The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1929-05-30
Rural Happenings

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The Montana State Poultry associ-
alton will hold its annual meeting at
Billings, September 5, during the Mid
land Empire fair.
State board of examiners authorized
issuance Of advertisements for bids
on the new $4,000 sheep barn to be
erected at the state fairgrounds.
Sales of five lots of wool at from 80
to 81 IA cents a pound at Rawlins,
Wyo., have been reported to the Mon
tana Woolgrowers' association offices
at Helena.
G. B. Pope, known throughout the
northwest at one time as one of its
largest stockmen, died at the home of
daughter in Los Angeles.
State department Of agriculture dis
closes that 5,251 tractors were sold in
Montana last year, compared with
1907 in 1927; the increase in combines
was from $50 to 1862.
Continuing a steady increase that
has been noted since 1923, crop and
livestock sales from 1928 productions
are valued at 2.39 per cent more than
those from the 1927 crop, says the
state department of agriculture.
P. J. Moore, q Twodot sheepman,
has contracted for the purchase of a
Travelair plane with Challenger
motor. The plane will accommodate
two passengers.
Murray E. Stebbins, secretary of
the Montana Woolgrowers association
has returned to Helena from Town
send, where he assisted in organiza-
ton of the Broadwater county wool
pool for the coming season.
Blaine county produced 100000 of
the 2,156,O00 bushels of rye grown
in Montana in 1928 and retained its
first rank position. Montana placed
sixth in the nation, but its crop to-
tailed about 100000 bushels less than
in 1927, when it ranked seventh.
Sixteen hundred cars of sugar beets
will be brought to the Missoula fac
tory of the Amalgamated Sugar COM
pany this year, according to Northern
Pacific railway officials. This will be
nearly four times the volume of the
beet crop harvested and shipped to the
Missoula plant during this, the first
season of operation.
Elmer Croker of Belt found den
of rattlesnakes near the Talbot ranch
between Belt and Riceville and sue
ceeded in killing 80 of them with 20
caliber rifle. The reptiles were in a
more or less dormant state and it IS
thought Croker exterminated the en-
tire den. Several of the snakes were
large and furnished a rather thrilling
exhibit when displayed at Belt.
Decision to start membership
drive in an effort to decrease overhead
expense and increase the marketing
power of the organization was made
bv members of the Montana Bean
Growers association in annual meet
ing held in Billings. The group also
voted to have only one pool next year
instead Of two, as was the case in
1928.
About 800 acres of sugar beets have
been planted in the Fairview district
this spring. The Holly Sugar corpora
ton of Sidney has contracted for g
larger acreage than any previous yea1
since it has operated in the Yellow.
stone valley. Of the 25O Filipinos re-
Gently shipped into Sidney to work II
the beet fields 60 will be brought tt
the Fairview district.
The hay situation in Montana is II
a critical stage, warns l.. D. Kurtz, ex
tension agronomist at Montana State
college. At this time the state repor1
shows hay stocks Of 295,000 tons as
compared to $4,000 tons for last yea
at this time. If another severe winte'
should follow, it will find stockmei
with considerably hay shortage I'm
less supplies are replenished this sea
son.
Fergus county ranked first in tota
of all crops produced during 1928, wit
S6,458, 300, records of the crop esti
mating bureau show.
! In comparison with other states i
t production of its principal crops, Mon
tana, in 1928, says the department
I agriculture, raised in rank in wlnte
! wheat, rye, apples, alfalfa seed an
. tame hay, held it's 1927 rank in sprin
0 wheat, flax, all hay and wild hay, an
. dropped point or two compared wit
1927 ranking in oats, barley, corn, pr
b tatoes, beans and sugar beets. Qualit
of crops produced also held up in ran
or gained slightly.