The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1926-05-21
About Farming
FrOm Montana State COIlege)


TIME Great Western Sugar COM
pany is actively supporting All
- sugar beet clubs in it's producing
territory in Montana. Last month a
new club was organized at Park
City, Saltwater county, with W. A.
Frisbie, field man of the company as
local leader. The Great Western is
offering a number of special prizes
to be awarded for junior exhibits at
the Midland Empire fair.
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The Daniels county method Of
encouraging ground squirrel eradica-
ton is meeting with success. A.
bounty of n cent for each gopher
tail is being offered and A. w. War
den, county agent, reports a veri-
table deluge of these u~nmistakable
evidences of demised rodents. The
bounty will continue in effect
throughout the month of May.
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The Teton County Shipping asso-
citation has installed a scarifying ma
chine for treating sweet clover and
alfalfa seed and about 1000 pounds
of sweet clover seed was scarified
during the month of April. Farmers
and stockmen throughout the county
are showing a great interest in hay
and forage production and it is pro-
bable that the sweet clover acreage
will be more than doubled in the
county this year.
The Fergus County Cow Testing
association reports four cows that
produced more than 1000 pounds of
milk during the month of March. The
COWS are being MIXED three times a
day.
Twenty-Five former 4-H club
members in Montana are this year at
tending colleges a d universities.
Most of them are studying agricuI-
tural subjects as a result of the in
spiratiOn and training in club work.
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Pure seed projects, conducted as a
part of the crop improvement pro-
gram in Madison county, have been
started at Harrison, Summit Valley.
Ennis, LaUrin, Sheridan, Twin
Bridges, Stone Greek and Waterloo
Approved and adapted varieties OF
wheat, oats and barley r being test.
ed out
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Outbreaks of army cUtwOrm are
reported from certain sections il
northern Chouteau county. A con
certed effort is being made to contrO
the pest with poison bait and in MANI
/ cases farmers have delayed seeding
8 to wait until the insects active sea
son is past.
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Y Through a cooperative arrange
. ment between the Lewis and Clarl
- County Farm Bureau and the Helen'
Commercial club arrangements hav
been made for a thorough test o
o sugar beets in the Helena valley thi
1 year. Contracts have been signed u.
for approximately 213 acres.
The cooperative associations O
Sumatra, Musselshell, Garfield, Lew
istOwn and Terry met with the Custe
County Shipping association earl
this month for the purpose of unity
4 ing shipping practices in easter
u Montana.
At meetings of water users {
the Lower Yellowstone IrrigatiO
project held at DOre, Fairview, SiC
ney, Crane and Savage, the five pc
cent contract plan and the 40 yea
/. contract plan of the United State
Reclamation Service we're discusses
|, The water users favored the five pt
i. cent contract by a vote of 1O4 to 4
, 81 8 8
The mixed herd of W. p. Benne
& Sons which made the high ave
, age of 35.2 pounds of butterfat p
, COW for the month Of March, Il
, best b~utterfat record Of any herd
= the associations for the month, vi
: fed on alafalfa hay.