Montana farmer-stockman. [volume], August 01, 1951, Page 4, Image 4

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A superior meat and wool animal, the new breed of sheep—the Columbia—is gaining popularity in
Great Northern territory. Instrumental in introduction of the Columbia breed along Great Northern
was the railway's Department of Agricultural and Mineral Development. Above are two prize-winners
at a recent Columbia Show and Sale in Minot, N. D. The man standing at the right is E. M. (Pop) Gregory
of Fargo, Great Northern agricultural agent.
BEHIND THE MAN ON THE LAND
resources—a service no other kind of
transportation performs.
It is what Great Northern does to help
you get bigger yields per acre at less cost.
To raise crops and livestock that will
bring greater returns. To find new mar
kets for what you raise.
Independently, or
in association with
colleges, universities
and government agen
cies, Great Northern
encourages farming
methods best adapted.
to conditions in your
region. It helps you
wage war on plant
diseases, droughts,
weeds and other ad
versities.
At a cost of $130,000
' a year Great Northern
maintains a staff of
agricultural and
mineral development experts whose sole
Job is to help you.
Beyond providing transportation
services, what does a railway do for
farmers and ranchers in its territory?
Part of the answer is fairly common
knowledge: a railway pays taxes. Great
Northern's 1950 tax bill in the ten states
it serves was a whop
ping million dol
lars—more than 5 out
of every 100 dollars
the railway received
for transportation
services last year.
In many of those
states almost 50 per
cent of the railway's
tax dollar goes to sup
port rural and other
public schools. An
other sizable chunk
helps build and main
tain roads used by
farmers, ranchers and
railways' competitors.
The railway's local payroll and pur
chases mean a great deal, too, to you who
make your living on the land. Yet, a most
important part of the railway's service
generally is overlooked. It is the every
day contribution to every community
along the railway by Great North
ern's Department of Agricultural
and Mineral Development.
Behind the man on the land in Great
Northern's territory is a small, but highly
trained and experienced group of men
devoted to better, more productive agri
culture and development of other natural
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WORKING FOR YOU
E. B. Duncan, Director, Department of
Agricultural and Mineral Development,
St. Paul? ;
J. J. Hare, Asst, to Director, St. Paul
R. V. Backstrom, Asst. Director, St. Paul
E. N. Duncan, Western Agricultural
Development Agent, Seattle
Traveling Agricultural and
Development Agents
Paul C, C. Wagner
E. M. Gregory - .
Fred Sanborn - - ■
Charles E. Jarrett - - - - Great .Falls
£. H. Thomas
- - Fargo
- - Fargo
Great Falls
Spokane
Mineral Development
A. J. Haley, System Geologist, Seattle
R. A. Watson, Asst. Geologist, Spokane
For the transportation of what
you produce. Great Northern must
compete with other public transport
en terprises tha t are dis tine tly favored
with direct and indirect government
subsidies, and exempted from com
parable regulation and taxation.
But, the railway has no competi
tion from other forms of transporta
tion in the-constructive business of
helping you—the man on the land I
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rickly-Pear Clark over in Daw
son county is afraid the thing
he has been dreadin' is about to
come to pass. The new discovery
well makes it pretty clear that there
is oil under his land and now his
wife will insist on his spendin' the
winters sittin' under a danged date
palm down in Florida when he could
be enjoyin' himself playin' penny
ante as usual with the boys in town.
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The rain-increasers are havin'
lo do a bit of fast work tryin' to
convince the folks who got too
much rain and those who got too
little that neither condition was due
to the effect of the silver iodide
generators.
Congressmen need all the forti
tude and delicacy thèy can commaftd
these days to determine where sen
sible defense spendin' ends and na
tional bankruptcy begins. It's a
little like decidin' whether Aunt
Jenny's stomach requires a majc~
operation or just a change of diet.
About the time we get all set up
in economic strait-jackets to ward
off inflation we may get sucked
under by a fast movin' deflation
before we have time to kick the
shackles loose.
Vacation is the annual inconven
ience, heat and financial strain you
undergo just to learn once more that
there's no place like home.
That neighbor of mine says the
trouble with life is that when you
finally learn some of the answers
you're- too tired and rheumatic to
do anything about it.
This is about the time when the
June brides discover the cruel fact
that the bridegroom's shirts don't
wash themselves.
Protein Pete says before the
species is completely extinct we
ought to stage a national contest to
determine the best horse trader in
the country. And then make the
winner secretary of state.
The grasshoppers on Summerfal
low Saih's place seem to be pretty
sickly as a result of several days of
cold rainy weather that came just
after they hatched out. Sam says it
looks as if he may not have to poison
them unless some government relief
agency comes along and cures the
critters before they die of bronchitis,
or whatever it is they're ailin' with.
Doc Henderson tells about a
woman he treated recently who
had been bitten by a dog durin*
the rabies epidemic. She hadn't
come lo him as soon as she should
have so he told her that there was
a possibility she might die of hy
drophobia, and that it might be
well for her to jot down any of her
last wishes. The woman busied her
self with a pen and paper for such
a long time that the doc remarked:
"That's a rather long will, isn't it?"
To which the woman replied: "Will
nothing. I'm making a list of the
people I want to bite."
Montana Farmer-Stockman
Aug. 1, Vol. 38. No. 23
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