The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1929-08-01
FARM LOCALS

Eastern dudes Vacatl0nlng on
Montana and Wyoming ranches will
be sent special invitations to attend
the Midland Empire Fair September
2, which is being designated as dude
ranch" day.
An information charging the Ar
mour Creameries company with mis-
branding packages of butter was filed
in the United States district court at
Helena. The government charges that
shipments from Miles City to Cali
fornia contained short weight pack
ages.
Twenty-Five carloads of wool have
been shipped from Ingomar this sea-
son over the Milwaukee railroad, and
four more cars will probably be
shipped a little later. This makes APP
proximately 100000 pounds of wool
shipped from Ingomar this season,
Estimated at 30 cents per pound the
wool will bring the owners $4,000.
Alex Holstrom, superintendent of
the A. B. Cook ranches, known to have
been instrumental in building up the
famous herd of thoroughbred Here
ford cattle, and Jap Stewart, manager
of the Castle Mountain Cattle and
Sheep company, made trip to pur-
chase from Cyrus A. Tow of Green
wood, Neb., six of the finest of Mr..
Tow's herd of bulls.
Miss Ruth Youngken of Butte,
whose essay on meat won the state
championship and placed third among
contestants in II western states in
the sixth national meat story contest
for high school girls conducted re-
Gently by the national livestock and
meat board The title of Miss Young
ken's essay was Cuts of Meat and
Methods of Cooking" A record num-
Der of essays was submitted from
every state in the union.
Upon nature, not men, is placed the
blame for heavy losses in the elk
herds of Yellowstone park. Robert H.
Hill, state game warden, learned dur
ing his recent visit to the park that
foxtail, a menace to Montana stock
men, also is a threat to game Will
liam Rush of the national park serv-
ice told Mr. Hill that the elk, after
eating foxtail, develop an infection
which resembles diptheria and kills
scores.
The Settle clip of 10000 pounds of
wool was weighed out and shipped
to the SHERMAN company of Chicago.
1t averaged 1927 pounds, one of the
heaviest clips reported in Martinsdale.
Frank Girscher, Ehlera Nielsen and
Tom Christensen drove bunch of cat
tie into the new pens at Hogeland for
shipment to Chicago. There will be
two carloads, and this is the first
shipment of cattle from Hogeland
over the new branch line of the Great
Northern.
A crop report published by the
Manitoba Free Press says the condi-
tion of the wheat and coarse grain
crop in western Canada shows a
marked deterioration since June 20,
due to lack Of rainfall, high tempera-
lures and hot drying winds. Summer
fallow wheat has stood the drouth
we'll while stubble and fall and spring
plowed wheat crops have suffered ma
terially and in many places are be-
lieved to be failure, the report says.
Oats and barley are generally short
and late. Traces of rust have been
found in southern Manitoba.
Bozeman Canning company starts
operations with normal output of peas
and beans in prospect
Present indications point to quite
a substantial increase in average
sugar beet tonnage over last year, ac-
cording to c. W. Doherty, manager Of
the Billings factory of the Great
Western Sugar company. The aver
age condition at the present time is
roughly estimated by him as Is per
cent better than last year and with
favorable conditions from now on the
yield will be approximately 11.5O tons
to the acre. Last year the average
was a little less than 10 tons