The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1923-08-24
FANCY PRICE
BID ON GRAIN
For One Bushel State Fair Offers
More Than Crop Worth From
Seven Acres


While ordinary wheat is supposed to
he plentiful, there's an uncommon
scarcity of high grade wheat, which
perhaps is the reason why the Mon
tana State fair has posted a price of
S175 bushel. Unfortunately, how
ever. the fair is only in the market for
one bushel but even so, the price Of
fered is so big that Montana growers
of high grade hard spring wheat can
afford to submit bushel of their best
wheat when the State fair is held at
Helena, September 25-28 inclusive.
The grower of the bushel purchased
may have the opportunity to make still
more for it will be sent to the Inter
national Hay and Grain Show at Chi
cago next winter and entered in world
competition And if the Montana
bushel wins out, the grower of that
bushel will receive nationwide adver-
Using that should enable him to sell
the rest of his crop at fancy seed
prices.
A total of $175 is offered by the
state fair as the grand sweepstakes
special for the best bushel of mar
quis wheat. 1t must test better than
5S pounds to the bushel and will be
judged by a committee of Montana
millers on the basis Of quantity and
quality of gluten, flour yield and other
factors that fix actual commercial
value.
All kinds of special cash premiums
are offered in the grain classes to
winners on hard red winter and spring
wheat, durum wheat, white oats, hulled
barley and flax.
1t is estimated that at least three
hundred acres in the vicinity of Broad
us have been planted to beans this
year and that the crop will be ex-
ceptionally good.
ANGELA Etchepare, Ia, John Alder,
10, and Jacob Daum, go, were drowned
when their boat capsized in the Milk
river IL miles east Of Glasgow.
Peter V. Jackson, 46 years a resi-
dent of Madison county, is dead He
was born October 10, 1874, in Roches-
ter, N. Y.
After battling hopper" for four
weeks and winning a decisive victory
W. w. Jones of near Havre will not
harvest a wheat crop. A twenty-nin-
ute hail recently destroyed the crop
saved from the hoppers.
Purchasing an $500 car and receiv-
ing 5000 in change for $1,000 check
signed with the name of Poplar resi-
dent, which she forged, isn't consid-
cred a crime by Mrs. Harry L. Wood
ley, Minot, N d. Authorities think
differently, however, and Mrs. Wood
ley, school teacher, has been taken
back to Minot to face forgery charge.
She purchased the car in Minot.
Tnese are dollar bnT- days, accord
ng to Fred ]. Pelleter, Butte deputy
sheriff, along the Great White Way in
New York. Several weeks ago Pelle-
.er journeyed to Bagdad by the Sea
With his pockets filled with $40 gold
pieces. He is back in Montana again
With the poke intact except railroad
ARE there and back. 1t was hot day
n the metropolis when the deputy
sheriff, feeling In need of a stimuiant,
dreaded his way through the swelter-
ng crowd to Broadway thirst empor-
UNI. He ordered a drink and prof
cred In payment therefor cleaning
en- dollar gold piece. But Broadway
are wary, chary lot One
that the Butte man come
Jack someday with some regular
money. A second rang the coin on the
mahogany, bit 1t, and said nothing
loing." A third became indignant
10 did Pelleter. An unsuspecting rail-
Dad ticket agent accepted the coin
nd the deputy sheriff is back In
lutte.
Danger of grasshopper damage to
rain in Montana has caused John
irohs of Cascade county to direct at
ention to method Of killing hoppers
hat was employed in Minnesota as
ar back as 1879. Grohs, who owns
anch six miles from Vaughn, believes
nat the old method could be used ef-
ectively now. Tar secured from
as plant was used In large shallow
an, which was run over affected
elds and the hoppers thrown into the
an, were killed even if only a wing
r leg was touched by the tar. Three
fps over the field served to eliminate
le pest. Other Cascade county peo-
lie, former residents OF Minnesota, re-
all this method, which was introduced
y foreigners fresh from Europe. The
opper killing method can be used up