The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1929-08-15
RURAL HAPPENINGS

RURAL HAPPENINGS
Harvesting of winter wheat, rye
and barley is under way, with early
yields ranging from five to twenty
bushels, the state department of ag-
riculture reports.
If anyone is planning trip to Sid
ney, come via automobile. The towns
last livery barn, big enough to stable
$50 head of horses and built in 1914
when the stable wasn't big enough, is
to be wrecked and built into a frame
garage. One may be able to stable a
car, but not a team.
While Montana crops have suffered
from lack of moisture, they have been
damaged less by hail this year than
last, E. K. Bowman, chairman of the
hail damage claims have been re-
ceived at the boards office to date, as
compared to $50 during the same Pc
Rod last year.
All records in wool prices were be-
lieved to be broken at Dillon when
the Selway sheep clip of 5000 fleeces
was sold to F. R. Hewlett of Boston
for 35 Ia cents. The SHERMAN COM
pany, through R. E. Foster, has also
bought number of smaller clips
for IS cents, while bids are out for
nearly all of the three-eighths blood
clips in the county at around the
same figure. The Sheridan pool was
bought for 80 cents by G. R. Barney
James Bowman, foreman, and Will
liam Holt, an irrigator, both employed
by the Bair ranch at Martinsdale re-
port witnessing an interesting sight
seldom seen. When riding through the
alfalfa field near the old Jawbone
roadbed, rattlesnake jumped at Mr.
Bowman's horse. They heard no rat
ties but on close inspection found at
least 40 snakes, evidently migrating
to new territory. They killed one with
10 rattles and one with 9. The rest
escaped in the alfalfa.
Twenty-Five mules, all Richland
county raised, started rail and shiI
trek for Calcutta, India, recently The
British government is rounding up
5000 head to be used by the army
for pack mules and mounts for of
ficers in the service in India. The local
shipment, assembled by John Hurley.
was bound for. St. Lawrence, S. D.,
where the band is to be assembled
prior to the India voyage. 1t is re-
ported that this is the largest mule
roundup the west has ever known.
V. l.. Fischer, farmer of Waltham
has reported yield of As bushels an
acre of winter wheat just harvested
on a field of 60 acres. A second field
of 80 acres has produced an average
yield of 55 bushels an acre, says Mr..
Fischer. He says that in his section
most winter wheat will average be-
tween 40 and 45 bushels an acre and
points to these results in contrast to
a recent report to the effect that the
winter wheat in this section would
average ~ UuSHelS all acre.
More than ITO rams have been list
ed for consignment to the state ram
sale to be held September 25 and 26
in connection with the state fair at
Helena, Murray E. Stebbins, secretary
of the Montana Wool Growers asso-
citation, said Entries, he said, come
from outstanding breeders in Mon
tana, Oregon, Utah and Idaho. Two
Montana breeders, the secretary said,
will ship rams to the national sale at
Salt Lake City in August. DR.. H. c..
Gardiner of the Mt Haggin farms,
Anaconda, will ship Hampshires, and
Schulz & Son of Sheridan, will send
Rambouillets. Samples for the north
west wool show, also to be held dur
ing the state fair, are being received,
Mr.. Stebbins said.
Montana will harvest an average
grain crop this year, despit hot and
dry weather, Jay g. Diamond, federal
crop statistician, told members of the
staff of the state department of ag-
riculture at their monthly meeting.
The first car of green peas to be
shipped from the Gallatin valley left
recently over the Northern Pacific
from the Backes and Mort acreage
west of Bozeman. Additional cars of
peas and lettuce will be ready for
shipment by Backes and Mort in about
week or 10 days. Cauliflower will
start moving in carload lots about
August 25.