Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1928-04-13

.N1tNNaEINo VI Lewis anu oldlk nave
started their annual offensive against
ground squirrels. County Agent De-
Wore has placed supplies of poisoned oats
at Craig. Wolf Greek and Helena so that
they may be accessible TO all farmers in
the county. Reports indicate hat the
poison is moving rapidly.
Cooperative livestock commission COM
panies at terminal points have saved
livestock growers of the country approxi-
mately SIS. 000. 900 since 1917. These saw
ings have been made as a result of re-
duced commissions and cash refunds. In
1926 approximately 10 per cent of the
animals sold on the markets of the
country were handled by the cooperative
associations.
Sugar beet production looms large In
the 1928 production program in Richland
county. In line with the agricultural
development program resulting from the
Lower Yellowstone Project conference
last year. farmers see in sugar beets a
means of filling their requirements for
an intensive. cultivated cash crop to in
crease revenues, maintain proper soil
conditions and control weeds. One Of
the largest sugar beet acreages on record
is expected on the project this year.
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Skim milk is excellent food for the
calf until 1t is eight or ten months old.
although skim milk and calf-meal Cruel
usually are discontinued at six months.
The change from skim milk should take
place gradually. slowly increasing the
other feeds at the same time. TIL change
from one feed to the other should take
a week or ten days.
Large tubers are Just as good for seed
as small ones. according to potato studies
by the United States department of agri-
culture. The only disadvantage of large
seed potatoes are that they involve a
larger quantity by weight to plant an
acre and they are slightly more diff
Guilty. There is little If any difference be-
tween seed pieces cut from different
parts Of the potato.
Eighteen growers of Rosebud county
have available supplies of approved seed
corn this spring. The supplies include
white dent varieties of Pioneer and Sill
yer King; Yellow den varieties of Wis
consin Is, Minnesota 10 and Brown
County; Semi-dent varieties of North
western and Minnesota %; and flint va
rieties of Gehu. County Agent Mercer
ACPoito u otiOIB dtllldllQ III oSCQ COlll.
January l estimates indicate that
there are SIS, 696, 900 head of cattle. in
Guiding milk cows. in the United States
as compared with 56,872. 900 a year ago,
a decrease of 81 per cent. The average
value per head is placed at s54.12 as
compared with s42.36 last year. Cows
and heifers kept for milk increased from
81. 818, 600 to 81 .946, 900 during the same
period.
Records of hog raising contests con-
Quoted in the country last year show
that 1852 ton-litters were produced. Penn
sylvania had the greatest number with
126 and Tennessee and Indiana were tied
for second place with 80 each. A Penn
sylvania litter that passed the ton mark
had ID pigs.
The first of the seasons weekly wealth
er and condition reports by county agri-
cultural agents appeared the first week
In April. These reports are issued once
a week and mark the essential factors
affecting crop production during the
growing season. They are issued to
papers of the state by the reporting serv-
ice Of the state department of agricul-
ture.