The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1925-08-12

N. B D., in Milwaukee Magazine
"'Tm going a milking, sir she
said"-and she did too and brought
the cream in to the Three Forks dairy
and they made nice yellow butter out
Of It and you had some on your hot
cakes this morning.
Christopher Columbus discovered a
great country for US fellers' but
Lewis and Clark didn't do so bad
when they trailed down the canyons
of the Big Belt mountains and parked
their pack horses at the source Of the
Missouri river for the winter Of 1906.
Westward a vast panaroma of fertile
mountain valleys, rising into foot
hills and then into the main ridge Of
the Rockies.
To Lewis and Clark it looked like
d land of promise and so it did to the
pioneers Of covered wagon days, to
cattle men, hOmesteaders and wheat
farmers who followed after----..a land
Of promise and of promises fulfilled.
Some of them were drifters who fol-
lowed the rainbow, looking for the
pot Of gold at the end thereof, which
was not in Montana for them, nor n
Iowa, Maine or California, but Of
that large number of better farmers
and cattlemen who did stay,worked
the land and loved it, this then is
theirs, and the Land Of the Shining
Mountains, once it has reached your
heart will hold it forever, there is NJ
going back. Those settlers were Of
the type of men that make good in
each new country, they studied out
the best way for themselves and sue
cess was their reward.
In the years prior to 1908, when the
small city Of Three Forks was placed
on the map, Rattlesnake Pete and his
kind, herded Texas loHghorns over the
epen range and probably the nearest
they ever came to a milk cow was a
can Of condensed cream----theTe WEI
milk cows to be sure, I once saw an
old cow puncher milk a range cow
but! that is another story.
And R~attlesnake Pete and his kind
do most Of their work nowadays fol
the grandstand in the local roundups
and rodeos and the lOnghorns are fast
giving way to dairy herds, the corrals
to cowsheds and the lariats to milk
pats. There are more silos and fewer
branding fires and many a milking
stool now hangs where the running
iron once held place Of honor, there
is less need for hair pants and more
for white OveEalls.
In 1913 the Milwaukee railroad de-
cided that it would be an added ser
vice for the dining cars on then
trains to take on a fresh supply o.
dairy products at a point midway be
tween Chicago and the western coast
Three Forks wa the logical point
To furnish this supply a herd Of higl
producing H~olsteins we're brought Il
this place. These were the first res
dairy cattle to grace the Landscape
around the Three Forks country an,
in working for the betterment Of thei
dining car service, the Chicago, Dill
wsukee & St Paul railroad gave "a
country a start which is fast COMING
to change the aspect Of agricultur
in this section and which win IN tim
20 come repay the road with inter
est
As the farmers Of most easter
states have come to know that a sac
cessful agriculture can not be bull
on a one crop system, 50 z th
farmers Of Montana fast learning tha
diversified farming is the keynote {
their problem, and one Of the larg
means Of bringing ia some money g
all times Of the year Is the mix Gov
As this discovery was made The her
Of blooded cattle was here 60 suppl
the demand. AZ dairy cattle ncreas
at a ratio Of about five times
three years e can Be clearly see