The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1929-07-04
RURAL HAPPENINGS


pool announced that all bids for the
pools clip of wool which were opened
recently, have been rejected. The
highest bid was 29A cents by S. Sill
herman & Sons. The directors an
nounce that they want at least 50
cents pound for their wool and are
willing to wait.
Livestock conditions in the south
eastern part of Montana are the best
in the history of the industry, DR..
w. J. Butler, state veterinarian, and
E. A. Phillips, secretary of the Mon
tana livestock commission, declared
at Helena on their return from Broad
us, where they organized stockmen's
association.
Close observers declare that crop
conditions in eastern Montana were
never better at this time of the year.
More than nine inches of rain has
been precipitated in this section dur
| ing the last four weeks and as re-
suit small grains look well. Many
farmers have seeded larger acreage
of flax.
w. H. G. Miller of Sacramento and
his husky band of ten sheep shearers
have arrived and are hard at work
! trimming up the flocks of Fergus
county. Mr.. Miller and crew have
been making this territory annually
during the shearing season for the
past 40 years and are considered as
top hands at the clipping game by all
the big woolgrowers of this section.
The sheep shearing plant at lingo
mar, one of the largest in the state,
has opened the shearing season. Sever
Hagen's band went through the pens
first. This plant is owned by a stock
company composed of sheepmen OF the
northwestern part Of Rosebud county.
This year only stockholders sheep
will be sheared in the plant. Eighteen
shearers are operating machines.
A petition for roundup of owner
less horses to include the whole fof
Fergus county has been denied by the
county commissioners. The petition
came in with all requirements of the
law met, apparently, but check of
the petitioners developed that most of
them did not posses qualifications
necessary, so it was thrown out. The
petition, it is said, will be renewed
later.
Two cars of wool, which comprise
the wool clip Of the Lake County
Woolgrowers' association for 1929,
has been shipped from Poison. 1t was
sold to Boston firm for 33 cents
pound. A little more than $4,000
was realized for the wool and it repre-
sents production Of % Lake county
sheepmen. This is small as COM
pared with clips of other associations
but the sheep industry in Lake county
is still in its infancy as few sheep
were raised here until the last four
years.
One Of the most prominent turkey
raisers of Montana, j. G. Darrah OF
Roy, says he has approximately 1000
young turkeys. Mr.. Darrah has shown
some of his turkeys at all poultry
| SHOWS ana IdlTS IOE lllt pe1oC lew yCdl0
including county, state and national
shows, and he always wins a large
share of the prizes. Mr.. Darrah says
his young turkeys this year are
stronger and better than ever before.
He has been experimenting with many
different kinds Of feed, but finds that
the best he has found is curds. He
milks 20 cows, sells the cream and
uses skim milk for turkey feed as well
as other feed.
A carload of horses were shipped
from Nashua to the cannery at Butte
by a horsebuyer, William Dawson. He
accompanied the shipment. Range
horses in this vicinity are becoming
rather scare, owing to the large num-
bers that have been shipped to mar
kets.
Many wool buyers are active in
eastern Montana and North Dakota,
Matt Staff, president Of the National
Wool exchange at Boston, said after
trip through those regions. He said
the latest reported sale of wool was
that of 10000 fleeces at Billings for
a3A cents a pOund