The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-11-27
ID MONTH
lBy Dan B. Noble, County AGENT

(By Dan B. Noble, County Agent
Every loyal citizen of Roosevelt county and Montana
and everv man, woman and child interested in a better
state, a better county and better community to live in is
going to do his or her share towards bringing our resources
and advantages before the citizens of other states looking
for such a future as we have to offer them. The State of
Montana has had a large amount of very unfavorable
publicity, a large part of which was very unjust and due al
most entirely to those who got off on the wrong foot, had
the wrong ideas about farming this country, and had their
failures when farm prices were in the worst Debated con-
dition Of our development, which, of course, led to some
misery and a large number Of people abandoning the
country with a bad taste In their mouth.
On the other hand we have a larger per cent of farmers
who stayed here, some who have been outstandingIy sue
cessfuI in their business operations, some who have been
successful, some who are safely out of debt and got a
home and others who are in pretty deep but gradually
climbing out. The fact that land is so productive and
cheap here leads us to believe that we have great possibi-
ties for the future with the millions Of acres around us lying
idle and the demand for food stuffs increasing as the
years roll by.
While farmers who had adopted a sound system Of
farming in previous years and had made money out Of
their farm operations the year 1924 proved a revelation
in many respects to Roosevelt county by its farmers hav-
ing an enormous acreage of wheat, flax, oats, corn and
hay crops. There are numerous instances where the crop
alone this year produced three times as much as the mar
ket value Of the land and in all of these cases it was where
the land was well farmed. There are hundreds of ROOse-
welt county farmers who will be cleared of their entire in
debtedness this year. Farmers who came here nine or ten
years ago with nothing, who have from three hundred and
twenty to two thousand acres with good Improvements
and modern homes, the total valuation should vary from
five to fifty thousand dollars, have said their indebted
ness is entirely wiped away and these men have a clean
slate, the benefits Of some valuable experience in farming
in this country and are going to even in the short time they
have been here make themselves comfortably fixed.
Montana month is to bring these facts before people in
sections Of the United States where such opportunities do
not exist and get some Of them to come and share the pos
sibilities of the future. This can only be done by people
living here, not by any other source to be realistic, truthful
and representing the facts as they actually exist and it can
only be done if each person interested in our develop
ment Will dO his or her part and 1t can be most effectively
done by writing to your friends. What can you %truthfully
tell them? You can ~truthfuIly tell them this. That 400
farmers in Roosevelt county produced over $1,000, 100000
in farm crops last year, that 1000 acres of corn was
raised last year and 10000 the year before and that the
average weld of corn for the county is 27 bushels per acre
that corn is a successful and proven crop here now; that
SO car loads of hogs were shipped out OF the county last
year and $50 will be shipped this year; that we have a hog
market here both east and west; that $4,000 ears of corn
raised this year were on exhibit at the Third Annual
Northern Montana Corn and Seed Show held in this coun-
tV this wear; that the quality of this corn was as good as T.
that on exhibit last year; that practically every farmer
next year will have a start of registered or approved seed;
that wheat will and has averaged Is bushels an acre every
year IT planted on clean summer falloW or corn ground
and oats will average 40 bushels under the same cOndl-
tiOns; that sweet clover and alfalfa are successful forage
crops and several farmers have made fortunes on the pro-
ductlon of hardy Montana alfalfa seed alone; that we
have hundreds of farmers in Roosevelt county varying
from wealthy to out of indebtedness and if any Individual t
wants to know some of their names the county agent will
be glad to furnish them; that most of our failures were
due to the wrong impression of the right kind of farming
IN this country coming when farm prices were Debated {
and that lots of farmers settled on land in Montana that =
never will be suited for cultivation; that we have millions d
Of acres Of productive land that can be purchased from
three to twenty dollars an acre; that we have excellent
schools and roads above the average; that most farm com
mUnities have active Immunity clubs which make the hi
community a good place in which to live; that a large F
number Of the farmers have radios and more are getting Y
them and that we believe with the low value of our pro- =
dl1eGIge land there are untold possibilities for DIR f11ure II