Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1926-07-29

Eleven and o fourth pounds OF WOO
from yearling ewes and IL pounds
from other ewes was the average for
the Robinson & Rieder clip ut Devon
which has been consigned TO Adams &
Leland OF Boston.
Water users on the Lower Yellow
stone irrigation project paid $4,000
to the government as the first require
ment under the new per cent con-
tract entered into last spring as a re-
suit OF some dissatisfaction with the
old contract.
Intentions Of making another Canad-
ian tour in the summer OF 1927 were
expressed by nearly all of the 300
northeastern Montana farmers and
Legionnaires who took part in the
three days Journey through southern
Saskatchewan.
II Is estimated that 10000 acres of
wheat in Daniels county this fall VIII
yield cloes to 3,O00,OO0 bushels, putting
Il In Reek-and-neek race for first
hOnOrs with Sheridan county. which
has considerably larger acreage.
The county average is expected to be
Is bushels to the acre.
The Pondera County Poultry Grow
ers' association sold it's first carload
Of live poultry OF the present season
TO the Northern Creamery company OF
Great Falls where the poultry will be
fattened- then picked, packed, frozen
and shipped TO the creamery COM
pany's distributing houses on the Pa
clfic coast.
During June Montana marketed al
most n million pounds Of butter on the
San Francisco and Los Angeles mar
kets, according TO reports of market
receipts compiled by the office of agrl
cultural economics Of the Montana ex-
tension service nj Bozenian. The
months shipments Of butter from Mon
Ina Included 422,OOO pounds to Los
Angeles.
Old timers In northeastern Montana
and that means farmers who have
lived in the district IL years-claim
there has never been total crop fall
ure, though there have been times
when the yields were low. Adoption
Of proper summer tillage methods add
ed to the good rainfall that the area
receives, is given as the reason for the
status Of the wheat busI-
ness.
Montana Is concerned again this
year with the problem of low cost
and threshlng. From
survey throughout the state, 1t Is
shown that hundreds Of farmers are
methods outlined in the bull
etln low Cost Wheat Harvesting,
which was Issued by the Extension
Service last year. This bulletin, by
NJ. L. Wilson, is report OF the meth
Ids used by farmers throughout the
northwest in an attempt to materially
over their harvesting and threshing
,osts The Hart header barge. one Of
he Implements described In This but
etin has been built in many localities
II the state and is reported as giving
most satisfactory results.
AS q control measure on the prices
Il wheat to the farmer, Thomas d.
campbell. Hardin wheat king, has
worked out a practical idea that adds
thousands of dollars to the price he
.ets for his wheat. At each camp. he
las set up string Of sheet steel bins
nto which the days threshIng is
Jumped as fast as II comes from the
by means OF portable elevat-
rs. Il can then be hauled to the ship
ing station at night or held until the
market rises II the days market does
Iot suit The same idea can be APP
lied to corn harvest In the corn belt,
he sheet steel cribs being ventilated
o that the new corn dries out while
cling protected from rats, birds and