Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1928-05-18

(By Our Helena Correspondent
Car lot shipments of Montana po-
tatoes during 1927 went to Is different
points i'm the United States, according
TO a recent report of the bureau of
agricultural economics of the United
states department of agriculture.
Chicago received the greatest number
of cars from the state with Kansas City
second. One hundred and five car loads
of Montana tubers went to Chicago mar
kets and 60 to Kansas City. Minneapo-
lis received IL cars; st. Paul 10 and st.
Louis 10. III all, 279 cars of potatoes
We're recorded as shipped outside Of the
state. Other points where u%nloadings OF
Montana potatoes were received are:
Houston, Indianapolis, Memphis. Mil
waukee, New Orleans, Dallas, Dayton,
Des Moines. Detroit. Evansville, Fort
Worth, Cleveland and Sioux City.
Montana homes were frequented 4.448
more times by the stork than by the
grim reaper in 1927. Births totaled 9,763
and deaths numbered 5,315 in 1927. fig
ures compiled by Lucien Benepe, director
of the bureau of vital statistics of the
state board of health, show; births of
boys exceeded those of girls 5000 to
4.724.
August was the leading month for
births in 1927. with July second and
April third.
Silver Bow led all counties. with 800
births; Cascade was second, with 813,
and Yellowstone third, with 62l. Fig
ures for some OF the other larger coun-
ties are. Custer ola. Deer Lodge 22B. Fer
gus 285, Flathead 361, Gallatin 1886, Hill
S4a. Lewis and Clark 275, Missoula $50,
Park 1876.
Montana.s state highway commission
will open bids and award contracts on
approximately SO miles Of new road work,
1926 miles of which is paving and %
bridge and trestle jobs at the state cap
itol May 10. Notices of construction work
nave been mailed to contractors in Mon
tana and adjoining states.
The May allotment consists of work
in Deer Lodge, Dawson. Richland. Prairie,
Valley, B~roadwater, Gallatin. Fergus,
Lake. Roosevelt Cascade, Meagher and
Silver Bow counties. Paving projects are
located in Cascade and Silver Bow coun-
ties.
For greater research work into the wild
plant and animal life of Montana, the
state fish II game commission in an
nual session vent or record to give not
in excess OF $4,000 toward q biological
station on the shores of Flathead lake.
in connection with the State university
plant. The research work will be started
after he close of the present school year
at the State university and will be under
the supervision of DIR. Morton j. Elrod.
professor of biology II director of bio
logical stations of the university.
State receipts for the month of April
totaled $500. 297, figures compiled in the
office of the state treasurer show. Dis
bursements for the same period amount
I'd TO s 1,914.385, or $94 ,087 more than
the income. The heavy expenditures, as
explained by Hans De Young. cashier,
resulted when the state paid of more
han $1,000, 900 to state schools from The
income fund last month and purchased
a large amount OF state general fund
warrants.
Citizens of Grass Range have filed a
protest with the state railroad commits
sion against the application Of Bennett
81 Vanney for a permit to operate q mo-
tor bus between Lewistown and Winnett.
The Grass Range petition asserts the ter
ritory is sufficiently served by the Mil
waukee railroad.
Mount Helena will be clear Of wood
ticks and any spotted fever ticks that
might exist IL the work Of the state board
of entomology proves successful. j. r.
Parker OF Montana State college. and
Theodore Dozois, assistant director OF the
water and sewage division Of the state
board of health, planted between 600 and
1000 tick parasites on the slopes Of the
mountain west Of the city.
The parasites. resembling gnats were
released on the sides Of the mountain
where cattle are grazing and where 1t
was apparent that there were q large
number Of gophers. The brush and tim
Der on those spots are believed by Mr.,
porrar to ha tha tdaal locafior for ticks