The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1926-10-15
About Farming
(FrOm the Montana State COlIege)

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NHECK tests made on samples of
Fergus county wheat last
- month by the Montana Grain
Inspection Laboratory at Bozeman,
show an average protein content Of
1853 per cent. The county ranks
ninth among the counties of the state
in the average protein content of its
wheat crop.
Only five reactors were found
among the 1866 head Of cattle test
ed for tuberculosis in Montana during
the month of August. There have
been 322,815 tests made in the state
since the work started. Tuberculosis
eradication work is under the Joint
direction of the State Livestock San
itary Board and the United States
Bureau of Animal Industry.
During the first half of the pres
ent year more than $4,000 motor We
hicles were registered in Montana,
according to a report by the Bureau
of Public Roads Of the United States
Department Of Agriculture. This is
an increase of 10 per cent over regis
trations for the same period in 1925.
Total receipts from licenses for cars,
operators and dealers amounted to
more than a million dollars.
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The pure bred Jersey herd owned
by F. M. Shoemaker of Ravalli, Lake
county, Won first place in the dairy
herd class at the Western Montana
fair at MissOulS last month. Individ-
uaIs from this herd also won grand
championships in the sire and COW
J classes at the State fair and the Mid
land Empire fair this fall.
The 33 homeseeker tourists who
visited Lewis and Clark county last
month were treated to a typical Last
Chance breakfast when the Helena
Commercial club played host and
served old-fashioned sour-dOugh flap
Jacks. The visitors Weer much i'm
pressed with farming possibilities in
the Prickly Pear valley.
The tendency in the poultry indus
try of northern Montana to shift from
egg to meat production is making it.
self felt in Blaine county this year.
Farmers are taking a keen interest in
caponizing and the caponizing demon
STATIONS held in the last few months
have been well attended. t is expect
ed that the county will have enough
capons in the near future to ship IN
der the pooling plan in carload lots
similar to the marketing system now
used for turkeys.
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= Livestock men of Rosebud county
are remembering the experience Of
the winter Of 1890 and instead Of
buying high-priced hay to meet short
ages they + cutting down their
herds to conform with the supplies
of feed available. The hay short
age due to the dry weather Of the past
,tseason is not as serious as was at
first reported. Irrigated valleys
have plenty Of hay and the large cat
, tie operators in the southern part of
the county report good conditions
for going into the winter. In the
northern part of the county feed is
I little scarce and here herds and
/ flocks are being reduced somewhat.
: More than 500 acres Of land in Lin
coin county have been cleared dur
ing the past two years by the use OF
) pyrOtol the government explosive
? (Which Is IuTulSuSU 10 Luo AdIAASAS a
cost.
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The demonstrations on fattenine
> lambs on screenings will be conduct.
. ed in Cascade county this winter.
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Indians Of the Rocky Boy reserVa
o ton in Hill county are taking a re
newed interest in better farming me
d thods. Meetings held on the reserva
ton to consider summer fallow me
# thods, crop rotations an dthe raising
of small flocks of sheep were well at
tended and a number are planning t.
put the recommendations Of exten
t. sion specialists into practice.
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p Fifteen cattlemen of Custer count
have taken steps to establish a 112.
is OO-acre grazing area ear Mizpah. A
t. present the range in this area is in
8. neglected condition and stockme
hope to bring it back to profitabl
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