The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1929-08-08
FARM NOTES

DR.. N. B. Smith of Billings, was
appointed to the state board of ex-
aminers in veterinary surgery for
four-year term by Governor Erick-
son.
One of the largest stock movements
from single herd in western Mon
tana is under way in the Bitter Root
valley, just south of Missoula. The
former Maclay herd of beef cattle,
purchased some time ago by U. V.
Diteman, is to be shipped to market.
The cattle are being sent to the Sc
attic market by the buyer. Cattle
prices are at top scale at the present,
it is said, making the deal profitable.
Application for permission to build
32-mile extension of its present
Richey branch west from Richey was
filed with the interstate commerce
commission at Helena. The new line,
it is explained, will tap several thou
sand acres of tillable soil and appli-
cation for permission to construct fol-
lowed repeated requests from farm
ers of the locality.
A. W. Henry, herder, killed a
large black bear near the head of
Shields river, where some of the
Bair sheep are on the summer range.
The bear was trying to kill sheep
when discovered by Mr.. Henry. The
animal fell with the first shot. Bears
have been giving considerable trouble
to the herders in the mountains. Many
interesting battles have been report
ed and in some instances the herders
have narrowly escaped injury.
A new policy will be pursued by the
Montana fish and game commission
in the matter of feeding the wild birds
throughout the Flathead valley during
the time when SHOWS cover the feed
ing places. Thomas N. Marlowe, chair
man of the commission, was in Poison
recently instructing Deputy Game
Warden Jack Goldsby to purchase
wheat in the sheaf in eight different
locations in the valley and this will
be scattered instead of the shelled
grain as heretofore.
Three carloads of Musselshell coun-
ty horses bound for the Miles City
Horse Produce company, were shipped
out of Roundup recently by Sandy
Halpin. The Miles City Horse Pro-
duce company at present is butcher
ing about 20 head of horses a day,
but according to Lewis Steele of
Miles City, who is in charge of opera
tions, the old packing plant will soon
be fixed up and enlarged. 1t is the
plan to make it about three times its
present size.
The Bitter Root Dairy Herd I'M
provement association led all associa-
lions in butterfat and milk production
for the month of June, according to
j. O. Tretsven, superintendent of the
associations. The association aver
aged 80 pounds of butterfat and 780
pounds of milk. The Lewis and Clark
county association was second with
an average of 28.4 pounds of butter
fat and ITO pounds of milk, and the
Yellowstone county association was
third with averages of 1873 pounds OF
butterfat and 1883 pounds of milk.
The Big Horn county wool pool,
comprising IS growers, have shipped
from Hardin $4,000 pounds of wool
on consignment to the National Wool
exchange at Boston, where is is to be
held until satisfactory price is OBJ
tanned when it will be sold.
A nice lot of head lettuce is being
shipped out of the Bitter Root and
Gallatin valleys, amounting to around
$50 carloads. Shipments are being
made into eastern and southern ter
ritory. This represents practically
new industry for the state. There is
a good apple and cherry crop this
year in the Bitter Root country.