the show room has been sold at
such a small expense that the
is in position to
spend 100000 advertising the en-
terprise to get people to attend
and see the exhibits.
The Harlowton news. [volume] (Harlowton, Mont.) 1909-1914, 1911-10-20
CARE OF ALFALFA
ON DRY LAND

disked as soon as a dry enough.
This prevents the escape of mois-
ture and, by splitting the root
crowns thickens the stand of al
falfa. Disking should also be
practiced after the first crop of
hay is removed. For this cultiva-
tion the disk should be set so as
to pulverize the surface soil, but
not turned sufficiently to gouge
out the root crowns.
| GROWING ALFALFA SEED.
The very satisfactory reports
which come from the eastern and
central west farmers who have
planted Montana grown alfalfa
seed have created demand for the
seed produced in this state and
suggests a very profitable opening
for its production in Montana.
The amount of alfalfa seed SO far
produced has not been large, and
the experience already gained
shows that there is much yet to
learn about alfalfa seed growing.
In higher valleys, where the
season is somewhat short, it seems
best to allow the first crop to
stand and mature seeding without
irrigation. In localities where a
comparatively long growing season
prevails, good seed returns have
been gained where the alfalfa field
was irrigated early in the season,
a crop of hay cut early, and the
second crop allowed to mature
seed. If irrigation is applied late,
or if too much water is used, the
heavy production of leaves and
stems delays the seed formation.
AS a result much of the seed may
be destroyed by frost while yet i'm
mature. The large amount of
damaged and shriveled seeds which
we observe in some samples on the
market indicates the danger of
frost before maturity.
Some farmers and experiment.
ers have urged the growing of
alfalfa seed by planting the seed
in rows about three feet apart.
and intertilling the crop the same
as corn or potatoes. One advan-
tage claimed for this method of
seeding is the plants grow larger
and bushy and so have a large seed
producing service. 1t is also
claimed that the intertillage
which is possible during growth
keeps down the weeds and helps
in moisture conservation. AS yet,
very little alfalfa seed has been
produced in this way in Montana,
and farmer who think
of going into alfalfa seed business
will do well to test this method on
a small area, rather shan to seed a
very large acreage at the start.
The seed crop ought to be cut
when about two-thirds or three
fourths of the pods have turned
brown. AS the seeds shell easily
care must be exercised, and the
crop handled as little as possible in
getting it dried and to the thresh,
ing machine. One of the best
machines for cutting an alfalfa
seed crop is an ordinary mower,
with punching and dropping at
tachment. This gathers the crop
up as it is cut and puts it in small
lunches where it can cure proper
ly. This not only makes for econ
omy in the time required, but also
the necessity of hauling the crop
after it becomes dry and in condi
tion to shell readily.
The Harlowton news. [volume] (Harlowton, Mont.) 1909-1914, 1911-10-20

LOST-A light cravenette coat,
between Shawmut and the Winnie
cook ranch, ON the river road.
Finder notify J. H. Garrett, Har-
lOwton, Montana.
The Harlowton news. [volume] (Harlowton, Mont.) 1909-1914, 1911-10-20
MONTANA AN AGRI-
CULTURAL EMPIRE

of thirty or fourty thousand, Mon
tana has already shrunk to 10000
and many were casting about fol
a place to go. The tilling Of the
soil offered the only solution and
we made the venture. We said
Montana must help feed the
famine stricken countries of the
earth. The Rockey Mountain
belt, with water at the
farmers command, is the one
place where crops are absolutely
sure and such region must be-
come the seat of agricultural
empire. Tilling the fruitful
earth will distance mining. Four
or five years ago mining and agri-
culture We'd with each other for
supremacy, but today the rural
revenues have swept far out into
the lead of our mining production.
Today it is pressing hard into the
1OO,OOO,OOO mark, which is ahead
of any showing of our mining in
terests in their pamiest days. We
would not discourage the minor or
mining, for we have worked hard
to develop Montana's mineral
wealth, and have been a
miner as we'll as farmer
since the early sixties, and
we have recognized the Importance
of the market they furnished our
rural people. In every worlds
fair contest of modern years
Montana has been in the lime.
light.
Thirty-six years taken out of the
heart of a mans life comprises the
best years of a life time. But
these years have wrought great
transformation. The pine covered
hills of the Bitter Root have been
into apple orchards, and
this year fifty trains will be re-
quired to haul the fruit of one
valley to market.
The southern half of Montana
with such ma gnificient streams as
the Yellowstone and it's tributaries,
the Madison, Jefferson and Gala
tin, and their tributaries, the
Deere Lodge and Bitter
Root and their tributaries possess
some advantages over the regions
Of northern Montana with the
Dearborn, Sun River, Teton,
st. Mary's and the Missouri
rivers by being near the mines
where our early markets lay and
nearer the mountains, the source
of the streams, and settled first
since their waters were more easily
but from this day
forward the old settled valleys
may look to their laurels. These
vast areas are now all under culti-
as are the lands of the
Mississippi valley, but in the fer
tile valleys of the north half of the
state there is still work to be done.
We are going to irrigate half
million acres of land. We are 60
ing to grow millions of bushels of
grain, grow acres and acres of su.
gar beets. Every home will be
surrounded by an orchard and
garden and every home
steader will keep COW or two
raise a few head of hogs, raise a
few hundred poultry. In
five years from today northern
Montana will be irrigating Mil
lion acres of land. Today the
state of Montana is irrigating
three million acres and her crop
records are the marvel of the
world.
The Harlowton news. [volume] (Harlowton, Mont.) 1909-1914, 1911-10-20
Editor Suther|in
Talks at Fair
Montana the Home of a Thrifty
and Happy PeopIe---They Till
and Pasture the Earth, Sow
Meadows, Plant Orchards.

In an address at the opening OF
the Sun River Valley Fair, R. N
Sutherlin, editor of the Rockey
Mountoin Husbandman said in
part:
Coming over the great plains tc
Montana with OK teams as man
ner of convyance in 1865, it was a
part of our plan to build a farm
house somewhere among the snow
tiaked peaks of the grand old
Rockies, and to this end brought,
among other effects, two plows,
one large one and one small one,
with which to till the earth, and
though we spent our first year
here on the road as bull
whacker" we, on the seond year of
our stay in the country, set to the
task of tilling the soil.
We sent an OK team nearly 100
miles from the Missouri valley in
to the Gallatin to get seed pota-
toes to plant, paying the rancher
five cents per pound therefore.
- The first thing we did in Mon
tana in 1865, after erecting a cabin
was to cut an irrigating ditch and
since that day I have been an ir-
rigator. It is not to be supposed
for a moment that because we
wanted a Montana rural home, and
come prepared to cultivate it,
that we did not also have the
gold fevor. We wanted. a gold
mine as we'll as a home on the
valley. But time and experience
have taught us, and that too, long
long since, that there is more
money to be made out of Mon
tana's valleys, bench lands and
foothills by manipulating ten
inches of the surface intelligently
than will ever be taken from our
mines of precious metal or copper,
lead coal and iron. When the
placer mines began to wane and
before it was demonstrated that
the people were held in solution
in veins of quarts of sufficient eX-
tent to make their production
profitable, it occurred to us that in
Montana was to become the home
of a thrifty, happy people that
they must till and pasture the
earth, SOW meadows, plant Or
chards and become rural people.
With this ida in view, the Suther-
lin Bros. launched the Rockey
Mountain Husbandman with
view to encourage the home
builder.
In 1876 the late Adison Smith,
at that date the leading news
writer, travelling editor of the
Helena Independent, having spent
few days among the miners of
Confederate Gulch in the late
summer, when we were preparing
to launch the farm paper, wrote us
from Centerville to abandon the
venture. You can't make it
win," said he, Montana is
mineral country"
Others said: I'VE of Montana
cannot compete with the great
states of Iowa, Illinois and Missouri
when the railway erea dawns.'.
They said if ever it does these
great states will drive Montana
farmers to the wall. But we said
agriculture must become the par
amount industry or the country,
will, in time, become depopulated
as has Nevada.
From gold hunting population
The Harlowton news. [volume] (Harlowton, Mont.) 1909-1914, 1911-10-20
BUCKS FOR SALE

$50 head full blood RambOulet
Bucks. Address
Walter Brown,
Is Harlowton, Mont.
The Harlowton news. [volume] (Harlowton, Mont.) 1909-1914, 1911-10-20
A Few Good
Suggestions
Sow as Early as Possible---
Plant the Seed in Rows---Cut
When tWo-thirds of Pod
S Have Turned Brown

The comparative smallness OF
alfalfa seed and the persistency of
native sod, suggests the necessity
of very careful preparation of the
seed bed before dry land alfalfa is
planted. The practice of seeding
this crop on new breaking has not
brought success, either in getting
a good stand the first year, or in
profitable yields during succeeding
years. The land ought to be
plowed at least twice and should
receive considerable surface till
lage in addition.
Tor the farmer who wishes to
get alfalfa storted as quickly as
possibly on new land, the follow
ing method of soil management,
carefully followed, ought to put
the seed bed into good condition.
Plow during the spring or early
summer, to depth of five to six
inches, and double disk the land
Immediately behind the plow.
Through July and August keep
the surface stirred to keep down
the weeds, and to maintain the
moisture conserving mulch. Dur
ing the latter part of August or the
early part of September, Turkey
Red fall wheat may be sown, or
the field may be allowed to remain
until spring and seeded to some of
the spring crops like flax, hulless
barley, macaroni wheat, or early
oats. The following spring the
stubble land should be plowed and
carefully worked down. Before
this second blowing. which should
be very thoroughly done, the soil
ought to be in good condition, and
the native sod fully subdued. The
land should then be allowed to lie
without crop and handled under
a system of intelligent summer
tillage. The weeds should be
kept down and a loose mulch es-
tablished on the surface after
every wet period. This summer
tillage accumulates moisture for
the succeeding year and establish
es favorable conditions for making
available the plant food in the
soil.
On the dry land, alfalfa should
be seeded as early as the soil is
in condition to cultive, the spring
after the summer tillage just men
toned. From 8 to 10 pounds a
or 5 quarts) of seed should be put
down to moisture, and no nurse
crop should be planted. Seeding
dry land alfalfa with a press drill
hastens termination by packing
the moist soil close around the
seed. On such land the seed
should never be sown broadcast.
CARE OF GROWING CROP.
During the first season the
your alfalfa field should be cut
over to keep down the weeds and
encourage deep roofing in the crop.
To rsm the mower over the field
when the alfalfa is 8 to 10 inches
high, and allow the hay crop to
lie on the ground as protection to
the root crowns, is helpful to the
young crop. No hay should be
taken from the field the first year,
and the first seasons crop should
not be pastured off.
Commencing the second spring,
and during each succeeding sea-
con tho fold should ho douhlo
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-19

therefore, that II the laura" can be
made visible, 1t will be seen In the case
Of dying person to fade and vanish.
II will, In the words Of the Chicago OBJ
server. spread from the body and dis
appear, and further observation Of the
corpse will reveal no sign OF 1t, just as
examination would reveal no sign OF
bodily heat or beating Of the pulse. To
say that 1t is the spirit, and that its dis
appearance is the flight Of life is, how
ever, to verge upon the fantastic. The
laura" Is not the spirit, nor the current
Of life, nor the guiding power, but a
product thereof no less physical In orr
gin and character than the warmth
which radiates from the body or the
perspiration. which exudes In visible
liquid drops upon the skin. The physi-
cal perception Of the laura" is an inter-
esting and ingenious achievement, which
may have no little practical value, but
Il is In no sense a revelation Of the soul
or a discovery Of the ultimate secret OF
human life.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-19
EMPEROR OPENS REICHsRATH
Austrian Kaiser, 81 Years Old, Reads
Speech in Strong, Clear Voice.

Vienna, July ls.-Emperor Francis Joseph
opened the Reichsrath at the Hofburg to-
day with the customary ceremonial The
archdukes were present. and there was q
large gathering from both the upper and
lower house.
The speech from the throne which the
Emperor, despite mis- eghty-one years,
read In a strong. clear voice, showing no
trace OF his recent illness emphasized the
necessity for the immediate reorganization
Of the army to make good the deficiencies
OF the past and TO keep pace with the
development of military forces, which is
progressing rapidly everywhere"
The blessing OF peace" said his ma
Jesty. continues assured TO Austria Hun
gary by her intimate relations with her
allies, which are unalterably cordial, as
well as by the friendly relations which the
monarchy is cultivating with all the row.
ers.'
The necessity for the creation OF new
financial resources was mentioned, also the
fact that an Appropriation would be made
for the development OF foreign commerce.
The Emperor made an earnest eXhortation
in favor OF the cessation OF factional strife
and the establishment Of a working agree
ment between the CZechs and the German
Liberals OF the ReichsIath
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-19
THE TUBES AND THE SUBWAY
Greater Heat in the Latter Attributed
to Operating Conditions.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: The strongest arguments are put UP
against the Interborough by those who
know little or nothing about modern rali'
reading and by those who have mania
for ignoring facts. James F. Morton, IT.,
whose letter appeared in The T5oune OF
July a. argues that the heat IN the SUD-
way and the cool air in the tubes repre-
sent something OF the difference between
the two companies in their regard tor 'he
welfare OF their patrons.
The heat IN the subway Is generated by
the friction and intensified by the high
speed of the thousands Of motors worKins
beneath the trains. and by the friction OF
the many brake shoes on the many wheeIs'
The trains cannot push out the heated air
because the subway is not built on the
singleton principle.
The tubes are protected from the heat
OF the suns rays by the waters OF the Hud-
son and by the Sixth avenue elevated
structure. The tubes do not 'un trains
of a great length. a fewness OF cars being
run means a fewness OF motors being al
work, and that, combined with lowness
OF speed. means an absence OF great neat
Trains in tubes have the same enec' as
pistons In pushing out the heated air ahead
of them and drawing in the cooled air be-
hind them
When we take into consideration the
heated and crowded conditions In the SUD-
way we can very easily see why therc
should be more III feeling between the
heated subway employees and the heateo
subu,av natrons than between the cooled
tube employees and the cooled TUBE pa
irons HENRY DOWLINu MIME
New York July II. 1911
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-19
RdDTY HXED.

The Senate Democrats who voted for
the campaign publicity bill, as enlarged
and strengthened in the upper house, in
nocently contributed to an exposure OF
| the inconsistency Of the Democratic
party's attitude toward the regulation
OF corrupt practices in the election Of
Senators as well as Representatives.
/ The Democrats in the House protested
when the publicity bin Of 1910 was
passed that it did not go far enough.
They wanted a stringent federal law
restricting the use of money In the cleo
ton of members of the two branches,
and charged the Republican Senate with
unwillingness TO close the door against
corruption and excessive expenditure In
the choice Of members Of the national
Legislature by drastic use OF federal
power.
But when the Democratic minority in
the House Of Representatives became
majority ii not only refused to
bring primary elections within the
scope of a corrupt practices and pub
litlig Dllls HNl oAtillALNNu az
t. the federal Constitution intended TO
extinguish the power of the nation
al government to regulate the proc
esses by which members Of Congress
are chosen, SO far as the Senate is con-
cerned. Seven Southern Senators re-
fused Oh Monday TO vote for the
amended bill, because they realized that
10 do so would make ridiculous their
contention that state primaries should
not be interfered with and that the fed
eral government should surrender en-
tire control Of Senate elections 70 the
states But seventeen others unblush-
ingly disregarded the arguments which
they had made against a modification
Of the House amendment for the direct
election of Senators which would leave
the power Of federal supervision unim-
paired.
Mr.. Bacon and Mr.. Bailey recently
had controversy in the Senate over the
question whether. If the control Of Senate
elections were to be vested exclusively in
tie states. Congress could pass pub
Lefty and corrupt practices legislation
affecting the choice Of Senator's. Mr.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-19
PROMISE AND FULFILMENT.

When Governor Dix was urging the
reorganization of the State Highway
Commission he objected that the old
system was unbusinesslike. What was
needed was a single administrator, as
ISOLATED with commission whose func-
tlons would be solely advisory. The
single administrator was TO he the best
road builder" to he found anywhere In
the country. What the state has got
as a result of the reorganization, how
ever is something vastly different from
what the Governor promised. The adj
ministrative head Of the department is
seventy years old, has had a limited
experience In road construction, Is GER
tainly not an expert in 1t, and Is far
from being the best road builder to be
found anywhere.
Mr.. Catlin owes his appointment, ac-
cording to the general understanding,
To the state Engineer and Surveyor, a
member of the advisory commission,
whose functions are something more
than advisory. Thus the control Of the
advisory COQuliSSIOu, WllCu IL "do SAit
would remain in the hands Of the Gov
ernor through its having OH it two of
the Governors appointees, passes over
TO the state Engineer and Surveyor,
through his having his creature asso-
ciated with him on it; and the real
control Of the administration Of high
ways will pass into the same hands.
The Governors speeches and mos
sages advocating bis reform totally mis-
represented his purpose, if he had when
lie made them any such purpose as that
which he has just carried out. Why
wasn't what has been done done hon
estly and directly by an act in terms
turning over the building Of highways
t. the State Engineer and Surveyor,
without all the hUmbug about the
greatest road builder" eXtant, single
headed administration and advisory
commissions?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-19

"a result which, moreover, does not con-
Germ him alone If the inquiry is 10 emo
here, 1t Is of general public Importance
that judgment shall be rendered which
can be appealed to. which VIII De dc
cisive and which will shut the mouths
of those who, having failed to produce
their proofs, would like to continue theii
insinuations.
If the Committee on Rules Is ready
to render such a judgment, 1t Will be
well to have the incident promptly
closed in that way. If not, thorough
going investigation ought to be ordered
Nobody, ard least Of all Mr.. Williams,
wants the affair to disappear In cloud
OF uncertainty which would encourage
Mr.. Sulzer and his friends to hope that
another time they might be lucky enough
to draw lightning.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-19
PERSONALITIES NOT NECESSARY

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The argument chiefly used In Con-
gress and elsewhere against DR. Wlley's
able work In protecting the health and
strength OF this nation is that preservatiyes
are necessary 10 assure the keeping quail
ties Of food prepared for future con-
sumption.
The Montclair q. j. Jam kitchens.
which started in lS99-some years before
the food laws were enacted-have never
used and never will use personalities, sub
sttutes or adulterants OF any kind. They
simply put UP fruit. etc, now as on the
day they started in the home kitchen OF
their present proprietor, just in the plain
homemade way OF absolute pureness, and
have never had any appreciable loss or
trouble from the products not keeping.
These kitchens will gladly testify that
preservatiyes are not necessary and that
any form OF substitution. combination or
adulteration I'm food is fraud and harm
TO the public Their example has been
most helpful in the fight for pure food. and
now they urge every one to uphold Or.
Wiley and what he represents at this
particular time. when that support Is
needed and will count. II. c. DODGE.
Montclar, n. j., July II, 1911.