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The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-03-12

riders, AL Cecil and Joe Hayes. Our
line was east from the mouth of Sun
day creek to the mouth of Custer creek
about 16 miles on the west from Sun
day creek to the east end of the Sadie
flat, a distance of about IA miles and
often it would be long after dark be-
fore any of us reached camp.
The N Bar N was reputed as having
lost $4,000 head of cattle that winter,
as the Niedringham Brothers. They
just paused long enough to draw a
long breath, say damn" and then be-
gin putting up herds in Texas to drive
to their Montana range and it was
not long before they had driven up
the trail and turned loose in Montana
far O cattle than they had ranged
in 1886. In 1898 they had nine crews
working on the north side range and
shipped to the eastern markets $4,000
head of beef. These figures are from
the records of Clay Robinson & Co.
and Rosenbaum Brothers commission
firm in Chicago. In 1890-91-92 the
MN paid taxes in the counties of Gus
ter, Dawson and Valley in Montana
on 100000 head of cattle. These figures
are from the books of the county
treasurers of those counties. The winter
of 1867 taught the stock raiser that
CNOugn Montana WAS pre-eln1IleLtly a
cattle country it was a dangerous
cow country and they profited by the
lesson-fully 80 percent of the cattle
that were brought to Montana over
the trail after 1887 was two-year-old
steers. The heaviest drop in the calf
crop on the range ccurs during the
months of January, February and part
of March, when feed is scarcest and
the COWS are weakest. The loss in calves
is considerable ever during a favor
able winter.
Many other big steer outfits located
in Montana after the hard winter, the
KIT, the Circle Diamond, Diamond A
and others drove up Large herds Of
steers and by 1893 Montana's range was
again overstocked with cattle and sheep
A half century has slipped into eter-
nifty since that fateful winter and back
here in my home in an eastern state I
often sit and wonder where all the
cowboys are who were on the line with
me in 1886. OF the eight who were in
the camp at the mouth of Sunday
creek, seven are dead. They have all
crossed the High Divide and I am rid
ing the last line alone.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-03-12
Stoclmen, Expecting to Reap Riches from Cattle Herds, Found
to Their Sorrow at the Close of 1.-The Hard Winter" of 1886-87
They Were Broke Losses from Severe Weather Tremendous

cent of their cattle. When asked how
that could be n said he lost all OF his
own and half of his brothers. He and
his brother owned the block brand.
This man Il cannot recall his name)
owned the block on the left side of the
cattle and his brother owned the same
brand on the right side. When the
roundup was ove it was found that not
one animal bearing the block ON the
left side had been accounted for ana
barely one-half of those that wore the
block on the right side. One of the
principal cause of the heavy loss OF
cattle, was the failure of the well known
and looked for chinook wind to make
its appearance in February. This Is a
warm wind from the west which clears
the range of snow and uncovers the
grass on the hills allowing the half
starved cattle to fill up or the dried
grass and get a little strength before
green grass shows up. The chinook did
try to show up but only stayed long
enough to melt the snow into a slush
and then the temperature dropped
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-03-12

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The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-03-12
State Co|IegesGraduate
Obtains Japan Position

On a world tour during which she
expects to earn part of her expenses,
Miss Opal Petrausch, 1885 secretarial
graduate of Montana State college,
obtained a secretarial position with
the wife of the American consul at
Yokohama n week after she arrived
in the Japanese city. Miss Petrausch's
position is of four months duration
and then continue to Europe. She left
Seattle On Christmas day and arrived
in Yokohama Jan. 8. On Jan. 16, she
obtained her present position. Her home
is in BOZeman,.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-03-12
BY d. j. (N-bar-N Kid OMALLEY

By ID. J.. N-bar-N KIDD OMALLEY
HE SUMMER of 1886 will 60
y down in history with a record
similar to that of the winter of
1861 by the people of Mon
tana, Wyoming and the Dako-
the farmers of these states, the other
causing tremendous detriment to the
stock growers of the same district.
The winter of 1861 is a memorable
one in the annals of the livestock in
dustry in Montana and it is still re-
ferred to by the old-timers Is 1.-THE
Hard Winter" Cattle persisted by the
thousands during January, February
and March, 1887, the loss being heav-
lest on the ranges between the Mis-
souri, and Yellowstone rivers where a
greater part of the range is an open
level area of a great extent having very
little shelter for stock from the cold
winds which sweep that section of the
country.
A great many stockmen, who at the
close of the fall roundup of 1886, felt
satisfied they would have goodly
calf crop in the spring of 1887 and a
promise of a big shipment of fat beef
cattle the following fall, found to their
sorrow after the 1887 spring roundup
was over that they were broke. Not only
was their calf crop a complete loss, but
their grown stock which were to be
made into good beef were gone, starved
or frozen to death.
Many lost every head of cattle they
owned; others lost so heavily they
found it impossible to continue in bust
ness and sold their brand for little or
nothing and quit raising stock.
One loss in particular comes to my
mind that had a sad ending. A man
from Boston named Wilbur Mcbride,
had quite a large number of cattle
ranging on the Sunday creeks on the
north side of the Yellowstone in Gus
ter county. In September, 1886, Mcbride
turned loose on that range an addi-
tional 5000 head of 2-year-old heifers
from Minnesota. I helped in crossing
them over the Yellowstone river about
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-03-12
ACCEPTS TEACHING POST

Ralph w. Dilts, Miles City, graduate
assistant in history and political sci
ence, recently accepted an offer to
teach history and Spanish at Stevens.
vile high school. The post to be filled
by Dilts was vacated by Ernest James,
a graduate, some years ago, who
transferred to Deer Lodge to accept a
similar position.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-03-12
No Bovine tuberculosis

tuberculosis among cattle is practically ex-
Butler. state veterinarian and executive Of
ficer OF the. state livestock sanitary board.
In his annual report, DR.. Butler says that
disease in 1886. only 80 were found to be at
fncted. He said the whole state is a modified
tube-culosis-free area and has been acrcedit-
animal husbandry,
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-03-12
Age Pension aymen

Joseph E. Watson, state relief administra-
tor, has announced that old age pension pay
ments for February and March. totaling ap-
~proximately $3.50, 900 for each month, will be
made to 9,400 eligible persons in the state.
The money, he said. will come entirely from
state funds under the terms of a law enacted
by the present session of the legislature. The
federal governments share of the payments
was withdrawn from this state when some 20
counties were unable to Fay their portions out
Of their poor funds.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-03-12
Project at Winnett

The state water board, with the town, school
district, and county authorities and the re-
take over the construction of a proposed
water and recreational project as Winnett in
county. An artesian we'll will be
drilled at a cost Of 10000 to furnish a
water supply for the town, and a recreation
park will be developed. The work is to be
completed by July.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-26
ROUGHAGE CROPS GROWN BY DIARIES
The Farmers Corner
By Ralph Taylor
ADJUSTMENT NEEDED"

Cld-time confidence games" =
the money-making machine racket
the unclaimed estate in Spain, the
magic elixir that its barkers claim
ed would make old men young, and
young men wise-have gone the way
of the world.
Perpetual motion and the Foun-
tain of Youth, gold bricks and bar
gain-counter sales of the City Hall
are too crude to fool the up-and-
coming Californian of the twenti-
eth century.
But man, it seems, is no less gull
lible Like a trout that has grown
suspicious of salmon eggs, having
seen too many Of them, he steers
away from the too-often- Offered
round, red lures, but breaks water
to strike at a skilully cast fly A
change of bait and he's ready for
the hook!
A cynical philosophy, perhaps, but
a truthful appraisal-for at least
goodly proportion of California's
citizenry California voters, for ex-
ample, have repudiated the old,
discredited Single Tax" (eXhorbi-
tant land taxi at no less than a
half dozen elections-by overWhelm-
ing majorities. The theory that "the
private ownership of land is against
natural justices, as expounded by
Henry George, was little too
much for independent farmers and
home Owners. And the idea that
they should bear the whole load Of
governmental support, merely be-
cause they had, by frugality and
years of struggle and privation, ac-
quired piece of property, was a
patent remedy that tasted bad, no
matter how glib the spieler.
So California repudiated the
Single Tax" by increasing majori-
ties each time it was offered. But
an offer to repeal tax-that'S diff
ferentl
SO the new bait now available
on almost any California street.
corner, reads like this:
Sign this petition which (in
bold red letters) REPEALS THE
SALES TAX, prohibits future sales
taxes, REPEALS THE USE TAX,
THE PRIVATE CAR TAX, the Ri
ley-Stewart Property Tax Limita-
tion for State Purposes; EXEMPTS
Immediately $1,000 of assessed value
of improvements occupied by own
er as a home and all remaining
assessed value of improvements and
personal property from taxation in
nine years at rate of 10 per cent
per annum."
The taxpayer who wouldn't be
interested in all that "relief"-all
wrapped UP in single package
wouldn't be tax-conscious. 1t sounds
like Santa Claus in one of his gran
der moments.
But California voters. by this
time, should have learned, of course,
that the only real way to repeal
taxes" is to lower the cost of gov
ernment. And when nothing is
said of reduced governmental ex-
penditures, it would be wise to in
quire what tax is proposed as a
substitute for the taxes to be re-
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-26
FLAX ACREAGE
HAS INCREASE
OF TEN PERCENT

The total acreage of flax harvest
ed in the valley during the past
year showed an increase of 10 pei
cent over the acreage harvested in
1886, according. to an annual sum-
mary of the county agriculture ex-
problems.
Weeds. according to the survey
still maintain the position as the
greatest nuisance to flax growers
Wild oats, sun flower. knot grass,
canary grass, and lamSquarter are
the weeds that present the biggest
problem.
Flax growers must fight these
pests or give up the growing of flax
in the valley. Many experiments
have been carried on in the valley
to eliminate the weeds and possible
solutions have been reached at the
Meloland experiment station.
Pre-planting irrigations with till
age between each irrigation is one
effective weapon but the growers
must keep a sharp lookout for re-
currence of the pest and then elm
mate the weeds before they can
get started again.
Marketing of seed, dockage straw
and the like have become more
favorable in the valley and further
study may improve the position of
the grower more.
Yield and profit on flax per acre
has shown a large increase over
last years records and the exten-
sion service predicts Gwen bigger
gains next year.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-26
Economy Of
Plan Seen
In Trial | S

Dairymen throughout the country
are taking more interest than ever
before in the growing and feeding
Of grasses and other roughage crops
according to the yearly report of The
state COW testing association.
The bureaus feeding experiments
in recent years have shown the
economy of using larger quantities
of roughage crops in the dairy ra-
ton, particularly roughage of good
quality
These studies show that roughage
crops not only furnish essential
nutrients for milk production at
less cost than the grain crops, but
that these less expensive nutrients
will account for 60 to 70 per cent of
a cows maximum production on
full grain rations. The soil con-
Servation program has been an i'm
portant factor in focusing interest
on these results. the extension
workers have stressed the advan-
tages of producing good quality
roughage and the drought has also
been factor
Emphasis in the bureaus re-
search with roughage during the
year was largely on methods of
harvesting, curing and storing TO
preserve valuable nutritive prop
critics.
Probably the bureaus most out
standing accomplishment during the
year, in putting the results of re-
search information to work in the
field was the Inauguration of a
program for recording the iden-
tity, family history and production
records of all animals in dairy herd
Improvement associations.
This program is the outgrowth
of 30 years Of COW testing association
work and 10 years of research by
the bureau in the breeding of dairy
cattle. The bureaus breeding ex-
pertinent had demonstrated that the
surest and quickest way to develop
strains of uniformly high produc-
ing cattle is by the use of a good
proved sire in each successive gen.
Grafton.
To apply the proved sire-system
of breeding on large scale among
the average herds of the country,
it seems advisable to start a con-
certed effort to find large numbers
of good proved sireS.
The dairy herd improvement as
sociations, with their 100000 cows
and 1900 bulls, are a promising
source of production records for
proving large numbers of sires.
With complete and accurate in
formation on all cows and bulls in
these associations available for
study, it should be possible to make
a genetic analysis of many individu-
al herds in the near future. Such
studies will enable members of dairy |
herd improvement associations to |
center their breeding program |
around animals and strains of |
known merit.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-26
CALIPATRIA FAMILY TO SPEND
YULE HOLIDAYS AT ALHAMBRA

ert Reedy, Mrs. G.. Roy Thompson
Mrs. Edward Rademacher, Mrs. Ar
thur Williams and Mrs. c. A.
Sperry. Miss DetWeiler served de-
Eicious refreshments of old-fash-
ioned Christmas cookies and coffee.
Mrs. Albert Pond entertained the
Wednesday card club this week at
their annual Christmas party. Mrs.
Carl Redding won first prize, Mrs.
Harrison Martin, second and Mrs.
w. j. Young, consolation. Others
present were Mrs. Joe Bailey, Mrs.
j. G.. Writ, Mrs. Herbert Reedy,
and Mrs. C. A. Sperry
Mrs Tracy SorenSen expected to
leave Thursday with her three
children to spend Christmas with
her parents at Clifton, Ariz.
Mrs, HI. j. Ingram entertained
with an afternoon tea Tuesday
having as her guests Miss Mildred
Hall, Mrs. William Corn, Mrs. r.
S. Corn. Mrs. P. N. Myers, Mrs.
O. E. Hasty and Mrs. Charles
Green.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-26

Will De IN tne valley TO attend the
meeting
Robbins is a specialist on sugar
beets and Smith will discuss the
sugar beet act in relation to the
national conservation program.
L. G. Goar, superintendent at
the Meloland Experiment station,
will outline results obtained in
local experiments. Principal tests
were carried out in different dates
CT planting at the Meloland sta
ton.
The meeting will then be turned
over to Robbins who will give a
brief description of tests carried
on in other parts of the nation
and reveal the findings of such
experiments.
The group will then journey to
the l.. B. Blackman ranch south
of Acacia school to view test
carried on at that ranch with ire
ble-superto phosphate fertilizer on
sugar beets.
The meeting will be concluded
at the Hunt Bros. ranch south of
Ell Centro near New River where
the group will survey the results
of test carried on at that ranch.
Variety paintings and tests in
which liquid ammonia fertilizer was
used will be discussed.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-26
SPECIAL CARE
NOTED In a n
CLUB PROJECTS

Special care of lamb, beef. poultry
and other All club projects was
noted during the last week as VAL.
ley Alters began to realize that
the County fair is only a few
weeks away.
Progress was particularly noted
in the beef projects as the calves
began to take on weight as a result,
OF the careful feed programs fol-
lowed by the club members.
Project leaders and II. Lee Lam
derrnan, assistant farm advisor and
All director, gave advice to those
engaged in the care of projects in
order that the best possible result
be obtained. p
Friday the Silsbee All club held
its achievement program. Leaders
handed out the awards, tr
Calipatria All club reported con-
siderable action in that vicinity as
several project meetings were held.
Project leaders in Calipatria are.
Mrs. E. L. Hiteman and c. j.
Monize.
Friday night the Acacia All club
entertained the Heber All club at
weiner roast on the desert.
Twelve members and three
chaperones from the Heber club
attended and so members and l9
leaders represented Acacia.
The group roasted hot dogs and
marshmalloWs and wound up the
evening by playing games and sing
ing songs around the fire.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-26
BOARD ENDS
GUILD STRIKE
IN NEW YORK

NEW YORK, Dec: rs. CUP)-
The 15-week strike by the New
York Newspaper Guild against the
Brooklyn Eagle was ended today
by the efforts of the state media
tion board.
A one-year contract, negotiated
through the boards Intervention
and covering 1876 employees men
toned by name, was signed. 1t
provides for return to work Mon
day.
The Eagle agrees to reinstate i'm
mediately and without prejudice all
strikers. Forty of these upon re-
instatement may be laid off upon
payment of 20 weeks severance pay
and be placed upon preferred
list for re-employment when addi-
tional man power is needed.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-26
CALPATRIA NOTES

Mr. and Mrs. Wiley Manning and
son, Bobby. will spend Christmas
holidays with Mr.. Manning S
parents. Mr.. and Mrs. B. F. Byng
in Alhambra.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Everett
and family expect to spend Christ
mas with Mrs. Everett's sister and
family, Mr.. and Mrs. " H. Mitchell
Of Riverside.
M. j. Augenstein was i'll several
days the past week and unable to
be at his place of business.
H j. Ingram was at home with a
bad cold early in the week.
The Ebell club met with Eliza
beth Detweiler Tuesday afternoon.
The house was beautifully deco
rated with Christmas greenery.
Miss Julia Riley, president, held a
short business meeting after which
Mrs. c. Roy Thompson read an
interesting paper on Christmas IN
Other Lands. Santa Claus ar
rived in time to distribute the gifts.
Present were Miss Julia Riley, Miss
Eleanor Lechler, Miss Adella Ira
vers, Miss Ruth Asbury, Miss w. b.
Dixon, Mrs. Irma Mccullough,
Miss Lois Montgomery, Mrs. Herb
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-26
FARM REHABILITATION PROGRAM PROGRESSE
JOE MAYFIELD
DAIRY ONE OF
MOST MODERN

Imperial Valleys dairy rehabili-
tatiOn program, under the direc-
ton of Walter Macdonald, county
milk inspector, is showing remark
able progress and promises to reach
greater heights in the new year.
Joe Mayfield's dairy, northwest
of Calexico, has become one of the
valleys most modern following the
cmpletion of COW barn and milk
house.
The combined barn and milk
house provides an 10 COW milking
barn and ample room for a most
complete milk house. The struc-
tire was built according to Univer-
sity of California Specifications.
The COW barn has concrete floor
and wall. The walls are built of
cement blocks manufactured in the
valley and are said to be even bet
ter than poured concrete.
A water connection in the barn
provides warm water with which to
wash the COWS before they are
MIXED. This assures absolute clean
lines as warm water will dissolve
dirt that cold water cannot remove.
The Calexico rancher has pro-
Vided a unique drainage system for
the barn. When the barn is hosed
o settling basin collects the solid
matter, allowing the liquid to TOW
into a temporary storage basin
near the irrigation canal. When
it becomes necessary to irrigate
his land Mayfield will pump the
water into his ditch and distribute
IL over his crops. 1t has high
fertilizing value.
The milk house, located at the
west end of the COW barn, is one
oil the finest in the valley.
Everything to be used in the
handling, bottling, cooling and sep
arating of milk has been provided
for and built in under plans speci-
fled by the University of Califor-
I,ia.
The mixers can dump the milk
into an outside container without
entering the milk house. The milk
is then cooled and is bottled in
the milk house.
A refrigerator stands in one cor
ner of the room.
Cleansing and sterilizing facili-
ties are available in large room
ir. the milk house. A steam steril-
izer is used for the bottles and
huge boiler outside the milk house
provides the supply of hot water
and steam.
The Calexico dairyman disposes
of most of his milk output in CAL
exico by retail. His herd is COM
posed of 26 cows, guernsey and
jersey. Mayfield plans to in
crease the size of his hard as bus
ineSs incre ases.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-26
Girl Tries to Turn
Self Into Torch

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. IS (UP)
Miss Mary Hiroshoma, 22-year-
old Japanese girl, set fire to her
dress today and tried to burn her
self to death in what she described
as a suicide attempt.
The girl went to the basement of
her apartment house and set fire
to her dress. Then she walked
from the basement to her first
floor apartment to die, she told re-
latives.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-26

cieS engaged IN CalapproVed seed
work.
The committee adopted a four
point program at the meeting, a
program which is destined to eS-
tablish the use of Calapproved
seed in all parts of the state as
we'll as in Imperial Valley.
The first point desired by the
committee was that rules in the
standard book be made more ap-
plicable to valley problems rather
than less applicable as has been
the tendency in the past.
Point number two: Imperial
county is developing a system of
regulating prices for Calapproyed
seed and asks cooperating agencies
to assist in forming such a pro-
gram throughout the state.
Third point in the program
Change of the standard rule book
provision that Calapproved seed
can be grown only from founda-
ton seed released by the agronomy
division of the Davis college Of
agriculture.
The Imperial county committee
pointed out that foundation seed
can be grown at the Meloland
experiment station and urged that
the rule be revised.
The fourth point of the program
is: That an agronomy field day be
established at the Meloland ex-
pertinent station similar to the
field day held at Davis.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-26
EX-SLAVES IN
GET TOGETHER

ATLANTA, Ca, Dec. Is (UP)-
Members of the Ex-Slaves associa-
ton met for a simple Christmas
dinned today and recalled the
events of their long lives.
Oldest of the group was a wien
ed little man l03 years old who
lives in a cabin near Atlanta. He
vividly recalls his "raisin" in bond
age, the Civil War emancipation of
the slaves, and reconstruction.