The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-01-18


left to sell to at least pay for the groceries consumed the home
Calves old viii furnish part OF the meat supply ana W
surplus milk be fed to brood Of pigs
Every farmer every should raise few hogs at least
supply his meat needs generously and hogs hNe
well country he should raise some pork for the Market
oats and Canadian pea pasture together with the left over MIX
from the the screenings from the grain and the corn
will produce easily to 20 pigs weighing from $50 to zoo
pounds six months The returns from THESE extra
pigs will help buy the family clothing.
Poultry: chickens ducks geese turkeys should be raised
abundance All fowls do spenddy in Montana They keep
down insects of all kinds and salvage lot OF food about e
which would be otherwise wasted The eggs furnish food Tor
the family surplus will help buy that cannot be
produced here and clothing Turkeys and geese afford
variety of food and furnish for the household every
farmer should plan having variety of meat including Tow"
to last the year around
Then comes the garden should be one most i'm
pOrtant activities of every farm home potatoes cabbage CARROTS
parsnps peas BEANS squash pumpkins sweet and any
vegetable that be raised should be raised abundance
At least two acres every ansead for the
garden this should be MANFRED year after year until be
properly pepaedfOr mouthu of food that can be
should be grown Attention should zoe paid to small fruit
which does wonderfully well here One Of the best things the
county agent doing IS the instructions which he IS giving Oh
vegetables and meat canning and the raising and caring for pou
try When the weather the fall the cellar
farm should be full Of foods and the bills should be PAID
and the clothing for the family provided from the above sources
This being fundamentally small grain country, and al
ways will grain crop should be the big cOpthe
that pays the mortgages and furnishes the surplus capital The
farmer should not farm more than hall secOnaC Is enough
Part of this he should faOw cultivate Corn
fits splendidy in the rotation 1t that ground
good if not better than aOw Corn be cared for
when there other work be done 1t returns something
aowed ground will feed dairy cows beef CATTLE
hogs poultry the fodder furnishes rougage Potatoes
beans and should be planted cultivated crop the
Canadian field peas mixed with oats be planted
late after well worked field and makes fine summer
4 pasture for hogs and calves.
Rutabagas and mangles should be raised in large quant
ties to feed to milk pigs and poultry during the winter
months along with dry raons and this be done conveniently
When this idea becomes fact the money shipped out OF
the country for food clothing and other materials will be
duced minimum the trade balance will be favor and
capital surplus will be piled up the interest charge which
takes the entire product of the country will be abolished and the
country will be full of prosperous and happy farm homes
And in order to accomplish this, decent price must be
cured for wheat, flax and The farmer combine t.
control his own market credit the end that he ge
full possible for his labor The farmer must taxi
an intelligent interest in poitcshe must see that the schoo
Il district county and state honestly administered He mus
take as much interest business the bankers
If poters take in theirs
M All these things fundamental
This policy must be pursued.
! But beyond the above Investigation is only humbu
and deusion.
This county primarily small grain county and will re
main Obut every farmer should everything that he
raise for his consumponeven in spite of the fact tina
of the things he be economically raised
10 some other section for the general market