The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1946-07-11
Farm News

oSSA VI oA.A PouAiNS OuttC4-
fat per COW, the Yellowstone
county Dairy Herd Improvement
association topped all aSsocia-
tions in the state for production
during May and was followed
closely by the Lake county as
ISOLATION with an average of 81
pounds, according to. J. o.
TretSven, extension dairy Spe-
cialist at Montana State college.
In a tie for third place were
the Gallatin county association
and the Bitter Root association
with an average of 31.2 pounds.
The Fergus county association
ranked fourth with 3O.8 pounds,
and the Madison and Jefferson
counties association was fifth
with 28.1 pounds.
TretSven'S report also shows
that association members in the
state culled a total of go low
producing COWS from their
herds during May.
Focusing attention on the
need for home canning and
preservation of food supplies for
the coming winter is the deSig-
nation by the Department. OF
Agriculture of July IS to % as
National Food Preservation
week. Increased family supplies
at home and the leasing OF
foods suited for shipment to
famine areas abroad are i'm
portant goals of the campaign
In announcing the campaign,
Secretary of Agriculture Clin-
ton Anderson said, THE i'm
mediate problem that faces a
war-torn world is food. Food
spells peace and democracy.
Food spells rest instead of TO-
ment. It is the obligation of
every American to conserve and
to preserve this precious fooG.
In this way we assure our OWL
people a better diet, as well as
help the famine stricken of the
world
During the war, Victory gar
dens produced over eight mil
lion tons of food annually and
housewives preserved three and
a half billion quarts of fruits
yearly. Record crops of vege-
tables and fruits are available
and everyone is urged to take
advantage of these supplies.
With food scarce the world
over, canning at home or in
community food preservation
centers is urgently needed. Fa-
cilities available for dehydrat-
ing or preparing food for freez-
er lockers should be used.
More of the easy-to-ship high
food value products will be
shipped if housewives put up
seasonable abundances of per
ishable foods. Cooperating in
this program will be various
consumer and grade groups, the
Presidents famine emergency
committe, the National Garden
institute, the National Red
Cross and other groups.
Following 80 years of study
of Montana forage crop prob
lens, crested wheatgrass was
said to be the best grass III
Montana for hay and grazing
purposes by the Central Mon
tana branch station at Mecca
sin in the bulletin, DRY Land
Pasture Experiments" The bull
letin can be obtained from
county agents or by writing to
the Montana Agricultural Elk
pertinent station at Bozeman.
For the first color cover OF.
an experiment station bulletin
a grazing picture taken by R.
M. Williams, superintendent OF
the Moccasin station, was re-
produced.
Assistin~ Williams in writing
the bulletin was A. H. Post,
agronomist at the Montana ag-
ricultural experiment station.
They report that in 1881 a large
scale pasture experiment was
begun to test the values of
crested wheatgrass, native grass
and bromegrass for dry land
pastures. Crested wheatgrasS
was found to be superior fol-
it produced earlier grazing, g
longer grazing season, a higher
carrying capacity and more