The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1929-07-11
Farm Happenings

Fifteen carloads of range horses
were loaded at Conrad and shipped to
the canning plant at Manchester. The
roundup district was southeast of
Conrad and east of Brady.
A joint application of the Great
Northern, Northern Pacific and Mil
waukee railways seeking to include
bran, shorts and middlings under the
tariff covering coarse grain has been
withdrawn, the Montana railroad
commission announced.
The wool movement in Rosebud
county opened up when 100000
pounds of wool were shipped on con-
signment to Charles J. Webb Sons
Co., Inc, of Philadelphia. This wool
consisted of about 10000 fleeces from
the Philbrick Land and Livestock
company of Rosebud and the remain
der was from smaller flocks at Rose
bud.
First delivery to the United States
navy of beef raised and slaughtered
in Montana has been made at San
Francisco by a packing firm of Butte,
E. A. Phillips, secretary of the Mon
tana Stock Growers association, an
nounces. with meat being sold by
Montana stockmen to the navy, it
may mean that so per cent of the
marketable cattle in the state will be
slaughtered and packed in Montana"
says Secretary Phillips.
Even the cattle rustlers are drop
ping old range habits and putting
their business" on a modern basis.
They have stopped using horses in
their work, and are now employing
large trucks to transfer stolen cattle
to secret ranches, or to coulees or
canyons where brands may be changed
at leisure. Although the truck meth
cd has lowered the volume of business
that can be handled, it has increased
the efficiency to such a degree, that
following of rustlers' tracks is practi-
cally impossible.
Standing in front of the store at
Boyes in the south country, doc"
Linville, who carries the mail between
Broadus, Powder River county, and
Boyes, attracted by a commotion
among some pigs a short distance
from the store, ran oyer and By his
prompt action succeeded in saving
the little son of Chester Bruce from
death. He saw a little white arm
waving in the air in the midst of The
hogs and running in, rescued the little
boy from the attacks of a SOW that
had the child down in the dirt and
was shaking him vigorously.
E. A. Phillips was named secretary
of the Montana Stoekgrowers' asSssocia-
ton at a joint nesting Of the Mon
tana Livestock commission and the
advisory board of the association,
held in Helena. Mr.. Phillips had been
granted years leave of absence by
the commission after having been it's
secretary for 20 years. The stock
growers association announced it
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membership from 600 to $500. Both
organizations expressed opposition to
the proposed increase in freight rates
on cattle shipments from Montana.
A malgamated Sugar company re-
pairing loading dumps at Charlo,
Pablo and Poison, preparatory to
shipping sugar beets. Crop this year
far exceeds that of last.
The Saltwater county wool pool,
regarded as the second largest in the
United States and consisting Of 49,
900 fleeces, weighing more than a
million pounds, has been consigned
to Elsemann Brothers of Boston,
Mass. The consignment was passed
upon by members Of the pool sale
committee. Three hundred and thirty
were interested in the
pool.