The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1930-04-24
RANCH NEWS

meeting at Roundup and arrange
ments were made to form wool pools
at Roundup and Lavina.
The Holly Sugar company at Sid
ney has offered farmers a 81 ton beet
contract, and announced an antici-
pated acreage of 10000 acres under
the lower Yellowstone project.
R. P. Terrett, the big cattleman of
Tongue river country south of Miles
City has purchased a car load of
young Hereford bulls from the John
Hill ranch of Drummond.
A Chinook man, John Dick, has in
vented a beet topping machine, which
has attracted favorable notice among
those interested in the industry. He
has been granted patent.
County Clerk and Recorder Frank
E. Mersen of Glasgow reports as ap-
plications for federal seed loans by
Valley county farmers. These were
made the first day applications could
be received.
Charleston, in Gallatin county, pos
sibly best known as the home of W..
L. Stockton, vice president of the
Montana Farm Bureau federation,
lists 1S9 citizens for the 1880 census.
It's 1920 population was given as 49,.
After making an investigation on
the 1929 yield in Sheridan county, the
district will be given $4,000 for seed
loan purposes. Farmers may apply
up to the amount of $500. There are
strict qualifications on loans.
A prize dairy herd of milking
Shorthorns was purchased from the
Fort Assinniboine experiment station
by Roy Hamilton, a stoekman east of
Conrad. This is considered one of the
finest herds ever brought into Pom
era county.
Western Montana stockmen have
negotiated lease of 10000 acres of
grazing land, probably the largest
acreage ever to be held in the Mis-
soula district for cattle range. Much
of the land has been grazed by sheep
in the past and extends over region
of from II to 20 miles.
Farmers in the Opheim region are
preparing for spring seeding and
many will apply for funds through
the federal seed and feed loan. Petit
tions to Montana legislators for aid
organized at Glentana and Opheim,
both places being badly hit by adj
verse crop conditions.
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Sid Norbury, prominent farmer of
the Elmer vicinity in the northern
part of Rosebud county, has perhaps
the largest litter of pigs ever raised
in the county. Sixteen registered
Duroc Jersey pigs were born on his
farm recently, the mother being a
550-pound Jersey sow. AS all of the
pigs could not nurse at one time, Mr..
Norbury had to take some of them
away from her.
According to an opinion expressed
by Gov. Erickson, liens held by the
state on agricultural crops do not
stand in the way of federal seed loans.
Under Montana statutes, the states
liens are secondary to seed and thresh
ermen's liens, therefore no waiver is
necessary, in his opinion, from the
state land board, to permit acceptance
of the governments offer to finance
the farmers in the drought areas.
Paul Carpenter, extension econ
omist of the Bozeman State college
advises Montana flax growers to
watch carefully reports of state OF
flax seed, the amount of the yearly
production in the United States and
other evidence of the too great inter-
est shown in the raising of this crop
which has been brought on by the
nationwide campaign started since
March | to reduce wheat acreage.
J. H. Hofstetter, dairyman In the
Yellowstone valley near Miles City,
has been notified that his two-year-
old Holstein heifer is one with a
worlds record. The information came
from the Holstein-Fresian Associa-
ton of America, with headquarters in
Chicago. The heifer is credited with
1906 pounds of milk containing 413.6
pounds of butter fat in one year. The
record, which was made on two daily
milkings, is equal to $50 pounds of
butter fat at maturity, is the state
ment.
Montana beans may now compete
with those raised in Utah, south
ern Idaho and Colorado, in the
markets of the gulf and in Algiers
Cuba and other ports of the south
ern waters. The Montana railroad
commission has received word that the
carriers have granted to Montans
shippers the same rates enjoyed fol-
some time by growers of other states
County Agent Paul Lewis of Miles
| City reported the Custer County Ship
pers' association shipped 269 hogs t.
Seattle market during the last few
days. The hogs brought the top pric,
Of $10.65. The shipment included
porkers grown by Custer and Powde,
River farmers.