The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1929-05-16
Farm Happenings

Montana crop prospects are gen.
orally very good but the feed supply
is exhausted, ]. C. Taylor, director of
the Montana extensive service, re-
ports.
A special train from Seattle to Sid
ney, over the Northern Pacific rail-
way, transported $50 Philippine la
borers to the beet fields of the Holly
Sugar company.
A carload of purebred and high
grade 2-year-old bred Holstein heif-
ers will be brought in by the Riehland
county extension service, in co-opera-
tion with the Agricultural Credit
corporation, from New Salem, N. D.
A carload of eggs was shipped to
Duluth from Sidney, shipment being
made by the Mandan Creamery COM
pany. This is the first~carload of eggs
ever shipped from this point and if de-
liveries warrant a carload will be
shipped from Sidney every week.
Dave Pronovost of Poison, is shoe
ing 400 head of horses at the Bud
Brouns ranch in the Big Draw coun-
try for the United States forest serv-
ice. Mr.. Pronovost with help expects
to complete the work in two weeks.
He has had the government contract
for this work for a number of years.
A bill to authorize the construction
of an impounding dam for the irriga-
ton of government lands, to regulate
the flow of the Flathead river, Clark's
Fork and the Columbia river, Mon
tana, and for the improvements of
navigation was introduced at Wash
ington, D. c., by Senator Wheeler of
Montana.
Montana ranks third in the west in
forest and park land under state or
municipal control, according to data
secured by the Montana Automobile
association. It's $4,000 acres of for
ests place the state sixth in the nation
in this respect, Secretary A. ]. Bret
tenstein points out. Idaho and Wash
ington outranks Montana in forest
and park land among western states,
while they, in turn, are outranked in
the nation by Michigan, Pennsylvania
and New York.
Murray E. Stebbins, secretary of
the Montana Woolgrowers association.
received a report recently on what he
said probably was the first sale of
wool clip in Montana this year. The
report said E. w. Smith, living 40
miles north of Dillon, sold $500
fleeces from half-blood sheep to Sill
herman & Sons of Chicago at 33 cents
pound.
Senator John w. Schnitzler of Froid,
Montanas flying farmer, who has
converted 5000 acres of Montana land
into the second biggest successfully
operated farm in the west, and has
done so much to build up interest in
aviation in the Treasure state, will be
a passenger on the Graf Zeppelin on
it's next flight from Lakehurst to
Fredrichshafen.
Marie, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
H. E. Dickson, was bitten by young
rattlesnake at the ranch of her par
ents south of Laurel. She suffered no
i'll effects. The girl had gone to a
granary for sacks for her father. On
the trip yong RATHER struck her on
the ankle, and the child ran screaming
to Mr.. Dickson, with the snake attach
ed by its fangs to her stocking. Mr..
Dickson detached the reptile and took
off Maries stocking. The skin had
been broken and he opened the wound
with knife and then applied turpen-
tine.
Approximately 10000 acres of state
mortgage lands leased to farmers on
the crop share plan brought about
1000 to Montana's Golfers during
1928, incomplete figures compiled by
L. E. Choquette, state land agent, re-
vealed recently. Most of the acreage
lies in Hill, Choteau, Blaine, Toole and
Liberty counties and other parts of
northern Montana. This years revenue
already exceeds that of 1927 by
$4,000. About one-half of the land
under lease has been sold to lessees,
and Mr.. Choquette said good crop
this year would result in sale Of the
| other half.