The Carbon County news., 1929-05-09
RANCH NEWS

II. d. Messing OF f1oDS0H, WHO udS
been sowing part of his land to sweet
clover every year since 1926, has
found that mixing a small amount of
timothy seed with the sweet clover
seed is very beneficial to the soil.
A new survey of the Roy district
indicates a gain of 20 per cent in the
wheat acreage this year as compared
with last season. The Winifred dis
trict will also show a gain but in sew
eral others decrease is indicated.
Farmers all over Fergus county
and particularly in the Winifred dis
trict have been plowing of late by
moonlight. Operating tractors night
and day has enabled them to get
great amount of field work done.
Among the number of freak lambs
reported by ranchers on the Blair
ranch, near Martinsdale, boasts of a
pair of lambs, which look as though
they might be related to a zebra.
Black stripes decorate the heads and
legs.
Spring seeding around Columbia
Falls is about all finished except for
the oats and barley. The ground is
in excellent condition and the winter
wheat is much better than for years
past. A good acreage is being planted
as all are optomistic about getting
big production this year.
Montana's total farm income in
1928 was $153, 3,775,O00, estimates the
federal state crop reporting service
at Helena in its annual summary, an
increase over the 1927 income of
S1,772,000. The increase is ascribed
principally to larger marketings and
higher levels of livestock prices.
Spring work in the Milk River ter
ritory has been retarded considerably
on account of the late season. Work
in the fields is well under way now
and many farmers are looking for
ward to the last day of work. Farm
ers of the Harlem community are
planting a larger acreage of grain
than last year and all are optimistic
over the outlook for good crop.
Another freak lamb, born alive on
the Smith ranch near Martinsdale, is
attracting considerable attention. 1t
possesses two bodies, eight legs, one
neck, one head with three eyes, one
on each side of the head and one on
top, and two mouths, one in front and
one in back of the head. The men at
the lambing camp killed the animal
soon after birth.
Thirteen counties attained leader
ship in some type of agriculture last
year, records of the federal crop re-
porting bureau indicate. Fergus
county took first ranking in winter
wheat production from Chouteau
county. Flathead took honors from
Gallatin county for quantity of rye
produced, but Gallatin was first in
both field and canning peas.
Sheepmen throughout the Harlow
ton section are reporting a fine lamt
crop with few losses. Sheep are nearly
all in good condition and prospects are
favorable for heavy and good quality
fleeces. Most sheepmen report more
than 100 per cent Inability of lambs
this year, and the fact that few lambs
are lost is attributed to the weather
conditions, which although not ideal
were favorable.
According to Douglas Parker, cash
ier of the First international bank a
Sweet Grass, the bulk of lambs ar,
contracted in Toole county to the +
w. Fox & Co. livestock commission
firm of Billings on basis of 13 cent
a pound for eve lambs and IL cent
for wethers. A few lambs have bee
purchased by the V. M. company Q
Great Falls. 1t is estimated that 30
900 lambs were purchased in Tool
county last month.
Increase in acreage for beets an
, beans was reported as substantial b
E. E. Roddis, district counsel for tn
) bureau of reclamation, for the lowe
Yellowstone valley region. Nor
} beets than ever before have bee
. planted in the valley this year, tn
acreage sown being placed at 75O
about 1900 acres more than in 1872
while planting of 5000 acres of bear
i in the district involves an increas
over the acreage of previous years.
t More than $4,000 wheat protei
t tests were made during the last yea
: in Montana's seven laboratories,
It H. Moran, chief of the laboratory {
: Great Falls, announced.
All winter long a woman fed bar
It of mountain sheep in Glacier Nation
IS Park, So miles back from the Gre;
1T Northern railway. She is Mrs. Ere
G Thompson, wife of the caretaker
e Many Glacier hotel, which is locate
l. just few miles south of the Canada
IL border. Mrs. Thompson says they g
\, just as tame as they are hungl
ID when the blizzards drive them dow