The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1927-03-11
TREASURE STATE FARM AND LIVESTOCK
About Farming
(FrOm Montana State CoIIego)

TT NJ. JORDET of Miles City has
been elected president of the
AAS Custer county farm bureau
for 1927. P. S. Richardson and VIM.
Tibbles of Miles City are v~ice-presi-
dent and secretary-treasurer. Mem
bers of the executive board are J. J.
Myers, Hillcrest; Casey Marthelmess,
COalwood; Frank Chaplin, Moon
Greek; Mic Monte, Beebe; W. H.
Jones, Beebe; William Tom, Miz-
pah; John Herzog, Miles City; Cal
vim Todd, Mizpah; Frank Spears,
Hillcrest; VIM. Siedentopf, Miles
City; ]. M. Baker, Ismay; Dean Ash
ley, Meridith; Alex Noble, Kinsev:
Louis Birchner, Pine Hills, and Eu-
gene Stanton, Tongue River.
The Fort Peck Farm and Livestock con-
gress will be held at Poplar the third
week in March, to be followed by the an
nual meeting Of the Roosevelt county farm
bureau at Culbertson.
With a production Of 3,3H,O 900 bushels
Of wheat last year, Fergus county was the
state last year. Teton county was second
with a production of 3,053,O 600 bushels OF
wheat and Sheridan third, with 3,O41.OO 0
bushels.
Agricultural development in the Great
Plains region, says the United States de.
partment Of agriculture, shOuld be slow
for the present because there is neither
economic justification nor adequate knowI.
edge to bring the region up to it's full pos.
sibilities in the near future.
Total stocks Of frozen poultry on Feb.
ruary L were placed at 1883, 900 pounds
as compared with 10S,512,o 600 pounds 8
year ago. Dairy products holdings hav,
decreased while lard and meat stocks art
greater than they were at this time las.
A. H. Wente, farmer Of CASTOR Creek
Fergus county, held a magpie-killing fell
day at his farm last month. Bv the ms,
Of poison bait-cOw's liver treated witt
strychnine-147 of the carnivOrous bird
were killed, according to actual count o
dead birds in the immediate vicinity o
the bait. Mr.. Wente estimates many NOR
we're killed that could not be located.
= J. F. Walker Of the division of co-opera
, tive marketing Of the United States de
t partment Of agriculture will spend a yea
studying wool growing and marketing i
4 Australia and New Zealand. MT. Wake
e states that "WOOls coming from these couu
S tries threaten to dominate the America
= market. They are better graded and suit
e ed to mill requirements as a class. w
want to know how these foreign producer
t produce quality woods, how they meet mi
; requirements, ana now the product is mel
b ~chandised."
The index Of purchasing power Of far
n products dropped to so in December, 1872
indicating a drop Of seven points durin
i the past year. The farm price index ws
143 January ], 1926, and 1875 on January
e Of this yaer. Wholesale prices of mol
7 agricultural prices stood at 165, Janu8I
y 1, 1926 and at 15S on December 1, 1872
y The figures are obtained by consideriu
price levels Of the ave-year period 1909.
as 100.
Augustus FauX, livestock feeder Of RicI
land county, purchased 1897, 900 worth
livestock from the farms Of Richlar
= county last year. The figures were brOugI
= out at a recent farmers meeting at ST
ney, at which Mr.. Vaux urged greater a
= tention to livestock production on the 10y
y er Yellowstone Irrigation project. T
. stated that adverse weather conditions a
feet livestock the least Of any crop tn
can be produced on the farm.