Montana farmer-stockman. [volume], May 15, 1950, Page 12, Image 12

About Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993

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USE THIS CULTIVATOR t 0 !
The forward-looking farmer—cultivating with a Ford
Tractor equipped with a Dearborn Rear Attached
Cultivator is sure of a clean crop. This cultivator
follows the tractor accurately. There's no neck-tiring
watching of gangs down under you. Your eyes are
well ahead, just as in plowing, planting or mowing.
You get a better cultivator for less money because
the Ford Tractor's triple quick-attaching replaces bolts
and nuts for mounting; and Ford Tractor built-in
Hydraulic Touch Control replaces levers and springs
on the cultivator. For fast, effective killing of weeds
to increase your yields and profits, ask your Ford
Tractor dealer to demonstrate this equipment.
DEARBORN MOTORS CORPORATION • DETROIT 3, MICHIGAN
Dearborn Rear Attached Cultivator
This cultivator comes with either
rigid shanks, illustrated above, or
spring shanks (illustrated below,
right.) Spacing is easily adjusted
for two rows of corn, cotton,
tobacco, etc., and many vegetable
crops. One-minute attaching and
detaching save time when time
means money.
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Dearborn Spring Shank Cultivator,
companion to the Rigid Shank
Cultivator in large picture. Es
pecially good in stony, root-filled
or weedy soil.
See your Ford Tractor
dealer now
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GET A DEMONSTRATION
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Try this type of cultivation. Your nearby Ford
Tractor dealer will gladly demonstrate the Ford
Tractor and Dearborn Rear Attached Cultivator;
then, judge for yourself. See or phone him now.
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It Takes Extra Care , Equipment , B«f
Grade 'A' Production Pays
By JERRY LESTER
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FRANK RAWLINGS, Sheridan,
county, Wyoming, has been in the
dairy business only five years but
has learned that selling grade "A
milk is well worth while despite the
extra care and equipment required.
The first thing necessary was a
bam. He figured that if a barn was
to be built it might as well be
planned for a minimum of work in
milking and cleaning. He picked a
conventional milking parlor design
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It isn't necessary to open this door into
the parlor by hand. It works by a rope
pull from inside but Frank Rawlings
shows the concrete walk-ways and a
corner of the loafing shed built on to
the barn.
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A milking machine is hooked up inside the modern six-stall parlor.
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Ford Tractors
Dearborn Farm Equipment
Authorized Distributor in Montana and Northern Wyoming
WYMONT TRACTOR & EQUIPMENT COMPANY
Billings
Great Falls
There is an authorized dealer in your community...
see him for your farm equipment needs.
but has added many labor-saving
features at a comparatively low cost.
The milking parlor has stalls for
six cows at a time and three milking
machines are used. The other three
cows are either being prepared for
milking or stripped while three are
being milked.
The bam cost about $5,000 with
about $1,000 of this for labor on
the concrete ' work. The concrete
floors are four to six inches thick
and have built-in gutters and drains.
A water type cooler is used, but a
walk-in refrigerator is planned in
the future. The rate of milking in
the bam is about 24 cows an hour.
So the herd of 27 are taken care of
in about 70 minutes. The cows are
milked at 5:30 in the morning and
4:30 in the afternoon. They produce
about 70 gallons of milk per day.
The rate of pay at the time of this
visit was $1.35 per pound of butter
fat.
The dairy herd now totals 35 head
and 27 were being milked at the
time of this visit. He is a member
of the Sheridan county dairy herd
improveemnt association and herd
tests at that time showed 4.8 to
5.2 percent butterfat. Rawlings went
into the grade "A" business as soon
as the milking parlor was finished
last year.