The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-04-15
WILLIST0N FIRM
WANTS OUR CREAM
FARMERS CREAMERY WILL ES-
TABLISH CREAM STATION
HERE SOON
ENCOURAGE DAIRYING
Missouri Bottom Lands Will Become
Valuable for Alfalfa
Growing

The high price Of dairy products
is making competition keen among
creameries for the rather scanty
supply of cream that this section of
the Northwest produces. The cream
that the farmers of the Wolf Point
country have to sell is eagerly
sought for by numerous creameries
and produce companies, some of
them several hundred miles away.
This is a condition that should en-
courage cream production.
Last week Geo. Leonhardy was
here from Williston representing the
Farmers Creamery and Produce
Company of that place. The Willis
ton company is anxious to establish
a station here and secure the cream
that is produced in this territory.
Arrangements were partially com
pleted. After hard struggle in the
early years of its history, the Willis
ton creamery is now a thoroughly
established success. The past year
it handled large amount of cream
and produced high quality of but
ter and ice-cream. Stockholders in
the company received dividends that
made the butter fat marketed by
them bring better than 20 cents per
pound. The non-stockholder patrons
also received good dividends.
Alfalfa and Silos
In discussing the outlook for the
dairy business in this part of the
country, Mr.. Leonhardy put forth
some very optimistic views. He be-
lieves that the recent years of short
crops have had the effect of con-
vincing majority of the best farm
ers that the. COW is the farmers sal
walton. The increased acreage that
is being devoted to the growing of
corn and alfalfa and the adoption of
the silo method of saving feed tends
to insure greater success in dairy
ing. Mr.. Leonhardy says that the
river bottom land near Williston is
increasing in value and being
brought under cultivation and seed
ed to alfalfa. He believes that it is
a matter of only a few years until
all of the river bottom
and will be turned into alfalfa
ields, many of them irrigated. Mr..
.eonhardy is one of several men
Who own valuable bottom land about
hree miles from Williston and who
ire cooperating to develop a private
irrigation system, water to be pump
ID from the Missouri river by cleo
ric power received from the big
government power plant of the Will
iston project.
More Cows
Mr.. Leonhardy believes that sweet
lover is hay and pasture crop des-
ined to play an important part in
he stock and dairy business. The
alue of this plant is only beginning
0 be understood. The demand for
northwestern grown sweet clover
eed is enormous, and those in a
osition to produce seed are reaping
lch harvests. The Williston man
poke of one instance of which he
ad personal knowledge. An acre
sweet clover on bottom land
arm couple of miles from Willis
On produced "a bushels of seed that
Did for S21.00 bushel.
Mr.. Leonhardy agrees that the
me when pure bred livestock will
isplace the scrubs is rapidly ap-
reaching. He and his business as
'ciates are doing everything posi-
lie to encourage more and better
'ws on the farms. Many farmers
round Williston, he says, are find
e prosperity through cows and
ogs after meeting failure with
rain raising.