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17,170 GOPHERS DIE
IN THE FLATHEAD
JULY CAMPAIGN
UNIQUE METHOD OF WARRING
AGAINST i STS BRINGS
BIO RESULTS
The Season's Total Gophers Killed
Beaches 70,372 As Both Boys anti
Girls Vic For Valuable Prizes Of
fered For Kills.
Reports from 20 district oi>air
men, receive,! at the county a*< ,tV
office in Kallspell, for the month of
July, show a total of 17,170 gopher
tails, and a new total score of 70,
872 gopher tails for the season.
This represents the result of a un
ique- campaign that has been wag
ed in Flathead county, in which the
children of the county play the im
portant part.
Bernard Clarldge of Helena Flats
district was the high score boy for
the month with a total of 1,4 99, win
ning a special prize, a fly rod, given
by the Bobbin Brothers' Hardware
company.
Elsie Mero of the Demersville dis
trict won a special prize for girls
for the month with a score of 289,
which Is free tickets for her and fam
ily, given by the Liberty theatre of
Kallspell. The high scoring girl for
the month was Doris Gonser of Birch
Grove, with a score of 678 gopher
tails but she is dis qualified for the
special prize as she has already re
ceived the special prize for the month
of June. Laura Heath of Swan ri
ver district was the next, highest,
scoring with a total of 306 gupner
tails, but she also was disqualified
as she had received the special prize
for the month of May.
August will be the final month
In the gopher extermination cam
paign contest, and while many com
munities will not pay bounties for
this month, all boys and girls have
been urged to continue their good
work for the entire month, or as
long as gophers can be seen. Hiber
nation usually occurs from August
1 6 fo 20.
The season prizes which are still
open for compétition are:
Grand prize, open any boy or girl,
man or woman in Flathead county,
.22 rifle, given by the Flathead Mer
cantile company. All special prize
winners for any previous month are
disqualified from winning this prize.
Cash season prizes are: For boys
and girls, first, $10; second, $8:
third, |6; fourth, $5; fifth, |4, for
the highest number of gopher tails
turned in by any boy or girl during
the entire season.
BEAN GROWERS TO
SELECT BEST SEED
r
T a meeting of 25 bean growers
and dealers held at Billings re
cently plans for bean crop Im
provement through the selection of
seed from the best plants were dis
cussed. A resolution was adopted
asking the Montana State College for
early experimental work with the
Great Northern bean for the purpose
of establishing a better yielding and
more uniform type of the variety, and
the development of beans of a uni
form cooking quality.
The main purpose of the meeting
was to hasten every possible improve
ment of the variety by the efforts of
individual growers and to broaden,
the experimental work through the
help of the state colege. Very little
has been done on bean improvement
anywhere and the action taken a
year ago in making a start toward es
tablishing bean standards Is expect
ed to give results in time throughout
the bean growing sections.
C. C. Staring, assistant horticul
turist at the Montana State College,
explained the possibilities of Improve
ment of the bean crop by selection.
He also told of the start made last
year, when 35 bean types were sel
ected and are now being grown on
one of the ranches In the Billngs dis
trict, and at the Huntley experiment
al station for the purpose of develop
ing a high yielding strain of the Great
Northern bean of the size and shape
most desired on the market.
This scientific development, he ex
plained, would be a slow process,
not adapted to field practice by the
practical grower, though It would
develop eventually a better bean.
However, selection of the best plants
In the field by each grower for seed
for the next year, would result, he
said. In great Improvement similar
to that resulting from the selection
of the best ears of corn In a field for
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seed.
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LUCKY GRAIN FARMER
NEVER USED A PLOW
RUT HAS GOOD CROP
Ole Anderson of Poplar Is har
vesting his third volunteer crop
of winter wheat from 320 acre
wheal farm, a few miles cast of
Poplar. Four years ago he pur
chased the piece of laud from the
Montana Farming corporation. It
was then seeded to winter wheat,
which was cut late, after a con
siderable amount of It shelled out
of the field.
The first crop more than paid
for the land anti un abundant vol
unteer crop has be'tn harvested
each year since. Mr. Anderson
lias taken something like $«,000
from the 320 acres of land In win
ter wheat, without turning a fur
row or seeding a bushel of grain.
Montana lx-ads In Ore Production
Montana continued as the great
est producer of high grade mangan
ese ore during 1923 according to
figures compiled by the Interior de
partment. A total of 21,916 tons of
ore. assaying 36 per cent, or more,
manganese was produced. This was
more than double the production of
all tbe other states producing man
ganese.
WARNS FARMERS
POSSIBLE DAMAGE
FROM HESSIAN FLY
ARNINGS have been issued by
H. F. DePue, county agent fori
Ilichland county, to tbe ef
fect that the Hessian fly has arrived
in that part of the slate and unless
steps are taken to eliminate it, the
matter will next year become a' ser
olus problem.
Regarding the situation. Mr, De
Pue recently said; "The Hessian fly
has appeared in the wheat fields of
practically every section of Richland
county. This is the first time that It
has ever appeared in Montana, and it
Is perhaps the worst insect enemy of
wheat, often causing large damage in
the east and south,
"A survey of the county recently
completed discloses tbe fact that the
greatest damage has been found In
winter wheat fields, although traces
of it have been found in almost every
spring wheat field visited. Damage
to the extent of 30 per cent has been
reported in a few instances, hut the
damage in most fields runs from 1
to 5 per cent,
amount of the damage this year will
be of small account, It la feared that
If they spread and develop next year
w
and while the total
as they have the present season, the
loss will become a very serious pro
blem."
Regarding control measures, Mr.
DePue continued: "After the Hessian
fly makes Us appearance on grain,
there is nothing that can be done.
The only method of control Is to try
and prevent them the next season.
The following steps should be taken:
"Seed winter wheat late. The date
Is not definitely known for Montana,
but It is thought that after September
1, would be a safe date.
"Plow under or burn off the stub
ble of the wheat fields that were in
fested this year as soon after harvest
as possible.
"The fly lives over the winter In
winter wheat, volunteer wheat or old
stubble The larvae of the Hessian
fly does its damage by cutting off the
stalks just above the ground. The
pupa of the fly can usually be found
on the base of the stalks that have
been cut off, and It looks like a flax
seed. The fly Itself looks like a mos
quito, only It is very much smaller
and is hard to find."
They Scoffed In 60 9 §
(Continued from the Featui
and freak physical features were east
ly recognized and I found many of the
places where we camped, but some of
the natural wonders had changed and
some of them had entirely vanished.
I have the impression that Nature has
not yet completed Her work in the
park.
"One of the strangest things we
saw 66 years ago was a mud geyser
that hurled its discharge against the
roof of a cavern with a roar that
actually made the earth tremble. This
has disappeared. Another feature
that is missing Is a natural fountain
that threw a thin stream of water
from a fissure at an angle of about
20 degrees. The upper falls had
worn down a bit and other features
were slightly changed, but In the
main it was the same land of marvels
we had explored, while a number of
new wonders had been added. One
of the features we did not see 66
years ago was Old Faithful geyser,
but we saw quite a number of others
that now are extinct.
"Wo were rather expert in pick
ing camp sites those days and I not
ed with some interest three years
ago that one of the main tourist
camps now Is located at the exact
spot we selected for a stopping place.
Two of the other tourist camps also
are on our old sites. We kept a com
plete diary of our measurements,
of some of the region's surface fea
tures. One of the things we meas
ured was the Yellowstone falls and
I am Informed that our data still
stands official.
to
Find Tower Falls
"Dense timber frequently Interfer
ed with our progress and it was of- by
ten necessary to cut trees to make
a trail for the pack horses. Open
spaces in the timber were welcome
reliefs from the hard going and one
day, as we passed into the timber
after crossing one of these, I turned
to see If the horses were following,
When I turned ahead again I was
standing on the brink of the Grand
Canyon, almost directly opposite In
spiration Point. I easily found the
place when I visited the park more
than 60 years later.
"The incident marked one of our
more important discoveries and we
also were the first white men to see
Tower falls. Some of the things we
found had been seen by white men
before, hut I think we are generally
credited with definitely establishing
the existence of many of the things
which were known to the world only
in discredited legends, if Indeed
they had been heard of before.
"Had ft been possible to start on
the expedition the year before we
would have been accompanied by an
easterner who was greatly interested
in the reports that were goinfe the
rounds. It was necessary for him to
return east before we made the start
in 1869, but he took with him our
promise that we would write him
all about our experiences. This we
faithfully did, but our first communi
cation covered but a portion of the ex
pedition. Back came a request for a
complete account and this we sent as
soon as we could prepare It.
"The reception given our writings
was a fair marker of the disbelief
then existing in the wonders of the
Yellowstone country. The account
of a canyon with precipitate walls
1,500 feet or more in height, "atural
fountains of boiling water that flowed
and subsided alternately, roaring
falls, geysers of steam, falls with a
tremendous drop, pools of boiling
stands as official.
of
Treasure State Farm and Livestock
- HERE IS 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.
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Mules City Will Qolv® The
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Problems of Stock Grower
New Experiment Station At
,
I cattle through the winter to be able
to make a favorable report to the
1 owners In the spring. Today the
margin of profit in the cattle busi
ness even under favorable price con
ditions has narrowed down to the
point where the tremendous winter
losses that the catleraen wer accust
omed to 35 and 40 years ago would
prove ruinous What was considered
a favorable report then would be the
first step toward banbruptcy today. .
Thus the cattle Industry In Mon
tana is confronted with problems to
day which the old timers didn't even
think of, and strange to say, up un
til a few months ago, the United
States did not have a single place
where these problems of the range
cattle business could be studied and
solved. While the general farmers,
dairymen, fruit growers, and men en
gaged in other lines of farm business
had their experiment stations in every
state, and in some cases mare than
one, the range livestock business
which involved many millions of dol
lars was receiving little more than
such attention as was possible for
the western experiment stations to
squeeze in along with their regular
work. Such work was limited be
cause the ordinary state experiment
station was not equipped to consider
the range problems.
(By R. B. Mlllln, livestock spe
cialist, Montana State College Ex
tension Service.)
N THE middle of the last half
of the Nineteenth century the
! range cattle problem In Montana
j was largely one of bringing enough
I
At last, however the United States
government, cooperating with the
state of Montana has started a range
experiment station and in so doing it
has come about as close as possible
to the biblical instruction to beat
the swords Into pruning hooks. The
military establishment in Montana
known as Fort Keogh has become
an experiment station for the study
of range livestock problems, the first
of Its kind In the United States.
That the rest of the United Staes Is
Interested in this project Is attested
by the fact that eastern agricultural
colleges are already planning on
sending- special classes to the con
verted fort to study the work that
will be done there. Further national
Interest appears from the following
story sent out by the United States
Department of Agriculture, announc
ing the new experiment station and
discussing the work that will be
done there. The story follows;
A want that has been felt for years
for a suitable place to study and
solve the problem of the western
tion. The United States Department
of Agriculture and the Montana Ex
periment Station are preparing to
tackle some of these problems on a
huge scale. The old Fort Keogh
Military Reservation at Miles City,
Montana was recently transferred by
congress to the Department of Agri
culture for "experiments In stock
raising and growing of forage crops
In connection therewith." The sta
tion is considered ideal for the pur
pose. It contains 56,000 acres of
grazing land and 2,000 acres of Ir
rigated land. Two railroads and the
Yellowstone trail cross It. Its geo
graphical location and topography
will make the results obtained useful
to many sections of the country.
Although the station was trans
ferred without special appropriation
by congress for its operation the first
year, a fund has been created from
money that has bee saved from
other appropriations and work that
could not safely be delayed has been
begun.
The reservation is being gradually
changed from a military camp into
an agricultural experiment station,
Hay that used to feed cavalry horses
In- is now being harvested for beef cat
the tie and sheep feeding experiments,
and soldiers' barracks will be occu
pled by farm laborers. The animal
our husbandry division of the United
we States Department of Agriculture has
see been made responsible for the man
we agement and operation of the sta
tlon,
a
water Immediately adjacent to cool
water, catching of fish in one pool
and boiling them in another without
the fisherman changing his seat, and
other things we had seen, was too
much for the editor of the New York
Tribune.
"He turned down our story with a
few pertinent remarks about the
nerve of those who expected a news
paper to publish it. Such things did
not exist, and that was all there was
to It. The editor of Harper's was
tried, with the same result. After
several other unsuccessful attempts
to tell the world of or discoveries
by means of the printed word, our
friend found a small magazine in Chi
cago that accepted it. It was the
first printed description of what Is
now the Interior of Yellowstone
park."
Mr. Cook located at White Sulphur
Springs a few years after his ex
pedition through the Yellowstone and
since has made his home there. He
engaged In ranching and continued
that business until his retirement sev
eral years ago.
.
conducted in cooperation with the
Montana station ami other divisions
of the federal department,
be called the United Slates Range
Livestock Experiment station. E. W.
Sheets, assistant chief of the animal
husbandry division, who recently
spent several weeks at the new sta
tion organizing the work, reports ex
cellent progress made.
The complete ha>-making outfits
were purchased ami 800 tons of ex
cellent quality alfalfa hay was made
and stacked during ideal weather.
Fifty acres of corn has been planted
and Is doing well. Two silos were
built.
pumps water Iron: the Yellowstone
river was put In operation In order to
protect the buildings from fire, to Ir
rigate the crops and to provide water
foi; livestock. J. W. Swartz, who
has been employed at the station by
the War department for 16 years,was
employed as farm foreman In charge.
And plans are under way to stock
the station with 1000 beef breeding
cattle, a band of sheep, some hogs,
horses and turkeys, some of the ani
mals having already been placed on
the ranch.
The acquisition of the new station
has been enthusiastically praised by
the west, and the Department is be
ing urged to consider many problems
for immediate study. It will be nec
essary to select wisely In order to
concentrate on only those problems
which are most important. Those
who are forming these plans believe
that this addition to tne nation's
facilities for livestock research has
great possibilities. There has long
been a need
hare taken place in the west since
the days of the pioneer cattlemen
and abundant range. Stockmen have
suffered great losses In trying to
adapt their methods to these changes.
These losses have been felt not only
on the range but in tbe feed lots of
the corn belt, and by tbe consumers
of livestock products. Careful ex
periments and dependable results at
this station will therefore have great
possibilities for American agricul
ture.
It will
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for it. Manv changes
Historic Landmark Is
(Continued from Feature Page.)
could be said that they almost consti
tuted a new race of people. When
that was over and the immense
army which It had called together
was disbanded; when President Lin
coln had reviewed to the last man
that army of Union soldiers who
paraded day after day on Pennsyl
vania avenue, like a never ending
host, and the order disbanding the
army had been put Into execution,
these soldiers, contrary to all experi
ence of European countries, took up
the avocations of peace. There was
no lawless banditti preying upon the
unprotected but, with the same high
•v
Robert N. SutCcrlln, of Great Falla,
who established the first newspap
er at Diamond City, In 1875.
purpose that had actuated their con
duct as soldiers of the Republic, they
took up their burdens and duties
as citizens. The hardiest and most
adventurous of them moved west
and peopled that wonderful country
embracing the Rocky mountain and
Pacific coast region,
bullded an empire, where, like the
soldiers who garrisoned these forts,
they met and conquered difficulties
such as no generation of men had
ever been called upon to meet and
conqtter;and gave to their children
and their children's children the
blessings we now enjoy.
Here they
IHarlsm Is Believed
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C. Anderson property two miles
west of Harlem, has discovered 12
row wheat in his field of pure
strain Marquis. He had never
paid much attention to his wheat
until after the reports of eight-row
wheat. He investigated to ascer
tain whether or not he might find
some of this variety in his field.
He discovered that 8-row heads
were quite common, and when he bad
made a selection of the largest heads,
of his field, he found that he had
10 and 12 row heads
A few days prior to this dis
covery, 10-row heads had been re
ported 'rom the wheat section locat
ed between Medicine Lake and Dag
mar in Sheridan county, and this
was the first 10-row wheat discov
ered in Montana, and some reports
state that it is the first In the entire
wheat belt.
Samples of the new discovery at
Harlem have been sent to the exten
sion service department of the Mon
tana Slate College at Bozeman. The
wheat is of the Marquis variety, pro
pagated from the pure strain sent
out by the agricultural College -at
Bozeman a few years ago, and has
been raised on this particular farm
for the past three or four years. It
was grown on ground that was
plowed last fall and irrigated early
this spring before the crop was sown.
There has been no Irrigation since.
"Camp Baker was established In
November 1869 In Smith River
valley near the Junction of Camas j
creek and Smith river about 18 1
miles northeast of Diamond City, j
lattltude 46 degrees. 39 feet 481
inches; longitude 34 degrees 7 feet!
west. A short time later the camp j
was moved to Its present site, in
1878 It was named Fort Logan. The
Post was abandoned Oct. 26, 1880,
and the troops stationed here were
ordered to the present site of Fort
Maglnnjs in Fergus county. The
War department records show that
Camp Baker was first garrisoned by
Co. G., Seventh U. S. Infantry and
was under the command of Capt.
Geo. S. Hollister who arrived here
June 30, 1870. This company re
mained until May 15, 1872. There
after, the Post was garrisoned by
the following named organizations
In the order stated. Co. A. Seventh
Infantry May 16, 1872 to Nov. 8th
1875. Co. A. of the Seventh In
fantry was a company of which Capt.
Logan In whose honor this Post was
named afterwards became command
ing officer. The post was garri
soned by Co. E. Seventh Infantry
Aug. 10. 1874 to Sept. 17, 1878;
Co. D Seventh Infantry Nov. 7, 1876
to June 12, 1879; Co. Q Third In
fantry Nov. 11, 1877 to May 15,
1878; Co. K Third Infantry Oct. 20,
1878 to Aug. 12, 1880; Co. L
Eighteenth Infantry Nov. 4, 1879 to
Oct. 26. 1880. The successive com
manding officers of Camp Baker and
Fort Logan were as follows: Capt.
Geo. S. Hollister Seventh Infantry
June 30, 1870 to Jan. 2. 1871; First
Lieut. H. M. Benson Seventh In
fantry to Feb 13, 1871; Capt. Geo.
L. Browning Seventh Infantry to
May 16, 1872; Capt. H. B. Freeman
Seventh Infantry to Aug. 10, 18V4 -
Lieut. Col. C. C. Gilbert to Sept. 17
1878; Capt. Richard Comba Sev
enth Infantry to Oct 30, 1878; Capt.
Dangerfleld Barker Thirl Infantry
to Jan. 24, 1879, and June IS to
Sept. 4, 1879; Major Guido ilges
Seventh Infantry Jan. 24, to June 12,
1879; and Major Henry L Chlpman
Third Infantry Sept. 4, 1879 to Oct.
26. 1881k.
"It will be noticed that in the
main the Post was garrisoned by de
tachments of the Seventh Infantry.
The Seventh Infantry was one of the
most famous regiments of the Unit
ed States army. It was known In
the army as the fighting Seventh
and Us record upon the frontier and
In the civil war was a brilliant one.
It Is notworthy that Capt. Bonne
ville. whose explorations from St.
Louis to the mouth of the Colum
bia in 1832 to 1836 were of vital im
portance to the Government and peo
ple of the United States, was a cap
tain in this regiment. When Col.
Liscum fell at Pekin at the head of
his troops during the Boxer rebellion
It was Lieut. Col. Coolidge, a former
Lieut, in the Seventh Infantry and
a veteran of Sioux and Nez Perce
wars, who took command and plant
ed the American flag on the walls of
that ancient Chinese city.
"It is great to be a Montanan; It
Is glorious to feel that we are the
successors of that hardy race, we
have come to know as the old timers,
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the pioneers of this wonderful state.
1 Many of those who will read the in
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pride in the fact that they are the
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But there are men and women still
living within the borders of Montana
whose emotions will be stirred to the
uttermost—men and women who
knew and for many years worked
side by side with the gallant men
who garrisoned this Port nearly half
a century ago. To these, these ser
vices will arouse fond memories of a
day when life was still young and all
that was grand and glorious in the
illimitable West beckoned them on
j a bfe happiness, prosperity and
Ulysslan adventure. To these people
' the patriotism of the D. A. R. will
mean much.
"It Is easy to be a Montanan In
the present day when peace, happi
ness and prosperity reigns over our
land. When the home Is safe from
hostile attack, when palatial railroad
trains carry one here and there.
When macadamized and paved high
ways open up avenues of Inter course
among beautiful progressive cities,
productive agricultural regions and
mining and Industrial centers. This
Is not the Montana that the men
whom we are here to honor found.
When after a toilsome journey across!
the plains or up the Missouri river,
they finally achieved the occupation
of what Is now known as the State
Every mile of travel
was beset by perils and hardships
whlch tbe present generation cannot
begin to understand or appreciate.
This was particularly true of the
at
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of Montana.
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CORN MEN OF MONTANA MAY
BUFFER SEED SHORTAGE
A wed corn shortage la predicted
for Montana till* year by O. J.
Ogtfd, Htate agronomist. The con
illtioD of the crop resulting from
the late spring and the possibility
of an early frost, and the fact that
all Montana corn is about three
weeks late, make a sect! situation
that will require Immediate action.
'•Farmers should get their seed
corn at the earliest possible mo
ment," said Mr. Ogaard, "and the
pro|»er time to pick is when the
dent corn begins to dent and the
flint corn begins to glaze. Farm
ers do not realize what a seed corn
shortage would mean, and our ad
vice to them Is to get their supply
as early as possible.
a
little army of occupation sent here
to establish the authority of the Unit
ed States and protect her pioneer civ
ilians, not less heroic than those who
wore the uniform of the United
States army. • • *
"The last man to take command
of this Fort as a military authority
was Sergeant Ernst Rackovlcz, and
his command consisted of a single
private. When the troops were or
dered from Fort Logan in the fall
of 1880 to establish Fort Maginnls,
Sergeant Rackovicz was left in
charge of the Government property.
He was one of the crack shots of the
army, and had won laurels for his
regiment at the Creedmore and St.
Paul Rifle matches. ♦ • •
"In times of peace mediocrity may
rule; men of questionable standing
or loyalty' may be elected to high of
fice; the spirit of discontent may pre
vail; disloyalty may be expressed;
foolhardy experiments In legislation
and in government may be the order
of the day, but the moment our na
tion's honor or safety is menaced
from within or without, the sober
common sense of our people may be
relied upon to drive from office the
incompetent and disloyal, and to
place the destiny of the nation in
I the hands of one hundred per cent
Americans, and thus it will ever be.
I "The story of our army from Val
1 ley Forge to Chateau Thierry will
[never be lost to our people, but the
\ inspiration of their achievements and
| sacrifices will be a living red blood
jed, dominating, controlling, undying
I influence on the character of the
people of this Republic.