The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1929-07-18
FARM NOTES

The Ingomar shearing plant is
nearing the end of its years run.
Twenty-Five men are employed to
shear the sheep and the Australian
wool carrying system is used.
J. R. Carmichael, prominent sheep
man of Augusta, sold band of year
ling ewes to c. A. Dyer, rancher of
Cascade. The ewes brought $14 per
head, which is considered an excellent
price.
A hundred carloads of head lettuce
will be shipped out of the Bitter Root
valley this year, according to advance
estimates received by traffic officials
of the Northern Pacific railway.
Halle Olmstead, Indiana farmer,
learned why one of his cows gave no
milk. He spied on the COW, he said,
and saw blacksnake wind itself
around the animals rear legs and
take the milk from her udder. The
COW seemed content with the opera
ton, he said.
Sixty sheep died near Plains from
eating poisonous weed, DR.. Had
LEIGH Marsh, state pathologist Of the
livestock sanitary board, reports after
trip to western Montana with his
father, Dr. G. D. Marsh, who is in
charge of poisonous plant investiga-
tons for the United States depart
ment of agriculture.
G. G. Moore, field man for the As
ISOLATED Pea Growers Of Montana,
reports that the 1900 acres of peas
being grown in Teton county are in
fine condition. Most of the growers
are irrigating and with continued hot
weather, the peas have made a rapid
growth. According to Mr.. Moore, the
farmers are enthusiastic over the out
look Of the crop.
Observations made on the three
| days from tour in the wheat growing
and general farming area in Yellow
stone and Saltwater counties in which
more than $50 farmers took part in
dictate that farmers there are going
in for wheat-livestock combination
of farming, are turning an increased
acreage to pasture, and that there is
a greater acreage of good summer
| fallowed land than ever before.
Word has b en- received at Forsyth
| that Grossfield G. Milgren sold their
wool clip of 125,OO0 pounds for 3134
cents pound, or total of $39, $3.50,
to Dragner's of Boston and shipped
it from Ingomar. More than 10000
pounds of wool has also been reported
! shipped to the National Wool ware
house at Boston. This is the second
large shipment of wool to be made
from Rosebud county this year.
Montana's pig crop for 1929 will be
about the same size as that for 1928
the publicity division of the state de-
partment of agriculture reports. An
expansion in hog numbers is indicated,
however, by 80 per cent increase II
number of sows bred or to be bred
for narrowing this fall, a survey
shows. 1t reveals that the average
number of pigs saved from each litter
this spring was higher than last. The
average litter for the 1929 crop was
6 as compared with 81 for both fall
and spring crops OF 1873.
While he said the farm relief meas
ure passed by congress would increase
the price of wheat a or 5 cents
United States Senator I. }. Walsh
speaking before group of farmers
and business men at Bozeman, de-
clared that even the strongest sup
porters of the bill did not expect il
to increase the purchasing power OF
the farmers dollar to its level of pre-
war DAYS. Senator Walsh explained
in detail the proposed working Of the
measure. He asserted the debenture
plan, which failed to pass, would have
brought farmers 20 cents bushel
more for their wheat.
With the closing of reports june
80 at the Great Northern station al
Nashua, the total number of bushels
of wheat and flax shipped during the
1928-1929 season was $4,000 bu-
shells.
The big elevator erected at Hoge-
land by Minneapolis building firm
far farmers of the Big Flat country
has been turned over to Manager
Harry Becker. Farmers have begun
to haul wheat and during all of one
night more than 80 trucks were I'M
loaded. The manager says that II
cars of wheat have been shipped tt
Minneapolis.