The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1922-12-28

farmers are forced into a cash croT
and this crop will be wheat.
"All farming in this section should
be built around control of the Rus.
sian thistle. Our summary would
show that the ideal way probably will.
be one-third of the land in summel
fallow, one-third in wheat on fa1low.
ed land and the other land in winter
rye and in wheat 'stubbled in On
the unfallowed land crops should be
planted only if the land is free from
thistle. The Investigation base will
assure the farm living; the fallowed
land will more nearly assure a crop
yield each year and the crop on I'M
fallowed land will provide for the
year when conditions favor a big
yield, with yields nearly as good as
summer fallow and without the ex-
pense of fa11ow.
"To provide for the bountifu1 years
when returns should be as large as
possible, the farmer should practice
the highest economy of man labor.
By this I mean the using of large
teams by a single man. On many of
the most successful farms we studied
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best means of preventing excessive
soil blowing in this section.
Wilson illustrated with lantern
slides the points in his talk. At the
close he showed slides from the farms
of four successful farmers of north
Montana, telling the means by which
these farmers had achieved the farm
living.
John Nabor, living northwest of
Havre, was the ideal type of diversi-
fled farmer. A number of growing
of many COWS on this farm, the keep
ing of chickens, the tending of a large
home garden. Here, with cheap land,
with plenty of farm labor to handle
the COWS, poultry, pigs and garden,
Nabor has been able to provide a
good living and show a labor income
when other farmers were abandoning
their land and moving away in dis
couragement.
Near Gildford, J. w. Swinney, a
man about 60 years of age, makes a
certain living through the raising of
purebred stock. He came to Mon
tana in 1916 with a registered Short
horn COW, heifer and a calf. From
these animals he has raised 40 head
of registered Shorthorns. Many he
has sold, the increase still providing
him with milk that brings the farm
home an income of about 81 per day
each year. Registered Percheron
horses, from a start of one mare, also
have made a strong contribution to
the annual farm income and made a
living possible when crops failed.
Thomas MacFarlane, neal Lothian,
has no amount of farm labor that will
allow the milking of many COWS, and
sheep took the place of the COWS, and |
this livestock experiment has brought
a steady income to MacFarlane while
he continued his grain farming.
Two careful and systematic sum-
fallow followers were discussed.
One was Jim Printice of Hill county,
the other Alvin Hull of Chouteau
county. These men fallow carefully,
keep down the Russian thistle, study
carefully control of blowing, prac-
tice the most careful economy Of
labor and maintain a steady farm in
come.
"The farmer in this section" said
Wilson in closing, must know the
limitations of moisture, of soil, Of
labor and of the various other items
of successful farming. He must be a
farmer, one bent upon max
a permanent home, not acquiring
easy wealth. He must assure his
by diversity upon the farm,
he may tide over the bad years;
he must have enough lang sowed
In the good years to provide surplus
for the lean years.
"This sort of farmer has made a
in north Montana, in spite Of
unprecedented years of drought
1917. He is now In condition
% reap the harvests of better years
ahead. Beside him, other farmers Of