The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-11-19
CHARLEY WESTPHALL
WRITES FROM OHIO
Port Clinton, Ohio.
November Is, 1926.

november 10, 1870.
Producers News,
Plentywood, Mont
Gentlemen:
Received your notice Of subscrip /
ton. We are always glad to pay
when l feel that l am getting value /
for the money, so here comes your
postoffice money order for three
bucks. Thank you.
We are having a very wet time
here. Several weeks since, the
weather bureau reported that the
rainfall was 10 inches in excess of
the average and it has been raining
hard and frequent ever since. The
annual rainfall is about 80 inches.
Three crops of clover are usually
harvested, here every season, the big
gest share of it rOtted in windows.
If it did get a little bit dry on top,
the soil was so wet it was milGewed
on the bottom. If they got busy and
turned it over, it would rain on the
other side. Very few loads of hay
were put up this season that did not
have more than one rain on it. In
the cultivated fields they wear rub
Der boots and most places you sink
to the furow bottoms. Filling OF
silos with corn was almost impos-
sible, owing to the muddy condition
! of the fields. Much of the corn must
be husked standing, if it every drys
up or freezes up so that they can get
into the fields and haul it. To husk
standing corn is very unsual here as
! they dare not allow stock to tramp
/ the soil in winter. All corn fodder
is badly needed, especially since they
lost SO much oil their hay crop. PO
tatoes rotted in the ground owing to
excess rainfall. Perhaps a major
share of the sugar beets are still in
the fields, so hard to wrest and get
out.
The county agent OF this county
says that Ottawa has seeded less
than one-tenth Of their usual amount
of wheat this fall This happens to
be a winter wheat district. About
10 days ago, l saw six good horses
pulling hard on a two-ton load Of
pumpkins in a field almost as level
as the lake If you get off Of the
pavement or sod, you are IN the
mud, that's all, and what is more the
oldest citizens or the biggest liar
never peeps about bygone years that
were worse.
The fruit crops were immense. No
me has ever seen more trees loaded
Nv heavier or more branches broken
~ overload of fruit. But they were
not loaded heavy enough to pay ex-
penses-nO price
! Oats are grown here for market
but a small share Of It was ac-
copied at all by the mill or elevator
men this season because of being
ruined by rain.
Clinton is fisheries. While the icatch
was light, at least the fish did not
drown.
n It is a wet year, 1 guess l un-
derstand that dry old Montana mas
gone wet also, and they Go tell that
three miles out that the ocean is
getting weter and wetter, but those
Yankees down east are such terrible
liars that / don't know.
Stav on the lob and do not let dear
old Sheridan go DemOcratic-Repuo-
ican. iii
Yes. we are all suffering WIZ
comfort, thanks. Prosperity keeps
right on going by on high to those
who already have too much,
We see as many as eight alrsnlP'
flving in wedge formation like wll'
geese. but we do not learn who the
ganders and goslings are who oc t5
pv them. Somebody is riding on Tn
steam road too, l guess. The New
York Central passes through I'M
burg. The local station agent IN
forms us that there are 80 regula
passenger trains daily and from 4 Z
Z 6 extras per day. Someone IS golnl
somewhere l guess.
This letter is too Ion" | know, Du
If has been a long time since l nav
written to my friends and Producer
News readers. Will some one pleas:
entertain my many lady friends
dear old Montana during my absence
With best regards to all as ever
G. w. WESTPHAL.
P. S. Hold your breath, the f .tI
the Teller tells me that / must eltf
or marry quick or go to jail