The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1922-09-01

MIR. and Mrs. IL. III. "
L. H. Wyman of Power, one of the
outstanding successful farmers O
north central Montana, visited BY
members of the state college extern
sion service, in survey of drylan(
farms of northern Montana, is in
clined to give by far most of the
credit for their success to Mrs. Wy
man, her cows and chickens. 1t has
been Mrs. Wyman and her cows, he
says, that have kept the home fires
burning when endless days of work
in the fields has been rewarded by
repeated disappointments and crop
failures. 1t has been Mrs. Wyman
and her COWS, he declares, that have
been responsible for steady family
income during discouraging years
when there was no income to be
CLEANED from drought-blighted wheat
fields.
Regardless of where the merit be-
longs, however, there is situated a
few miles from Power and % miles
northwest of Great Falls one of the
most attractive and coy homes to
be found within radius of many
miles and it is this home that Mr.. and
Mrs. Wyman have established on a
dryland farm 1t is neither large or
pretensious, but inside and out it has
an inviting neatness and hospitality
that breathes the personality of its
occupants and leaves lasting and
pleasing recollection with even the
most casual visitor It is a real home
"a home of which Montana, Iowa,
California, or any other state could
be proud.
Came to Montana in 1911
Mr.. Wyman came to Montana from
North Dakota in 1911. He bought
homestead REIMBURSEMENT at his
present location for $500 and paid
1926 for team. This took practi-
cally all of his funds. Shortly after
his arrival in Montana he and Mrs.
Wyman were married and Mrs. Wy
man purchased two COWS for sos.
This was the best investment made
on the place, according to Wyman.
From this beginning has grown the
herd which has enabled them to con-
tinue farming through trying years
and to lay up comfortable saving
for 'rainy day."
Although Wyman provides feed for
the stock, attends to the milking,
chores and other duties incident to
a dairy farm, the cows, he insists,
belong to Mrs. Wyman and to her be-
longs the credit for their success.
1t is Mrs. Wyman who takes care of
the cream and makes the butter
which brings top prices and ready
sale in Great Falls. The dairy herd
consists of from eight to ten COWS
and number of young heifers. 1t
no heavy investment in
purebred stock but consists of high
grade cattle able to stand hard win
ters and to continue to give a good
quantity of milk
Cleanliness is the keynote about
the Wyman farm. The greatest care
Is taken of the milk from the time it
leaves the COW until it reaches the
consumer in the form of butter. That
this is appreciated by the customers
and that Mrs. Wyman is a butter
maker par excellence is attested by
the fact that during the customary
slump in the market Mr.. and |
Mrs. Wyman cannot supply the de-
mand for their butter at premium
Of Is cents per pound above the mar
zet price.
A Cool Root Cellar
For lack of ice the cream and but
.er is stored carefully in a root cell |
ar which is always cool and, differ
INT from some root cellars, odorless. |
During the hot weather the butter is |
packed carefully into pasteboard |
,oxes and taken by automobile to
treat Falls every week, where it ar
ives in the same fresh and appetiz-
ng condition in which it left the
arm. Customers, which include in
lividual families in the city as well
IS city grocers, are always waiting
or this especially prepared butter.
Like the butter, eggs, fresh from
he farm, also find ready market at
op prices. And like the butter, also,
he eggs are given the best of care
nd reach the consumer in strictly
resh condition. They are gathered
egular1y and marketed at once. All
mall and ill-shaped eggs are kept
or home use and only large eggs that
re known to be strictly fresh are
ent to market. They are packed in
eat, attractive cartons and guar
ntee goes with them that every bad
gg found will be replaced by two
resh ones. From about 125 hens
asst year we're marketed $500 worth
t eggs and considerable dressed
oultry. Eggs from their farm have
ever brought less than rs cents per
oxen.
The Wyman ranch consists of $50
ores. In addition to this they rent