The Daily Missoulian., 1913-08-18
MILK PAIL AND BUTTER PADDLE

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0 of
above quoted which appeared several Montana
last week tells wonderful story to the people OF these irrigated
valleys
be bad idea print this little in big type
and the office the secretary of chamber OF COM
merce, in every in the state.
It should be pasted in the note book of every local booster and
called the of high school principal
and professor of political in every state educational
1t should be framed hung in the bedroom of farmer
who piece of irrigated land in these mountain valleys
When hear complaining of hard times and slack
business call to his attention the facts forth in the little news
and forever his mind the OF most OF the
ills of which he complains
Local chambers of have planned and dreamed of indc
manufacturers to locate their plants their towns SO as to build
up pay roll but these plans nneynine times in hundred
have vanished in this air The mmutab law Of economies in most
be compelled under the high scale and short hours
prevailing here Montana and then be compelled to sell their pro
The truth is that we have expended much energy considerable
induce manufacturers to locate midst We have largely over
looked the industry wherein Montana compete with the world
That s39ooooo worth of have
last by the people of this great agricultural state for
their while selling hay from six to ten dollars
per sixty per bsh delivered
the railroad track terrible indictment of our own stupidity and
That state which produces the highest tonnage Of the
most nutritious nay IN the world and boasts 1a ave highest
Of any i'll the union should stand indicted for pro
cheese consumed BY its people, puts il ridiculous attitude
Why farmers should continue raise hay that nets them from
eight dollars ton in the stack when the same hay can
would Of more than
twenty dollars ton of the questions that no one seems ready
TO answer
Montana farmers should continue hard wheat
and the Minneapolis milling trust for sixty cents per
bshe energy yield the cash
if expended in making butter fat nomprehensible
There of irrigated hay land in the five valleys ceneng
Msoa produce pound Of the eleven million pounds Of
butter and cheese that last bought by from the farmers of
other states.
wealthy retired Iowa farmer told the writer Of his expert
farmer in that state He said so long we raised hay
sold from farms remained When
changed from grain farmers oraisers and commenced feed
hay and the farm and sell the livestock became fairly
weltoo But when finally learned the of turning all
hay and grain into butter fat, we all became rich
cooperative that have been operating the Bitter
Root valley for the past few years have preached daily sermons on
industry thrift and political the farmers of that valley
that Immediate lsfborood little more than one hundred thou
sand dollars in cash There enough irrbe land in the Bitter
Fenchown valley with wonderful hay lands could easily
maintain six six eight srea"er The askf9ot valley can easily 4l
Fhnad reservation vaev when the great irritation project now
compeon finally completed will be Of the greatest
hay and grain sections in the entire northwest Twenty creamees
be maintained there that would distribute two million dollars
Dairy farming instead mpovershins the soil enrlees it. The
continual cropping to wheat had exhausted oea OF the natural sup
ply Of phosphate the rich soil of Iowa Nebraska Kansas and the
oakoas and had reduced the wheat yield acre practically one
entire change Of for their financial salvation
They finally turned to dairy farming and with the return to the
soil of the phosphate and nitrogen from their dairy barns that had
formerly been shipped with their wheat the
soil took life The cash doubled
and trcIled as against the old wheat growing days
We understand that and possibly two creamere
being organized here in Msoua They expect to draw their milk
supply from the nearby valley farms that close enough in touch
with the railroads to Ship their each day to the Moula fac
tory.
If the surplus hay and within radius Of thirty miles from
Mssoua that hunting market at low prices man"fac
td milk the farm the monthly roll to the farmers for
their butter fat alone would equal the monthly roll Of Butte
copper mine.
Here's the oten and the Jersey the hay stack and the
separator The day when the miners pick and shovel
Monanas coat of will place the milk pail and the
butter paddle,