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Clarence D. Hagen Ranch 20 Rugged Beau Donald RANGE BULLS Good Heads and Straight Legs For Sole ot the Ranch CLARENCE D. HAGEN Slevensville THE LAW OF CAUSE AND EFFECT IS MOST INTERESTING ... We be lieve thot certain things take place because something makes them take plac back of every effect. For instance, if you have horned calves instead of polled ones, it's because you have a horned bull. We assert the right way to remedy this condition is to remove the cause. that there must be a cause When you think Herefords, think SPIDEl BRED POLLED HEREFORDS Roberts Loan & Cattle Co. Box 1098, Roundup, Montana J ust don't 0 verlock the Polled Herefords H erd ball orospe-cis 'N females of E xceHent quality Ready io Plato Domino 36th •or ehief herd sire I mprove Hereford C atlk hi E very way Sheridan, Wyoming BREEDERS of BETTER RANGE BULLS REGISTERED HEREFORDS Aster Blanchard Horned 14 Good 2's and 30 Yearling Bulls Romain Domino Polled ROMAIN & McLEAN HEREFORD RANCH 6 Miles N. W. on Gibson Dam Road Augusta Montana Chromo Polled Herefords Coming 2-Year-Old Bulls Bull Calves Heifer Calves 24 Years of Straight Polled Breeding Earl B. Rice Forsyth. Montana UL) li,f\ ~ HEREFORD RANCH OSCAR SALES Montana Bozeman Registered Hereford Cattle STEWART E. BELL Eden, Mont. E iTT, ÆguU II Ü C. F. STIMSON MONTANA with the sale of 40 head of coming 2-year-olds to a California buyer from the Wilbur Story ranch, Boze man. With the exception of bulls en tered in state consignment sales, this represented the entire crop of bulls from the Gallatin Valley ranch. The sale price was reported at $500 straight through. For the third successive year the Paint Rock Hereford Assn, came to Montana for Montana bred bulls, ac cording to information released by Herb Jillson, field secretary of the Montana association. The Hyattville, Wyo., association runs more than 1,600 commercial cows, generally marketing in Bil lings each fall. This year the asso ciation purchased 21 head of grass bulls from Higgins Bros., Ringling. They reported that they have used some 52 head of Higgins bulls in their operation. Individual members of the group purchased 21 head of bred coming 2-year-old heifers, also from the Ringling ranch. The asso ciation has been in operation some 40 years. ♦ ♦ ♦ Smith Entries In ENTRIES BY DWIGHT Smith & Son of Bozeman placed in two classes of the Milking Shorthorn competi tion in the first annual International Dairy exposition at Indianapolis, ex position management announces. Rockrose Jane 7th placed fifth in the senior heifer class and Rockrose De vine Lady 3d placed fourth in the dry record of merit cow class. More than 2,600 dairy animals vere entered in the exposition events. • * * Guest of honor at the 4th annual Montana Winter Fair, which will be held in late March at Bozeman, will be Mr. and Mrs. George Sim, High wood. The Sim's have nearly a half century of purebred livestock breed ing behind them, around forty years in Montana. In conjunction with the fair, First National bank of Great Falls is of fering a sterling silver trophy which will be presented to the 1st place get-of-sire consignor at the fair. The trophy will be named the "George Sim dedication trophy" and will be a revolving one. Howard Lewis, Winter Fair asso ciation president, stated recently that additional space was being prepared to accommodate the increased num ber of livestock that is slated for the judging rings at the annual affair. According to word received at the office of the Montana Hereford as sociation field office, the first two calves by Con Warren's T T Tri umphant to sell, went to Willow Creek Ranch, Belt, at $5,000. Wil low Creek also recently purchased the top selling bull, a son of RS Super Princeps, at the Archie Parkes annual sale, Vaughn, on Oct. 29th. Some 65 breeders will have a total of 472 bulls of all breeds at the annual carlot sale in Billings for three-day private treaty consign ment sale starting Dec. 5. The sale is somewhat different in that the mils are yarded and sold by com mission firms in the same way which commercial cattle are sold on all terminal markets. Buyers may look over, and price all the bulls in the yards, then decide on the dividual bulls of their choice. A stag get-together may be held on evening of the first days selling. Plant Insecticides, Fertilizers Reported at State Meet In this article are recommendations for use of plant insecticides and com mercial fertilizers as presented at the first annual meeting of the Montana Agricultural Chemical association in Bozeman which was reported in the Oct. 15 issue of Montana Farmer-Stock man. The information is based upon research studies and field tests by Montana Stale college research and ex periment station officials. Recommen dations for annual and perennial weed control and livestock insecticides were listed in the Oct. 15 and Nov. 1 issues of Montana Farmer-Stockman, This story concludes the report on the state meeting. PLANT INSECTICIDES Alfalfa Weevil Recommendations from a report by E. B. Hastings, associate professor of zoology and entomology, Montana State college— Chlordane at 2 pounds per acre applied in 2 gallons of oil will be used again this year. Results have been erratic, however, and cannot be explained as yet. In ground appli cation, 2 pounds of chlordane in 6 to 8 gallons of water will do the job. Getting the material well down into the crown of the plants is im portant. Control can be achieved but not eradication. Cost of operation will be well repaid in returns from a good first cutting of alfalfa alone to nothing of better second crop not delayed by the insects cut ting down new tender shoots as they come through. Grasshopper Control , Recommendations from a report by D. K. Scharff— Sprays of chlordane at 1 pound per acre or pounds of toxaphene per acre show ' higher initial kills and longer residual effect than dusts. When using dusts, the recommenda tion is to use 1 % pounds of chlordane or 2 pounds of toxaphene per acre. Even distribution of sprays or dusts over the area of infestation when the main hatch is completed or when the younger hopper begin to move off the hatching grounds is important. Alfalfa with heavy in festations should be cut and field margins, ditch banks or other areas into which hoppers have moved should be sprayed or dusted. The next crop of alfalfa should be treated when the vegetation is 6 to 10 inches high. Caution: Forage treated with either chlordane or toxaphene should not be fed to dairy animals or ani mals being finished for slaughter within 60 days. Sprays and dusts are usually bet ter than baits in dense, succulent vegetation. Bait is much more economical and as good as sprays or dusts in sparse range grass, grain stubble, or dry vegetation no longer attractive to hoppers as food. Bait is also more effective in fall-seeded grain when Wet bran-sawdust baits should contain %-pound of chlordane or 1 pound of toxaphene for 100 pounds of the bran-sawdust mixture. Dry bait is made by spraying bran at the rate of Vz-gallon to 100 pounds of bran with a mixture of either % pound of chlordane or 1 pound of toxaphene in enough kerosene to make üp %-gallon. a in in leg Wheat Stem Saw Fly Recommendations by J. A. Callen bach, associate professor of zoology and entomology, Montana State col There is no chemical control of wheat stem saw fly to date. Control is dependent on resistant varieties such as Rescue wheat. Out of some 4,700 varieties of wheat, 151 winter wheat varieties and 280 spring wheat varieties have been found to be saw fly resistant to the point of hav ing less than 20 percent damage. These varieties are the subject of plant breeding experiments, with the hope of finding a better saw fly re sistant wheat than Rescue. HORTICULTURAL INSECTS Recommendations from a report by C. R. Hunt, assistant entomolo gist, horticultural branch experi ment station, Corvallis— Apple insects such as codling moth, blister mite, oyster shell scale, bud moth, and apple scab, can be controlled by using the dinotro-type sprays in the dormant at the rate of three quarts liquid or three pounds of the powders, and the use of DDT at 1 pound plus limesulfur at 1 to 50 as a summer spray. The black cherry aphis can be con trolled by using a 3 percent dormant oil or a green tip spray using chlor dane, toxaphene or parathion. The same program will give rust mite control when applied at the green tip stage or after the fruit is har vested. Pear slug control is possible using toxaphene, chlordane and benzene hexachloride after the fruit is har vested or T.E.P.P., rotenone, etc., be fore the fruit is harvested. Experimental studies on the con trol of the sugar beet root maggot and root aphis conducted during the past season indicates that soil treat ment with parathion, chlordane, or benzene hexachloride will effectively control the root maggot and para thion or benzene hexachloride will reduce populations of the root aphis. COMMERCIAL FERTILIZERS Fertilizer needs in Montana were explained by Dr. A. H. Post, pro fessor of agronomy and soils, Mon tana State college. Primary plant nutrients most commonly deficient in soils are nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. Nitrogen and phos phorus are the two most common deficiencies. When these two de ficiencies are built up, however, the balance of potassium fall down. may The important thing is not to use "just fertilizer," on the land but rather to find out the soil deficiency. And a lack of fertilizer is not the only limiting factor — moisture, alkali, organic matter or even tillage operations are also factors that limit production. Jesse Green, ACM fertilizer spe cialist, pointed out the successful widespread use of phosphate for sugar beets on irrigated land. Dry land fertilizer tests in recent years have indicated a $5 to $6 per acre profit is possible where dryland de ficiencies exist. Topping Cottonwoods Doubtful Practice TOPPING 25 to 40-year-old cotton wood trees doesn't necessarily pro mote growth, according to W. O. Edmondson, forester and horticul turist of the Wyoming agricultural extension service. When trees are relatively old and are headed back to 20 or 25 feet from the ground, leaving long stubs, they likely never will recover, Ed mondson warns. At least they will never be the shapely trees they were in the earlier years of their lives.