The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1919-11-07

l KNOW Oh one OF Two LOCALITIES IL
i Montana where formerly the farmers
raised practically nothing but grain
!, and hay. Most often they owed big
store bills, and the mortgage seemed
always to grow. Finally they dubbed
together and established a crea- ry
and each OF the stockholders .ed
the purpose of supplying the creamery
These creameries were started five or
six years ago, and now most of those
farmers are milking quite few COWS.
The mortgage has dwindled and in
many cases no longer exists, and they
now. have balances at the store in
stead Of being debt on the first of
every month.
Minnesota and Wisconsin produce
annually more than $300,000,000 in
dairy products, and this fabulous sum
is distributed mostly to the small
farmers. No wonder they all have
automobiles and that the per capita
wealth of these states is so high, and
that Minnesota could recently afford
to bond the state for $s0,OO0,00O for
the purpose of building additional
good roads. Montana is just as well
adapted for dairying as are Wisconsin
and Minnesota. In fact, 1t is my OPP
inion that our native grasses are bett-
er suited to dairy cattle than the for
age crops of any other state in the
Union.
And in connection with the dairy
business in Montana, want to pay a
just tribute to our own Agricultural
College which, as we all know, is
located at Bozeman, in that most fav-
ored and fertile section, the Gallatin
Valley. This college has been ex-
perimenting for the past five or six
years with food plant known as the
giant Russian sunflower, and these
experiments have met with the most |
satisfactory and astounding results. |
I'm the first place, they have dis |
covered that cattle like the sunfiowers,
that the food agrees with them, and
that it stimulates the flow of milk
in dairy cows. A we'll known lawyer
of Hysham, in Treasure county, who,
by the way, is also farmer, and /
don't know wheather he practices
law to keep the farm going, or runs
the farm because the citizens of his
country are so peaceful and law abid-
ng, but at any rate, he is haising SUM-
lowers for his dairy herd and says
hat when he gives this feed to them
hey produce forty per cent more
milk. But the greatest and most i'm
,ortant part of this new food plant is
hat you can RAISEFROM TWENTY
FIVE TO FORTY TONS OF 1T PER
ACRE- No other plant in the world,
o far as know, will produce such
n enormous tonnage. When you
ompare this yield with four tons of
Italia per acre or two tons of timotyh
is easy to see the great importance
f this new food for cattle.
1T is raised in rows thirty inches
part and is worked just as you would n
orn. Sometimes it grows to a height e
Is feet. 1t is chopped up and plac- 5
in silo where it ferments and be- I
ONES to cattle what sauer kraut is a
} people. And speaking of silos and
lie fermentation which occure in
lem, | am told that some farmers
no have silos place barrel under
cath where the dripping occure and II
ter the barrel is filled, the liquid is
billed and makes a very tasty bever- II
&c, and that it has an old time kick o
it, but for fear that Ronald Higgins
Attorney General Ford might be u
'ound, I'll say no more on the sub a.
ct. N
This speech sounds like l Thought d
was talking to an audience of farm &c
was talking to an audience of farm
s, instead of the county Officials of
ontana in convention assembled n
aybe some of you are farmers or at =
asst agriculturalists. l was raised
a farm in Tennessee and Low live =.
Montana farm during the farming
Onths of the year. l am really an
nest to God farmer and I am proud
it, and when you gentlemen get
ok home, you will be doing your
nstituents a favor BY inducing them
plant few acres of sunf1owers
KIT spring.
And, now, my friends, in closing,
ain permit me to remind you that
e world problems today are econom- !
ones. You, county officials, with
ur ears close to the throbbing pull
8 OF this great state, must realize
is. The same careful thought that
needed in business ,1naA be brought
the solution OF our national, state
d sincerity which the owner gives
J private business must be devoted
public office.
We are faced by grim realities.
eorists may attract, but the real
siness man, who knows conditions,