The Wolf Point herald., 1924-07-10

portray.
The work of Charles Badger
Clark, E. A. Brininstool, H. H
Knibbs, Frank B. Linderman and
one or two others being the most
outstanding examples.
In southern Montana there lives
a young rider, Bruce Brockett, who
is unusually talented in this way
will know a fame and a prosperity
that is perhaps beyond the vision and
the imagination of the men who are
striving with the scheme today.
Genius Behind the Plan.
Vision and imagination, always
qualities of leadership, were required
even to make a start in a plan SO
far-reaching and so epochal. Fur
thermore, a zeal that knows no dis
couragement, that surmounts all OBJ
stacles, that overcomes all opposition
and that sees only success was neces-
sary. This vision, this imagination,
this zeal and determination were fur
h1OnCo NY OldhCJ Nls w 1lQ VI 11d1111l-
ton, who is known UP and down the
valley a Sid Ward, father of the
preceding idea and indefatigable
worker for the highest standards of
packing and grading of all fruits and
vegetables.
Not only has Sid Ward worked for
years among his own people of the
Bitter Root, but he has visited every
famous fruit valley of the West. He
has studied the far-famed methods
of the fruit growers of California, of
Oregon and Washington. He has Wis
tied every successful preceding plant
in the country and has been in
strumental in selecting the two most
successful men to take charge of the
preceding plant at Hamilton. Su-
perintendent Snodgrass, in charge of
the packing plant, has seen years of
service in Oregon, and o. N. Kaldor,
who supervises the cooling of the
fruit and it's treatment, is also well
known in the industry.
His Enthusiasm.
No one can listen to Mr.. Ward talk
of the possibilities of the Bitter Root |
without growing enthusiastic.
1--WE have the soil and we have
the climate. We are raising fruit |
that is superior to anything of its |
kind in the world What we must |
learn is how to market it to best ad-
vantage and in perfect condition. The |
markets are ready and waiting for
us. That is no ridiculous statement |
We are one valley for which the
world is actually waiting" To prove |
L. nH.. anI rI1@ Y-f
on Strawberries from the United |
States department of agriculture. 1t
showed the country's shipment of
strawberries-heavy in April, May
and June, tapering off in July and a
break in August, September,
October and November.
Demand Never Satisfied.
"Our crop is at it's best when the
market is bare. We reach the top of
our production in the months of
July, August, September and on until
he snow is on the ground. We pick
through the early snow.
No other valley in America produces
during these months.
Yes, the market is waiting for us.
# our plans for preceding, grading
ind packing are successful, we can
)lant $500 acres to Strawberries.
What this means becomes apparent
when I tell you that so acres will
produce all the Strawberries that the
Montana market can absorb in a
eason. The demand for strawber-
les has never yet been satisfied in
America.
"And with preceding and proper
.rading and packing Strawberries will
lot be our principal production. In
act it will be but one of many. We
lave 20 great intensive crops, all of
which will be big money makers for
'ur people if we get them properly
N the market. We shall develop a
aiming industry as we'll as a green
.oods business and there is every
eason to believe that the Bitter Root
abel will be blazoned across the
ountry, as the last word in de- I
icious fruits and delectable luxuries
or the table.
Prolific Yields. I
"Morella cherries, lettuce, spinach, {
casting ear corn, green tomatoes and
MONS are some of the products that ,
re can raise better than any other
istrict and at a time when the mar ,
ets are either low or bare. Onions :
ave already outstripped strawberries ,
S money-making crop. One of our ,
armers has raised 10000 pounds of ,,
Mons on one and one-eighth acres of ,
round. Another realized 1926 from ;
Mons grown on three-fourths af an
ere. One of our strawberry raisers
larketed 462 crates of berries from !
wo acres and it was the first year I
he plants had been set out. In
ther localities the plants do not {
ear fruit until the third year. g
"The preceding system is not new. e