The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1930-05-22
SPECIAL FARM TRAIN
DATES ANNOUNCED
To Visit The South Central And
Eastern Montana

SpeclaI Train winch VIII lOuI edStclH
and south central Montana under the
auspices of the Northern Pacific rail-
road and the Montana State college
extension service. The tour was an
nounced by J. G. Taylor, director of
| the extension service, after confer
ence between representatives of the
railroad and the extension depart
ment.
This special will be conducted for
the purpose of emphasizing the ne
cessity of reduction in labor costs and
outlining the marketing competition
Montana farmers are called upon to
meet. The train will carry Is cars of
farming equipment and three sars
of pertinent agricultural exhibits with
the theme of low cost production pre-
dominating.
The farming equipment will be
duplicates of the equipment now be-
F., ing used at the Montana experiment
station in its experimental work to
lower the cost of farming. During the
last five years tractors have come
into general farm use in Montana,
likewise the combined harvesters and
new types of tillage implements. The
exhibits will have to do with the in
telligent and economical operation Of
this form of equipment in lowering
production costs.
Three factors of production, land
labor and capital, with their need OF
managerial influence will be empha-
sized in the exhibits. The low cost
phase of farming showing the inter
dependence of the factors of produce
ton and the managerial ability will
also be stressed.
Exhibits will be on the train which
will cover farm practices in the terri
tory covered by the tour. Tillage and
summer fallow questions will be COW
cred by the agronomy exhibits. At
each stop an inspection of the train
by the farmers will be conducted by
The specialists and it is planned to
have meeting in each town visited
where farmers may discuss various
farm questions with the college spe-
,ialists on the train.
Pasture of large capacity has been
rather hard to find in many parts of
Montana in the past, but the Huntley
irrigated pasture mixture developed
at the Huntley reclamation project
after several years of experiments has
proven to be much needed pasture
for Montana cattlemen.
This mixture, including four grasses
and two clovers, will support seven
ewes and their lambs or two head of
larry cows per acre for about 135 days
IF spring, summer and fall season,
according to T. B. Holker, associate
extension agent at Huntley, who de-
scribed the pasture in a recent radio
,alk.
The mixture is: Smooth bronze
grass and meadow fescue, three to
four pounds each per acre; Kentucky
blue grass and orchard grass, four to
six pounds each per acre; white and
alsike clover, one to two pounds each
per acre. The general accepted
method of planting is with nurse
crop in the spring. Although early
pasture returns are somewhat higher
when spring seeding is done without
nurse crop the value of the nurse
crop more than offsets the difference
Thee years ago, Mr.. Penwell, to-
gether with Governor John E. Erick-
son and Eenator T. j. Walsh, organ
lied the Cooperative Sheep company
for the purpose of acquiring sheer
and letting them out on shares tt
farmers and small stockmen. The
Mutual Sheep company was organized
by the same men and others a veal
ago, and plans are now progressing
for the consolidation of the two com
panies into the Mutual Sheep com
pany with capital of approximate!
half million dollars.
The new organization will taxi
over from the two older companies
$4,000 head of sheep and plan tt
buy an additional 10000 head a
quickly as they can be picked up
Both of Mr.. Penwell's companie
have been remarkably successful
the first having paid IA per cen
in dividends each year since it
organization, and laid aside, in add
,, ton, cash surplus of $4,000. TIL
second company paid Is per cent Oh
it's capital for the year it has beef
in existance.
Montana's winter wheat crop viii
exceed last years and approximate
the five-year average if average grow
, ing conditions prevail between nov
and harvest time, the federal-stat
, crop reporting bureau estimates.
Winter wheat, with no extensive in
dications of winter kill, except in
few districts, is attaining good STAN
and early sown spring wheat is abov
the ground. Sugar beet seeding i
, practically completed and much of i
, is coming through.
, Ranges are improving rapidly an
livestock is already showing effects 0
, the fresh pasturage. Fair to excep
) tional lamb crops are indicated, wit
, few losses. Shearing is about to star
in some sections. Livestock is gen
orally in fair condition.
During the coming summer abou
) 5000 farmers of the middle west an
the east will visit Montana and tn
: Pacific northwest as members Of /
different tours, sponsored by farr
9 publications, according to information
/ received by J. F. Kelly, general agen
of the Great Northern railway.
/ Would Buy Bonds
A revolving fund to be used i
: handling land bank bonds has bee
! asked Of congress by the Nations
Grange, the American Farm. Burea
federation, the Farmers union an