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Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-03-13
One Side of brentwood

Stalward, able bodied courtiers;
Friendly, ever smiling lawyers.
Each a distinguished chevalier.
And each a useful g~renadier.
Oft with a purposed angry frown,
His mallet fist descending down,
Your lawyer argues to acquit,
Because his client did not do it.
And too. we have two loving pals;
Public opinion exhaust valves.
Tiger-like printing their weeklies
Suggesting some public remiss.
Theatre, hospital, and school.
Garages and a swimming pool.
For the dead, a mortuary;
And b~ee-bread at a library.
Dry goods, groceries, penney stores,
And twenty would be matadors.
A place to get your picture shot,
And fuel to make your stoves red hot.
Church and gas filling stations;
Civilizations foundations.
A bakery and a jewelry,
And twelve old chairs for a jury.
Pool halls and refreshment parlors,
Meeting place for bottleholders.
Grain elevator and a feed mill;
And last a cemetery hill.
(Finis)
BY Jimmie Joe
(FOlllowed next week by 1.-THE Other
Side.")
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-03-13

The freight and passenger trains
were stuck in the snow 3 miles the
other side of Dooley. They had a
large crew working and digging it
out.
--... Following Instructions. $780,.
She: lets go for a walk tonight,
dear"
He: walk? What for, when I've
got the car out in front ?"
She: "It's the doctors orders. He
told me to exercise with a dumbell
every day"
Horace LaVerdure went to Myers
coal mine on Thursday for his broth
er-in-law, George Peterson from near
Dooley.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. Nj. LaVsrdure
went to Dooley Friday to visit his
folks, Pete LaVerdure.
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Thursday.
Addie Graves visited with Mrs. Nc
Callister several days this week.
/. f. Metzler and d. M. Machines
Flaxville business callers Wednesday
and Thursday.
Sven Myhre is busy making pre-
parations to the house of the
Claude Griffin place.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Cowan and ia
mily visited with Mr.. and Mrs. VIM.
Cromwell Thursday evening.
The Farmers Union meeting at the
hall Friday evening was a very good
one as nearly all the members were
present besides a goodly number Of
visitors.
Business was quickly transacted af-
ter which Mr.. Ley of Redstone gave
a very good talk on the elevator sit
uation.
The entertainment committee MRS.
Cromwell and Mrs. MacInnes) put on
a very good program. Later in the
evening an impromptu dance was put
on and every one enjoyed themselves
very much.
At midnight the ladies served a
very appetizing lunch.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. f. Phelps f, who
have been living in the Gufin house
moved into the Brumier house on the
Fschell farm Saturday.
The All pig club members met at
the home Of Lewis Ulrich Saturday
and had a very successful meeting.
One new member was admitted.
Mrs. Nita Robinson spent Saturday
night with Mrs. Frank Metzler.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. f. Phelps visited
with I. f. and Mrs. Frank Metzler
Saturday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. M. Hagan and ia
mily and George Morris visited with
Mr.. and Mrs. Dan Campbell Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. McCalister visited
with Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Cromwell
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Marsh and
family and Miss VOTERS spent Sun
day with Mr.. and Mrs. II. B. French
and Mrs. Robinson.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. M. Machines and
children visited with Mr.. and Mrs.
Jack Burke Sunday.
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WOLF

Wolf Creek-Mr. and Mrs. E. E.
Sheridan, Mr.. and Mrs. D. M. Mac
Innes and Mrs. r. f. Phelps visited
with l. f. Metzler and Mrs. Frank
Metzler Tuesday afternoon.
d. M. Machines was a caller at the
Campbell home Tuesday evening.
Mrs. f. f. Sheridan visited with
Mrs. Frank Metzler Wednesday and
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I~lliterates in state in l9l0---14-
457.
Percentage in state in l9l0--4.8.
STARTLING STATISTICS ON IL
LITERACY IN MONTANA
Montana stands 18th from the top
in total percentage Of illiteracy.
Montana stands Bird from the top
in percentage native white illiterates.
Montana has 1,067 native white IL
literates.
There are 9,O7l il~literates of vot-
ing age in Montana.
Illiteracy in the state ranges from
OF per cent in Mineral county to
1871 per cent in Big Horn county.
The number of native white litter
ates INCREASED in Montana in the
past decade:
Native White Illiterates in 1920
-1,067
Native White Illiterates in 1910
1856
An increase Of 33l.
I~lliteracy in Montana is largely a
rural problem:
Rural Illiteracy--7,278
Urban Illiteracy-2,268
4,695-more than half Of the total
number of i~lliterates are under a.
years OF age.
Montana leads in ~illiteracy in the
middle northern states, having more
than Idaho, Nevada, North Dakota,
South Dakota, Utah or Wyoming.
Total number Of illiterates in state
are 9,544.
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more of the family living on the
farm is already having its effect this
year upon a revival of dairying, live
stock, poultry and feed crops.
At least 1900 acres of alfalfa was
planted and several cars of founda-
ton stock have been shipped in There
has been an increasing demand for
information regarding feeding prac-
tees, particularly on the use of
wheat, disease control, housing plans,
and general livestock management
questions. Through the cooperation
of the deputy State Veterinarian
considerable assistance is given in
livestock disease control.
7. County agents office a medium
of exchange. Through the county
agents farmers who have had a sur
plus of good seed, feed, and livestock
have been placed in touch with 9th
ers who wanted these products. The
following table shows the extent of
this phase of the work during just
one year.
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be largely a survival Of the fittest.
If Sheridan county farmers are to
continue to grow wheat and meet this
intense competition they must con
tinue to adopt every possible means
to lower their costs per bushel. If
the county agents efforts to increase
yield per acre through the production
of pure seed are to be dispensed with
because they contribute to the sur
plus, then farmers should not treat
seed for smut, poison squirrels, OF
kill weeds for in doing so they are
only adding to the surplus.
AGENT AIDS RURAL LIFE
Cunty agent work not only is for
the purpose of making farming more
profitable, but to make farm life
more attractive and desirable, and to
work with farm boys and girls, in
that kind of training that will make
them valuable future farm owners
and home makers. This phase of the
work cannot be measured in dollars
and cents, but it will be discussed in
the next issue of this paper.
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prices is sometimes pointed out. 1t
seems inconsistent to campaign for
reduced acreages and at the same
time advocate increased yields. If
every farmer in the United States
could be made to reduce his acreage
20 per cent we would in average years
which we never exactly have, be or
a domestic basis and the tariff would
be operative. We would lose entire
ly our foreign market but the price
would be quite a bit higher. That is
the theory, but in practice acreage
reduction will be brought about, not
through campaigning, but through
necessity in areas that have little al
tentative but to produce wheat. In
the midwest farmes can turn to other
crops to some extent, but in areas
primarily adapted to wheat the re-
duction is only going to come on mar
ginal lands, on small farms, and on
farms where yields are low and costs
are so high that wheat raising means
bankruptcy. In other words, it will
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During the past eight years the
county agent has mixed nearly 1907
600 lbs. poison bait for squirrels. The
savings on the cost of poison over
what the farmers would have had to
pay if it had not been mixed and sold
at cost has been nearly $4,000. The
estimated saving to crops due to ro-
dent control has amounted to approx
imately $3.50, 900. During part of
this time the county has put a boun-
ty on squirrel tails and rabbits, but
this has been discontinued. Effective
cooperation of farmers elevators and
many other distributors of the poison
has been a big factor in securing and
using such a large amount Even if
there had been no county agent work
in the county, many squirrels would
have been poisoned. The cost of poi
son however, would have been much
higher and the use would have been
much less extensive.
In 1923 there was an outbreak of
grasshoppers in several communities.
1t was SO wide spread and so serious
that the county commissioners placed
the county agent in charge of a cam
paign for eradication and agreed to
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s. Smut Control. The copper car
Donate method of treating now used
by half of the farmers was intro
duced by the county agent. This in
jures the seed less and is more ef-
fective than other methods.
8. Marketing Activities. The coun-
ty is definitely charged by the legis-
lative act creating the work, with CIV
ing information and assistance with
marketing as well as with produc-
ton. Much time has been spent by
the agent in getting farmers through
protein tests to know their wheat be-
fore selling so as to obtain the grea-
test advantage of its quality. Out
look information has not been given
out. Turkey growers have been brot
together for marketing and have been
given assistance through demonstra-
tions in killing and preparing uni
form shipments.
10. Change to more profitable type
of farming. In 1920 farm records
were taken for the purpose of de-
termining why some farmers had been
able to succeed under adverse con
ditions while others failed. These
were carried on for three years. In
1926, these records were discussed at
three meetings attended by 1926 far
mers. In the same year the agent
assisted SIS farmers in making ad-
justments in the type of their farm
organization. This represents one of
the biggest fields for activity. 1t fire.
quently happens that regardless of
how efficient the practices of a far
mer may be, he will not succeed be-
cause his volume of business is too
small, his labor and risk not we'll
distributed, or he is not doing the
things for which his farm is best adj
apted.
COUNTY AGENT and SURPLUS
SEES
The folly Of any measure that may
increase production at a time when
surplus production is causing low
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increased yield even at 60 cents per
bushel means about $150,000. If it
takes Is bushels per acre to pay costs
of production, one mar with a yield of
II or Is bushels per acre may make
two or three times as much a. anoth-
err who only gets Is or 16 bushels on
the same area. The fellow who can
only grow 10 bushel per acre after
year may go broke.
Good pure seed of the highest yield
ing strain of Marquis will yield from
3 to 6 bushels per acre more than the
ordinary seed used in the county sew
eral years ago according to compar-
ative tests conducted by the county
agent over a three-year period. In
1923, when the first variety test was
started, there was very little pure
seed in the county. Each year since
then variety tests and demonstrations
have been conducted. A few good
seed growers hive been induced to
grow a supply Of foundation stock of
registered seeda Fields of many
others have been inspected and ap-
proved for general use. In the past
eight years 76 variety demonstrations
have been conducted so that Sheridan
county farmers could see the actual
difference between pure seed and the
ordinary seed they might be using.
By 1926 more than 500 farmers were
planting pure Marquis that had been
increased from seed brought into the
county by the county agents office.
Every year some new variety is de-
veloped at an experiment station, or
a selection made by some farmer for
which extravagant claims are made.
Usually it is not adapted to Sheridan
conditions. Experimentation by far
mers is costly and great sums of
money can be saved through local
tests conducted under the direction of
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ar Lbs of No. Farmers Estimated Estimated Value Est.
Poison Mixed Using Poison A. Covered Crops Saved Saving
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the county agent.
In the same manner that wheat has
been improved corn, barley and oats
have been developed. For several
years tests of all varieties and
strains Of corn that might possibly
be grown here were made in various
parts Of the county. The county
agents office is now able to advise
any farmer in any part of the coun-
ty what yield of the different var
ieties and strains can be expected
and just how much difference in
date of maturity there is.
Horn and Hannechen barley and
Markton and Victory oats now prov
en- to be the highest yielding varie-
ties Of barley and oats, owe their
introduction entirely to the county
agents office. More profitable var
ieties of flax have been introduced
by the agent. With 30 to 40 thous-
and acres each year the returns to the
growers from higher acre yields are
great. Reserve, Newland and recent
ly Bison owe their start in this coun-
ty to the extension Office. This year
the acreage Of Bison has reached
5000 and a careful check of COM
parative yields shows an advantage
of from one to five bushels per acre
or enought to pay for county agent
work for some time. While the val
.ue of increased yields per acre and
the spread of influence due to coun-
ty agent work in this particular field
cannot be definitely measured, it is
safe to say that during that past
eight years that the work has been
maintained continuously in the coun-
ty that Shedidan farmers have bene-
fitted to the extent of at least me-
half million dollars.
2. Better tillage practices at least
cost have always been emphasized.
Before the advent of modern large
type tillage machines, demonstrations
with home made devices were carried
on- In the past two years the results
Of the experiments at Brockton have
brought to the county through a
special low cost production train. Two
tours organized by the agent took $50
farmers to Brockton to see how the
machinery the farmers owned could
be operated in order to produce wheat
at a lower cost per bushel.
3. Rodent and Pest Control. The
following table summarizes the 70.
dent control work in Sheridan coun-
ty since 1923:
Year Lbs of No. Farmers
Poison Mixed Using Poist
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paign. In the following year "a pure
bred sires were secured through in
formation furnished by the county
agents Office. And in 1926, forty
one purebred sires were purchased as
a result of the meetings, tours and
publicity.
Hog shipments jumped from five
cars in 1923 to rs cars in 1926. At the
same time the acreage Of feed crops
was being stimulated. In 1923 there
we're only $500 acres of corn. This
jumped $4,000 in 1924, 1900 in 49,
25, but dropped to $500 in 1926, and
due to unfavorable years and the in
crease in tractor farming has slight
ly declined. The shift from corn to
barley has also contributed to the
loss.
The acreage of sweet clover re-
sponded very rapidly to stimulation;
1923 but 500 acres; 1924, 1900 acres;
1925, 5000 acres; 1926, 10000 acres.
AS with corr the swing to larger
scale wheat farming checked the in
crease.
Present low prices of wheat, dry
years, and the necessity for farmers
getting back to the production of
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IS THE COUNTY AGENT
WORK WORTH The PRICE

Erred Bennion, Co. Agent Leader)
Regardless of the cost of county
agent work or of any other invest
ment of public funds, the most i'm
portant question is not how much,
but rather can it afford and is the
county getting good value for the
money expended. The entire Sheridan
County cost, including salary of ag-
ent, clerk, Office supplies, telephone,
telegraph, demonstration equipment,
and travel is $4,000 per year. The as
sessed value of the county is more
than 500, 000, 100000. This represents
al investment based almost entirely
upon agriculture. The average annu-
al value Of livestock marketed since
1923 has been $1,011, 900 and of crops
produced 1921, 900 or a total of
$6,232,000, according to the Bureau
Of Crop estimates. For each $1,000
investment the cost of county agent
work has been 20 per cent and for
each 500 received from the sale of
livestock n crops 1t has taken D
cents to pay for county agent work.
OF the thirty-four Montana county
agents counties, 25 of which have
maintained the work for at least 10
years, Sheridan county's agricultural
investment is only exceeded by 8
other counties. Wibaux county with
about one-third the wealth and at
about three times the per capita cost
of Sheridan County considers county
agent work a good investment. There
is no question about Sheridan county
being able to afford co. agent work
if he has been filling the purpose for
which the work was created.
RESULTS WORTH THE COST
Higher Yielding GRAIN Yield
per acre is the most important fac
tor influencing profit or loss. Sher-
idan county has more than 100000
acres in wheat. One bushel per acre
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furnish the poison. The mixing was
done at Plentywood, Redstone and
Medicine Lake. One hundred and
~sixty-five farmers spread poison on
1900 acres that were threatened with
g~rasshopper destruction. The farmers
themselves estimated an immediate
saving of $4,000 in crops. SO thor
oughly was the job completed that
g~rasshoppers damage did not again
occur until 1929 when a small out
break near Medicine Lake occurred.
Because of its local character the
Commissioners did not feel justified
in taking hold of the matter. The
county agent met with the farmers
whose crops threatened and gave
them the necessary information and
the outbreak was checked. Informa-
ton has been given out from time to
time concerning the control of other
pests that have threatened to become
serious in the county. The longer an
area Is farmed, the greater will be
the danger from pest i~nfestation.
With half a million acres of tillable
land in Sheridan County it is going
to be worth while to be ready for
organized pest control.
4. Weed Control. The weed bill of
most farmers is heavy in spite of
constant effort. The county agent
could Justify his existence solely thru
his efforts to reduce this weed bill,
Add the cost of weed control, the
lowered yields and the decreased
land value if perennial weeds are
present and the cost to a county is
staggering. In 1928 the county
agent secured the cooperation of the
Great Northern Railway in the con
troll of sow thistle along their right
of way. The following year showed
the necessity for graduating this
weed in many other areas.
In 1929 eleven tests were carried
on to determine the practibility of
usirg a chemical spray to eradicate
Canadian thistles. This past month.
(September) 20 patches of Canadian
Thistles in the north end of the coun-
ty have been sprayed and the far
mers convinced that the method is
practical.
g.. Livestock and feed crops. Fol
lowing the extreme drought a decade
ago, the need for more livestock and
feed crops was evident. In 1923.
eight livestock meetings were hello
attended by $40 farmers. In 1924
the agent began a purebred sire cam
Estimated Estimated Value Est.
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THEATEa NEWS

This evening at the Liberty Theatre is the last showing of the big ten-reel feature Woman of Affairs
 The showing of the feature We'd nesday and Friday proved it's high class, sustaining the great reputa- tion of Greta Garbo and John Gill bert who take the leading parts. This great Swedish star, Garbo, has personality unlike any other act- ress- She is in niche by herself similar to that other peculiar wo- man NazimOva
 Sundays feature is the ever po- pular detective play, being the un- raveling of murder mystery The play is said to have many unusual and unique elements, winding up in surprising climax
 Bobby Vernon is in a tWo-reel comedy.
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1T TIE HOTELS

VAN GLIDER Mrs. Charles G- Hubbard. Mrs Harry F Merton, H- 0B CHewson. Mrs. F Roycroft. Ro- ]. bert N Weller.
 sEWARD-E. Gulbrandsen, Lud- wig Johnson, Mrs. EA La Walter, Wm Daughtery Cs. Harvard Wm. Bryan
 l GILLILAND- F. Ayers. Dave Anderson. B. Browning. C ,Wil- Hanson, Leo OInhauser, Erick Eck- man
 ovERLAND-Mr. and Mrs. J. Fl Mulvaney. F- G- Manwether, James 1 Welch, Al Jacobsen of Woodrow, E- R. Weaver of Moose Pass, J Fl Case of Moose Pass, IA. A. Gossage.
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CHAMPION GOLFER

SALT LAKE CITY, Nov, ', (Hp Harry Cooper won the Salt Lake City open golf champion ship with a 72 against 283. A prize of $5,OOO went to the win ner.
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NEW CANON ISSUED

NEW YORK, Nov. ', (P)-A can on permitting divorced persons to remarry has been presented to the Synod of the Apostolic Episcopal church.
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FAR UNDER THE SEA

LOS ANGELES, Nov \. (P)-The
 Fleming deep of the Pacific ocean is five and quarter miles deep
 It lies southwest of Japan.
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New line of chiIdren's books at the Alaska Shop.
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Try Fresh Raspberry Sun dae"- ALASKA GROWN -- Schal- Ierer's Alaska Shop.
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Amanda's Hand Laundry now open for business
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TEST OF HEAVY
LOOMS TONIGHT

CHICAGO. Nov. 6.-tPr-Just how
much fire there is behind the smoke
of King Levinsky's rush to the
front ranks Of the heavyweights,
will be determined tonight when
the sensational Chicago youngster
trades punches with the veteran
Jimmy Slattery Of Buffalo in a 10
round battle at the Chicago sta
dunn.
The fight, between a good boxer
as Slattery and a terrific puncher
in Levinsky. easily captured the in
terest Of fans away from another
l0-round feature between otto Won
Porat Of Chicago and the battle
SCARED Jack Renault Of Canada.
Levinsky. who stopped Tom Kirby
Of Boston and Leo Lomski of Abb
erdeens Wash, in his last two sur
prising starts. ranked as a slight
favor..e yer the former light
heavyweight champion. Although
his boxing ability hasn't been more
than fair, he has surprised Chi
cago fans by ring viciousness re-
miniscent Of Jack Dempsey.
Won Porat. making his second
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COTTON EASIER

NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 6-(Pt-
Cotton opened easier. Gables were
not quite as good as due and first
trades showed losses of 3 TO 7 points
which was rather a larger drop than
the cables warranted. AS New York
opened fairly steady prices here
rallied ? to 3 points right after the
start but soon eased off again on
continued pre-bureau liquidation
ard short selling by professional
traders.
December eased to 1913, January
10 1898 and March to l1.l9 or z 10
9 points under yesterdays close.
The market ruled comparatively
quiet all morning. At one time
prices rallied 10 to II points from
the early lows on good trade buy
ing and covering by shorts owing
to improvement in the stock mar
ket and a recovery in wheat. Dec
ember traded up to 1899 and
March to 1870 This advance at
tracted a renewal Of pre-bureau IL
quotation and prices we're soon
back 10 a level with the early lows.
AT noon the market was quiet
and steady and practically at the
lows.