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CARPENTER HAS
CHARGE OF POST
EXTENSION ECONOMIST IS IN
CHARGE OF RELIEF OFFICE AT
MILES CITY
(MONTANA STATE COLLEGE)
Paul Carpenter of Bozeman has
been selected to have charge of the
livestock relief office at Miles City.
Carpenter is extension economist at
Montana State college but has been
appointed district field man to take
over the relief work, announces J.
C. Taylor, director, Montana Exten
sion service.
Carpenter’s first move was the start
ing of appraisal work in Prairie coun
ty. As scon as organizations can be
set up it will be extended to Fallon,
Custer and Powder River counties, he
says.
Appraising is being done by veten-.
narians appointed by W. J. Murdock of'
the federal bureau of animal industry
which is cooperating with the Montana I
Extension service in carrying out the [
program in Montana. The Surplus Re
lief corporation, which also is co
operating, will advise when cattle are
to be moved to shipping points. T. E.
Schoenborn will represent the Surplus
Relief corporation.
PARK ROADS ARE
BEING OILED
WEST SIDE OF LOGAN PASS WILL
BE TREATED; WORK TO BE FIN-
ISHED JULY 1
Of the approximate 100 miles of
roadway in the Glacier park system,
only about 11 miles will have but a
gravel surface when road oiling op
erations are completed this month,
Park Engineer Ira A. Stinson reports.
AU the remainder of the roads either
wUI have been oiled or covered with
armor coat, a surfacing of a more
permanent nature.
“This week oiling operations were
completed on the west side of the Go
ing-to-the-Sun highway and under pre
vaUing favorable weather conditions, it
is planned to finish oiling the east side
roads by the end of June," Mr. Stinson
said. “This will include roads into Two
Medicine, Many Glacier and Going-to
the-Sun as well as the Blackfeet high
way north of the Browning wye. From
Glacier park entrance to the wye the
road has been armor coated.”
The 11 miles of road not to be oiled
this year form a portion of the Going
-to-the-Sun highway along St. Mary’s
lake. This part of the road is under
contract to a construction company and
is being given a gravel surface. While
this process is going on. the contractors
are sprinkling the road with water at
regular intervals to keep down the dust.
Park engineers plan to use approxi
mately 120,000 gallons of oil in com
pleting this year’s operations. About
one-third of this oil has been used on '
the road west of Logan pass and the
remainder will be employed to cover
the roads on the east side of the park.
Although no funds are available now,
park engineers hope to add to the 20
miles of oiled trail in use in the park.
This treatment of the trails makes them
more suitable for heavy travel and cuts
maintenance cost by causing water to
run off following heavy rains.
A map of what is now the Alabama
and Mississippi coast, which Americus
Vespuccius drafted in 1501, hangs in
the museum at Modena, Italy.
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WILSON DESIRED
FOR HIGH POST
WALLACE ANXIOUS TO HAVE HIM
SUCCEED REXFORD G. TUGWELL
IN AGRICULTURAL POST
Former Montanan is Now in Cuba as
a Member of Commission for Re
habilitation of Island: Has Not Been
Formally Approached on Subject.
Milburn Lincoln Wilson of Boze
man, director of the interior depart
ment division of subsistence home
stead, may be appointed assistant sec
retary of agriculture, succeeding
Rexford G. Tugwell, now undersecre
tary, it was learned a few days ago.
While Wilson has not been formally
approached it was understood Secretary’
Henry A. Wallace was anxious he ac
cept the position. He is in Cuba as a
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M. L. WILSON
member of the Farm Policy associa
tion's commission to develop a program
for economic rehabilitation of the is
land.
When the agricultural adjustment
administration was instituted. Wilson
was instrumental in developing its pol
icies. He was said to have been re
sponsible for many of the plans out
lined by Mr. Roosevelt in his Topeka.
Kan., speech during the 1932 campaign.
To many Wilson is known as the
“father of the domestic allotment plan.”
For several months he was chief of
the farm administration, wheat pro
duction section. He laid the ground
work for payment of SIOO,OOO to
wheat growers participating in the cur
rent reduction program.
Senators who opposed Tugwell's pro
motion on grounds that he was not a
"dirt farmer” can have no quarrel with
Wilson on this score. Farm-born in
lowa, he lived and worked on farms
most of liis life. He was one of the
first county agents in the northwestern
grain states and has an impressive
record as an experimental fanner.
From his researches on farming meth
ods, he developed several plans and de
vices designed to increase agricultural
efficiency.
The probable appointee also was a
professor at Montana State college. He
relinquished tills post to assist in lay
ing foundations for the new deal ag
ricultural program.
It was not known whether Wilson
would accept the offer when it is made.
BOZEMAN—M. L. Wilson, mentioned
recently as Rexford Tugwell’s possible
successor as under secretary of agri
culture, has long been active in farm
work, particularly in Montana.
Bom on an lowa com belt farm, Wil
son came to Montana as a homesteader
and wheat rancher at Fallon in 1910.
His first farm venture on his own was
as a tenant farmer in Nebraska from
1907 to 1910.
From 1910 to 1912, Wilson served as
an assistant in agronomy at the Mon-,
tana state experiment station at Boze
man. In 1913, he became Montana’s
first county agricultural agent in Daw
son county.
Wilson was named in 1914 as state
county agent leader of the Mon
tana extension service, a post he held
until 1922. For the next two years he
was an agrciultural economist with the
extension service.
In 1924, he was placed in charge of
a farm management and production
cost study for the United States depart
ment of agriculture. This took two
years.
Steadily mounting to higher positions
in the agricultural world, Wilson be
came head of the department of agri
cultural economics at Montana State
college in 1926. In 1929, he took six
months’ leave of absence to study ag
ricultural conditions in Russia and Eu
rope.
Some of his outstanding accomplish
ments include a demonstration of the
feasibility of growing corn in eastern
Montana and publication of results of
the famous northern Montana "tri
angle” survey, which today is recognized
as one of the greatest source books on
dry land farming.
In recent years he directed a series
of notable experiments and demonstra
tions as manager of Fairway Farms cor
poration, an endowed organization for
determining efficient production meth
ods under varying Montana conditions.
Most significant of his recent activ
ities has been his work with the AAA
in behalf of the domestic wheat allot
ment plan, and his duties as director
of the government’s subsistence home
stead program.
Although the government building
subsidy was withdrawn last September
construction in New Zealand continues
to increase.
THE HARDIN TRIBUNE-HERALD
Many Cash Prizes Will
Be Awarded at North
Montana Fair Ang. 6=ll
Cash prizes totaling $27,000 make
the North Montana fair one of ttSe
most attractive expositions in the en
tire northwest this year. In fact, the
prizes offered are in excess of those
offered by many of the major state
fairs of the east and middlewest;
Dates of the fair are August 6-1 L
Included in the prizes this year are
$3,000 in attendance awards, $5,527 for
beef cattle; $5,044 for dairy cattle; $631
for sheep and goats; $3Ol for horses;
$1,920 for swine; $3,500 for poultry;
5309.50 for art; $216 for culinary; $268
for needlework; $257 for city school
exhibits; $191.25 for rural school ex
hibits; $207 for floriculture; $2,017 for
4-H club exhibits; $2,750 for agriculture
and horticulture, and $l9O for dairy
products.
With 43 of Montana’s 56 counties ex
hibiting last year, Harold F. DePue, sec
retary-manager of the fair, anticipates
that the 1934 fair will attract exhibits
from 45 or more of the counties, mak
ing the North Montana fair truly a
state exposition. It is the goal of the
management to eventually bring dis
plays from every county of Montana.
Already Lake, Fergus and Flathead
counties have assured exhibits and each
week sees additional counties added to
the list. Invitations have been extend
ed to the board of county commission
ers in each county to send in displays.
Recent rainfall in Montana has ma
terially stimulated interest in the Great
Falls exposition and assured a higher
class of agricultural exhibits. Improv
ed range conditions also promise to
place livestock in top notch condition
for the big show in August. Inquiries
are being received daily at the fair of
fice from every part of the Treasure
state and from many outside states in
the western part of the United States.
Montana cowboys will find the rodeo
at the North Montana fair of particular
interest this year. The management
has added a Montana amateur bronco
AUTHOR MEETS
PAT T. TUCKER
LIVINGSTON PIONEER CLAIMS TO
BE OLDEST LIVING COWBOY
IN MONTANA
Stewart Edward White, novelist
and writer of western fiction, tells the
following story of Pat T. Tucker of
Livingston: “The other day a man
came up to me at Livingston, and
announced that he was the ‘oldest
cowboy in Montana.’ In reply to my
questions, he gave me the following
sketch of his doings:
“I was bom in Illinois in 1855. I went
west with dad to Abilene at the age of
4. At age of 5 dad put me on a horse
and started to learn me the cow bus
iness. I couldn’t get on with my step
mother, so when I w r as 9 I stole a mule
from dad and joined a cow outfit going
to Pecos in Texas.
“Down there Colonel Head raised me
to the age of 15—he was the big shot
in cows; had 175 cowpunchers. Until
I was 20 I was a prime rider and rode'
in Mexico down as far as Vera Cruz.'
Then I joined the Texas Rangers. In'
1872 I took an Englishman into Chi
huahua. He was looking for adven
ture. I found him some. He got
stuck on a senorita but he couldn’t talk
her lingo so I talked for him. We all
three eloped over the border. We got'
away but it was quite a job for me.!
All the girl’s relations and the priests
were on our tails. In '76 I came to
Montana with cavalry horses for Reno,
and Custer but when I got here Custer
was dead. I scouted for four years and
was in about all the Indian battles be
tween 76 and ’BO. I scouted for Gen
eral Miles mostly.
“I belonged to the vigilantes and my
record is straight. I had lots of chances
to run with the wild bunch and rustle
or hold up trains or banks but I kept
out of it.”
“Lots of things must have happened
' to you in all that time,” I said.
! “They did,” said Tucker.
“I wish you’d write out one of them.”
I "I have one all wrote out, but you’ll
have to fix it up. I got no schooling.”
And Stewart Edward White adds:
“I wouldn’t dream of spoiling the story
by ‘fixing it up.’” and it appears in
a magazine just as Tucker wrote it.
Graylings Have Been Planted
Mere than 3,000,000 young grayling
have been planted in streams of the
Madison river watershed recently, park
officials said. From the Bozeman
hatchery 208,000 Loch Leven trout were
hauled into the park and planted in
the Fire Hole river.
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Wheat Begins to Head Out
In several dry land areas in southern
Montana, wheat had begun to head out
at a height which would make machine
harvesting impossible and at a stage
which would greatly lower the protein
content of the grain. However, with the
rains, it is hoped that the majority
of the crops will be saved.
Fire Destroys Truck
Fire that started in a truck loaded
with household furnishings destroyed
the vehicle and contents and spread
over almost 400 acres of grazing land
west of Dixon.
To Have a Clear, ■sweet Ski.i,
Touch pimples, redness, roughness
or itching, if any, with Cutlcura Oint
ment, then bathe with Cutlcura Soap
and hot water. Rinse, dry gently and
dust on a little Cutlcura Talcum to
leave a' fascinating -fragrance on skin.
Everywhere 25c each. — Advertisement.
riding contest to the program, for
which 5225 in purses are offered. There
will, of course, be the professional
bronco contest, with purses of $730.
The new feature provides that par
ticipants must have resided in Mon
tana one year or longer and must never
have won money at a recognized con
test. These cowboys are, however, elig
ible to enter the professional or main
contest.
Disqualifying factors of the rodeo
Include the following: bucked off, coast
ing, wrapping reins around the hand,
losing reins, changing hands on the
rein, not hitting horse with spur rowels,
pulling leather, failure to leave starting
place with spurs against the shoulder,
and not being ready when called on to
ride.
The tractor races, another big feature
of the 1934 fair, will find Lou Meyer,
winner of the Indianapolis races for
two years and American Automobile
association champion in 1928-9 and 33,
in action on the all-weather track.
Tractors speeding at 55 to 60 miles per
hour promise plenty of thrills, especial
ly to those accustomed to driving a
tractor four or five miles an hour in
farm work.
The recent rainfall, during which
more than two and one-half inches fell
on the fairgrounds, proved beyond a
doubt that the North Montana fair is
"out of the mud.” Passenger automo
biles were placed on the track during
the last day of the storm and took the
curves at 40 miles an hour without a
skid. The parking areas are graveled,
the roadways all oiled and approaches
improved.
Inquiries received at the fair office
indicate that School day, Aug. 6, will
be a record attendance day at the ex
position. Upwards of 20,000 boys and
girls are expected on the grounds that
day as guests of the Montana Flour
Mills company.
COWS MAKE GOOD
RECORD IN MAY
DROUTH HAD LITTLE EFFECT UP
ON DAIRY HERDS UNDER AS
SOCIATION TESTS
(MONTANA STATE COLLEGE)
In spite of drouth, cows under test
in Mon tana, dairy herd improvement
associations during the month of
May came through with a nice pro
duction figure, announces J. O. Tret
sven, extension dairy specialist at
Montana state college.
Slightly over 17 percent of the 994
cows under test produced 40 or more
pounds of butterfat for the month. This
is unusual as reports were not included
from some of the highest producing
associations. Production was gratifying
in another respect because no single
herd ran abnormally high but produc
tion was rather uniformly high through
out, indicating that the good feeding
and management practices of members
is becoming stabilized.
The leading and only herd reporting
from the Bitter Root association av
eraged 32.6 pounds of butterfat and 970
pounds of milk. This herd has 13 cows.
In herds ranging in size from 15 to 44
cows, the highest mark reached by any
association leader was 32.1 pounds of
butterfat and 817 pounds of milk. The
leading herd in the Cascade associa
tion had the same butterfat average
but boosted its milk average per cow
to 898 pounds. The Cascade herd had
more than 45 cows.
Tretsven says none of the 11 sep
arators tested for members of associa
tions were found to be wasting butter
fat. Members also culled eleven cows.
The Dusum of Borneo has a some
what hazy idea of a supreme diety call
ed Kenharingan, who; with his wife,
Munsumundok, created the world and
everything in it.
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FOUR PROJECTS
ARE APPROVED
BOARD EXPEDITING ACTION ON
PROPOSED WATERWORKS EX
TENSIONS IN STATE
Senator Erickson, democrat, Mon
tana, said a few days ago he had been
advised by public works administra
tion officials that every effort would
be made to expedite action on applic
ations for construction, improvement
and extension of municipal water
works systems in Montana.
The senator said the PWA board of
review approved recently four more
Montana applications including $200,-
000 for a dormitory at Northern Mon
tana college at Havre; $175,000 for an
irrigation project at Hysham; $250,000
for Eastern Montana Normal school
and $47,000 for the Chester school dis
trict.
“This does not necessarily mean full
funds will be allotted for these pro
jects,” explained Erickson, “but does
mean the applications have been ap
proved as in proper form and are ready
for consideration with allocations from
the new public works fund voted by
the last congress.”
Erickson said there were 10 applic
ations for Montana waterworks pro
jects before the public works admin
istration, totaling about $317,000.
The 10 applications which have been
approved and are now awaiting consid
eration for allocation of funds are:
Stevensville $43,000, Plentywood SB,-
600, Hot Springs $38,000, Ekalaka $35,-
000, Glendive $21,000, Fairview $46,000,
Bridger $55,000, Glasgow $32,000, Eure
ka $30,000 and Belt SB,OOO.
Shoots Brother
Over Land Feud
A feud between two farmer brothers'
over the rights to some pasture land:
reached a lead throwing climax recent-1
ly and Dave Meharry of Outlook is in I
a hospital at Plentywood suffering bul- 1
let wounds in the back, neck and legs 1
while his brother George and the broth
er's adopted son, Thomas, are in jail
charged with first degree assault.
The brothers were located on neigh
boring land.
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Pea Crop in Valier
The experimental pea crop being
grown in the Valier territory this sea
son gives every promise of making a
bumper yield, and justifying the belief;
that peas will eventually become one!
of the main crops on irrigated lands!
in Pondera county.
Big Huckleberry Crop
Thousands of dollars will pour into
the laps of berry pickers in the South
Clark valley this season when the an
nual harvest is taken in the huckle
berry areas. Several carloads of huckle
berries will be picked this season at
high altitudes on mountains skirting
the Clarks Fork river.
The calendula, a flower, was used for'
flavoring soup in the days of our :
grandmothers. I
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Mormon Crickets in Judith Basin
Parts of Judith Basin county are af
fected with another insect pest fully
as bad as grasshoppers. This injurlona
pest is the Mormon cricket. They have
appeared in large numbers around the
Buffalo territory and in smaller areaa
around Hobson and Benchland. Judith
Basin county is preparing to do ita
share in controlling and eradicating
these pests before egg laying time thie
faU.
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Wool Being Stored
The huge warehouse of the First Na
tional Wool Warehouse company al
Dillon, largest building of its kind be
tween Chicago and the Pacific coast, la
rapidly becoming filled with South
western Montana’s 1934 clip. Most of
the sheepmen report that their wool ia
weighing more than usual this year and
a number of record individual fleeces
have been reported.
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