The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1927-01-06

the Montana Experiment Station, Mr.
Taylor, Fred Bennion, state leader
of county agricultural agents, and
M. L. Wilson, agricultural economist.
Champion Producer.
Producing 1907 pounds of butter
fat and 2,548 pounds of milk during
the month of November, "Cornucopia
Korndyke Pietje," purebred Holstein
cow owned by Ford & Holster of the
Bitter Root Cow Testing Association
has set new high production mark
for cows under monthly test in the
state. Largely because of the high
record of this COW, the Ford & Hoil-
lister herd led all herds of more than
| Is cows under test in the state and
the Bitter Root Association had the
second highest butter fat average for
the month.
The Yellowstone Cow Testing Asso-
citation was the outstanding organiza-
tion in the state during November. It
led all organizations with an aver
age production of 2s.9 pounds of but
ter fat and 772.7 pounds of milk U. S.
Skaggs' herd of grade and purebred
Holsteins of this association was the
leader in the small herd class with an
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average of APT pounds of butter fat
and LOLA pounds of milk, and Jan jan
sma's Holsteins placed second in the
large herd class with an average of
37.1 pounds of butter fat and 1,054 4
pounds of milk. Opal" one of Mr..
Skaggs' cows was third among indi-
vidual producers with record Of 72.5
pounds of butter fat and 1,611 pounds
of milk.
Third place in the small herd class
| for the month went to J. A. Woods
mixed herd with an average Of 81
i pounds of butter fat and 1,054 pounds
4 of milk. C. H. Gordon's Jerseys of the
Lake County Association were sec
ond in the small herd class with an
average of AZ pounds of butter fat
and 754 pounds of milk, with W. H
Voelker's Holstein of the Flatheat
EClub third with an average of IL
pounds of butter fat and 1913 pound:
Of milk. Lyman & Haight's grade
Holstein, mo. 50,' was second high
est individual producer with a rec
ord of 74.1 pounds of milk.
There are 10 COW testing associa-
tions in the state at the present time,
six associations and four clubs. The
Lewis and Clark k-Broadwater ASsocia-
| ton has 435 cows under the test, max
ing it the largest, in this respect, of
any Of the organizations. The Lake
County Association, with. 30 herds, is
the largest in point of membership. In
all there are 150 herds and 2,220 cows
under regular monthly test in the
state. -1seNs ~
4 ~ Test Cattle.
I The regular monthly report Of tu-
berculosis testing work by the Unite
4 States Bureau of Animal Industry for
the month Of November again showed
Montana to have one of the best health
records for cattle Of any state in the
Union. Out Of 11,035 head of cattle
tested this month, 26 reacted to the
disease, or approximately one in 400.
During the month 8O5,993 head were
tested in the United States and 25,-
069 were found afflicted with tuber-
culosis-approximately one in IS.
From the November report cattle tub
erculosis is approximately IL times as
prevalent in the United States as
whole as in Montana.
Presidents Message.
All club members of Montana share
with boys and girls club members, boy
scouts and lone scouts of the nation
New Years greeting from President
/ Coolidge.
The message sent to the club men,
bers of the state through J. G. Taylor,
director the Montana Extension Ser
vice is as follows:
"As we go into the New Year, I
send you my greetings and best wish
es for health and happiness in the
coming twelve months.
"In my holiday message year ago
| pointed out the many advantages Of
membership in associations such as
yours. If we should try to express
their principles in single word, that
word, it seems to me, would be Help
fulness.' You help others and you help
yourself by helping others.
Il congratulate you on the accom-
plishmenhts of 1926, and know you
will have abundant opportunity for
usefulness in 1927. We get happiness
from doing our duty, further happi-
ness from doing little more than Is