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HE development of new and im
proved varieties, discovery of more
efficient methods of production, dls
control and the working out
of suitable crop combinations for irri
gated land are among the more important
lines of work with wheat being carried
by the Montana experiment station
at Bozeman.
In a recently prepared summary of the
tests and Investigations under way this
year by Clyde McKee, agronomist for the
Montana experiment station the follow
ing wheat experiments are mentioned:
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Irrigated Rotations. If yields are to be
maintained at a high level, irrigated
lands must be cropped systematically and
provisions made for using leguminous
crops such as peas, clover and alfalfa,
along with generous applications of ma
nure. Forty-eight plats are used in com
paring continuous cropping with various
rotations of the leading cash crops of the
Gallatin valley.
Spring Wheat Varieties. Seventeen dif
ferent varieties and strains of spring
wheat are being tested. Of the hard red
spring wheat. Supreme and Marquis are
outstanding. During the past four years.
Supreme has outyielded Marquis almost
18 per cent and has proved equal to
Marquis in milling and baking tests. Al
though not strictly pure, the advantage
in yield is such that the agronomy de
partment feels Justified in recommend
ing Supreme as a standard variety and
has already taken steps to increase seed
for distribution to farmers. Among the
white wheats. Federation and Dlcklow
e-e the leading varieties, but are recom
mended only in the Intermountain sec
tions where a high-yielding variety is de
sired for producing feed or in irrigated
sections where hard spring wheat is of
poor quality.
Farmers' Strains of Marquis. It is fre
quently reported that there is a differ
ence between the Marquis wheat pro
duced by different farmers. A number
of these "farmers' " strains of Marquis
have been selected for testing and com
parison with the best strains of Marquis
produced by the Experiment station. So
far, there has been no discernible dif
ference between these strains, either in
yield or other characters.
Winter Wheat Varieties. Fourteen of
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WINTER FOUNTAINS
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A Little Booklet Entitled
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AGRICULTURAL LANDS
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Dairying Is a type of farming boat adapt
ed to the timbered sections of western
Montana. Most of the land can be con
verted Into pasture and dairy cows will
yield a splendid profit from the land
without the necessity of removing all the
stumps, although a sufficient acreage
must be put under the plow to supply
winter food. —In connection with dairy
ing. hogs and poultry should take an
Important part. —All fruits, berries and
garden truck thrive: field crops of grain,
clover, timothy, potatoes and stock roots
do well.
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the most promising varieties of winter
wheat for the Intermountain region are
being grown on plats. Based on the re
sults of the past six years, Montana 36,
a selection of the Kharkof developed by
the agronomy department, leads all
other varieties and outyields the parent
variety by nearly five bushels per acre.
Kanred ranks second in yield and Jones'
Fife, commonly known as Crail Fife, a
variety still grown to some extent in
southern Montana, is the lowest ylelder
of the varieties under test, averaging
15.7 bushels per acre less than Montana
36.
Winter Wheat Varieties in Rod Row.
Thirty varieties of winter wheat are be
ing grown in rod rows. Yielding ability
and other characteristics are being stud
ied. Those that prove outstanding axe
tested on plats the following year.
Dormancy Studies with Winter Wheat.
The object is to determine how late
winter wheat may be sown and yet pro
duce a satisfactory crop of grain.
Winter Wheat Hardiness Nursery.
Thirty-two varieties and selections of
winter wheat are being grown in co
operation with the United States De
partment of Agriculture under varying
conditions at more than 20 experiment
stations in the United States and Canada.
The varieties which are hardy are being
used in breeding work to produce wheats
in which yield and high quality are
combined with winter hardiness. Min
turkl was the most winter hardy of the
red winter wheats, averaging 98 per cent
for the three years 1924-1926.
Flax Wheat Mixtures. Flax and spring
wheat are being planted alone and in
various combinations. Thus far, flax
and spring wheat mixed at the rate of 14
pounds of flax to 30 to 45 pounds of
wheat acre have given appreciably
per
higher returns than either flax or wheat
sown alone. This work has been sum
marized in Montana Experiment Station
bulletin No. 202.
Cooperative Wheat Breeding Nursery.
In this nursery a number of hybrids are
tested along with parents and some of
the outstanding varieties. Selections of
outstanding individuals are made from
the crosses. This work is conducted in
cooperation with the United States De
partment of Agriculture.
Rod Row Cereal Nursery. Fifty varie
ties of oats, thirty-one varieties of barley
and eighty-eight varieties of wheat from
various sources are being tested in rod
rows. Here, habit of growth, yield and
other characters are carefully studied.
Those showing promise are transferred to
plats for further study. Also, those be
ing especially strong in certain charcter
istics are selected for crossing in the
breeding nursery.
Control of Smut. In this experiment,
four different brands of copper carbonate
Mrs, M. M. Donoghue of Butte,
termine which is the most effective in
controlling smut.
Wheat Breeding Nursery. The wheat
in this nursery is the progeny resulting
from crossing different varieties in an
effort to produce superior wheat. Among
other things the aim is to produce a
beardless, hard, red winter wheat that
As a result of studies of the most sue
cessful methods of planting winter wheat
in Fergus county, D. B. Noble, county
agent, recommends the following: Treat
seed with 60 per cent copper carbonate
to prevent smut, plant on properly tilled
summer fallow ground with a cloddy
surface, plant early and use the furrow
drill. Karmont is the highest producing
variety in this part of the state.
will meet the conditions on irrigated
land.
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About Farming
(From Montana State College)
M. TIPTON is in charge of the fed
eral employment office opened at
Bainvllle recently to help farmers
of northeastern Montana with the
harvest labor problam. Similar offices
are in operation at Great Palls, Havre
and Lewistown.
c.
Farmers and dairymen of the United
States produced four billion pounds of
milk more in 1926 than in 1925. Per
capita consumption of milk for house
hold purposes increased from 54.75 gal
lons to 55.3 gallons during the year. Ap
proximately 47 per cent of the milk pro
duced is consumed as whole milk, 25
per cent is manufactured into creamery
butter. 11 per cent into farm butter and
the rest is used for ice cream and other
minor purposes.
More than 20 farmers took part in the
crop tour held last month in the Rapelje
district of Stillwater county under the
direction of the county extension office.
Pure seed fields were visited including
fields of Marquis, Supreme and Renfrew
wheat and Hannchen, Trebl and Faust's
Blue Hulless barley.
During the past five years the number
of cattle on farms and ranches has de
creased nearly 10,000,000 head, reports
the United States department of agricul
ture. This great decrease in production,
together with the probability of contin
ued satisfactory consumer demand gives
the beef cattle industry a good outlook,
says the department.
The first Lewis and Clark county wool
pool of 23,000 fleeces made up of 49 sep
arate clips was sold at prices ranging
from 31 to 35 cents in July. The first
year of operation of the pool was highly
satisfactory and it is planned to continue
its operation.
Cold storage holdings of food for Au
gust show considerable Increase over the
holdings in August, 1926. Frozen poultry
increased from 35 to 42 million pounds;
meat stocks increased from 747 to 343
jumped from 131 to 145 million pounds.
Frozen pork supplies increased from 133
to 214 million pounds while frozen beef
declined from 23 to 18 million pounds.
Instead of following out the proposed
plan of holding a feeder cattle sale this
fall, stockmen of Phillips county propose
to buy cattle. Plans are being made now
to buy feeder cattle on the markets and i
ship them into the county to consume
the abundance of hay and feed being
produced this year.
There are nine state co-operative wheat
pools in operation in the United States
at the present time.
A reported "hog cholera" outbreak in
a part of Chouteau county last month,
upon investigation by Dr. B. O. Fisher,
assistant state veterinarian and J. C.
Paugh, county extension agent, was
found to be a feed trouble caused by
feeding immature and molded corn.
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Would Remove Spur
Contending that a 300 foot spur track
west of Kalispell built to serve the Boor
man Lumber company, is no longer of
any commercial value, the Great North
ern bas petitioned for right to remove
the track.
ISSUE BULLETIN IN
FERGUS COUNTY
(From Montana State College)
A PROGRAM for the Development of
Agriculture in Fergus County," a
bulletin containing the findings
and recommendations of the agri
cultural economic conference held at
Lewlstown last winter, has been pub
llshed and is now being distributed to
farmers and business men of the county,
It is the first publication presenting a
county agricultural program to be Issued
in the state. The Montana extension
service previously had Issued a series of
bulletins containing agricultural devel
opment programs for the state as a
whoie and for the six agricultural dis
tricts of the state. A number of irrlga
tlon district and county economic con
ferences will be held during the coming
fall and winter and publications similar
to the Fergus county bulletin will be is
sued for each of these.
The agricultural program for Fergus
county was drawn up by the nearly 2u0
farmers and farm women who attended
the Lewistown conference last winter.
The conference was organized into seven
major committees each dealing with an
important phase of agriculture in the
county. The subjects considered by
these committees were farm manage
ment, crops, livestock, dairying, poultry,
horticulture and farm living. O. C. Sim
mons, farmer of Suffolk, was general
chairman of the conference and D. B.
Noble, county agricultural agent, general
secretary. Commodity committee chair
men were Matt Reichmuth, Denton;
Prank Smith, Lewistown; W. S. Mather.
Lewistown: Ed Mack, Lewistown: Ray
Haight, Suffolk, and Mrs. Nell Harris,
Valentine.
The general summary of conditions in
Fergus county upon which the program
is based shows that approximately one
seventh (361.000) of the total area of
the county (2,661,000 acres) Is now being
cultivated. In 1925 there were 1,918
there were 1,918
farms and ranches with an average size
of 702 acres. The total valuation of
farms, livestock and equipment is ap
proximately $33,000,000 and in 1926 the
gross returns from this investment was
$7,500,000. There are approximately 23,
000 people in the county of which about
8,000 are on farms.
Wheat is the most important cash crop
produced in the county having a gross
value of $4,500,000 in 1926, or approxi
mately three-fifths of the total gross re
ceipts from farming and ranching opera
tions. In 1926 the crop acreage was di
vided as follows; spring wheat, 180,000
acres; winter wheat. 46,000 acres; com,
12,000 acres; potatoes, 11,000 acres; oats,
27,000 acres: tame hay, 60,000 acres; wild
hay, 10,000 acres; rye, 4,000 acres; barley,
8,000 acres and the rest divided between
flax, beans and peas.
Livestock figures for 1926 show that
the county has 49,790 head of beef cattle,
12,801 head of hogs, 69.507 head of sheep,
7,821 head of dairy cattle, and more than
100,000 hens.
The recommendations made in the bul
letin are definite and to the point. Since
there is little irrigated land in the coun
ty, making it necessary to depend upon
seasonal rainfall in cash crop and feed
production, farmers are faced with the
necessity of producing only those crops
adapted the county, and
of adopting those methods of farming
which will make the best use of avail
able moisture. Since seasonal rainfall
shows considerable variation making oc
casional poor crop years inevitable, Fer
gus county farmers are faced with the«
necessity of selecting the combinations
of farming enterprises which will insure
the least fluctuation in annual returns.
It is proposed to hold an agricultural
economic conference each year so that
additions and modifications may be made
as changing conditions and new develop
ments necessitate. The conference recog
nized that to be of value, a program for
agricultural development must be flex
ible and adaptive enough to permit the
incorporation of new findings and new
conclusions,
60,000,000 BUSHELS
OF SURPLUS WHEAT
MONTANA WILL EXPORT THAT MUCH
THIS FALL IF PRODUCTION
ESTIMATE HOLDS UP
Based Upon August 1 Condition of Crop
State and Federal Experts Figure Total
Yield In State Will Be 72 Million
Bushels, Largest In History
Montana will export this year to
other states and foreign countries more
than 60,000,000 bushels of wheat, if
the forecast released by state and fed
eral departments of agriculture indi
cating a production of 72,696,000 bush
els, based upon the Aug. 1 condition
of the crop, is verified by the annual
December revision of estimates, the
state division of publicity points out.
The national per capita disappearance
of wheat for food and seed is about
five bushels. Assuming that the con
sumption is about average in Montana,
I and making a liberal allowance for
seed, 60,000,000 bushels of this year's
crop for export is considered a con
servative estimate.
A majority of the western states, Cal
ifornia being a notable exception, pro
duce more wheat than is consumed with
in their borders, but only five states east
of the Mississippi generally produce more
of the staple than they consume. Of
Montana's crop, about 20 per cent is
milled within the state, in an average
year, the remainder going to eastern and
coast millers.
Wheat Is the most important single
export product of Montana farms
tributlng in 1926 $40.963,000, or
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more
than 30 per cent of total crop and live
stock income. In large areas of the state.
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VITAMONT CONTEST
NOW BEING STAGED
GREAT amount of experimental
/\ evidence is available to show that
the feeding of a high protein sup
plement as Vltamont reduces the
amount of feed required for each 100
pounds of gain made by hogs and in ad
dition this feed increases the rapidity of
the gain so hogs may be disposed of on
an earlier and generally, more favorable
market.
The extension service of the Montana
state college, therefore, is co-operating
with the Hansen Packing company of
B utte in conducting a hog feeding con
test to demonstrate the above points on
the farms of Montana that have been
proved by the college experiment stations.
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Entries In the contest Include eleven
who are e ® din
who are / e ® din g
406 head of hogs ' are as follows:
Lake county: E. P. Mullis, Round
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^noemaKer, Ravalli, 11.
Ravalli county: C. E. Edson, Hamilton,
5; John Bryson, Hamilton, 5; W. H.
Lyndes, Grantsdale, 5; S. A. Noland,
Hamilton, 10.
Stillwater county: Ivor Kvale, Colum
bus, 20; Geo. Smith, Columbus, 24; Jno.
Niebal, Columbus, 10.
Blaine county: G. H. Willman, Chinook,
10; Wm. Skillen, Chinook, 6; Geo. Zook,
Turner, 8; Ed Festlng, Zurich, 10.
Rosebud county: Ray Byerly, Ingomar,
20; P. H. Baringer, Hathaway. 8.
Flathead county: R. H. Gorsllne, Kal
ispell, 6; J. B. Bachant, Kallspell. 6; Wm.
Cusick, Kalispell, 6; Chas. Bangston,
Whlteflsh, 6; Oscar Dunn, Kallspell, 6.
Fallon county; Urvin E. Cox, Baker,
10; Lewis Stuempges, Baker, 10; F. M.
Hopper, Ollle, 15.
Sanders: Fred Denny, Lone Pine, 16;
W. W. Von Saegen, Lone Pine, 5; M.
Tanner, Thompson Falls, 15; A, Grazier,
Dixon, 6.
Gallatin county: Art Sanders, Scobey,
10; Wm Ferguson, Scobey, 10; L. C. Tit
tinger, Scobey, 22.
Chouteau county: Joe Sloway, Geral
dine, 5; H. A. Tanner, Geraldine; Steve
Clark. Geraldine, 20; Chris Nelson, Ft.
Benton, 10; Frank Drega, Hopp, 8.
A good many of these entries are feed
ing these contest pigs that get Vitamont
in comparison with others on ordinary
rations.
1. Entries closed August 10.
I 2. Entries must include five or more
pigs
3. Pigs nominated for the contest
shall be ear notched by county agent.
4. County agent will weigh pigs at the
start of contest.
5. Contest will close on or before No
vember 15, 1927, and county agent will
take final weight.
6. All entries must be fed Vitamont
meat meal furnished free of charge by
Hansen Packing company of Butte, Mon
tana.
7. Award of $25.00 per county will be
made to owner of hogs making largest
daily gain.
8. Pigs entered shall not exceed 90
pounds average weight and all must have
been farrowed since Ferbuary 1, 1927.
9. A final of not
Contest Rules
250 pounds average shall close the con
test.
They Were Not Stolen
While forest rangers in the Rock Creek
district near Missoula and officers were
dn the lookout for a herder and the 500
sheep he was believed to have stolen, the
sheep were grazing about six miles from
where they usually had grazed and their
herder was keeping good watch over
them, according to word received by of
ficers.
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Plan Demonstrations
Demonstrations
Smith-Hughes
trained teams will be one of the features
of the Junior agricultural exhibit at the
Montana state fair which opens on Labor
day, Sept. 5, and continues through Sept.
9, according to W. P. Casey, secretary.
The demonstrations will be under the
direction of M. J. Abbey of the Montana
State college.
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Richey Legion Cited
Henry Hanson Post No. 75 of Richey
has been cited for community service by
has been cited for community service by
the national headquarters of the Legion
at Indianapolis. The citation read as
follows: "Henry Hanson Post No. 75,
Richey, John D. Johnston, commander—
for building a hall 40x80 feet, in which
it holds dances for the people of the
community twice a month and motion
pictures twice a week."
farmers depend almost entirely upon
wheat for their cash income.
Montana's wheat crop forecast this
year is almost 20,000.000 bushels larger
than the best previous crop in the history
of the state, which was 52,714,000 bushels
in 1922 and will this year represent
about 8 per cent of the total wheat crop
of the nation, indicated at 851,145,000
bushels. The report indicates a yield in
Montana of 19.3 bushels to the acre on
582,000 acres of winter wheat and a har
vest of 11,233,000 bushels. The yield an
acre of spring wheat is placed at 18.9
bushels. Total yield of spring wheat is
indicated at 61,463,000 bushels, from 3,
252,000 acres for harvest.
The report finds a satisfactory condi
tion in the Important wheat producing
j sections and yields will be above average
over widespread areas. The forecast would
give the state a harvest of about 15,
000,000 bushels more than the five-year
average production of 47,732,000 bushels.
The average yield an acre is rated the
highest since 1913, when 20.1 bushels an
acre was harvested. During that year,
however, the acreage was only 1,300,000,
a little more than a third of the 1927
acreage, and the percentage of wheat
grown upon irrigated land was much
larger than at present.
Total acreage this year, placed at 3,
834,000, is also the largest in the history
of the state. Last year, 3,595,000 acres
of all wheat were harvested in Montana.
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MONTANA'S CORN CROP
TIHIAT OF LAST
A corn crop for Montana 50 per cent
larger than last year and totaling
6,004,000 bushels is forecast on the
basis of August I condition, by the of
ficial report Issued by state and federal
departments of agriculture. The con
dition of the crop is placed at 76 per
cent of a normal and indicated produc
tion is 2,006,000 bushels larger than
the 1926 crop of 3,949,000 bushels har
vested, The forecast assumes that dam
age from August 1 will be average, as
based upon records for the last 25
years. The crop Improved almost
1,000,000 bushels during the month of
July as compared to the forecast Issued
a month ago which indicated 5,015,000
bushels.
The indicated production of oats is
19,410,000 bushels compared to 16,510,000
harvested in 1926. Condition of the crop
is placed at 90 per cent of normal. The
crop improved more than 2,000,000 bush
els when compared to the forecast of a
month indicating 17,330,000 bushels.
month ago indicating 17,330,000 bushels.
Record Barley Crop
By far the largest barley crop ever
produced in the state is indicated with
condition rated 91 per cent of normal,
and production placed at 5,160,000 bush
els. The second crop in size was pro
duced last year when 3,600,000 bushels
were harvested. The crop improved
about 900.000 bushels when compared to
the forecast issued a month ago of 4,
269,000 bushels. Yield per acre is placed
at 28.7 bushels on 180,000 acres for har
vest. The crop is grown largely for farm
feed. In measured weight per bushel,
COAST MARKET
AIDS MONTANA
FOUR MILLION POUNDS OF TREASURE
STATE BUTTER'SHIPPED THERE
SAYS MORT DONOGHUE
Former Butte Newspaper Man Now With
Southern Pacific Railroad Asserts Cal
ifornia Will Absorb Much Beef, Pota
toes and Other Produce
That Montana will ultimately find
her greatest and most profitable mar
kets among the cities of the Pacific
coast is the belief of Mort J. Donoghue,
publicity expert for the Southern Pa
cific railroad, who is in Montana for a
brief visit with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. M. M. Donoghue of Butte.
Donoghue, whose headquarters are in
San Francisco, is a former Butte Post
reporter, and was managing editor of the
San Francisco Dally Herald and the Sac
ramento Union prior to becoming asso
elate editor of the Southern Pacific bu
reau of news, in which capacity he has
charge of newspaper publicity for the
railroad in all the states it traverses.
"The markets of the coast are open to
Montana and many Montana products
such as butter, beef and potatoes have
already assumed a commanding position
m Pacific coast cities," he said. "The
fact that 4,000,000 pounds of Montana
butter were shipped to California mar
kets in 1926, exactly double the amount
shipped the previous year. Indicates the
demand in the west for products from
the Treasure state."
Donoghue believes that reciprocity be
tween the states of the west, not only in
commerce, but in travel as well, will
materially increase the west.
"Travel is gradually turning from Eu
rope to the Pacific coast, and Montana,
with her own scenic wonders and her
proximity to Yellowstone and Glacier na
tional parks, will benefit greatly," he
continued. "This change has been very
noticeable this year. The people are
really beginning to 'See America First.'
Travel to the Pacific coast has been very
heavy while travel to Europe has de
clined.
He stated that the Southern Pacific
company had instituted round trip fares
from California cities to Montana for
the first time this year, and that many
people had taken advantage of the low
rates to view the picturesque places in
this state.
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Mort is a graduate of Butte high
school and attended the State university.
He Is a graduate of the Georgetown law
school of Washington, D. C., and was
secretary to former Congressman Wash
ington J. McCormick of Montana,
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Montana barley ranks high, the 10-year
average being for Montana 48.6 pounds
and 46.1 for the United States.
The forecast indicates the second larg
est rye crop in the state's history and
the largest yield per acre since 1916. To
tal production is indicated at 2,133,000
bushels with an average acre yield of 16
bushels from 134,000 acres. The present
forecast is almost twice last year's pro
duction given at 1,284,000 but shows a
very slight loss when compared to last
month's forecast of 2,145,000 bushels.
Tame Hay
Montana's hay crop ranks second to
wheat in Importance on the basis of value
and the forecast indicates a tame hay
production of 558,000 tons larger than
last year. Condition of the crop is placed
at 98 per cent of normal with a fore
cast production of 2,526,000 tons. Pro
duction of tame hay last year was esti
mated at 1,968,000 tons. Yield this year
is forecast at 2.04 tons per acre from
1,239,000 acres.
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Flax production is forecast at 1,657,000
bushels Condition is rated 89 per cent
of a normal. If the forecast is verified
upon final revision Montana will have
the largest crop for three years.
YEARLINGSTOP
STOCK M ARKET
REED BROTHERS OF WINDHAM SELL
90 HEAD TO ILLINOIS FEEDER
BROKER AT $75 EACH
Animals Were Put on Full Feed of
Ground Oats and Barley and Alfalfa
Hay Last Fall and Kept On It Until
New Grass Came; Average 900 Pounds
The highest price brought by mixed
yearling beef in the history of the
Judith Basin has been received by
the Reed brothers, Windham, for 90
head of Herefords, which were sold to
L. P. Smith, Sheffield, 111., for $75 a
head, delivered at the railroad. The
cattle will be loaded before Sept, 15,
and will be shipped by way of the
Great Northern railway to Buda, HL,
to Mr. Smith's partner,' who will retail
them to feeders.
The Reed brothers raised the cattle,
put them on full feed last fall, keeping
them there till the grass was well started
this spring. Peed used was ground oats
and barley and alfalfa hay. Mr. Smith
estimates the cattle will average 900
pounds, this making the price paid eight
and one-third cents a pound.
Mr. Smith has bought 460 yearlings
from various cattlemen, which were not
grain fed, at from $30 to $45 a head. He
says that quality is the first considera
tion with the feeder buyers, and that It
will be easier to sell the $75 grain fed
yearlings than the $30 and $45 grass fed
ones.
Uniformity is another big factor In
getting good prices for feeders, according
to Mr. Smith, and the Reed yearlings
were all Herefords, of an even size and
color, which added considerably to their
value. Last year Mr. Smith bought 1,060
head of cattle in the vicinity of Hobson
for shipment to Illinois feeders. He says
his customers were well satisfied with
Montana cattle and urged him to ship
them more this year.
The Reed brothers are well known
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throughout the state, Fred being one of
the best riders appearing in rodeos until
he broke his hip last year, and Mike
being manager of many of the largest
rodeos in the country, including the 1926
and 1927 rodeos at Great Falls and the
1926 show at Chicago. They were told
by the purchaser of their yearlings that
he never saw any larger or better cattle
of the same age anywhere in the com
belt.
A number of bunches of calves around
Hobson have sold at $30 a head recently
and B. F. Moulton, Grass Range, refused
$32.50 for mixed steer and heifer calves.
Many cattlemen are predicting
bring $35 a head before December.
calves will
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