The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-08-29
There is Honey in the Fields Of Minnesota
And in Her Swamps the Blueberries Grow

Clover Growers Association Ine
tariff was raised from A to 8 cents
per pound. The principal imports
of assike clover seed come from
Canada.
at is quite obvious that with
tariff of s cents per pound or
$3.50 a bushel where the industry |
is on an importing basis, the tar
iff will be effective and very bene-
ficial to the farmers engaged IN
the industry.
Little Fork In the Lead.
"The U. S. department of agri-
culture estimates the average
production of alsike seed per acre
two bushels to two and half.
The average production for the
Little Fork section where farmers
have the advantage of virgin soil,
plenty of moisture and exception
ally cool weather during the fill
ing season, is approximately four
bushels to the acre, but the low
average is the result of a very con-
siderable amount of poor farming
Land properly titled in this section
Yields from six to ten bushels the
acre and there have been yields a;
high as twelve bushels per acre.
"The price of alsike clover dur
ing the past ten years has ruI
from ten 10 twenty-eight cents ;
: pound-averaging twelve to thir
] teen dollars bushel. The area L
l which alsike clover seed can b
profitably produced is very restric
ted. And the probability of rap
idly increasing production is Sigh
for the reason that land is cleare
slowly-so for the next ten year
e at least the business should pa!
: 1t is one of the few agriculture
u products for which distributors al
u offered a higher price in 1880 tina
q they did in 1929.
u "The average farmer in the Lii
/ tie Fork country, upon breakin
5 up his land usually sows it to GA
$ and barley and with the pats ar
IL barley he sows clover seed. II
IL first year he harvests his oats
y barley, then if there is no furth
W cultivation for the next two yea
he harvests clover seed and son
or take as many as three crops b
fore ploughing and re-seeding.
TX at is not at all uncommon f
ze a man to take from $3.50 to 81
T. an acre off the land before it
lg necessary to give it the seco,
H. blowing. In fact the largest clio
n er raiser in Little Fork terrific
OF in 1927 had a thirty-five acre fit
K from which he took $3.50 an aC
OK that year."
We Snaps Right Into Them
&c When Rueber halted his flow
hu words to spear a raw carrot, I
81 pressed my wOnderment that mC
ST. hungry farmers from the win
gh swept, sun-bitten prairies w
/ not making tracks for the clo'
paradise. With a wry smile
w advised me that most people C
llS not see the woods because
or trees obscure their vision and t
ser furthermore the Little Fork SOU
70 tiers are not sending out any il
Ine tation cards 1t Is true that X
,eT- Der had to offer an inducement
Lol- the Sheridan County folks
aFy bring them there. He had
As York buy piece of land,
ne acres of which is in clover ri
=, now. The Plentywoodians m
al have a chiropractor and 81
III York did not seem to be in a /
&c ~ to settle down in KoOchin
ln county, Rueber took a course
Jew chiropractic and he can now S
al collar bone as we'll as the
ioI of them. So his neighbors
'ne quite at home, their ills are
' pleasure to them and the !
,is- Rueber is having a barrel of
laC- ''But don't tell that to York"
one said. "He is a fine fellow and
'o'ai want him here. But if he h,
that there was competition on
mp no spot he might not come"
IN an ooh, he'll come, RUBBER" 1
llion .1neu " aosu.e I'M 80 NJ
pro- sna' you Sie III 'he ia0Ae' LUZ
and lun Vi H.
dur kueoer mas gu acres, most
an which is cleared. This year
even has II acres in clover. Ru
. of expects TO be Gin clover" whe
ions. gets most OF the gu acres Pre-
lsike ing.