Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1928-01-06
tBy Our Helena Correspondent

600 Tons; Taxes Coming III tast
Bv Our Helena Correspondent
By the close of the season approNi-
mately ten thousand tests for protein
content in Montana wheat will be conf
pleted by the state grain inspection
laboratory at Great Falls. according To
the state division OF publicity. tsti-
mating that each sample represents
1000 bushels of grain, about II per
cent of the states crop will have been
tested BY this single laboratory.
More wheat samples have been tested
this year thar in any other year, George
H. Moran, inspector in charge, reports.
To December /. the laboratory had made
a total OF 10 100 tests, 5000 more than
in 1926.
Mr.. Moran estimates that the average
protein content Tor samples handed 70
date is from ~ to 1875 for spring wheat
and somewhat less for winter wheat
Spring wheat in rare cases ran as high
as l6 per cent and a very few samples
exceeded 16 per cent. Percentages have
not as yet been tabulated.
with so of the So counties in Mon
Sana producing coal in commercial guam
titles, the state this year produced 81
1877 TAG tons or an increase OF 96,I46 tons
over 1926. OF the total production about
95 per cent is consumed within the state
according to a report issued by the state
publicity division.
The 10 leading counties OF the state
with their 1927 production are: Mussel-
shell, 1,119,000 tons valued at $1,000, 1873;
Carbon, $3.50 ,028 tons valued at So, l39,
SOL, Rosebud, TAIN 900 tons, value, ST.
9O4. $50: Cascade, 198,444 tons, value
1906, O32. Richland, 26,620 tons, value
s67.881: Sheridan. 24.200 tons, value S61,-
TN Ifl1 II Sol tnnG value 500 8lQt Fer
gus, 9.452 tons. value S24 ,l02; Daniels
$3.50 tons. value s22,o57; Wibaux, 7,9oC
tons, value s20,l45.
Montana counties have been remitting
taxes at the rate Of $4,000 a day for the
last week. With 10 OF the Sc counties al.
ready recorder. the state treasurer has
collected $780, 900, more than half of the
amount expected to the first of the year
inheritance taxes in the amount OF $40.
600 also have been collected, the greatest
share Of which comes from Silver Bow
county.
Taxes are collected by counties in No
vember, Nov. 80 being the last day o.
payment before delinquency. The as
SCISSOR must record all figures on thu
county books before RENTING collections
Although JAM. l is the last day for pay
ment to the state, no charge for del1n
quency is made.
M%ontana's 1927 dairy production viii
be valued at about S11 .000, 900. an in
crease of about 10 per cent as compared
to 1926. according to the state depart
ment of agriculture. Manufactured dair.
products exclusive of farm products arr
valued at about $7,5O0,0O0
h report indicates that there wer'
10 creameries, IS cheese factories, n
223 cream stations operating during TIT
year. According to a tabulation for las
wear there were 265 men employed in Thu
manufacture of butter, cheese n ic'
cream in the state.
The 1927 production Of butter is placed
at Is, 100000 pounds. a gain of 10000
pounds over 1926 when production wa
given as 1920, 900 pounds. Ice cream
production this year was 100000 gallon
as compared with 672, 900 gallons in 1926
a decrease of $4,000 gallons. Cheese als'
shows a decrease. The 1927 production
was 1901 ,305 pounds compared with i,
BIO, 683 in 1926.
An exhibit car carrying samples 0
Montana products and general informa
ton on Montana m the northwest t.
states in the middlewest is being route'
through AZ points in Minnesota. Iowa
and South Dakota by the Milwaukee
The car started its 49-day tour in Novem
Der.
Montana products exhibited on the ca
were taken from county collective exhib
its at Montana state fair this fall.
Twenty-four stops were made in Min
nesota, II in Iowa and one in South Da
kota, according to E. E. Brewer, immigra
ton agent for the railway. The prod
ucts are exhibited and ak made on re
sources and opportunities Of the Treas
ure and other northwestern states.
More than one hundred of the 129 car
of apples shipped from Montana point
came out of the Bitter Root valley
though the crop for that region wa
much lighter than usual n not half a
heavy shipments were made as during
the preceding year, according to figure
received in the office of the division o
horticulture. A few of the cars wer'
shipped from the Fiathead valley, al
though production point where apple
are a heavy factor on the market ha
not been reached.
The Bitter Root apple crop was un
usually light this year due to unfavor
able conditions In the spring. But thu
Mcintosh apples shipped were of excep
tional quality, bring top prices on tn
New York market, where practically thu
entire lot was sent. These apples woi
first prize at the international Appl
show at London.