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Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1917-01-05

east and thought that an excellent
opportunity. He was informed that
be was 20 years late for his train.
Butte-A movement for consolida-
ton of city and county
mas been started by Neal A. Ward,
city treasurer, as a solution of the
financial difficulty in prospect with
the city greatly expanding in popula-
ton, but with the assessed valuation
only slightly increased. If the new
attorney general carries out his
threat to close the restricted district,
the city will lose a yearly license re-
venue from this ource alone of $780,
600.
Helena-The bounty system for ex-
terminating predatory animals will
never be a success because bounty
hunters always work before the.
animals are all killed off so that they
can gather a crop of pelts and boun-
ties the following year, writes E. W.
Nelson, chief OF the biological sur
vey of the department agriculture.
to D. w. Raymond, secretary of the
state board of stock commissioners.
Mr.. Nelson points out Montana has
expended over $4,000, 900 in bounties
during the past Is years and preda-
tory animals are still a menace.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1917-01-05
TREASURE STATE FARM AND LIVESTOCK
Montana Remarkably Free
of Liue Stock Diseases

The annual report of the state vet
Urinary surgeon, w. j. Butler, has
just been issued and one cannot read
it without being impressed with the
fact that Montana livestock is re-
markably free of diseases. Accord
ing to the report the status of the
various diseases which attack live
stock in Montana is about as follows:
Dourine has been practically eradi-
Gated. Chambers is seldom found on
range animals and is confined to
three localities, where it was intro
duced by contractors horses shipped
in on railroad grade and irrigation
construction work. Out of S,965
cattle tested for tuberculosis only rs
reactors were found and these were
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1917-01-05
IRRIGATION OF SPRING
WHEAT; SOME RESULTS
SOME EXPERIMENTS BY WHICH
THE FARMER MAY PROFIT
Yield Is Decreased by Irrigating Be-
fore the Grain Is Seeded; Heaviest
Yield Results From Irrigation at
Five Leaf Stage.

The Utah experiment station has
recently published the results of four
years experimenting in various WAYS
of irrigating spring wheat. The ex-
periments were conducted on a deep
loan soil in a locality where the ay-
erage rainfall for the four years was
17.S inches. These conditions are
closely approached in many of our
Montana spring wheat districts and
the results obtained by the Utah
experiments should be of value to
many Montana grain growers in the
irrigated sections. Briefly summar-
lied the results are as follows:
The Best Results.
b highest yield of wheat was
produced with three irrigations, each
of five acre inches of water, the first
applied when the plants had five
leaves, the second during the early
boot stage, and the third during the
bloom stage.
2. The yield was decreased by ir.
rigating before the grain was seeded
before 1t was up, or during the dough
stage.
8. Where only one irrigation was
given, the best time was found to he
while the plants were at the five.
leaf stage.
4. Where two irrigations are to be
given. they should be applied at the
five-leaf and the boot stage.
B.. When three irrigations were Civ.
en-, the five leaf staso, the boo
and the bloom stages were best.
6. Water applied during early
growth increased it's height more
than that applied at any other time
The Harvest Yield.
Z. The heaviest grain to the bush.
ell was produced on ground irrigated
at the five leaf stage, the early boot
and when the plants were in the
dough stage.
8. The number of kernels in each
head is decidedly increased by early
irrigation and influenced but little By
late ~irrigations. This is contrary tc
the popular idea held by many farm,
ers that irrigating at heading time
increases the number of kernels IL
the head.
8. The date of ripening is retard.
ed by excessive or late irrigation.
10. During the four years of the
experiment from 75 to 95 pei cent O.
the yield under the various system.
tried was produced by the natura'
precipitation.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1917-01-05

Maybe the reason why women get
off street cars that way is because
their clothes button up the back.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1917-01-05

What has become of the old-fash-
toned man who referred to women as
the female sex?
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1917-01-05
.UNSCRUPULOUS DEALERS
SELL 7. B. LIVE STOCK
BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY
TO PROTECT PURCHASERS.
Has Established What Is Known as
Tuberculosis Free Accredited
Herds; Montana Livestock Sani-
tary Board Co-operates.

Montana stockmen who have
bought pure bred cattle from eastern
states have occasionally suffered con-
siderable loss by introducing tubercu-
losis into their herds through such
importations, even though the cattle
were bought subject to the tubercu-
lin test. This could happen because
it is a well-known fact that animals
which may be in an advanced stage of
tuberculosis, or animals which have
just previously been inoculated with
tuberculin, may not react to the test.
In other words it rs possible for an
INSCRIPTIONS dealer to inject tubercu-
lin into an animal he is offering for
sale and thus plug it so it will pass
an official tubercuIin test. For this
reason the indiscriminate buying OF
breeding cattle on the open market
is dangerous.
Free Accredited Herds.
To insure safety in obtaining pure
bred sires and dams the United States
bureau of animal industry acting in
cooperation with several states has
established what are known as "tu-
berculosis free accredited herds" To
obtain classification in such a herd
the owner must sign an agreement tc
have his herd tested and maintained
in accordance with certain regu'a-
tions proposed by the bureau of ami
NAL industry or by the state authori-
ties. The advantages of the breeder
are that he gets good advertising by
having his name published in an of
ficial pamphlet and his herd CLASH
fled therein as a tuberculosis free
accredited herd-A1." There is also
an advantage in that most states &C
cept shipments from such herds fol
interstate shipments without a re
test at time of shipment.
Montana Co-Operates.
In Montana the livestock sanitary
board is cooperating with the bureau
of animal industry in testing and es-
%tablishing such herds. Copies of the
agreement which the owner must
sign can be obtained by writing the
state veterinary surgeon at Helena.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1917-01-05

only in herds recently shipped into
the state. Contagious abortion is
present in Montana, but undoubtedly
to a less extent that in eastern states.
Blackleg is the most serious prob
lem that confronts the state veterin-
airy surgeon at the present time. Dur
ing 1916, 1896 doses of blackleg
vaccine were distributed. No serious
outbreaks of hog cholera have oc-
Cured in Montana during the past
year.
Doctor Buffers report also contains
an. article by DR.. H. G. Gardiner on
"a New Feed Rack for Winter Feed"
an account of "Cattle Lice in Mon
tana," by R. A. Corley and R. R.
Parker, and a paper on Contagious
Abortion" by Doctor Butler.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1917-01-05
Line 1876 Miles Long.

The new line will be 1856 miles
long and will give Miles City a d.
rect connection with Chicago by way
of either Sioux City or Omaha over
the Northwestern" The benefit of
this shortening of the route to the
great central market is one that will
be greatly appreciated by the live
! stock shippers. =
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1917-01-05
Montana 10 Operates.
T
ODDITIES

Down in the southeastern corner
of Montana lear the inland town of
Ekalaka is a wierd freak of nature
known as the Medicine Rocks. These
are tall cubical rock formations re-
sembling buildings In size and shape
and spread out in orderly array
along a high ridge. The wind and
weather have worn holes along the
sides of the rocks and in some places
blown holes entirely through them.
The result is that the great rocks
look for all the world like human
habitations and in the distance, seen
across miles of open prairie, the Me-
dicine Rocks are easily and excusably
mistaken for a city. The rocks got
their curious name from the Indians
who in the early days came here to
make medicine"
u y y
In Rosebud county there is an "ice
we'll" where ranchers can get ice the
year round. Almost as fast as the
ice is chopped out by the neighboring
ranchers, new ice forms.
Over on the head OF the Redwate1
to the north of Miles City was an ole
Indian cemetery, the graves being il
the air instead of in the ground. The
cemetery was destroyed years ago by
cowboys who set fire to the scaffoldl
because they declared that the cattle
were being killed from rubbinf
against the poles which gave wa!
and precipitated the heavy bundle,
containing the dead and their belong
ings on the stock. One cowboy VIII
is now a retired cattleman and wa
present at the holocaust says the,
obtained many elk teeth furnished
green and other Indian gewgaw
that today would be considered valu
able.
On the Fort Keogh Military Re
serve neal Miles City is what is local
ly known as the Heart Arch-a hug
monolith shaped like a triumpha
archway and underneath which
team could drive. 1t is covered wit
the carved initials of hundreds O
soldiers of the frontier days.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1917-01-05
BELLEFOURCHE
LINE SURVEYED
GRADING AND LAYING OF STEEL
is TO BEGIN EARLY
IN THE SPRING.
Livestock Shipments From Eastern
Montana Will Be Shortened by Sew
eral Hours; 6,753,2SO Acres i'm
Area That Will Be Directly Bene-
fitted; West Terminal Miles City.

The survey of the B~ellefourche and
Northwestern railroad between Belle
fourche, South Dakota, and Miles
City, Montana, has been completed
and it is expected that the grading
and the laying of the ste | will begin
early in the spring. This road will
give eastern Montana a competitive
line by way of the Chicago & North
western for it's eastern outlet and
will shorten the route for livestock
shipments by severeg hours.
The territory to be served is a
great irregular triangle in Montana,
Wyoming and South Dakota, COM
prising 1882 square miles-6.753,
$50 acres-that will be closer to the
new railway than any existing line.
1t includes forest reserves, rich val
ley lands, rolling bench lands that
will be the future grain fields of the
state, unlimited coal resources, nat
ural gas fields that are now being
prospected along Powder river, graz
ing land and irrigated lands, the
whole watered by numerous streams.
Land to Be Better Utilized.
While enough farming has been
carried on in the past in this belt to
demonstrate that there is no more
fertile spot in the entire northwest,
it's inacccessibility has prevented ex-
tended farming operations with the
result that thousands of acres of ex-
cellent grain lands have been utilized
merely for pasturing. With the
coming of the railroad the tillable
land will be used for more profitable
purposes and the stockmen will have
less distance to traverse in reaching
a shipping point.
The Bellefourche e Northwestern
will connect with the South Dakota
terminal of the Chicago & Northwest
ern and it is generally supposed to
be a branch of that road. The tenn
porary directorate is composed of the
following: H. F. Albers, Miles City;
Harry Mills, New Haven, Conn; w.
D. Walker, Boston; John Sutherland,
, Pierre, South Dakota; Byron S
Payne, Pierre, South Dakota; S. M
: Culbertson, Minneapolis; L. A. De-
Belloy, Camp Crook, s. d.
Line 1876 Miles Long.
The new line will be 1856 miles
= long and will give Miles City a di
: rect connection with Chicago by way
e of either Sioux City or Omaha ovel
I Al sgkY1,4 MI. .-e -
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1917-01-05

In Rosebud county there is an ''ice
we'll" where ranchers can get ice the
year round. Almost as fast as the
ice is chopped out by the neighborint
ranchers, new ice forms.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1917-01-05
An Ominous Outlook.

Sabbath School Teacher. - What
made King Nebuchadnezzar eat
grass?
Skinny Simpson-The high cost OF
living, I reckon. And, according to
what my uncle says, we'll all have to
come to it by spring. Uncle Skin vot-
ed for Hughes, and don't see any
hope for anything.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-10-25

beat you to it. She jest expire tree
weeks ago. Much oblige, Youres wild
respeck, Pete La Than.
& 4 z
The spirit of democracy cannot be
held down. Now Scotchman named
Capt. Ian Hay Beth prints little
book demanding home rule for Eng
land. He shows that the premier is
Welshman, that the army is COM
manded by Scotchman at the front
and another Scotchman as chief of
the general staff in London, that the
navy is under command of a Scot,
that the foreign secretary is Scot,
the chancellor of the exchequer and
the lord chancellor, while the first lord
of the admiralty is an Irishman. Eng
land, he thinks, should have home rule
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-10-25

A ND talking about next years
campaign, don't forget that little
Joker was added TO the war tax bill
which provided that the salaries of
members of congress and government
officials should be exempted from the
special income tax. SO, if your par
ticular member of congress doesn't
mention this tax, it might pay to ask
him if he didn't vote tax on some
body else that he also voted to escape
himself.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-10-25

A N American soldier of the regular
army, who went to France in June
assaulted a French girl, was tried
convicted and sent back in disgrace
across the ocean to serve a term in
the federal prison at Leavenworth,
1t is asserted that no Belgian girl
above II years old had escaped as
sault by German soldiers, the crimes
being winked at by the officers, and
apparently by all kaiserdom. That's
the boosted German "kultur" which
would enslave the world. Who says
this is mot our war;" A man who
would stand by and see drunken
bully slap woman and kick children
into the street and do nothing because
il was "not his FUSS" would earn the
contempt of every man worthy the
name. II certainly is our war, and it
bids fair, please God, to enlist every
nation on earth against the infamous
German confederacy until it is bucked
and gagged for all time
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-10-25
CURRENT COMMENT.

WHY buy a Liberty bond? First,
because it is the act of loyal
citizen. The nation calls upon every
citizen to buy as many Liberty bonds
as he can carry. Second, because the
more Liberty bonds are bought the
sooner war will come TO an end. Let
every hanger-back get it out of his
head that America is going to quit in
this war. Third, because it is easy
to buy Liberty bond. Not having
the money is not an excuse for not
doing citizens duty. Provisions
are all made to enable persons with
out cash to buy and pay for Liberty
bonds on small, easy installments.
Fourth, because it is the safest in
vestment ever offered This is an
investment suitable TO trustees, guar
dams and administrators of other peo-
pies property. That is, 1t is an in
vestment specially characterized by
safety. Fifth, because it is a paying
investment, high interest guaranteed,
tax exempt and certain to go to a
high future premium. What are the
contrary reasons-for not buying a
Liberty bond? There are none. They
are only the feeble excuses of heed
lessness and slackerism, and every
body at work, periodically, giving his
own time freely to helping Uncle Sam,
knows that they are the excuses of
needless slackerism.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-10-25

TT makes no difference if Idaho did
vote for Wilson because che kept
us out of war;" no candidate can be
elected next year in Idaho on any
ticket who has preamble in his plat
form regretting that we finally got
into the war.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-10-25

THERE has always been class Of
earnest folks who thought the gov
eminent ought to make money and
loan it to the people. Whenever it
comes to the rub, though, we find that
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-10-25

If your children are subject to Group
get bottle Of Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy, and when the attack comes
on be careful to follow the plain print
ed directions. You will be surprised
at the quick relief which it affords.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-10-25
TALES OF TOWN
FILE THREE


("General Pershing stopped in his
walk, turned sharply and faced File
Three. London dispatch.)
File Three stood motionless and pale,
OF nameless pedigree;
One of hundred on detail
But would | had been he!
In years youth, but worn and old,
With face. of ivory;
Upon his sleeve two strands of gold
Oh, would | had been hel
The general passed down the line,
And walked right rapidly,
But saw those threads and knew the
sign
All, had I been File Threel
"Twice wounded? Tell me where you
were,"
The man of stars asked he.
"Givenchy and Lavenze, sir
Oh, where was |, File Three
Then crisply quoth the general:
"You are a man, File Three"
And Tommy's heart held carnival
God! Would | had been he!
Chicago Tribune.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-10-25
WHEN an expert, now Justice
Brandeis, told the Interstate Com

WHEN an expert. now Justice
Brandeis, told the Interstate Com.
merce Commission that American
railroads could save 1865 million dol
lars a year by more efficient methods
railroad managers only smiled. Judge
Brandeis was not speaking at random
however, as subsequent events have
shown. Now another expert, G. G..
Huebner, professor of transportation
and commerce in Pennsylvania uni
versity, declares that 200 millions
more can be saved every year by the
patrons of railroads in loading cars to
reasonable capacity. Great results
have been produced this summer, as
the railroad reports show, by the re-
Spouse of many shippers to the APP
peal of the government to load cars
with greater consideration to economy
and efficiency, instead of with regard
exclusively to their own convenience.
More than 200 million dollars year
are wasted, Prof. Huebener says, be-
cause of the undertaking of freight
cars. Shippers and railroads are now
cooperating so satisfactorily that it
is estimated that last month good
loading caused an Improvement equiv
alent to adding 10000 cars to the
of this country.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-10-25
THERE is always hope for the mos

THERE is always hope for the most
restless soul. A new political par
ty was recently organized in Chicago.
1t is supposed to be combination of
prohibitionists, independents, pro-
gressives, single takers, social dem
ocrats and others. An outfit like that
will have to have a platform 200 miles
square.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-10-25

THIS government is assuming war
debt of Il billion dollars. Twenty
one thousand times million dollars
is greater sum than the common
mind can grasp or appreciate. This
is a debt upon the American people.
Assuming that there are 100 million
people in the United States, it is an
average of 500 to each individual.
Assuming that the average family
consists of five people, it is $l050 up
on each family. The average family
bread winner is obligated to that ex-
tent. As a matter of national justice
Germany, who has forced this war
upon us, should be required to in
demnify us in the amount of Il bill
lion dollars when the conditions of
peace are named. But Germany is
already bankrupt and can no more
pay their damage that in justice
should be demanded of her than she
can restore the lives of those slaugh-
tered by her wrongs, repair the shat
tered bodies, or alleviate the sorrows
she has caused.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-10-25

THE real skin game being practicec
in America today is in cow skins
America is paying from two to three
legitimate prices for shoes and every
thing else made of leather. The wom-
ems shoes, for which prices ranging
from $40 to SIS are being asked, to-
day are being manufactured at cost
of probably $3.50 to SO pair. The
United Shoe Machinery company,
which, absolutely controls the shoe
manufacturing business of this coun-
try, is prohteering to an extent never
before conceived by the widest
dreamer in the shoe trade The
French government is manufacturing
and selling at about So shoes that
cost as much to make as any of these
high priced shoes. And this is being
done in France, where there isn't one
cowhide to where there are thou
sand in this country. But don't
blame the retail shoe dealer. He's
as helpless in the clutches of the few
who control shoe manu-
featuring as is the public.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-10-25
THE United States has raised it

THE United States has raised its
armed forces in two ways: by
selective CONSUMPTION and by volun-
tary enlistment. The government is
likewise financing the war in two
ways: by CONSUMPTION and by volun-
teer loans. Conscriptive financiering
has taken the form of heavy excess
taxation, which touches every bust
ness and industry in the land. In
raising huge amounts by loans, how
ever, the government depends entirely
on the volunteer spirit. No man is
compelled to buy Liberty bonds. The
government is not endeavoring to OBJ
tain loans by compulsion. 1t simply
states the case and assumes that
American citizens will do the rest.
What man can look his neighbor in
the face if that neighbor has given
a volunteer son to the cause but he
himself has not loaned dollar? What
human being in this great crisis of
humanity, when all that men hold dear
is at stake, can lock his money in a
vault and decline TO invest a part of
it in the great enterprise on which
we have embarked? 1t is. indeed,
monstrous that a personal appeal
should be required in the cases of so
many persons who ought to come for
ward Of their own accord and buy
bonds. Mr. Citizen, when your chill
dren ask you what you did during
the great war, will you be content
TO say that you did nothing that the
government did not compel you to
doy This is the closing week of the
Liberty loan campaign. There is no
longer time for hesitancy. The dol
lars must begin TO come out of their
hiding places in far greater volume
II Gem county is to raise its quota.
Have you done to your patriotic duty! |
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-10-25

the people have to make the money
and loan it to the government.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-10-25

RUT don't let your patriotism end
with the buying of $50 Liberty
bond. II you do the war is going to be
long one. Wars are not won when
the patriots all demand per cent
interest on their labors.