The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1921-10-14
TREASURE STATE FARM AND LIVESTOCK
Summer FallOW Would Make Montana

Oulu MAKE MONTANA
Il EYES,"
f saf S bought yGn half S'e one time
/ ma" Make the money here to pay for it,"
/ Since 1862"
titled H 1ea seed in 1916 3 plenty rain
"Get crop other years?"
Eyes, every year. Lowest Weld is bushels"
u,, Different Sort of Story
""vyhy the personal questions?"
You're SO different. Just wondered
Il don't owe any banks-I money in the bank
on t And i4n this u o,s everything paid and
but i 9iH like soa a5 yaf S personal affairs,
mos for Ph e but 9ng willing to sacrifice feel
know One Of them doe HIS land 90 bsteT than mine
He 1as a better crop" ~ : ~ ''''' ''''''
-Four miles He pointed to green SPOT in the brown
that memorable July ninth the secretary has known tia, he
summer aow plan is the plan Seeing believing crop in fifty
farmer and business Montana could have seen i'll
os 1d returns reached the office today Hull thesed
We talk farmers talk and men talk and
FRER R SSegS I and talk and
But the summer falow club idea would make believe
The business make the falow idea effective
What Harlem Did
Bulletin Of April g. 1920 told of the Harlem Summer Falow
ee business men and farmers got together and had
assist the farmers who joined the club extended credits The
signed up 'N"0" p''pe'' 'o'' Thousand acres were
When spring the members went out on an nspc
Of the work. man with fovfou inch se auee
made the tests and all the members of the party the results
Their opened wide business alike the
farmers had made such before what they found
Moisture at a. Inches
IN - teds where the blowing for the following was done
early where the fields worked right down. and where the weeds
were kept entirely almost entirely off, either unable to
a any airy art with his which a inches long, found
II at depths OF from SO to 40 inches
fields where the blowing either later weeds were
not d m OF the job Of blowing
IN other fields where the blowing following was good
and the fields We're kept clean the Investigator from
large gravel rock through which auger would not 90 The
IN these cases varied in thickness from inches inches
with the first Is that least 50 tests OFT ~ I
% where the summer following we'll done.
In tour fields that summer falowinp oneaon
proved be failure but the fields show
during the spring months and were Allowed II @
weeds The heavy weed growth used all moisture none was
only moisture springs In these fields the mon
M up he same IN sod or less than in old stbb because
" soooe caught ana held snow during the winter months
Ten Were Failures
In ten fields tested results were such that the summer f
again the record shows that No o
results could have been expected These fields ali powd late
f not summer au a 9 all but merely blowing
after blowing and dragging , ae e s
already dried and the weeds to start up
b ~ tests showed that the moisture in these fields about
as IN other Old ground sod and usually stubbe
tor the latter caught during winter months What moisture
was present was, Of course, moisture.
The outstanding of all these tests was the fact h+
held that was falowed early or fairly early that was
it twice as much moisture tb curing the sum-
Or sod This result little short of revelation Il was COMMONS
mar for the farmer make when he shown these ws
hat he would have believed # if he had mt @ T. &
- ~ ' - wa" '"S Wv"
Corn Proved Not So Good