The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1930-05-01


Application of the Oregon Short
Line for reduction in it's assessed
valuation in Montana was heard on
Thursday by the state board of equal
ization.
w. G. Kellogg, one of Americas
most prominent figures in the grain
business resigned as general manager
Of the Farmers National Grain cor
poration, subsidiary of the federal
farm board.
Farmers Of Rosebud county are
getting their work we'll under way in
may communities, while in some sec
lions of the county the seeding of
grain was started the latter part of
March.
Soil moisture conditions through
out the greater part of the state are
favorable which, with seasonable
weather during the remainder of
April and in May will make new grass
somewhat earlier than last year.
Condition of ranges and sheep show
slight improvement during March,
while the condition Of cattle re-
NAMED the same as a month ago,
according to reports of stockmen to
the state-federal crop reporting SER
vice.
At meeting of the executive COM
mittee, Harry Lay, chairman, in
charge of arrangements for the an
nual Montana Livestock association
convention at Lewistown, May 26 to
80, reported the present indications
are that more than 1000 stockmen
and others will attend.
Farm shop students Of the Manhat-
tan community high school are now
busily engaged in making the triangle
shaped type of hog house, hog self
feeders, chicken self-feeders and water
troughs, states w. 0. Zirnstein, voca-
tional instructor. Plans for the above
articles may be secured from the
above address.
Although situated in the mineral
and industrial center of the state
Butte is the location of the Montana
Service corporation, concern which
manufactures almost S1,000,000 worth
of dairy products year, according tc
information furnished the Butte
chamber of commerce in an industrial
survey being conducted by the state
division of publicity.
The first shipment of beet laborers
to be brought into the Billings terri
tory for the 1880 beet season arrived
in Billings last week and were assign
ed to the farmers who have contracts
with them. Farmers have for thu
most part finished treating their lant
with phosphate. There is now but on'
more carload of the phosphate to b
distributed within the district. Abou
65 per cent of the total beet acreag
will have been treated with the phos
phate fertilizer this year.
Within the last year a growing de
mand has asserted itself for bette
tvpes of horses for work in centra
and eastern states, animals weighing
upwards of 1900 pounds being in de
mand at prices ranging from 500 up
ward Horses have been shipped from
Montana to Illinois, Indiana, Mis-
souri,. Iowa and occasionally as ia
east as Buffalo, N. T., and the NeN
England states, where tractor farm
ing is not pracIlcaDle because " oina
farms and the rocky nature of tn
soil.
Although the weather of the las
several weeks has been comparativel
mild and practically all the sn. v ha
disappeared from the lower elevs
!. tons, the condition of cattle is re
ported on April l as showing yer
little change from March, which
undoubtedly due to low hay supple
and lack of old grass on the range
! Five hundred and twenty-five pa
! ! ents Of students attending the stat
university at Missoula this quartz
own farms, according to a question
naire issued at the beginning of Il
spring quarter. The questionnail
was issued at the request Of the Mo-
8 tina citizens referendum campall
" committee.