The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1927-03-18
About Farming
(FrOm Montana State COllege)

FARMERS, farm women and bust
ness lei of Roosevelt county ap-
pointed on the commodity COM
mittee for the Northeastern Agricul-
tural Economic conference to be held
at Bainville, March 81, are making
exhaustive studies of the various
farm enterprises in their county. A
number of communities have held
special meetings to consider material
to be presented at the conference.
The reports on crops, livestock, dairy
ing, horticulture, poultry, home liv-
ing and land utilization made by the
conference committees will be the
basis of an agricultural development
program for northeastern Montana.
During the month of January 9,SS2 head
Of Montana cattle were tested for tubercu-
lOSiS by veterinarians of the United States
Bureau of Animal Industry a1d the State
Livestock Sanitary board. Only 80 of the
number tested reacted to the disease.
Farmers and business men of Blaine
county who have been appointed on the
! commodity committees for the agricultural
economic conference for the north central
part of the state to be held at Havre, March
1880, have held special meetings to outline
Investigations in preparation for the con-
ference. These special meetings held early
in March dealt with poultry, dairying.
crops, livestock, horticulture and finance
and credit.
A fund Of $4,000, 900 has been provided
by congress for carrying on the fight to
/ control the EurODean corn bOrer. The con-
troll work will be conferred in the states of
New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan,
and Indiana. Quarantine and compulsory
cleanup regulations will be drawn up in
each of the states. 1t is estimated that
two and a half million acres of corn are
involved in the proposed effort,
Sid Blair, pioneer pure seed grower of
CulbertsOn, Montana, has recently filled an
order for One-half bushel of his registered
Marquis wheat for Herr J. p. NOren, Sked-
10, Njurunda, Sweden. Cost Of seed, trans
pOrtatiOn and insurance will bring the cost
of the seed to the purchaser up to approx
mately $50 per buShel. While Mr.. Blair has
received orders from practically every state
in the Union, this is his first order from
a foreign country.
Slaughter records for 1926 show that last
year 240 million more pounds Of livestock
went to market in the United States than
in 1925. Hog shipments decreased from
the year before but cattle and sheep mar
keting were the highest in many years
The outbreak of hog cholera in the corr
belt is held responsible for the falling of
in hogs and this in turn stimulated bee.
marketing. Cattle shipments were the high
lest Ou IGCOEu IedCuluB Il LOld4 VI dAulOS
seven and a half billion pounds.
Investigations Of farming practices Il
Fergus county show that so per cent Of tn
cOunty's wheat is grown under a system
which offers about one chance in ten o
returning the cost Of production. 1t /
estimated that by bringing about the gen
eral sdOOtiOn Of approved methods of pro
ductiOn the %cOunty's wheat returns can h
increased from u to 20 per cent withOl
additional cost Of production.
Since the passage OF the Smith-Lever az
by congress in 1914, more than five milliO
boys and girls of the farms of the countr
have been engaged in All club work, az
cOrding to a report by the United State
Department of Agriculture covering ii
agricultural extension work done durin
the 10-year period, 1914-24.