The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1919-06-27

conda Copper Mining company seven
miles from Corvallis in the Bitter
Root valley.
Celebrate in Glasgow
HALF MILLION DOLLARS
IN STATES LOAN FUND
More than half a million dollars
lie in the Golfers of Montana await
ing the demands Of farmers under the
provisions of the state farm loan law.
according to- figures made public by
Sidney Miller, register of state lands.
Loans amounting to 1921, 27O have
been made during the IS months in
which the law has been in operation,
Mr.. Miller's figures show, and other
loans amounting to $4,000 have been
approved and are awaiting final ar
engagements on the part of the bor-
roWers
When these pending loans have been
completed, more than 5000 900. in
state farm loans will have been made.
and MI. Miller predicts that the
amount will be $4,000, 900 by the end
of the year. This prediction is made
on the income Of S1,2S3, O2S.99 which
the state land department expects to
receive from rental of lands, interest
on deferred payments for land bought
by settlers, and return from invest
ments in bonds. This, added to the
$4,000, 600 already made and the $780,
900 available, makes more than his
estimate.
Total land grant permanent funds
on November 80, 1918, were S1S,264.-
S01.33, Mr.. Miller says, and to this
has been added a million dollars since
the first of the year. Bond invest
ments at that time totalled $G,043, no.
81, farm loans We're then $2,157, 603.-
81. Deferred payments on land con-
tracts reached $9,165,9 $3.50, and cash
with the treasurer was 1897, 557.15.
Income of Mr.. Miller's department
does not include interest on the &c.
043,710.27 of bonds bought with re-
NNIplo IIolH lIio 0IIlCC, lItlS gong llJO
the general fund.
Senator c. A. Whipple, state land
agent, makes the prediction that the
state land department will sell $2,000,-
600 worth of land this year.
celebrate in Glasgow
GUARD WHEAT AGAINST RATS.
The greatest wheat crop ever pro-
duced in America will soon be har-
vested. Grain elevators will 0 be-
come veritable treasures which thiey-
ing rats and mice will break into if
they can.
Don't feed 1926 wheat to rats and
mice, says the United States depart
ment OF agriculture. Traps, poison,
and rat-proof construction will stop
their raids.
The arch enemies of stored grain
are dampness and rodent pests-rats
and mice. An elevator with a leaky
roof is only a little worse than one
allowing free entry of rats and mice.
The present price of wheat makes a
telling appeal for rat-proof construc-
ton of wheat containers. Now is the
time to fill rat holes with cement or
cover them with sheet iron, and to
build new mouse-proof granaries of
either concrete or galvanized sheet
iron.
Where rats and mice have plenty
of food and are unmolested they null
tiply overwhelmingly. For example,
in Australia, during the great war,
sacks of wheat stacked in high piles
awaiting shipment, became infested
by mice which riddled the sacks and
destroyed a large part of the contents
before preventive steps were taken.
Under similar circumstances a like
result would inevitably occur in this
country. Where it is impracticable
to provide tight containers for stored
products steps should be taken immed-
lately to trap or poison rats and mice
in the general vicinity of storage
buildings, and should be continued till
the last bushel is disposed of.
Celebrate In Glasgow
STATE HAIL INSURANCE