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THE EHALAKA PAGLE.. I .., .t Everr-farmer in 3Iontana should read the constructive farni stories appear - R lag on this page. With the idea of helping the Montaha farmer to grow the , greatest of crops at a:time when the country most needs it., these stories have been prepared for this newspaper by members of the faculty of the Bozeman' Agricultural College and Farm Experiment Station experts. . '4,=, PREPARING .NEW 'More Money in Flax Than Wheat LAND FOR GARDEN in Sheridan County, According to the Reports of 370 Farmers FARMERS AND THE CLEAN TRACT THOROUGHLY BY DISC AND HARROW AND DO YOUR PLOWING. Much Depends on How Carefully You Prepare Your Seed lied; Should Be Made Ready Promptly After Plowing, Before Soil Has Had Chance to Dry Out. (By O. B. Whipple, Horticulturist, Montana Experiment Station.) With the present interest in home gardening there are many whrwill be forced to use new land for garden purposes. Many vacant city lots will be plowed for the first time and it is important that this land be put in the best possible condition for gar- den crops. One of the first steps is to remove from the land any coarie material like weeds or woody peren- nials. This may be gathered in smelt piles and burned upon the ground without injury. If the land is in sod the next step is to cut up the surface with a sharp disc. This discing . .should be sufficient to cut up pretty thoroughly the top three or tout inches of soil. If this discing stirs up much more coarse material it would be well to work this out of the soil with a spike -tooth harrow ana remove it from the land. Soil that may have very little sod but which has lain idle for several years will also be benefitted by a thorough sur- face discing before plowing. After this preliminary preparation the ground should be plowed. The • &nail determined somewhat by the depth of the soil. Plow six or eight inches deep if it does not turn up too much of the sub -soil. Turn the furrow slice completely over, if necessary have someone fol- low the plow and flatten them down. If possible to obtain, apply a good dressing • of well rotted manure. Manure from a sheep corral is espe- cially good. Twenty good loads of manure per acre is none too heavy, although one-half this amount would be very beneficial. In preparink the seed bed; first disc the land crosswise or at right angles to the plov•ed, then disc the same way it was plowed, always lap- ping the disc one-half to keep the land as level as possible. As soon as the ground seems well broken up, it should be dragged and harrowed to put it in final condition for planting. Where fine seeds are to be planted it may need a little hand raking. Al- ways prepare the seedbed promptly after plowing and before the soil has a chance to dry out and become clod- ly. Remember that if any plot of ground will repay you for food prep- aration it will be the garden. #k, SHIP US YOUR PELTS, WOOL HIDES & FURS. ‘,‘ l'a. Highest Prices. Wr irt olar, rope, sacIts. McMillan Fur & Wool Co. Si Ti . :fl a il P°14 Approximately 370 farmers of Sheridan county, Montana, have fully reported their flax -growing experi- ences in the survey which is now be- ing conducted by the Montana ex- periment station. The incomplete survey has some interesting indica- tions. In the five years 1910-1914 inclu- sive, flax was a better paying crop than wheat in Sheridan county, ac- cording to this.antvey. The reports listed show that - 'the .aVerage - ‘ •• per acre income from 'flax during these years was $13.88; 'from wheat, $12.60. The replies to queries con-' tained in the survey question blank indicate that the higher'returns from flax Were in no degree due to superi- or knowledge of flax croppifig meth- ods. Nearly all of the replies indi- cated carelessness at some step in the process of planting flax. To begin with only 46 farmers covered in the survey had been at pains to secure specified seed; 309 had not. Nearly one-third the farm- ers replying said they had no fanning mills. The proportion of farmers who treated their flax seed before plant- ing was but slightly over half. Yet three-fourths of the farmers replied that treating seed pays. A majority reported that they did not find flax hard on the law!. By about the same proportion the) held that flax pays as well as wheat. Flax straw had .been fed to stock in 267 cases reported by the survey. About four out of five farmers who thus utilized their straw report good re- sults. One hundred and fifty-one farmers 'reported they had observed signs of disease in their flax, and 211 had seen no such signs. Yet 286 farmers had noticed that the stems of their flax plants showed a ten- dency to break off—one of the symp- toms and results of flax disease. From four or five inches was the favored depth of plowing for flat in- dicated hy the _survey. A majority used soil paVters and discs in prepar- ing the seed bed. This survey is being continued and extended this season, under the di- rection of the experiment station. STATE HIGHWAY . BODY ORGANIZES OSCAR ROHN OF BUTTE CHAIR- MAN; WELLS AND 3IAHON EXECUTIVE 3lE3IBERS. Commission, Which Will - Supervise Expenditure of Millions on 3Ion- tana Roads Will 3leet in Thirty Days to Select Inspectors and Plan for Year's Campaign. ___ 1. N. A.—WK--5-14-17. ______ _ la WE WANT CREAM POULTRY PORK and BEEF AND . HIDES WRITE FOR SHIPPING TAGS • • • . Great Falls Dairy Products Co. GREAT FALLS, 310NT. ______ _ • BOULDER HOT SPRINGS. — — Open the Year . Around. .---..,....,-- -- J\.- ----- \' - Bulphurated wa- V. ters 187 degreea hot .:I 'rr a i \; Unexcelled for rhea - ' 1 ' • I matism, kidney and aliark-he stomach trouble. Ask railroad agent for reduced 8n-days' rount. trip coupon ticket to Boulder liot Springs. Write for descriptive pamphlet. J. M. Reynolds. manager. N....N....N....N....1* WHY PAY MORE THAN 60c PER ACRE FOR YOUR , HAIL INSURANCE? This Company wrote a larger line Of HAIL INSURANCE last year thin _any other Company_ operating in Montana. We vvrote over $2,000, 000,000 for more than 2,000 farmer& They are satisfied. WCY PAT 1110IM. Write for full information. MONTANA EQUITY . MUTUAL HAIL & FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY 27- 2 / 3 -29-90-31 Tod Block. GREAT FALLS MONTANA. O.O.•••••••••••••••••••••• Oscar Rohn of Butte, considered the leading good - roads expert of Montana, was selected as head of the state highway commission at the ses- sion held at Helena to organize an executive body, the other members of the executive committee being Hugh R. Wells of Miles City and Archie Mahon of Glasgow. The. state highway commission is an - extrelnely important body, as it v••111 have supervision over the spend- ing of milliona of dollars on Mon- tana within the next five years. Its policy will be t,o cooperate in every possible manner with. county com- missioners and other organizations interested in road building. The members of the commission are composed equally of republicans and democrats and the selection of the three named executive commit- teemen was unanimous. Chairman Rohn is a republican and Wells and Mahon democrats. No appointments of inspectors and office assistants were made. Paul Pratt of Libby as state highway en- gineer and George R. Metlen of Dil- lon as bridge engineer were tenta- tively chosen at a meeting held two or three weeks ago. The entire commission will prob- ably be called to meet at the capitol 30 days hence. • BE CAREFUL OF NURSERY STOCK PROTECT YOUNG TREES 1 0 11031 SUN AND WIND Olt THEY WILL DIE. • Cannot Be Planted Too Soon After Being Received; Place a Couple of Inches Deeper Than Tree Stood in Nursery, Excepting in the Case of Evergreens. At this season of the year nursery stock is being received in nearly ev- ery city and village in Montana. The treatment that this stock receives after it hail been taken from the ex- press or freight office and before it is permanently placed in the soil has much to do with its future success or failure. All too frequently it is allowed to remain in the sun and wind for days before planting, with the result that a large percentage of it die and the nurseryman is blamed for sending out poor stock. Nursery stock of all kinds shoUrd be protected from the wind and sun and the roots should be k,ept moist at all timea. If conditions are such that it cannot be planted for several dap( after it is received, it should be kept in as dormant a condition as posaible. This is accomplished by keeping it in a cool dark place or by \heeling in' which consists of digging a trench in which the stock is placed and the roots are -covered with heavy soil. Nursery stock cannot be planted too soon after it is reef ived. The first step in the actual planting - oper- ation consists in trimming the ends of the roots. making a clean smooth cuL All mutilated roots should be cut back beyond the injury. A gen- erous hole should be dug. The trees should be placed a couple of inches deeper 'than they stood in the nur- fiery. _In case of fruit trees, a little crook is often found near where - the tree was budded. It ahould be plant- ed so that this crook 111 at the sur- face of the soil or slightly below, if possible., , Evergreena should be planted .at the same depth that they stood in i the THIS MONTANA GIRL A PATRIOT ENLISTS IN NAVY, AND, WHILE WAITING FOR CALL, PUTS' IN BIG CROP. Miss Catherine Calk, Clerk in State Auditor's Office, Is Np Slacker; Government Wants Her Soon As Stenographer in the Naval Depart- ment. Miss Catherine Calk. clerk in State Auditor Keating's office, has set an example in patriotism that a good many foung nien in Montana might well follow. When war with Germany came Miss Calk offered her services to the government by making application for a position in the yeomanry serv- ice of the U. S. navy. This depart- ment enlists women as stenographers KEEP MACHINERY AND EQUIP - and clerks in places formerly held by SIENT IN REPAIR AND SAVE men, who are thereby released for MANY BREAKDOWNS. active duty. She received a reply from the department, stating that her services would be 'required at some time during the year and that she would be notified later. In the meantime she is a member of the na- val reserve. She then decided that she do some- thing to help along crop raising. so she ha's gone to her homestead 126 miles north of Miles City, in Dawson county, where she will superintend putting in a crop. pending the time the navy needs her. Miss Calk came from Kentucky, filed on 320 acres and already has a good part of the land broken. She will plant grain and potatoes. HIGH PRICES FOR DAIRY PRODUCTS BUTTER AND CHEESE BOUN1) TO BRING BIG MONEY UN- TIL AloTER WAR. Amount of Butter_Sent Abroad From New York Has Increased Two Hundred Per Cent in Last Year; 3luch That Was Coining to Mon- tana It Now Being Sent to Europe., (Ily G.. - L. Martin, Dairyman, 3Ion- . tana Experintent Station.) There ts a keen demand for all food products. this year with a great world shortage of butter and cheese in Europe and with the tremendous inerease in the use of these products in the army aed navy, a high price it bound to prevail. A comparison of the exports of butter from New York during the first ten days of May a year ago shows a movement of 92,471 pack- ages against 257,497 packages in the same time this year, an increase of over 200 per cent. The increase in exportation of cheese has likewise been very great and at a price of about five cents per pound over last year. This is an in- dication of the growing demand for such concentrated food products as butter and cheese. High prices for dairy products are bound to prevail in Montana as long as the * war lasts, as the butter and cheese which usually came here now find outlets in centers where the army and the naval forees are mobil- ized. This will mean a high price ror butterfat in Montana until such time as normal economic conditions again prevail. As a patriotic duty, every farmer in the state should put forth every effort to increase the production of butter and cheese this year and thus contribute substantially to the dimin- ishing food supply of the world and to the relief of the starving nations. HOURS COUNT ON FARM THIS YEAR \Confound a Battle. (Contintled) 19 card to her husband telling him how that her and I agreed. General Gib- bon telegraphed to General Gregg for.. reference.\ Apparently the references were satisfactory, for they landed the job and started west with the general and his wife, but it seems that the liking the general's wife and the do- mestic had for each other wae short- lived, as Howard replied to a ques- tion as to why. his wife left Mrs. Gib- bon's service: \On account of some lively words with Mrs. Gibbon.\ \Confound Kitchen Battles.\ •Mrs.- testified: \I was discharged by -General Gibbon because I and his wife could not agree.\ General dibbon testified that the first day the party arrived at Fort Shaw Mrs. Howard flOw into a vio- lent passion and used such eoarse and abusive language that he hitd to interfere and order the woman from the house. \I -don't mind fighting savages,\ observed the general, \but confound a battle in the kitchen.\ General Gibbon won the case, the verdict. after voluminous testimony. had been taken, being rendered ae follows: \Judgment it appearing from the evidence given by plaintiffs and de- fendant„that plaintiff* are _not en- titled to.$68.33, but the bill ladin ritifully belongs to plaintiffs, judg- ment is givin in favor of defendant but requier defendant to deliver said bill of Win to plaintiffs with in 6 clays from title (late, coat of suit to be paid by plaintiffs. \Cola of Sheriff $6.00 \Justice teas 6.00 \WILI IAM BURCHElt, J. P.\ - 1, • • - nursery. Trees sheuld be tilted a lit- tle toward the prevailing wind or the strongest lateral branch should be pointed into the prevailing wino. It is well to puddle the root system. This is done by using a pail of wa- ter and fine loam and working tlib roots in .this. A large amount of wet loam will Adhere to the root sys- tem and (inlet in helping the plant to take hold in its new location. The tree. is now ready for planting. The hole is filled around the roots witlik finely pulverized eon and _slightly trampled. This operation it continued until the hole is neatly full. - The last -layer ,of soil should, not be trampled. One Hours Time in Farm Labor May Provide a Soldier at Front With Year s 8 SUpply of Wheat; Having Work Organized on a Systematic Basis Hleps a hot. (By H. E. Murdock. Agricultural En- gineer, NIontana Experiment Station) The value of an hour's time is not always appreciated by the farmers and there is a great loss due to the fact that time is wasted in not having the farm work organized on a sys- tematic basis. It takes on the aver- age about one hour and five minutes of one man's time to produce enough wheat for a year's supply for one per- son at the average rate of consump- tion. When it is realized that an hour's farm labor rightly directed may be the means of providing a sol- dier at the front with a year's supply of wheat there will be less wasted time and energy. In order to make one's time as ef- fective as possible he should use the best machinery obtainable and al- ways keep it in good repair and working condition. A few minutes spent in oiling the machinery, clean- ing off the dirt, and in tightening up loose nuts while the team is resting may save long and expensive delays. When working with cutting tools or any sort the cutting edges should always be kept sharp to avoid exces- sive Wear 'on the machine and un- necessary este of energy. Plow shears, coulters, disks, harrow teeth, etc., belong to the close of cutting edges that require attention at this time of year. Later on. edges mak- ing a shear cut such as sickles o f mowers and bindere. etc., will be in use. As well as being kept sharp these edges should be adjusted so ItH to give a clean shearing cut in order to do the work effectively. It's a good plan to torglit . your troubles. You'll have a lot more be- fore you die. .THE CALL OF THE LAST WEST. Anaconda Copper Mining Com- pany's Western Montana logged off lands; excellent opportunity to purchase direct from the company without proinotion or commission charges; low 7 price agricultural land; 10 yearly payments. Values fixed. by _experienced appraisers. Our holdings cover a country of unparalleled fertility, salubrious climate, ample moisture, rapid growing seasons, beautiful moun- tain scenery, railway' transporta- kieHr teiephone, telegraplr, good schools, in the near future electric light and power, and many other advantages which combine to make it the finest and richest sec- tion in which to live and work in the entire Northwest. Address: BLACKFOOT LAND DVEL- OPMENT CO., DRAWER 1590, SSOULA, - MONT. 1 21 1 1W-:-11W---721ftir f'21611r You Can't Sell • Do it quick. Don:t let gophers live a single day on your farm. Cieqr out every one over nigitt with the one abso- lutely certain Gopher Killer—Kill-Ern-Quick Gopher Poison. Will-Ent-QuIck (2?3 o u ra t uR po ir of; the tinie-texted, guaranteed gopher killer. It gets 'em. Ita odor atpracts. Its sweet taste pleases. They always eat it. It always cleans 'em out—money back if it doesn't. Safe and easy to use, simply stir into moistened oats or ground feed and drop into burrows. Cheap, costs only 1 cent an acre. 100 - acre size $1.00, 40 -acre size 50c. If your local dealer cannot supply you, we express $1.00 size upon receipt of price. Send ' .\ for ProerGepher Book. Leo Shapiro 655 Co., Inc. 1st Ave. N., Minneapolis, Minn. 4/R/Le %faker %ANL. %fiNdter 9 08BIL••• Vallitems e KILLS I EM OUICK WORLD NEWS TOLD 11 9 N BRIEF Tokio—Japan will shortly send a war mission of courtesy to the United States. Paris*France has asked the Unit- ed States 10,000,rallroad workers and 1 7 500 miles of track. Washington—Sailors in the United States navy are to have their pay in- creased from $15 to $33 per month. -London — Colonel Repington, a military authority, says the Germans have 6,000,000 men fighting on vari- ous fronts. San Francisco --The n u ni be r of German ships interned in the United, States, the Philippines and Pacific island port •11) 105. St. Pau —Howard Elliott, former president of the Northern Pacific. may be sent to Russia as the railroad member of the American commission. San Francisco—A new line of car- go steamers between Japan and South America has been started by the Osaka Mercantile Steamship com- pany. Washington -L -Colonel Lewis, in- ventisr of the Lewis machine gun, his waived royalty payments on governz_ ment orders aniounting now to $13 - , 7 000,000. Washington4 7 ' Nearly two hund red members of congress signed and dir Oatched to Premier Lloyd -George, asking that England shall now settle the Irish problem. Chicago --The Erie railroad will discontinue at least 82 paseenger trains this week. in response to the recommendation of the railroad board of the National Council of De- fense. • London—There is much uneasi- nem in official quarters lest secret negotiations toward bringing Russia to make secret peace with Germany have been progressing with too muc'h success. London—Sir Alfred Yarrow, Brit- ish shipbuilder, has offered a reward of $600 each to the first three per- sons sighting a German submarine from an American ship within 24 miles of the American coast. • Stockholm—Danger of revolution against the present government and the royal family is so great that two warships .have been anchored oppo- site the royal alace, to be available if the king and queen are compelled to flee. New York—Banana flour, or bana- na meal as it is known in the tropics, has been successfully produced by the United Fruit company. It has high nutritive_value and should help out the food supply in case of a short- age of wheat flour. London—Many British newspaper publishers believe that within a month the average newspaper in England will be a sheet of two pages without advertisements because of the refusal of the government to al- low paper pulp to be imported. Washington—Mrs. Woodrow Wil- son will send back with General Jof- fre for Madame Joffre a fine sugar - cured Virginia ham. During a call at - the White House the famous French general happened to meritiOn that his wife was very fond of American ham. Now York—Herbert C. Hoover says the Belgian Relief commisaion has lost five ships since March 1, and that only 60.000 tons of food have been landed as against 280,000 needed. Deaths among the civil pop-. ulation were trebled on aqcount of the sinking of relief ships. New York—The following amounts of food in carload lots much be re- ceived in New York each week to prevent famine: Grain and flour, 2,- 600,; milk, 2,000; vegetables, 1,636; dairy products, 760; fittit_750; meat. 660 ; livesedck, 518 ;- groceries, 3 24 ; poultry. 215; canned goods, 206, sea food, 32; total, 9,261 carloads. Paris—Holland and the Scandina- vian countriee face tkp alternative of joining war against Germany or go- ing without food until the war gtis over. The allies will demand that these countries prevent food ship- ments to the -central powers, co-oper- ation with the - allies against U-boats and the use of thoueands of their ships' now idle. Cambridge, Mass.—Dr. Leo Wein- er, a Itussian and professor of Slavic languages at Harvard, says that two weeks before the Russian revolution the czar tried 'to stir up food riots among Russian people, and on that excuse to sell the country to the Ger- mans. It was only the fact that he miscalculated the extent of his power that made the plan a failure. Now York—Arthur R. Marsh, edi- tor of the Economic World, says the whole world faces famine, and that the people of the United States have to face for a year, and probably long- er, conditions not seen on the North American continent since its settle- ment -by -white men. The -United States should produce 600,000.000 bushels of potatoes, while last year they produced 285,000,000. Washington—T.here are now 124 persons in the United States with in- comes of more than $1,000,000 a year, and 327 with incomes of $600.- 000 or more. Henry Ford's income is 335,000,000 annually, exceeded only by that of John D. Rockefeller. It is proposed by the house ways and means committee to tax, incomes over $1,000,000 47 per cent, in which case Ford would be taxed upward of $16;- 000,000 a year. Balthnore--Emil Gathmann of this city is said to have invented a device that will clear the sea of submarines. The invention was approved by the . navy department. Twenty inventions were submitted to the naval board. Gathmann's plan was submitted to Thomae . Edison, and tests on the Atlantic oast are said to have been succesSful. Gathmann says in three or tour months there will be no sub- marine Menace. L , STONES AVOID s (No Oti) r i lat li alit i t• M b i t __ Be ttlic a t.f.r.247.: 1 1=a;iEt r ipl!5;i a i gFre84. 0ALL .67.11;4=- 87o ts\. NE TE64\. R:td . 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