The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1929-06-27
FARM LOCALS

Sale of 5000 fleeces of the Carter
county wool pool at S5 cents a pound
was reported to the Montana Wool
Growers association offices at Helena.
Indications are that there will be
larger movement of grain and live
stock from Monta-a this year than
last.
President Hoover signed the Leavitt
bill providing funds for operation and
maintenance of the Glasgow division
Of the Milk river reclamation project
during the fiscs' year starting July l.
Merle Miller, AZ, who died at his
ranch south of Hysham recently, a
victim of the Rocky Mountain fever,
was the first death from spotted fever
on record in Treasure county out of
Is cases reported during the last 10
years.
Peerless, only three years old, is
fast becoming one of the most import
ant shipping points in northeastern
Montana. Already 100000 bushels of
wheat raised in 1928 has been market
ed and shipped in 399 cars from that
place.
Sheepmen of Saltwater county are
pleased at some of the recent wool
sales throughout the west. In some
reports prices of 35 cents have been
mentioned, which leaves the general
impression that the amount to be
paid local woolgrowers will be above
that figure.
Entries for the ram sale to be held
September at Billings in connection
with the Midland Empire fair will
close July l and high-grade lot of
purebreds will be offered, according
to Murray Stebbins, secretary of the
Montana Woolgrowers' association,
who has charge of entries.
The Richland county extension serv-
ice will soon bring into the territory
a carload of pure bred and high grade
two-year-old Holstein heifers. Orders
for nearly the entire carload have
been received from local farmers. The
county extension service will do this
in conjunction with the Agricultural
Credit corporation.
According to Murray E. Stebbins,
secretary OF the Montana Woolgrow-
ers' association, more than 1900
sheep already have been listed for
the ram sale, an annual event Of the
Montana State fair at Helena. The
sale is a service of the woolgrowers'
association to the sheep industry Of
| the state
H. A. Mayer, vice president of S.
SHERMAN & Sons of Chicago, an
nounced the purchase through their
Billings agent, J. A. Hanlon, of the
William B. Johnson wool clip of about
1880 fleeces at 1874 cents, the high
est price thus far reported in any
Montana or Wyoming wool sale. The
Johnson clip which was grown on the
Crow Indian reservation, south of
Billings, is considered one of Mon
tana's choicest.
Application for inspection of reg
istered fields of alfalfa should be sent
to the secretary Of the Montana Seed
Growers association, Bozeman, at
once, announces L. D. Kurtz, secre-
tary Of the association. Inspection of
fields starts some time in July and
the increased number of growers this
year makes it imperative that the
acreage to be inspected be known i'm
mediately.
According to the latest report of
the Montana stockmen to the state
federal crop reporting service, con-
tinued cold weather throughout April
and the greater part of May with pre-
cipitation much below normal in most
sections of the state, retarded range
growth and prevented livestock from
gaining much in flesh, but heavy rains
during the last week in May and the
first week in June have practically
reversed these unfavorable conditions.
According to the United States de-
partment of agriculture the farmer
who sells his cream on butter fat
basis should adjust the separator SO
that the cream will test about 35 per
cent butter fat. One of the advantages
OF such cream over the low-testing
cream is that more of the skim milk
is kept on the farm. One thousand
pounds of milk testing per cent but
ter fat produces ia pounds of cream
testing 30 per cent, or 200 pounds
testing 20 per cent. The difference in
weight, sc pounds, is skim milk for
which the farmer gets no pay if he
sells the lowertesting cream.