The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1926-02-19
TREASURE STATE FARM and LIVESTOCK
About Farming
Trom the Montana State COIlege)

"HE annual All club corr judg-
ing contest held in connection
Z with the State Corn show at
Miles City last month was won by
the team from Custer county, with
teams representing Rosebud, Still
water and Richland counties plac-
ing in the order named. Chalmer
Wiseman of the Custer county team
was the highest scoring individual
making 557 out of a possible 900
points and was awarded the gold
medal offered by the Montana Seed
Growers association.
The program of work for agricul-
tural development in Teton county
for the coming season includes stud
les on the cost of producing turkeys,
capOn production, and poultry mar
keting, extension of the operation of
the county shipping association, a
dehorning campaign, the Organiza-
ton of a cooperative wool pool and
the continuation of the work in con
trolling livestock diseases.
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B. H. Lichwardt, David Hilger,
Roy Shumate and Robert Forgy,
farmers of Lewis and Clark county,
will cooperate with the farm man
agement department at Montana
State college in keeping form cost &C
counts for 1926. Itemized accounts
will be kept on the cost of prOduc-
ing beans, peas, potatoes, hay, dairy
products, poultry, beef cattle and
hogs.
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A feature of the State Corn show al
Miles City this year was the corn ex-
hibit by two Indian boys, Henry Buck
Elk and James Red Elk, of the Fort
peck reservation. The former won
fourth place with his Northwestern
dent and the latter fifth on white
flint. The two boys were accompan-
led by Chief Black Duck who viewed
the display of the white man" with
frequent grunts of approval. The
chief is a leader on the reservation
in encouraging Indian boys to take
up agriculture and is a strong boost
er for All club work.
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Farmers of the Andes community
Richland county, have set as theil
goal 100 per cent use of pure seed
in planting the crops of 1927" AS {
step in this direction a campaign is
on to encourage every farmer in tht
community to plant a pure seed plo-
this spring using pure Marquis seed
The seed from these pure seed plots
will be used for planting Commercial
fields the following year.
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More than 100 high school boy
from Montana and neighbOring state
and provinces attended the Seventh
Annual Young Mems Vocational Con
ferece at Montana State college tn.
first week in February. The confer
ence is the greatest effort in the Un
/, tied States to guide young men int
the vocatiOns to which they are hes
adapted. M. J. Abbey, director O
. the Montana meeting, states tina
the 1926 conference was the mos
successful ever held.
2 Crop improvement work in Vale
D county for the present year will il
e clude the establishment of a whes
t. nursery, in which a number of va,
3 ieties of wheat showing promise j
+ experiment station tests will be trie
out under local conditions. The va,
ieties to be included in the nurseI
and detailed plans of operation wi
be worked out at a future meeting
the members of the county crop in
provement committee.
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With the renewal of extensiC
work in Sanders county, farmers a,
= at work preparing a program of VOL
for the coming year. Dairying, Lar
clearing, soil improvement thrOul
the use of gypsum, cooperative ma
II keting, nutrition and boys and giT
club work are being considered al
Ong the leading subjects. Orders a
a. being taken for bringing in a ca
load of pyrOtOl from the governme
y, to be used in land clearing.
A county wide organization to {
Operate with the Extension Service
it's program of agricultural improV
ment has been perfected in YellO
y stone, with L. D. O'DOnnell of Ca
o. yon Crack at it's head. r. A. Bak
~ of the Billings Bench is secretary a
20 Mrs. Roy Ames of Canyon Greek,
w. Berg of West Billings and M
John Mueller of Worden members
% the executive committee.