The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1920-12-24
Farm Bureau
Notes

chased one of the bull calves of F. l.
Chouinard and is now on the market
for two registered Aberdeen Angus
heifers. Mr.. Seaman surely has the
right idea. Good stock and feed crops
and a silo and Valley County is as
good a place to live in as you can
find. The Farm Bureau is helping Mr..
Seaman make the purchase of the two
heifers.
The Bergtall Brothers of Opheim
purchased the other bull calf Of Mr..
Chouinard. Mr.. Bergtall made a splen-
did purchase which greatly improves
his herd.
c. Nelson of Baylor purchased the
her sire of Mr.. Chouinard and thus
greatly added to his herd and insures
him of much greater profit in years to
come. There is nothing that beats
good stock on a farm.
ga good sire is over half the herd"
Let us start now to put the scrub
sire out of business in Valley County.
All of them, stock, horses, hogs, and
chickens clear down the line. The
Farm Bureau is going to make a list
in the spring of farmers using regis
tered sireS and publish it, the same as
we are with the growers of pure seed
grains.
Otto Hagberg and Frank j. Zurn
are both owners CT new registered
shorthorn sires. A change was nee
esSary so these two men exchanged
%sires, thus keeping the two sires in
the community and continually i'm
proving their herds. These two men
get the value of two sires for the
price of one.
These are the days of cooperation
and it pays.
Each community could go together
and buy two or three sires and change
them around in this way and the use
of a registered sire would cost very
little.
Remember that six top crosses gives
a high grade of 63-64, not much of the
old "Dogue" left.
war on the Scrub Sire"
Rogers and Smith bought the White
owned by Melvin Henry
to herd their herd.
Wild Rose Community had a 7
community Thanksgiving din
ner at the Wild Rose school. If tables
groan those tables sure did and
it was contagious because after dinner
every one present was grooming.
The County Agent gave a Farm Bu-
leau talk after dinner which was fol-
lowed with the election of the follow
ing officers:
Phil Evarts, chairman; H. C. Clyde,
Nlce-Chairman; and Mrs. ID. McVee,
secretary and treasurer. At the meet
.ng ten new members were secured.
Nels Cotton purchased a new Ross
lnsllage cutter with which to fill his
silo. Nels has the complete outfit now.
is hoping he will have a couple
Of silos to fill next year besides his
own.
Does corn pay? 1t does and better
still on a large scale. Mr.. Peter Peter
son with his large field of nearly 100
acres is making it pay. Mr.. Peterson's
corn is averaging nearly two ton to
the acre and people come to the field
for the feed. Mr.. Peterson is making
haul it away at $1,000 per ton
more clear money off his corr than off
wheat at present prices. And think
again of that field being already for
the drill in the spring. With that ar
rangement Mr.. Peterson can put in
his crop in the spring with very little
outside help. Mr.. Peterson is satisfied
with hesults and will hit the corn
heavy another year. Corn land is go
ing to help us solve our summer fall
low problem. 1t will make us till the
ground earlier in the spring, keep it
and pay us for the work and
give practically as good returns mex:
wear as straight summer fallow
would.
"Ten acres or more of corn on every
farm in Valley County" ought to be a
good motto.