The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1927-02-11
About Farming
From the Montana State COnege)

n EARQUIS wheat will meet all
M corners in tests to be conducted
A in Daniels county during the
coming season. Arrangements are be-
ing made with growers to plant five
acre test plots Of MARQUIS adjoining
similar sized plots of other prominent
spring wheat varieties. Those who
have already arranged to conduct
tests are Henry Feltis of Butte Creek
and William Ferguson Of ScObey. Mr..
Feltis will compare Marquis with
Renfrew and Mr.. Ferguson, Marquis
with Supreme.
Turkeys sold through the Juditb Rasin
pool last month brought from four to five
cents more per pound than birds sold indi-
Vldually, according to a summary of the
past seasons work Of the organization. No.
1 birds brought ~ and 42h cents; old
toms, 81 and 3S cents, and No. 2 birds. "a
ana 30 cents. More than 100000 pounds of
turkey were sold comparatively in this
county In the season just closed.
At a sugar beet growers meeting held at
Conrad in December it was estimated that
approximately $50 acres of beets viii be
grown in POndera county this year. MANY
Of the tests conducted in the county last
year demonstrated hat sugar beet DrO-
duetion offers good possibilities on the
irrigated lands OF the Waller project. Rep
resentatives Of the U~tah-IdahO Sugar %
were present at the meeting and expressed
themselves as well plased with prospects
in the county.
Following the recommendations Of the
easement report, W. NJ. Jardine, secretary
OF agriculture, announced to stockgroWers
attending the annual convention of the
National StOckgrOwers' association at Sal
Lake, that grazing fees on national forests
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next 10 years. He stated that fees WouId
be raised gradually SO that increases would
average only about two per cent a year
P. L. Robinson and It. 7. Weeenar n
Forsyth and d. E.. Cole Of Sanders; repre-
sented Rosebud and Treasure counties a
the conference at Billings in December {,
draw up, plans for an economic conference
20 consider the problems Of irrigated lane
in southeastern Montana.
Because a number Of corn growers il
Rosebud county had foresight enough il
the rail- OF 1925 to harvest more than enough
seed corn to meet their 1926 planting needs
the county will be in a fairly good position
to meet its seed corn needs this spring
reports K. d. Mercer, county agent. Las
years seed corn crop was very short an
growers will have to depend largely uDol
the surplus corn held over from the yea
before. Most Of the old corn that has bee
tested shows high termination.
A Al corn judging team of Delewar
Lesson and Loren PiersOn Of Bainvill
represented Roosevelt county in the stat
corn judging contests at the State Cor
show at Sidney, January 1928.
Farmers Of Lewis and Clark county hav
more than 1000 tons Of surplus hay OF
hand this year which they are attemptin
to market In eastern states through thei
cooperative marketing association. TIL
growers are sending out One-pOund sampl
bales OF their product for advertiser
purposes.
Alfalfa seed growers Of Custer count
sold more than 10000 pounds Of see
during the months Of November and De
2 cember. Last year the local alfalfa see
growers association handled approximate
? 11O,OO0 pounds Of seed, and this year th
amount is expected to be at least thre
/. times as great.