The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1925-11-27
TREASURE STATE FARM AND LIVESTOCK
About Farming
(FrOm Montana State COIIege)


ESTS conducted by Lincoln
county farmers during the past
h season indicate that fall grains
are best adapted to conditions in the
northwestern part of the state. On
the farm Of J. W. Murray, Washing
ton Hybrid 1913 yielded 81 bushels to
the acre. This is a soft white wheat
grown extensively in the wheat
growing sections Of Washington and
Oregon. KarkOv, a hard, red winter
wheat, yielded Fl bushels to the acre.
L. J. Otness of Pennington, Teton
county, has planted 20 acres of win
ter wheat with a furrOw drill this
fall. The seeding was done on stub
BILE ground on the theory that the
stubble aids the burrows in holding
winter SHOWS, thus providing a great
er amount of moisture for spring
growth. About 200 acres were sown
to winter wheat on POrter's bench
to try out the crop in this area. This
grain was planted with the ordinary
surface planter.
Bernard Jacobsen Of Roosevelt
] county will be one of the cO-Operat-
| Ors in the tillage improvement pro-
gram of that county next year. Mr..
Jacobsen will conduct a disc tillage
demonstration on his farm. He will
use what is known as a Kant KlOg"
single disc weeder packer and his
work will offer a comparison be-
tween this type Of machine and the
tillage implements in common use.
The Better farming" meeting
held at Ismay last month was we'll at
tended by farmers in this section of
Custer county. The meeting was one
of a series conducted by the Milwau-
kee Railway company. G. A. GOss,
editor of the DAIRY Farmer Of Des
MOines, Iowa, w. B. Remley Of the
International Harvester company and
A. J. Ogaard, extension agrOnomist
for Montana were the chief speakers
? AS in many other parts Of the state
) turkeys in southern ChOuteau cOun.
ty are not as well developed as il
other years at this time of the season
Consequently many farmers are hold
ing their birds for the Christina
market and few will be shipped be
fore Thanksgiving. 1t is estimated
that this section will ship at least
carload of turkeys this year.
Thirty-siX Madison county farm
women attended poultry cuHing dc
mOnstratiORs held in that county las
month. In the farms represented a
these meetings, work has started il
earnest in routing out Stacker men
before their winter board bill start
piling up.
During the past four years nutri
ton classes have been conducted a
the Hawthorne school of Helena III
der the direction Of the county HON
demonstration agent and nutritio
specialist for the Montana Extensio
Service. This year the nutritiO
work has been extended to all school
in the city. Monthly weight record
Of pupils are taken and special class
es are conducted on diet and food!
Rosebud county is making goo
progress in it's crop standardizatio
and pure seed work. During th
month of October the fields of regis
tered and certified seed in the couI
ty were checked up and it was fOun
that in most cases good yields we1
obtained. There Will be little ped
greed available next spring, how
ever, as most of the growers prOpO'
to use their seed for planting al
proved seed plots at that time. TIL.
will result i ma great increase in I'll
pure seed supply and with favOrab
conditions should provide enOug
pure seed to meet the growing d,
mand Of the farmers for the follow
ing year.
Fred Loeffler of Bad Rock, Fla
head county, won first place at Il
Columbia Falls community fair tn
year for having the best indiVidui
farm display. The blue ribbon con
munity display was that Of Valel
tine with Bad Rock a close second.
The Alton Community Of FergI
county is planning to construct
community hall. Weather permi
ting, the work will be rushed to cor
pletion this fall and early winter
otherwise the pFOjecI will be he.
over until spring. The building cor
mittee reports sufficient funds
finish the work.
~ The pure bred ShOrthOrn sale, il
a trOduced as a feature Of the Sherids
County fair this year was very su
cessful. Sixteen head were sold an
c%onsignors report very favorab