Glacier County chief. [volume], August 26, 1938, Magazine Section, Image 10

About Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940

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FARMERS TAUGHT
WATER SURVEYING
“HOME GROWN" ENGINEERING
SCHOOL OPERATES IN FALLON
AND CUSTER COUNTIES
Gib Zeidler, Extension Agent. Inaug
urates Practical Training School in
Laying Out Flood Irrigation Systems
and Stock Reservoirs.
A “home-grown” engineering
school for training farmers to as
sist in surveying and laying out
flood irrigation systems and stock
water reservoirs, is in operation in
Fallon and Carter counties under
the direction of Gib Zeidler. ex
tension agent for the two counties.
Thus far 26 authorized engineers
have been “graduated” from Zcid
ler’s practical training school.
With more requests for assistance in
building flood irrigation systems than
he could handle by himself. Zeidler hit
upon the idea for the training school.
In 1937. for example, he received 60
such requests from Fallon county and
28 from Carter. This year 26 Carter
county farmers asked for assistance
and 34 from Fallon sought advice.
Bulletins Are Textbooks
Zeidler presented his idea to resi
dents of both counties and received a
favorable response. Instructors in the
school were Horace Parker and Elmer
Olson of the state AAA office, members
of the agricultural conservation com
mittee, and the county agent. Text
books were free bulletins supplied by
the agricultural engineering depart
ment of the Montana agricultural ex
periment station.
The students received the necessary
technical training before they took to
the field for practical work. Each man
in the group is experienced in build
ing dams, having built one or more for
his own use.
That the farmer-students were en
thusiastic is revealed by the fact that
two of them—Roy Williams and Wil
liam Lambert —made a round trip of
160 miles to attend one “class.” They
have since purchased a farm level •
jointly to use in their work. Other en
gineers have hand levels sufficiently
accurate for the work.
Reports Are Uniform
Because dams have to be constructed
to stand any type of rain, each en
gineer is furnished with the extension
service specifications. Forms are pro
vided each engineer so that reports
are uniform. After completing the
course, each engineer is assigned ter
ritory convenient to him and he fur
nishes his equipment.
Students in Zeidler's school are: Roy
Williams and William Lambert. Pin
iele: Frank Arbuckle, Walter Nutter,
Albion; J. F. Lenihan, Clarence Mor
gan. Elgin; E. C. Perso, Gust Malm
quist. Joe Blutt, Lester Williams,
Ekalaka; Milo Kennedy, Ernest Taylor.
Belltower: R. E. Morrison, Clinton
Baker. Ollie; E. P. Meffert, Joe Vot
ruba Jr., Sam Barkley, Wilbur Irvine,
W. W. Peck. Baker; Amos Greenlee,
John Thielen. John M. Ludwig, M. F.
Carrington, Plevna; Fred Straub. Is
may; Anthony Schorsh. Webster; John
Meccage, Knobs; Henry Malley, Ridge.
The Hopi snake dance in the Navajo
country comes sometimes in the latter
part of August, but the exact date
is never known until about 10 days in
advance when it is announced by the
Indians,
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Montana Harvesting Third Larges) Crop in History of State
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Harvesting wheat on a Montana ranch. One reason why state farmers are happy this year, with the best yield
in a decade predicted for 1938. Wheat crop this year est timated at 77,580,000 bushels with net value of $45,000,000.
TOP 4-H HONORS
IN FARM TESTS
WON BY RICHLAND AND CASCADE
TEAMS AT NORTH MONTANA
STATE FAIR
Top honors in the 4-H agricul
tural contests at the North Mon
tana State fair were awarded to
teams from Cascade and Richland
counties.
The Richland county team, composed
of Rolland Redlin and Paul Prevost,
won the agricultural demonstration
contest with a hog waterer; economic
ally constructed from a gasoline barrel
and a few sections of iron pipe. Cas
cade county team members, Jeff
Roberts. Bill Willits and Dean Jensen,
defeated 28 competing county teams for
the highest number of points in judg
ing crops and livestock.
Second and third place winners in
the demonstration contest were the
Missoula team of Billy Maclay and
Otto Benson and the Pondera team of
Emers Nielsen and Harold Swanson.
Twenty-three counties competed.
Winners in the dairy division, a
special contest sponsored by the Kraft-
Phoenix Cheese Co., were Flathead,
Cascade and Sanders counties. Mem
bers of the winning teams will be
given an all-expense trip to the na
tional dairy show at Columbus, 0., in
November.
Agricultural demonstration and
judging contest winners will be eligible
to compete for the Camp Plummer I
trophy, highest award for points won,
at the Pacific International Livestock i
exposition at Portland, ’ Ore., In Oc-1
tober. Montana club members now hold I
this trophy.
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RANGERS CLAIM BEARS CAN I
TELL DIFFERENCE IN CARS '
Calmly, deliberately and disdainful
of scoffers, George Miller, chief ranger
of national park service In Glacier
park, plucked from his hat the bear
story of the season.
Discoursing on the Intelligence of
the bear, the chief ranger observed
that Glacier park bears now distin
guished between government and pri-1
vately owned automobiles. Moreover, I
Ranger Miller contends, the bears high
tail it off park highways whenever a
government machine hoves into sight. 1 1
“It may be that the bears have
learned to distinguish government cars
from others," he said. "Our cars are
painted forest green. Anyhow, they get
off roads for Uncle Sam's cars and
they dont for private machines."
GLACIER COUNTY CHIEF
Montana Grazing Conditions
Most Favorable for Years
Montana stockmen are experiencing
the most favorable grazing conditions
in many years, according to the August
range and livestock summary of the
United States bureau of agricultural
economics, released by Jay G. Diamond,
senior statistician stationed at Helena.
The report finds the supply and quality
of range feed better than average over
the recent period of years with cattle
and sheep making better than usual
gams.
The report shows condition of ranges
at 96 percent of normal which com
pares with 79 percent a year ago. This
year's conditions compare with an
Aug. 1 average of 77.8 percent for the
previous 10 years.
Also since the compiling of the re
port began, abundant rainfall has
fallen in nearly all sections of the
state, adding to the quality of the
range.
Condition of cattle at 96 percent of
normal compares with 88 percent a
year ago and the 10 year average for
Aug. 1 of 88.6 percent. According to
the release, most reports show cattle
in excellent condition of flesh and
promising a better finishing of mar
ketings than has been seen in the
state in any recent year.
WHEAT LOANS
: FOR MONTANA
STATE EXAMINER FOR RFC GETS
APPLICATION BLANKS AND
INSTRUCTIONS
I Amount of Wheat Loans Will Be Based
on “Basic Loan Values of Wheat of
the Designated Grades and Sub-
Classes Stored in Warehouses.”
S. A Bingham, Montana ex
aminer for the Reconstruction Fi
nance Corp., said Commodity
Credit Corp, loans on Montana’s
1938 wheat crop are in immediate
prospect.
He received instructions and applica
tion blanks and it was expected a
similar supply would be received in
the near future by county agents.
None of the some 75 elevators in
Montana, which are classed as "country
warehouses,” has executed an agree
ment with the Commodity Credit Corp.,
and been approved as an eligible stor
age establishment, although copies of
such agreements have been sent to
many of them, Bingham said. Of the
75, about 20 have submitted certificate
and bond, which have been approved,
but not the warehouse agreement, he
added.
One form of wheat loan— secured by
chattel mortgage on wheat stored on
farms—can be made now, it was de
duced from the instructions, but the
other—secured by receipts for grain
stored in approved public grain ware
houses—is not yet possible because no
Montana warehouses or elevators have
to date executed agreements with the
commodity corporation.
The time required to complete a
wheat loan of either form is a matter
on which Zimstein and Bingham
would not speculate but they said that
so far as local officials are concerned
every effort will be made to expedite
them.
Amount of wheat loans, the instruc
tions showed, will be based on "basic
loan values of wheat of the designated
grades and subclasses stored in ap
proved public grain warehouses” at
certain terminal markets. As most
Montana wheat is shipped to Minneap
olis, the following figures for that
terminal were quoted:
No. 1 dark northern spring, 81 cents;
No. 1 northern spring, 79 cents; No. 2
hard winter, 75 cents; No. 2 amber
durum, 72 cents, and No. 2 red durum.
55 cents.
From these basic loans values must
be deducted the freight to Minneapolis
which for most Montana points is 26.4
cents a bushel, and 4 cents handling
totlU of 304 cen ts. With
this deduction the actual loan value on
No. 1 dark northern spring wheat
would be 50.6 cents a bushel.
. 7? 1 ® P roce dure in obtaining a loan
is for the grower to obtain from his
and the quantity, grade, cleanllneu
and moisture content ot hie wheat will
be certified by the county agricultural
conservation committee and the county
agent. The application papers wIU then
!? ““ Minneapolis office of
the RFC for approval.
To be eligible for a wheat loan the
producer’s total acreage of soil-deplet
ing crops for 1038 on the farm pro
ducing such wheat must not exceed
105 percent of the total toll-depleting
acreage allotment as determined In ac-
w A th J 1 Provisions of the
1038 agricultural conservation bulletin
*““*? Apr* l last, as amended.
. Wheat stored on the farm must have
filed in ennnrrtanns with state lav.
Sheep and Lambs
Sheep and lamb conditions at 95 per
cent of normal compares with 88 per
cent a year ago and the 10 year average
for Aug. 1 of 89.4. Lambs are reported
to have made excellent gains and
promise better weights at shipping
time than has been the case since 1927.,
As a result of favorable range condi- I
tions and the prospect of large winter
supplies of hay and grains, the report
shows, both cattle and sheepmen are
expected to curtail fall marketings of
livestock by retailing needed heifers
and ewe lambs for re-stocking.
In areas of the state where drouth
in recent years has depicted livestock
holdings, there is expected to be good
demand for breeding stock, according
to the report.
The conditions in Montana are typi- ,
cal of the western states as a whole.,
Western ranges generally have a good
supply of feed, with the highest condi
tions on Aug. 1 since 1932. During July,
rains improved range feed where con
ditions were poor at this time last year.
Feed conditions are generally good in
Montana. Wyoming and Colorado.
North Dakota ranges and pastures are
good. South Dakota is classed as “fair
to good.” Texas has generally good feed
and the condition extends well into
New Mexico. Pastures west of the Cas
cades in Oregon and Washington are
dry. the report shows. Some damage
from grasshoppers has been reported
from the great plains region. Generally
over the west range conditions are
shown to be 87 percent of normal as
compared with 80 percent last year.
There will be little forced market
ing of cattle due to feed shortage as
of recent years, the report predicts.
Sheep and cattle in nearly all sections
are shown to be in good condition—
and gaining.
CASCADE GIRL
IS 4-H WINNER
LOIS HUFFMAN TAKES MONTANA
TITLE IN DRESS CONTEST
AT FALLS FAIR
Will Represent Montana at National
4-H Club Congress in Chicago Next
November; Revue, Participated in by
40 Girls, Witnessed by Hundreds.
Lois Huffman of Cascade won
the championship 4-H club dress
contest at the North Montana
State fair at Great Falls and will
represent Montana at the national
4-H club congress in Chicago next
November. Miss Huffman received
first place for her black wool suit
with a dusty rose blouse, the cos
tume being entered in the street
wear division. Mary Slayton of
Ryegate, Golden Valley county,
was named reserve champion.
Other state contest winners are:
Washable school dress, Pauline Had
zor of Ennis, Madison county: best
dress, Mary Slayton, Ryegate; informal
party, Harriet Swanby of Sidney.
In Special Contest
Ina special contest conducted by the
Montana Woolgrowers association for
the best woolen dress made and mod
eled by a 4-H club girl, Mary Slayton
received first place, Marjorie Seaton
of Cascade, second; Joyce Cashman of
Glendive, third, and Bernice Strait of
Forsyth, fourth. A three-piece wool
knit ensemble prize was awarded by
Mrs. Kathleen Nielson, secretary of the
woolgrowers association, to Katherine
Sire of Belt.
Miss Slayton, reserve champion, wore
a dress of rose wool with a blue bolero
and blue wool coat with a beaver collar.
The beaver she had caught on her
family’s farm.
Selection of winning garments was
ma?®** the annual style revue in the
4-H club building. Hundreds of visitors
attended the style show, in which 4-H
club girls not only demonstrated that
they knew “style" but how to model.
representing 28 counties,
took part in the revue. As each prom
enaded on the platform, Miss Florence
Johnson, 4-H club leader for Cascade
county, announced cost ot the garment
modeled and, for the general ensembles
shown, also gave cost of the dress and
accessories.
Particularly smart were the fall en
sembles, many of which were worn by
4-H girls who will enter college this
fan. Appreciative murmurs from fem
inine style revue visitors were audible
when some of the more effective en
sembles appeared on the platform.
Many of those modeling ensembles had
made their own hats and purses.
While good workmanship is one of
the most important factors in gar
menu made by the girls, more stress
apparently has been laid on style thia
year than In preceding yeara and many
? f 1!" model « could well be shown In
leading fashion magasines of the
country.
INCLUDE PONDERA
IN TENANT PLANS
COUNTY IS INCLUDED IN FEDERAL
SETUP TO AID FARMERS IN
RETAINING HOMES
Counties Selected on the Basis of Fann
Population and Prevalence of Ten
ancy, Availability of Good Land at
Fair Agricultural Values.
Another barrier was thrown in
the path of increasing farm ten
ancy in Montana with the desig
nation of Pondera county for
participation in the farm security
administration's tenant purchase
program under the Bankhead-
Jones farm tenant act.
The inclusion of Pondera by Sec. of 1
Agriculture Henry A. Wallace in the,
administration’s plan for eventual abo
lition of undesirable tenancy of the
nation’s farm lands raises the total
number of counties in Montana to two
—Stillwater county having been desig
nated under the initial setup in 1938.
Counties are selected on the basis
of farm population and prevalence of
tenancy, availability of good land at
fair agricultural values and qualifica
tions of tenant purchase applicants.
Eleven tenant farmers in region X,
including Montana and Wyoming and
all of Colorado with the exception of
14 southeastern counties, selected from
among the hundreds of applicants by
the state farm advisory committee be
cause of their farming experience, in
tegrity and ability for successful op
eration, have recevied checks for pur
chase of farms of their own choosing
and appraised by the state farm ad-j
visory committees under the super- 1
vision of the farm security administra
tion. Repayments of loans at a low
interest rate will be made over a long
period of years.
With $93,100 in Montana’s fiscal
coffers for carrying on the program,
farm security administration officials
in Montana, besides approving loans to
at least five tenants in Pondera county,
will continue operations in Stillwater
county.
Qualified tenants, sharecroppers, or
farm laborers are eligible for loans.
Those desiring to apply for loans in
the two counties are advised to contact
that local county supervisor.
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LIQUOR PROFITS
TOP $1,500,000
FIRST SEVEN MONTHS OF YEAR
SHOW MILLION AND HALF
PROFITS, SAYS WASS
Profits ot the state liquor system
from the first of this year to Aug.
1 totaled $1477,269.05, Adminis
trator L. M. A. Wass said a few
days ago.
With the year’s five best selling
months remaining, the administrator
said it is possible the $2,800,000 total
profit of last year may be reached by
Jan. 1. He said his prediction depends
on a business uptrend this fall and
winter.
Seven Dividends
The board declared seven profit
; dividends totaling $700,000 during the
first seven months of the year.
* The 50-cent per gallon excise tax
authorized by the new legal saloon
law brought the state $230,294.40 during
the seven-month period, while retail
licenses, also authorized by the new
act. brought in $277,750, the adminis
trator reported.
July’s liquor sales totaled $396,745.14,
as against $512,572.53 for the same
month last year. Operating expenses
this July were $53,606.25, as compared
with $61,962.67 for July last year.
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