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Treasure State Farm and Livestock
t HERE LS A REAL MONTANA FARM PAGE
The leading articles on this page are prepared by experts of the State Agricultural College at Boze
man, where the state and federal governments are expending large sums of money in experimentation
to determine the best tillage methods for Montana, and these articles are descriptive of the results of
this work. Every farmer reader of this newspaper is urged to file these articles away.
SWEET CLOVER IS
GOOD FOR BOSSIE
EXPERIMENT DEMONSTRATES
ITS FOOD VALUE IN YIELD
OF MILK
Four Acres Maintained Cows Pro
ducing 19,393 Pounds of Milk in
a Single Season, or a Profit of
Nearly S9O Per Acre.
Sweet clover makes an excellent
pasture for milk cows, according to
recent tests, and it is possible to ob
tain a continuous pasture with sweet
clover by allowing it to seed itself
every year or by seeding it each win
ter or spring.
Six Holstein cows were turned into
a sweet clover pasture of not quite
four acres in May of last year.
The pasture used was the second
year’s growth, this field having been
seeded the year previous with oats
and the clover harvested for hay. The
plants made an early start and had
a good growth when the cattle were
turned in.
The entire number were kept on
this field continuously for 40 days,
and because the dry season checked
the growth of the clover three cows
were removed at this time. As the
pasture improved later, one cow was
returned on August 5, and after that
time four cows were pastured con
tinuously until October 1. The cows
were kept on the sweet clover pas
ture day and night. The only food
received by the cows outside the pas
ture was a grain ration composed of
corn chop, bran, and oil meal, fed in
the preportion of one pound of grain
to each four pounds of milk pro
duced per day.
Milk Worth SBB To Acre
During the period the cows were
on the pasture, the total amount of
milk produced was 19,393.5 pounds,
containing 680.58 pounds of butter
fat. The cows consumed 4,602.8
pounds of grain. Figuring the milk
produced worth 20 cents a gallon
and the grain fed SSO a ton, one acre
of pasture produced $88.46 worth
of milk. On the butter fat basis,
with butter fat at only 40 cents per
pound, one acre produced $40.85 of
fat exclusive of the skim milk.
The total number of days of pas
ture obtained by all cows in the lot
amounted to 618 days, an average of
154.55 days for four cows. At this
rate the pasture of 3.8 acres kept
four cows for approximately five
months, or in other words, one acre
of sweet clover pasture kept one cow
for five months.
No Trouble From Bloat
During the time the cows were on
the pasture, no trouble was exper-
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ABOUT BUILDING A RESERVOIR;
HOW TO SELECT THE SITE
(Montana Experiment Station)
IN selecting a reservoir site one
wants to take into consideration
the fall of the land that is to be
submerged, the character of the soil,
the use he will have for the water,
and whether or not he can get the
water out by gravity for use on the
land that is to be irrigated, says H. E.
Murdock, agricultural engineer at
the Montana Experiment Station.
There are very few places where It
will pay to store water to be pumped
on the land afterward.
There are a great many natural
reservoir sites in the coulees of Mon
tana. They are ordinarily a wide
flat bottom in the coulee with a nar
row outlet. If there is a natural
spillway somewhere away from
where the dam is to be, it Is a great
advantage, and farmers can not af
ford to do quite a bit of extra work
to be able to use the natural spill
way. Sometimes the reservoir site
will not be in the main coulee at all
but away from it In some natural
lake bottom, in this case a diversion
ditch is necessary to carry the flood
water to the reservoir, and should
be made large enough to fill the res
ervoir within the average flood sea
son of the coulee that it is to be
taken from. In any case the reser
voir site should be selected that will
hold the most water with the least
amount of labor and cash outlay in
building the dam, diversion and spill
way, and in getting the water to the
land that is to be irrigated.
When the reservoir site has been
selected and the dam site determin
ed, definite figures should be obtain
ed as to the height of the dam, the
width at the top and bottom, the
slopes of the upper and lower faces,
the size of the spillway to take care
of the full head of water that might
happen to come down, the type,
length, and size of outlet to be used
for irrigation, and the amount of
water that will be stored when the
dam is completed.
The farmer’s storage dam will
nearly always be made of earth.
When a high dam or one of concrete.
lenced with bloat. Weather condi
tions were not always favorable. On
13 days during the experiment it
rained either part of the day or the
entire day.
The cows were weighed each 10
days in order to determine whether
they held their weight during the
pasture season. The weights of the
three cows kept on the pasture for
the entire period best serve for a
comparison. The average weight of
the three cows before turning on the
pasture was 1,284 pounds. At the
close of the experiment their aver
age weight was 1,304 pounds.
Poultry Stock
How Two Bankers Arc Helping
Out the Farmers of the North
Country
(Montana Experiment Station)
Until we have better stock we are
never going to have a uniform prod
uct from our poultry nor will one
ever take the same Interest in a
scrub flock that will be taken in the
standard bred birds, says H. E. Cush
man, Extension Service poultry spe
cialist.
Two bankers in this state, Mr.
Burks of Chinook and Mr. Arnot of
Glasgow are far enough sighted to
realize this and are giving their co
operation in what is known as the
“Pullet Auction Sale” project. It is
a plan for bringing in standard bred
stock into a county and will, in the
end, standardize the birds of that
county. This latter phase cannot be
over-estimated, especially when you
consider the difficulty experienced
this year in obtaining enough eggs of
standard bred birds to supply a coun
ty on a given date.
The plan, as developed, is as fol
lows: Setting of eggs were obtained
by the banker, with the aid of the
extension service, and put out, five
settings to a farmer. The farmer, in
turn, agrees to set, care for eggs and
raise the chicks to the best of his
ability. Then in the fall he returns
two pullets for every setting of eggs
received. These pullets are to be
graded and sold at a public auction
sale, hence the name of the project
“Pullet Auction Sale.” The proceeds
of the sale go to the banker to reim
burse him for money expended on
eggs this spring.
The Blaine county sale will be held
at the Corn Show which comes off in
November. The Valley county one
will be held about the same time.
Blaine county is putting in Rose
Comb Rhode Island Reds, while Val
ley county has the Barred Plymouth
Rocks. Mr. Gustafson, the Blaine
county agent, firmly states that
Blaine county will be the R. C. R. I.
R. county of the state. That’s good
news, in the future If we want a
hundred or more setting eggs for a
certain date all we will have to do
is to get in touch with the Blaine
County Poultry Association and the
eggs will be forthcoming. Likewise
we will send to Glasgow for Rocks.
masonry, steel or other expensive
materials is to be built, .it should be
designed by a competent engineer
and constructed under his direction.
But there are many places where the
farmer can build a dam at small ex
pense outside of his own labor.
The earthen dam can be build on
a variety of foundations and when
properly constructed furnishes a safe
and reliable structure. The founda
tion for an earthen dam should con
tain an impervious stratum at a mod
erate depth. Compact clay or hard
pan makes the best foundation. Solid
rock without fissures also forms a
good foundation. Solid, well com
pacted clay should be used near the
upper face of the dam.
Imperviousness may be secured
when necessary by the use of a core
wall. It may be made of puddled
clay, masonry, concrete, steel or
other suitable material. It should be
built near the upper face of the dam.
The junction between the dam and
the earth or other foundation must
be carefully made tight so no seep
age will start along this surface to
produce leakage. If seepage does
start there is great danger that the
water will eventually wash out the
dam. All vegetation, and humus
should be removed from the founda
tion to the outer toe of the dam and
a trench dug through the soil to the
Impervious stratum to be filled with
impervious clay.
BIG CROP APPLES
IN BITTER ROOT
GOVERNMENT ESTIMATE FROM
800 TO 1,000 CAR LOADS
FOR THE SEASON
Report is that the Orchard Situation
in Western Montana Was Never
Better; Potato Crop Will be Smal
ler than Last Year.
According to estimates which have
been made by railroad officials of the
Northern Pacific, the Bitter Root
apple crop will run between 800 and
1,000 carloads' this year, providing
the crop comes up to the present ex
pectations and there is no hail or
wind to damage the crop. Reports
which have been received by the rail,
road are that the orchard situation
never was better.
The sweet cherry output from the
valley is estimated at present to be
about 10 carloads, while it is expect
ed that 30 carloads of strawberries
will be marketed. The first carload
shipment of strawberries to leave the
valley was shipped out last year, and
it was followed by about 11 more car
loads.
The potato crop will not be as
large as it was a year ago; but it is
estimated that between 300 and 400
carloads will be shipped out of the
valley this year.
The bulk of the outgoing shipping
at this time from western Montana
is lumber and about 200 carloads a
week are being shipped from Bonner,
Milltown, Missoula, the Bitter Root
valley and the Flathead branch.
Through lumber shipments from the
coast to the east are running from
250 to 300 cars every 24 hours.
Grasshoppers
Will Be As Bad This Year As
Last Year, Says College Expert.
(Montana Experiment Station)
Expressing the opinion that grass
hoppers will be about as bad in Mon
tana this year as they were in 1922,
State Entomologist R. A. Cooley of
thefstate College at Bozeman issues
a warning to farmers to prepare in
advance the methods of control that
will prevent crop losses.
“The poisoned bran mash as used
last year is the standard remedy,"
says Mr. Cooley. “It is effective and
almost universally pronounced satis
factory. ' In some parts of the state
conditions exist which will permit the
destruction of the y.oung hoppers by
a less expensive method. Some stub
ble fields and fields full of dead dry
weeds may be burned over, produc
ing heat enough to kill the young
hoppers. A few seconds of high tem
perature will kill them. Of course,
every farmer will have sense enough
n*ot to start a fire that will endanger
property."
The practice of burning to kill the
young hoppers has been urged by a
number of county agents and farmers
who have found this method effect
ive. Where burning Is not done the
next means of control Is the use of
poisoned bran mash, which will pro
tect the crop practically 100 per cent
If used at the right time and In the
proper way. Farmers are cautioned
to scatter the poisoned bran mash so
that it does not fall in lumps on the
ground. Stock poisoning comes often
from lumps of the poisoned mash
found by livestock on the feeding
ground. If scattered on the ground
In the proper manner, poisoned bran
mash has absolutely no danger for
livestock.
THE BROWNING REVIEW
MANY CASES OF •
GOITER IN STATE
LEWISTOWN LEADS WITH ONE
THIRD OF SCHOOL CHILDREN
AFFLICTED
Switzerland was long the center of
the goiter trouble. Montana lately
has been receiving attention from
medical men and health authorities
because it is in' a district in which
the disease is prevalent. Once it was
thought that the high mountains of
Switzerland had something to do
with the disease, but now it is known
that lack of iodine in food and water,
affecting the thyroid gland, is res
ponsible for it. Interesting statis
tics have just been given out by a
federal health service physician. Dr.
F. T. Foard of Great Falls, relative
to its prevalence in the state.
It is stated that Lewistown has the
largest number of cases among the
school children of any city in the
state, there being 322 pupils afflicted
out of a total of 935, which is a per
centage of 34.4. Of the 322 the
girls numbered 219 and the boys 103.
Speaking of this matter, a news story
said:
At the Lewistown high school,
out of 626 pupils examined, of
both sexes, 216, or approximately
41.5 per cent, had goiter. Classi
fied by sexes, out of 363 girls ex
amined, 198 or approximately 54.5
per cent, were afflicted with goi
ter, while among the boys in the
high school, out of 263 examined,
62, or about 23.5 per cent, had
goiter.
Carbon county ranks second in
the state with a total of 30.3 per
cent, as against 37.4 per cent in
Lewistown, including all schools.
Cascade county is credited with a
percentage of 19.2; Lewis and
Clark, Including Helena and part
of the county, 18.6 per cent; Yel
lowstone county, exclusive of Bil
lings, 1,8 per cent, and so on down
the list to the city of Havre, which
has the lowest record of any city
in the state examined so far, with
a total of 9.1 per cent.
Goiter is very disfiguring, the neck
in some cases becoming much en
larged and misshapen. The disease
can be prevented and cured by the
administration of iodine in the water.
It is said that Lewistown and some
other places will begin treating the
pupils of the public schools for goi
ter. The treatment is simple and not
oostly, and the condition, having
been recognized, will be effectively
dealt with.
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Butte—lt would appear from rec
ords of City Treasurer that there are
only two female canines in Butte.
SHELBY RODEO
< Shelby, Mont.
W JULY 1 to 4
(“TOT-vnivn)
18, SIO,OOO IN PRIZES
// A Broncho Busting, Wild Horse Racing, Wild
( / &’) Cow Milking, Calf and Steer Roping, Bareback
\ / Riding (on steers and horses) Trick Riding
/ and Roping, Bulldogging. Four wonderful
~ days of the thrilling and dangerous sports of
the Old West. Each event for a Montana
Championship.
» r OUTLAW HORSES—There are none wilder
than the outlaws of Ray Knights herd.
AKsUIM 7 RIDERS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD
will compete In these stirring events.
1,200 BLACKFEET and
Uivinno 1,000 BLOODS will be
in attendance. Indian war dances and sports.
GET SEATS EARLY
The •*•*•“« capacity our arena la United and
onry day, from reservations that are pouring la
dally for the Dempsey-Gibbons fight, indicates a lar-
’ ger attendance. It la a certainty that we will be
crowded to capacity aU the time.
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0. G. BISHOP, Business Manager.
Food Manufacturer Launches
'National Drive for New Recipes
OVER $7,500 TO BE PAID FOR BEST RECIPES RECEIVED
A nation-wide campaign, which
will give every housewife tn America
a chance to prove her inventive abil
ity in the culinary field, was launched
May Ist by the Postum Cereal Co.,
Inc., of Battle Creek, Michigan, man
ufacturer of Grape-Nuts.
Grocers are being supplied with
circulars, for free distribution over
their counters, giving full particu
lars of the plan which is expected to
reveal not less than one hundred new
uses for Grape-Nuts.
For more than 25 years, Grape-
Nuts has been sold and advertised
as a cereal food. But interesting let
ters from women in all parts of the
country, describing the many at
tractive dishes they are making with
Grape-Nuts, have convinced the man
ufacturers that a national drive for
new uses of Grape-Nuts should devel
op a host of valuable suggestions,
which will be warmly welcomed by
busy housewives everywhere.
Not less than 101 recipes or sug
gestions will be purchased at SSO
each and $2,500 additional, divided
into four awards of SI,OOO, $750,
SSOO, and $250 respectively, will be
paid for the tour best recipes or sug
gestions submitted. Good Housekeep
ing Institute, conducted by Good
Housekeeping Magazine, will decide
the four recipes or suggestions en
titled to these special awards.
USE
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FLOUR
REXIS KING
“Bread is the best and cheapest food”
The conditions, as explained in the
newspaper advertising and circulars
in the hands of grocers, are simple
and easily complied with.
Helena— Twenty-five disabled vet
erans seek places on Montana farms,
according to officials of the veterans'
bureau at Helena.
pATARRH .
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