The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1929-06-06
FARM LOCALS

Lewis and Clark county, with 279,-
900 bushels, led in potato production
in 1928, forcing Flathead, 1927 lead
ers, into second place.
With its Montana office to be To-
Gated at Great Falls, the Minneapolis
Moline Power Implement company
joins Montana's business ranks with
the intension of investing not more
than 100000 in the state.
An important rural telephone prof.
ect in Hill county, under considera-
tion, would develop truck line from
Havre to Simpson, with community
branches serving neighborhoods off
the main line.
It requires 600 grain elevators to
handle crops produced annually by
Montana farmers. A map in the COM
missioner of agriculture's office at the
state capitol indicates, with little
red pin, where each of the grain
houses is located.
Some 1000 fleeces have been signed
to be sold through the Phillips County
Woolgrowers association pool. Bids
for the wool will be received late in
June or early in July. The Phillips
County association now has SO men,
bers, with headquarters at Malta.e
More than 400 horses, roaming wild
on the ranges, were rounded up and
herded into the corrals at Roy, where
owners were permitted to claim and
brand their colts. Some of the horses
were sold to horsemeat packing con-
Germ and those claimed were turned
out on the range.
County Agent Ben Daggett of Hill
county, warned farmers to be on the
lookout for bad pasture as a result |
of one farmers losing 81 pigs from
what he called cookie burr poisoning.
Sugar beets in the Billings district
have not been seriously damaged by
cold weather and occasional frosts of
the past.
Frank Alsen, farmer living about
Is miles east of Waller, was seriously
injured while blowing that amputa-
ton of leg was necessary. He said
that he left his tractor to make an
adjustment on plows it was pulling
and that when he crawled in front
of the pillow the tractor started.
The house ways and means COM
mittee decides to recommend an
amendment to the tariff bill in con-
gress to increase the duty on flax
seed to 60 cents a bushel. In 1929
Montana legislature. sent memorial
to congress asking that the tariff on
flax be strengthened.
Having lost wheat field last fall,
Dan Yauck, a farmer in the Cabin
creek region near Ismay, in the east
ern portion of Custer county, has just
found it. This is the first time in
the history of agriculture in Montana
that farmer lost a wheat field. It
is explained that Mr.. Yauck lives in
the Cabin creek breaks, where the
terrain is rough. Most of his farm
ing is done in little patches up and
Town coulees, between buttes and
wherever else he can find enough of
The earth's surface on level in which
% sink pillow. When going oyer his
olace during the last few weeks he
'ound a little four-acre patch of
wheat he had overlooked last fall. 1t
vas behind some buttes where it
ould not be seen and was forgotten
Until located this spring.
Montana's wheat crop this year will
reak all previous records, is the be-
lef of P. J. Coleman of Minneapolis,
lstrict manager of farm service for
he American Railway association,
7ho visited the state recently.
Three hundred and fifty Filipinos
rought to the Lower Yellowstone ir-
igation project from the Pacific
cast recently for field labor in beet
elds, was the cause of the Bismark =
rocery company, Sidney wholesale :
istributors, receiving carload of {
ice, which will be distributed to gro q
cry merchants in the valley. De- s
very Of the rice is now being made.