The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1925-09-24
MODERN METHODS
WORKING CHANGES
PROGRAMS FOR INCREASING
FARM INCOME CALL FOR
NEW SYSTEM

The year 1925 marks the forma-
ton of a definite plan to check the
annual $500 0 loss caused from
the production of wild oats in
Roosevelt county, according to data
received from community committee
men, grain dealers and other repre-
sentative farmers throughout the
county. The Roosevelt county ex-
tension program which is definitely
based on more efficient production
Of the highest quality Of standard
crops, after a survey Of the wild oat
situation found that it was very evil
dent that something had to be done
to overcome this annual leakage
which had been taking a heavy cash
toll from the farmers of the county
for a number Of years.
Better Tillage Plan
1t was not until this year that a
large percentage of the farmers
have included in their annual farm
program a plan that will safely take
care of this situation and produce
better crops through the addition of
a better tillage method.
100000 Lost
The results of dockage shipping
records show that while Roosevelt
county is by no means the greatest
loser from dockage in this section
of the state nor neal as high as some
of the adjoining North Dakota coun-
ties, that in 10000 600 bushels of the
1924 wheat crop shipped to market,
"a per cent of it was dockage which,
according to last years prices meant
a loss of approximately 100000.
This loss is in the form of hauling
charges paid on dockage from farm
to shipping point; freight from ship
ping point to terminal; in feed value
lost, and in decreased production.
Dockage Loss Cut
The records further show that in
sections of the county where a def
mite summer tillage program, togeth-
er with a pure seed program has been
in progress for the past two or three
years, that this dockage loss is cut
to practically nothing. On the 9TH
er hand in communities where no at
tention has been paid to this situa-
ton the loss is surprisingly high.
Better Earning Power
Divide Community, northwest of
Poplar, which has taken the initia-
tive in both summer tillage and
Standardization of Marquis from reg
istered and approved source, last
summer had a large number of dock
age free cars go out from that COM
munity. In addition a number of
farmers there have materially in
creased their earning power by rails
ing a better quality of seed at a ma
terially reduced cost through the
program that has been followed.
There are also a number of farmers
over the county who have definitely
demonstrated in their communities
that through the use Of proper til
and rotation methods and
through the use of clean seed of high
quality they can do the same thing
hat the Divide farmers have done.
System Changing
There is no question but with the
successful results Of these pioneers
n summer tillage that the next two
II three years will result in an en-
ire and general change Of tillage
methods in the county as compared
o the general practice of a few years
The methods Of summer til
age that have proven most success
jul are the pillow and duck-foot sum-
ner fallow, the straight duckfoot
summer fallow, the double pillow
method of summer fallow, listed
.orn, surface planted corn and any
,ther properly summer titled crop;
III Of these are used to advantage
n a clover-cereal crop rotation. One t
uccessful farmer Of the Bainville
Community remarked that 1924 was {
lot altogether a successful year for
orn but the 1924 corn acreage is
argely responsible for the good Az t
rage wheat yield in the county this
ear. 1t is evident that the general
ystem of farming is changing from
n uncertain speculative type to a g
7ell defined, sure and profitable s
ype, all within a period Of three to
We years. I
Later on news bulletins will be is
led giving detailed methods of diff e
erent farmers in Roosevelt county
-ho have practiced and been sue
assful with their summer tillage
lethods.-D. B. NOBLE, County S
gent. h
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