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The Raymer enterprise., 1921-02-17
FOUND Bowser Pony gasoline
pump and a pressure tank for
acetylene lights, about January
goth. Notify Box 362 Raymer.
NOTICE ron PUBLICATION
(Publhhar)

Dspart1eat sf IL 1nteri1
U. 9. Land 0hes. 1t Starring. Colsrsdo.
January rs. 1921. \
Notice ; hereby given that Nelson Cue.
Of stoneham. Colorado. who. on December.
Is. 1917. made Homestead Entry. Serial No.
o2I2ss. for swhsEh. Section is. TOWNSHIP,
North. Range s. West. 9Th Principal Neri-
dian. has filed notice Of Intention to make
Final Three Year Proof. to establish eliam
70 the land above described. before the Reg.
ister and Receiver, United Stats Land
Office. on the 18th day Of March. 1871.
Claimant names - witnesses
Ed Nichols. and Thomas veith, Of Stone.
nam. Colorado. and Albert Smith and Sofa.
shel Albert Cue. Of stoneham, Colo. rs >,
thel Albert Cue. o. Sterling. Colo. rs =,
\ ? BROWNS. Register.
The Raymer enterprise., 1921-02-17
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY II, 1921

The old man leaves for Denver
again this week 10 see what is going
on at hearing before the Senate
committee on the County bill Ru-
mors are rife OF lot OF trouble that
has been stirred up. We hope for
the best, but we never know until
the vote Is taken.
The Raymer enterprise., 1921-02-17

Literary has been postponed until
next Thursday on accoutn OF tho
lecture course tomorrow night. .
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an Acre.

that there must be change. It seems
to me that the proof of the whole thing
lies in the debt paying ability, of the
men who are farming according to the
new method.
Scientific Farmers Independent.
OUR experience Has been that the
class of men who are farming prop
erly are not asking any odds of any
body. They are paying their debts.
Take the Big Bend, Ore, community
for example. If it cost those fellows
too much money to properly dry farm
how could they get rich? Any business
which demonstrates that it is dividend
payer can be sold at a profit. It is
pretty hard to sell business which
everyone knows is not q dividend pay
er.
Montana land is down to the very
rock bottom because methods have
proven a failure. Does it not seem
reasonable to spend little more mon
ey or really as a matter of fact, do a
little more work, and especially little
more head work. in the hopes that a
better result will be obtained. The Big
Bend, Ore, fellows must have made
some net profits or they could not sell
their land at from $50 to $50 an acre.
No country has ever succeeded by
slack, blind farming methods Itatakes
lots of hard work. both mental and
physical. to make farm pay. I do
not know of any business that ever
succeeded without someone putting in
his hard work or its equivalent.
Stockman Favors Corn.
- A friend of mine in Billings asked
an old time stockman what he thought
about the future of Montana from an
agricultural standpoint The stock
man replied that immigration would
naturally shorten the range; that any
time that enough rain came so that the
grass would grow, the so-called dry
farmer, by proper methods of cultiva-
ton. could raise corn fodder for which
he. the stockman, would be willing to
pay $40 an acre.
| can remember the time in Lyon
Mimi, when a 1O-acre patch of
corn was considered something wonder
full and we all drove out to see it and
wondered if it would mature. Corn is
now the principal product Lyon
Later in northern Minnesota. they
said it was too far north. and that it
could not be raised. They are doing
it now. not to such great extent as
in southern Minnesota, but the acre
age is increasing each year. / don't
believe that any man can safely say
where corn can or cannot be raised.
The homestead agricultural land in
the United States is practically all
gone. Our population, without doubt.
will increase very rapidly. Perhaps
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make loan on this land out of which
their debts will be paid This forces
the owner of the land to start off in
debt. 1t always takes more than the
loan to pay the debts and in addition to
having a very inadequate supply of
knowledge the owner of the land has
no money and very little equipment.
If series of good years follow
there is possibility of his making
good, but not probability. If bad
years follow he is almost completely
lost. Then he either loses the land or
sells it to someone who has more
knowledge and more financial ability,
the so-called second set of settlers.
Third Set Has Money.
These men generally get along in
sort of a way and generally hang on
until there is a natural movement of
the land and they sell to the third
set, which comes with real money,
previous experience and not only the
hope that they will make good, but
also the complete confidence that they
will The third class of settlers has
already moved into some parts of
Montana and wherever this has hap
pened a corresponding degree of pros
perity and solidity is seen. Some parts
of the state are still in the home
steader class.
No man is foolish enough to think
that he can start up a business here in
Great Falls without knowledge of that
business and without capital and ex--
pect to make good. He is condemned
to failure before he starts. Taking all
this into consideration is it not true
that Montana has been properly rep
thn r,uh n
say that the state is not an agricul-
tural state until it has been fairly prov
Ell that it is not? SO, / repeat as
above, we have biased and unlearned
judge, poor attorney, and the evil
dence is not all in.
Dry Farming.
Now any man has right to say,
Il have a right to my own opinion.
They cannot tell me anything about
this dry farming business. l know
John Jones or Bill Smith out here in
a certain direction who IS good
farmer and he has not been able to
make it a 60"
Let me ask you the question-how
do you know that John Jones and Bill
Smith are good farmers! Without Il
doubt they are honest and sincere and
are trying to do the best they can.
They may have been good farmers in
Minnesota or Iowa which does not
indicate n thing in Montana. This is
semi-arid country and you must
learn to work the puzzle before you eat:
get prize.
/ have placed on each plate
pamphlet entitled Summer Filling in
Montana and the Right Kind of Sum
mer Fallow." In this pamphlet you
will find an article by Alvin c. Hull
who made a success on his dry farm
northwest of Great Falls. You will
see the legal description of his land
given This man averaged over twenty
bushels per acre for the years 1916.
1917. 1913. 1919 and 1920. His
neighbors did not.
There are plenty of men all over the
state in almost any locality who can
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who has followed the summer fallow
method for nine years and he has
never raised less than Is bushels an
acre, except in 1919. You can find
these instances all over the state irres-
pective Of whether it is favorable or
unfavorable district.
Mr.. Campbell in his book called
"Soil Culture Manual states that the
climate and the condition Of the at
mosphere are right and proper for the
raising of small grains. No one doubts
the richness Of our soil. Mr.. Campbell
further states that the soil is properly
constituted to successfully raise a crop
with the amount of precipitation which
we have. You can read his book and
know why we have had short crops in
Montana. Mr. Campbell is not the
orist, he is scientific farmer. 1
would like to state that we have got to
produce paying crops in years similar
to 1917, 1918 and 1920 or the state
will be failure agriculturally.
Takes More Time.
Quite good many people have con-
tended that the so-called method of
dry farming cannot be a success on
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WHAT THE SIGN OF THE SILVER STAR
MEANS IN HOSPITALS OF GREAT FALLS

An outline of one soldiers expert
ence in the Argonne runs like this:
1.-The Twenty-eighth division went over
the top the morning Of September 20,
1918. Although we were engaged IN
several battles before, this was the
most terrific. l was slightly wounded
BY explosive shell on the second day.
/ saw several Of my comrades fall,
some never to rise again. On the Yer
dun sector, where the Germans made
their last stand, l was gassed. We
went up against hail Of machinegun
bullets, but that did not daunt any Of
job as if they had nothing worse than
the usual rain storm to 60 through.
They gained their objective and got
the Germans on the run and chased
them SO far and so fast that the Amer
lean boys got beyond the reach Of their
own artillery.
I'VE were up against the best sol
diers the Germans had. but the spirit
of the Yanks broke their nerve. The
Germans had the woods filled with
thousands Of machine guns, which were
trained on the Americans as they ad-
vanced The tanks went ahead and
ran right over the machine guns with
the infantry right at their heels to
..clean up" and take the prisoners.
When there were nests that the tanks
could not get at, the infantry BY vari-
GUS tactics went up against taSsz and
annihilated them with bombs and hay.
onets."
Laid on Battlefield 50 Hours.
In another starred" room il an
other Montana boy who hit the front
line trenches in August and was
wounded seriously in October. and laid
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BY A. G. 3.
COME of Americas best and bravest
y soldiers are today wondering
whether the average man of the
street has forgotten that any such
creature as disabled man ever
came back from the war.
Do Great Falls people think often OF
the score and more soldiers and sail
ors now looking cheerlessly out OF
windows of local hospitals where they
are still undergoing surgical operations
and medical treatment: has our pub,
lie taken an indifferent ATTITUDE toward
the fighting men now, since they are
not longer needed to save the world
from tyrannical kaiserlsm!
One Of the nurses who served IN
Hoboken during the rehabilitation OBJ
serves that when soldiers first began
to come home I'VE had to fight to keep
the powered limousines from run
ming over each other when they wanted
to take the boys for ride. but now it
is hard to get an ambulance to carry
them to the hospital
The Easter season suggests that
Great Falls folks take the cheer, and
give more measure of kindly and
brotherly attention to these veterans
abiding within the Swallowed places of
their suffering.
Silver stars in Hospitals.
Is the public aware that silver stars
can be seen every day in the two gen
eral hospitals of Great Falls? The
Deaconess hospital has constellation
of twelve and the Columbus hospital a
like number. Whoever wants a real
thrill in his soul is advised to take a
look at these stars, and stop bit to
think of their grand significance.
The Great Falls post, American
legion, under the inspiration Of its hos
chairman. has placed in the vestibules
Of the hospitals the Sign of the Sill
yer Star" with the list of rooms where
soldiers are under care. Also on the
Grams Is this same bright symbol.
II cali these soldiers heroes" in
their dp presence orn nee is not the thing. for
they are Of modest spirit and have
no Measure in nor desire for such tri-
butte. or any heralding Of their noble
record. however worthy they may be
of the laurels.
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prove that dry farming is a success.
The so-called Bloomfield district about
30 miles northwest of Glendive is
good example. Settlers in this district
came from Bloomfield Neb., which is
also dry section. They understood
dry farming before they came to Mon
tana. 1t IS pleasure to drive through
this district. You will see nice build
ings, and when / was there the last
day of last June, saw fine looking
winter wheat and the summer fallow-
ing practically done. L saw red harms
and white houses and real stock and
machinery, an evidence Of stability, and
I had feeling that was in country
where there was no discussion as to
whether or not agriculture was
success.
/ drove across the ridge and in less
than five miles came into an entirely
different country. This country looked
like any other new Montana country.
l hardly saw a decent crop. The soil
is just as good, the rainfall is just as
heavy, but the land was settled by peo-
ple who didn't understand dry farming.
We are informed that the Big Bend
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Wounded by Dum-Dums.

Entering one of these starred"
rooms in the Deaconess hospital re-
Gently the writer said "Howdy' to
two veterans. one of whom served in
the. First division, Sixteenth infantry,
and carries imbedded in his body steel
fragments of German dun dunn bull
let which struck him in battle in
France. His roommate served in the
Twentieth regiment of forestry engi-
neers. and stuck to his work through
the hardships and hazards of that SER
vice in France. He is just now con-
valescent from surgical operation.
Both these soldiers went to the front
from Montana.
Room 3O5 introduces two soldiers;
one on crutches who knows all too
really what prison life is in Germany,
and how it feels to undergo nine OPP
erations on his leg, broken above the
knee in a battle in Argonne forest.
He was unable to leave the battlefield
under such wound and was taken
prisoner into Germany seven weeks
before the armistice, kept in death
ward two weeks. fed on cabbage, bar
lev soup and black bread. On armistice
day he was given his first and only
egg during all his suffering. His
wound was bandaged with paper and
old gunnysack.
American to tho Core.
In the same hospital room now is
an infantryman from the Twenty
eighth division, who is one Of the %
sole survivors Of his company in the
Argonne drive. His mother lives in
Norway with his younger brothers
and sisters. but this soldier son is
American to the core.
The star in Room 81 indicates a
machine gun soldier, lungs and kid
neys affected from sanguinary struggle
in Mouse and Argonne.
Two Norwegian boys are in Room
III. One of them served in the navy
and now suffers from heart trouble
due to exposure in service. The
other was in the army, First division
infantry; wounded in the battle of the
Somme, four months in hospital in
France. He came to Great Falls for
commercial college vocational training
under the governments.
In Columbus Hospital.
Columbus hospital Starred rooms
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we will learn that although our rain
fall is light, there is way.
False Exclamation.

False Explanation.
We like to make ourselves believe
that the last four years in Montana
have been abnormal and in that way
explain our crop failures and in like
manner infer that when conditions get
back to normal we will again have good
crops. A careful study of the situation
does not prove this to be true.
During the last six years we have
had three abnormal years and three
normal years; 1915 and 1915 were alb
normal because they were unusually
wet years; 1919 was abnormal because
it was an unusually dry year.
During the next 20 years we will
probably have more seasons similar to
1917, 1915 and 1920 than any other
kind. In 1915 and 1915 the state en-
joyed exceptionally fine crops because
of the unusual amount of precipitation.
If we continue to farm in the future
amount of precipitation in any two
years as we had in 1915 and 1915 we
could not possibly expect as good crops
simply because our land is all SO foul.
Need New Farming Methods.
Under successful agricultural meth
DDS during the last six years. Montana
should have produced profitable crop
in every year except 1910. If in the
future, in series of six years exactly
similar to the six last past We cannot
produce at least four good crops the
state will fail agriculturally. You can
readily see that the recent method of
farming has proved failure.
This statement is made to show you
that there is no intermediate ground.
1t is absolutely one thing or the other;
that is. you understand so far as the
so-called dry agricultural land is con-
cerned. This article does not make
any reference to the grazing or irri-
gated areas of the state.
One of the most prominent and sue
cessful stockmen of southeastern Mon
tana came to this country in the early
days and made his money before the
fences were built. He has very fine
1000 acre ranch near Eallaka, in
southeastern Montana. He has often
told me that since the range is all
fenced up he does not know what to do
with this ranch.
Not Interested in Agriculture.
He is not particularly interested in
agriculture and he says he cannot make
n living on this ranch without addi
tional range or the cattle game. When
he first made these statements to me
l paid no attention to what he said
never dreaming that man could not
make money in the cow game on 1900
acres in the oldfashioned way. Late
ly l have been using my pencil and
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Total for nine years 1913 bu. an acre
Average for nine years - blu. an acre
This was on an average Of more
than 40 acres, but Mr.. Wndecker
states that it was not really good
summer fallow as he did not have the
proper tools for preparing the ground
and conserving the moisture.
Now, men, this evidence is taken
right from a spot that we all con-
slider very dry. Alvin c. Hull who
wrote the article in the pamphlet,
which is in front Of you, has made a
corresponding success and he lives in
one of the dryest portions of Teton
county.
East of Dutton there is a farmer
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account Of the added cost of operation.
This is an erroneous opinion. The nee
essary extra equipment is very little.
1t takes some extra time. There has
been rapid progress made in the science
Of farming the last 10 years. The use
of the tractor is going to make a big
difference. This machine enables the
farmer to cover the same amount Of
ground in great deal less time and as
this machine has been perfected. ad-
verse criticism as to the work done by
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this method is being constantly elimi
mated This machine enables farmers
to perform two operations on the land
at the same time; for example, follow
ing the plows with a disk or harrow.
Farming under the present methods
in vogue in Montana constitutes n
great waste. The major portion of the
expense necessary to farm the right
way is incurred in farming the wrong
way and the very meager results OBJ
tanned demonstrate without a doubt
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f7yURlNG the last four years, while
~ Knockers" have been prophesying
continued failure for Montana dry land
farmers, good crops have been raised on
arid lands in many sections Of the state. But
this was done by carefully applying scientific
methods methods which must be adopted
generally by all dry land farmers if success
is to be attained by them.
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country in Oregon was homesteaded in
1883. The homesteaders farmed ex-
actly as they have in Montana. They
had the same experiences that we are
having, and great deal of this land
went into the hands of the farm loan
companies. About 1895 new class of
settlers came in and took over the land
and farmed it according to proper
dry farming methods, causing the coun-
try to become prosperous, making
themselves rich, and raising land val
ues from little or nothing up to $50
and $3.50 an acre.
We are informed that the rainfall in
this particular section of Oregon aver
ages from seven to 10 inches over a
long period Of years. The average at
Chinook, Montana, for the last 80
years is 1876 inches.
High Line Conditions.
On account of the fact that there
is so much discussion as to the future
of the country tributary to the Great
Northern railway, / would like to call
your attention to the following quota
ton from Supplement to Bulletin No.
l." issued by the Harlem Development
association. This is copy of an af-
fidavit signed by James w. Prentiss.
who lives 16 miles northeast of Havre,
in which he states that he started
farming in 1914 and raised the follow
ing bushels an acre on summer fallow
on his land northeast of Havre, on an
average of over 40 acres.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-03-20

This is a paper prepared by J.
L. Humphrey, Montana manager
Of tho Capital Trust & Savings
Bank Of st. Paul, and read by MIN
before the Great Falls Rotary
Club, Wednesday noon, March y,
at Hotel Rainbow.
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Another Summer FaIlow Case.
In this same bulletin is the copy of
an affidavit by George Windecker who
states that he started farming in 1910
and raised the following crops Oh
summer falloW:
The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1921-09-27

Asheville, N. c., Sept 26.-With the
exemplifcation of the Royal and Sc
lect Masters degree by a special de-
gree team from Missouri and the ex-
emplifcation of the Super Excellent
Masters degree, the 14th triennial
assembly of the general grand coun-
Gil of the Royal and Select Masters
of the United States opened here to-
day.
Representatives answered the roll
call from every state in the union,
and, including the women, there are
500 present for the general grand
council and, general grand chapter
meetings. The 38th triennial convoca-
tion of the general grand chapter of
Royal Arch MasQns opens Wednesday
morning. The election .of: general
grand council officers and the appoint
ment of joint committee to select
the next meeting place will be the
leading business features tomorrow.
The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1921-09-27
DIR. MathcsOn Given
Flattering Offer

DR.. Kenneth Matheson, president
of Georgia Tech, has been offered the
presidency of the Drexel Institute of
Philadelphia and "The Georgian"
speaking editorially laments the fact
that he may accept and says: owe re-
gard DIR. Matheson as so truly vital
to the progress and welfare of the
Georgia Tech that we cannot bring
ourselves to believe circumstances
will so combine, in any event, that he
will not remain in his present posi-
tion."
DIR. Matheson is brother of Rev.
John F. Matheson of our town.
The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1921-09-27
DEMOCRATS PLAN
NO OPPOSITION

Washington, Sept. 6.-Indieations
are unmistakablt~ tonight that there
will be no organized opposition on the
part of Democrats against the sepa-
rate peace treaties with Germany and
Austria Hungary.
The Democrats will caucus tomor-
row with the treaties as subjects. SEN
ator Underwood, minority leader, and
Senator Underwood, minority leader,
and Senator Hitchcock, ranking Dem
ocrat on the foreign relations commit
tee, intimated today that there would
be no formal party opposition. AS a
rule Democratic senator's interviewed
this afternoon, declined to- commit
themselves either for Or against the
trerties. Senator Dial of South Caro-
lima asked to be excused from making
a statement until after the caucus to-
morrow. Senator Harris of Georgia
was in doubt, but declared his inten-
ton of studying the topics tonight.
Senator Harrison of Mississippi and
Senator McKellar of Tennessee de-
clined to talk for publication. SEN
ator Borah, in arguing with telling eff
feet today that the treaties are the
Versailles treaty in new form, con-
vinced some Democrats, among them
Senator Caraway of Arkansas, that
Democrats should support the admin
istration in it's present venture. Car
away was reminded that during the
presidential campaign the then secre-
tary of state, cambridge Colby, after
predicting that the United States
would certainly engage itself in Euro
pean affairs, stated that it remained
to be determined whether we would
enter bravely through the front door
or sulk in like flunkies through the
rear" Senator Lodge, Republican
leader, declared that not more than
"two or three" Republicans would op-
pose ratification.