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THE EHALAHA EAGLE. -• • •(• FAR tinilllEnoggsmEssignar Every farmer in Montana should read the constructive farm stories ap ling on t hi s pag e. with the idea of helping the Montana farmer to w the greatest of crops at a time when the country most needs it, these stories have been prepared for this newspaper by members ot the faculty of the Bozeman Agricultural College and Farm Experiment Station experts. ERS AND THE CO-OPERATION IN DAIRYING PAYS PROFITABLE TO FARMERS TO HIRE COALMUNITY EXPERT TO WATCH RESULTS. Efficiency as Much Needed on Farm as in Factory, and Unless a Farnier Has a System, He Is Sure to Be Losing at Least a Part of His Profits. There are so 'litany leaks in the dairy business that only by the use of the best business principles can it be made permanently profitable. Individual cows must each make a profit over the cost of feed; this can be determined only by weighing each cow's milk and the feed she con - sullies. The old argument that the best cows are known may have some foundation, but few tnen know the poorest cows. No dairy is better than its average production. If this is too low, the herd is not paying a profit. Business principles must therefore be applied to lowering the cost of milk production. Efficiency is as much a necessity on the farm as in the factory. Few men feed their cows in proportion to the quantity of milk produced, yet what could be more simple and more nearly right? With little regard for her needs, feed is put before the cow in plenty if it is cheap and in less quantity if the price is high. Must Keep Books. Cows use about 60 per cent of their food merely to keep their bodies working, and it is the quantity that is fed above this fixed necessity that furnishes the material for the milk. Too often the dairyman says, \I would do all the up-to-date things If rhail time.\ Can the storekeeper afford to run his business without k-eeping books? Yet that is what the farmer is doing. Working in co-operation. dairymen can obtain the benefits of business methods at a very small cost through the organization of a cow -testing as- sociation. An organization of this kind that hires an expert to deter- mine the feed cost of milk or fat pro- duction for each cow in the herds of the members is easily possible, and in fact a number have already been organized and are working success- fully in this state. From Farm to Farm. Such an expert travels from farm to farm, spending usually one day at a place. Each cow's milk is weighed and tested, as is her feed. An ac- count is opened in the ledger fer each animal and at the end of the year the profit or loss of each one can be ascertained. The heifers of good cows should be selected and the poor cows should go to the slaughter- house, otherwise they may be the means of ruining the owner's busi- ness. A cow -testing association is a co-operative organization with local officers, and one that can be of use also for advertising the sale of cat- tle. The results obtained with such advertising have been remarkable. The dairy business is well adapted for co-operative organization. and concerted effort by dairymen usually means much greater profite on milk and cream through the elimination of waste, the application or more econ- omical methods of production and manufacture, and the development of more productive cows. Hooray! Hank 'limes says that the theater- goers of this eountry used to stand for most anything. But Hank notes an encouraging sign. He Bays that nowadays they wont stand for any- thing but the national anthem. WHOLESALE HEADQUARTERS for School and Office Supplies and Equipment. Stationery and Everything in Paper. Prompt Service. Chas. E. Morris Co. Great Falls Montana HIGHEST PRICE EVER PAID FOR Cream W • • Great Falls Dairy Products Co. GREAT FALLS. MONTANA WYOMING OIL • Will undoubtedly make many for- tunes for many people this year. For full, impartial and important information address Secretary, Wyoming Montana Public Oil Iffixchange Onfper - - Wyomng greatest scientific agriculturist, has perfected super wheat. Ile says its pledging their co-operation by allow - yield is five times aa much per acre ing a Certain number of their men to as the average production through- leave their employment temporarily when harvest time arrives. On the back of the card is the pledge of the employe that he will help harvest. The plan is one which should be duce as high as 70 bushels. If the adoted by the merchants and bust - ratio 'keeps up to his claim's he can ness men all over th state, especial - grow 100 bushels to the acre in Mon- ly in view of the attitude of the I. taint, where the soil is the most pro- W. W. looking to the blocking of the ductIve in the world. Farmers will harvesting of Montana's crop. wait with interest a test of the nev: The Helena committee ham issued Burbank super wheat in this state. a circular instruction the committee - The promise of this achievement men how to proceed. for a hunger -threatened world can They are to convince the employer scarcely be overestimated. However, of the need of men in the fields when the average farmer will believe in the harvest due and in this manner new v‘heat when Ile has seen its pro- help the farmers save their crops. ductivity demonstrated. They are not to overlook anybody. It It is the product of 10 year's ex- is a patriotic duty of every man to tensive and very expensive expert- harvest and to save the men in the !twitting to combine into on(• wonder- trenches from lack of food. as it ful new grain the best food qualities, takes seven men in the fields to feed hardihood and fecundity of many one man in the tretrches. Anyone straina ot wheat selected from all can pick potatoes as it is no hard parts of the earth. job and they can bring IR the crow( It has been carefully tested in corn- II in a much shorter space of time if parison with 68 of the world's best there are more men working. wheats and excels every one of them Committeemen are to be alert for In productiveness. Burbank tat(' about this wonder grain for the first time recently. Un- 500,000.000 bushels of Burbank po- til now he haft kept it secret for fear tatoes since I produced them In the result of his labors would be ap- 1873.\ resumed the former Massa- propriated by exploiters. chusetta farmer lad who has become the world's plant wizard. \Twenty- seven million carloads! \According to official statement, more than 85 per cent of all plums and prlIT1P14 annually ((hipped out of California in fresh state are my own creationa. \But I make the confident predic- tion that tnv new wheat will do aa hardy, barbless, smooth and milky, much or more for the nation than and will grow anywhere in the tem- the Burbank potato and the fruits.\ perate zone. Ile showed a sheaf of the super \Were it universallv planted the out the United States today. Ile says that in wheat areaa which average 15 bushela to the acre it ghoul(' pro - Burbank' Is Positive. \I have,\ he said, \perfected and ready for the market the most pro- ductive wheat ever evolved by man— you may say that without qualifica- tion, and back it up. \The average yield will run about 50 to 70 bushels to the acre. It is GAS ENGINE ON BINDER SAVES HORSES AND WILL SAVE CROP IN WET SEASON; OTHER USES Within the past few years, many' farmers have come to look upon the gas engine as a great grain and horse saver for harvesting purposes. A gas engine attached to a binder drives the entire mechanism, thus re-, lieving the horses of at least one-: half their former load. No more horses are needed to pull the binder with engine attached than is re-' quired to pull the .binder (out of gear) to or from the field. At the harvest season of the year,' the days are usually very hot and a pull binder, without an engine is a horse -killing machine. In this way an engine on the binder is a great saver of horse flesh. Besides being of the greatest im- portance in a normal year, is the light weight engine on a binder is an absolute saver of the crop during a wet harvest, which is sure to come every three or four years. Saves Wet Cr•op. In a wet field, if the bull -wheel slips, it has no effect on the sickle, consequently it does not get clogged. Mahy a farmer has saved his crop during a wet season by fhe use of an engine, when it would have been impossible to cut without it. In lodged grain ,if the binder be- comes clogged, it is only neceseary to slow down the team, and the sic- kle and elevator will clear them- selves, as they keep on going as fast as ever, being driven by the engine. Another item to be considered in the use of an engine on the binder is that of less wear and tear. The great- est wear- on the binder comes from the bull -wheel falling into holes or dead furrows, or when the team jerks ahead, speeding the entire mechan- ism very suddenly and putting a ter- rific strain on chains, bearings, cast- ings and reel. With the engine, the power is applied continuously in a smooth steady stream. Engines Are Light. Engines used for this purpose are of the light -weight, high-speed, throt- tle -governed, water-cooled type. Such engines are now being adapted also to a similar use on hay balers, potato diggers and other machines, besides all general farm work. • After harvest is ended . , it may be taken from the binder and put to work for 360 days runnIng the pump, churn, grinder, grindstone, washer, cream separator, circle saw or small tractor, at a cost on the binder of 65 cents and oil against $2,50, the cost of two horses, and on the light run- ning machines 2 to 4 cents per hour. SUPER WHEAT OF HELENA'S PLAN • LUTHER BURBANK TO AID FARMERS AGRICULTURAL WIZARD CLAI31S TO HAVE CREATED GRAIN olo PROLIFIC YIELD. Says It Will Produce Four Times the Amount of Wheat Now Grown 1•`ront Any of the Ohl Varieties; What Will It Aceomplish on the Fertile Soil of Montana. EMPLOYES ARE TO BE GIVEN LEAVES OF ABSENCE TO HELP HARVEST. Plan Is ()no Which should Be :Italia- ed Generally All Over Montana; Farmers' Wives Are Not to Be For - Gotten; All Business men Asked to Help. Luther Burbank. the world's The plans of the Helena Harvest Volunteer committee are completed, and cards are being sent to employes grain, fondling it with the scientist's same acreage today under cultivation paasion for his creation. The heads should yield many times as much were like clotted gold---\-Iong heavy wheat.\ and amazingly big grained. No man's time is of more value to \Protein he reaumed, \Is the im- the nation than Luther Burbank's. portant food element in wheat. I am Identified with the national enter- still working to increase the protein gency Ws! garden commissibn, he is in this new type and in other weetern working feverishly against time in varieties of grain which are particu- his home and experiment gardens larly lacking in it. here—living oti his nerve, toiling oft-.. 4e \With that element 'now improved en far into the night; giving the and the yield per acre greatly aug- world freely the benefit of hfs.gealus. merited, a big titer( forward haa been The Burbank Potato. taken in meeting the world's cry for \This country has raised over bread. SUMMARY OF U. S. AND STATE CROP BUREAU OF CROP ESTIMATES PLACES MONTANA'S CROP HIGHER THAN 1010. Estimate of _Nation's Crop Is Millions of Bushels in Excess of Last Year; 45 Per Cent of State Crop and 37 Per Cent of U. S. Crop Classed as Commercial. A summary of the July crop report of the state of Montana and for the United States, as compiled by the bureau of crop estimates (and trans- initted through the weather hureau, U. S. department of agriculture) is as follows: Winter Wheat. State: July 1 forecast, 11,800,000 bushels; production last year, De - ember estimates, 16,830,000 bush- els. United States: July 1 forecast 402,000,000 bushels; production last year, Decemben; estimates, 481,744,- 000 bushels. Spr•ing Wheat. State: July 1 forecast, 24,900,000 bushels; production last year, De- cember estimate, 16,830,000 bushels United States: July 1 forecast 276,000,000 bushels; production Iasi year, December estintate, 158,142,- 000 bushels. State: July . 1 ° f a o t8 recast 29,900,000 bushels; production last . year, final estimate, 25,080,000 bushels. United States: July 1 forecast, 1,450,000,000 bushels; production last year, final estimate, 1,251,992,- 000 bushels. Barley. State: July 1 forecast, 2,920,000 bushels; production last year, De- cember estimate, 2,660,000 bushels. United States: July 1 forecast, 214,927,000 bushels. Flaxseed. State: July 1 forecast, 4,130,000; production hist year, December esti- mate, 3,088,000 bushels. United States: July 1 forecast, 17,000,000 bushels; production last year, December estimate, 15,459,000 bushels. Potatoes. State: July 1 forecast, 8,120,000 bushels; production last year, De- cember estimate, 4,875,000 bushels. United States: July -1 forecast, 452,000,000 bushels; production laat year, December estimate, 285,437,- 001) bushels. All Hay. State: July 1 forecast, 2,810,000 tons; production last year, December estimate. 1,983,000 tons. United States: July 1 forecast, 103,000,000 tone; production last year, December estimate, 109,786,- 000 tons. Apples (Agricultural Crop). State: July 1 forecast, 418,000 barrels of three bushels; production last year, December estimate, 256,- 000 barrels. United States: July 1 forecast, 66,800,000 barrels of three bushels; production last year, December esti- mate, 67,415,000 barrels. Last year about 40 per cent of the total state crop and 38 per cent of the United States crop were estimat- ed to be commercial (I. e., shipped out of the county where grown). This year about 45 per cent of the state crop and 37 per cent of the United states .crop are estimated ten- tatively to be commercial. Sugar Beets. State: July 1, condition 82, com- pared with the ten-year average of 92. United States; July I, condition 92.4 compared with the ten-year av- erage of 89.5. Prices. The first price given below is the average on July 1, this year. and the second the average on July 1, last year. State: Wheat, $2.04 and 85 cents per bushel. Corn, $1.66 and 85 Oats, 80 and 43. Potatoes, $2.02 and 76. Hay, $19.70 and $11.00 per ton. Eggs, 34 and 32 cents per dozen. United States: Wheat, 220.1, rind 93.0 cents per bushel. (7orn, 164.6 and 75.4 centa. Oats, 68.9 and 40.4 cents. Potatoes 247.9 and 102.3 cents. Hay, $14.56 and $12.90 per ton. Cotton, 24.7 and 12.5 cents per pound. Eggs, 28.3 and 19.7 cents per dozen. prospective farmers. The farmer's wife has not been forgotten In the aystem. There is a list of men who are to be interviewed and endeavor either to get them or find out if they have any employes that can hefp in this matter. The first men on the list are the businessmen and the employes themaelves. The suggestion is made that the Helena Light and Itailway company release employes who can be spared at harvest. Officials Also. City, county and state officials and the employee connected %with them are also on the list. Wholesalers, commissionmen, warehousemen, man- ufacturers of crackere, Ewalt, brick, beer, foundries, machine shops. coal and iCP men, contractors. telephone and telegraph companies, profession- al men, janitors. waiters, Salvation Army men, churches rand home guarda and Y. M. C. A., are intluded on the list. The list is not to confine the ef- forts of the men but act RH a guide in their efforts and help them in bring- ing up others and in this manner swell the ratiks of the farmers. ORLD S TOLD ON BRIEF Paris—The French call the Ameri- can soldiers \Teddies.\ New York—Brazil will send 11,- 000,000 bags of beans to the United States this year. bouisville--There are 220,000,000 gallons of whisky in bond in the ynited tSates, a two years' supply. New Britain, Conn.—The New Bri- tain Machine company. has received a L 2 1 , 1 0 8 0 . 0,000 order for anti-aircraft Chicago—T. H. R. Green, son of the late Hetty Green, has received more than 9,000 proposals for mar- riage. Toledo, 0.—A hearse, containing the body of Edward Orebaugh, crashed into an automobile, killing Mildred Long. bondon—Spain is on the verge of a revolution. Xing Alfonso is expected to abdicate and a republic to be form- ed very shortly, Paris --A million and a half Ger- man soldiers are °adulated by the French general staff to have been killed in the war. • St. Paul—A drink of whiskey in the Twin Cities costs 20 cents now. It will soon cost a whole lot more, saloon keepers say. Chicago --Within 60 days 2,000 sa- loons in Chicago will have been forc- ed out of business by the new legis- lation, it is estimated. San Antonio --General Wood says the national guard troops in the de- partment of the south will go to France in November. Chicago—Henry Field, a grandson of the late Marshal Field, died in New York after an operation, leav- ing a bride of five months. New York—American merchant vessels are soon to be rectuisitioned by the government to carry supplies to the American forces in France. .Fargo—Pearl Wong, a Chinese girl who has‘been in America only two years, carried off the honors of her class at the Fargo College aca- dem w y as . hington—Secretary Daniels is convinced that a German spy in the navy department informed Germany of the sailing of American troops for France. Boston—The effect Cr the strike at the copper mining camps of the coun- try has curtailed the production of this metal to the extent of 100,000,- 000 pounds a month. London—The population of the British empire, according to census figures just published, is 420,88,558, of which 45,221,616 live in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. Petrograd—The provisional gov- ernment has taken property valued at $900,000,000 from Nicholas Roman - off, former emperor. Nicholas de- rived $32,000,000 per year from rentals. Wa.shington—W I th meat prices soaring, and certain scarcity in view for the future, the government will begin stimulating the raising of rab- bits and Belgian hares eti I over the country. London—The next big submarine campaign on shipping by the Ger- mans is expected to take place in American waters with the new -cruis- er -submarines which have been built in recent months. London—Men's plug hats are criti- cised as wasteful, as well as long -tail coats. It la suggested that the hats be cut down to two inches in the crown and that tails should be elim- inated front coate. Wasitington—Navy officials have informed Secretary Daniels that ca- bles and wireless aro being used by German spies, and they urge that the entire system of transmitting infor- mation be changed. New York—Emma Goldman and Alexander Be kman, anarchists, were convicted of conspiracy to obstruct the registration law and sentenced to two years in prison each, besides a fine of $10,000 apiece. Washington—The government is prepared to prove that German agents, with the liberal use of Ger- man money, are responsible to a very large extent for the upriaing and strikes in the mining towna Of the country. Isnulon—A tremendoua demand for reprisala against the Germane rot - lowed the last raid over London, when a number of women and chil- dren were killed by bombs dropped from airplanes. The London people are demanding that German cities be similarly treated. Washington—Walter ('. ForRe, re- jected by an examining officer for the marines because he had lost his trigger finger on WS right hand, walked 200 miles ti Washington to make peraonal application of the commandant of the marihe corps. A special order was made for 11 114 enlist- n1P 1 11 . i t neoln, Neb.—The l‘lebragica state council of defense has issued a cir- cular charging certain pofesaors of the University of Nebraska and the conspicuous representatives of the Lutheran church in pie atate with disloyal activity that cuts tended to give aid and comfort to Germany as an enemy. Fargo—Lieutenant Colonel Gor- don of Winnipeg, home on furlough from the front, told the Dakota bank- ers that France needed, not thous- ands of American soldiera, but mil- lions. \More than 2;000,000 French boys, the flower of the nation lie dead in their graves,\ he said. \'mat does not include wounded and mis- sing.\ New York—Charlie Shatlin, who recently announced his retirement from the film stage and his intention to go to France to fight the Germans, has changed his mind and has closed contract with the First National Exhibitoro' association for eight big pictures, for which he is to receive $1,075,000. His last year's salary was $670,000. Chicago --Henry Anderson, a di- vinity student at the Northwestern university, woke up one morning last week to find his clothes, his wrist watch and his fountain pen etolen. He had no more clothes than a gold fish. Young women students sent him a package containing a string of beads, a pair of spats, a Gains - borough hat and a leaf. New York—New YGrk business men who have investigated state that no American firm need have the slightest hesitation r.bout sending salesmen down to Mexico ,City to re- establish old connections in a com- mercial way. Mexico City (teems to be well policed. The country is get- ting solidly back to a gold basis, with little paper money in sight. The Mexican gold coinage carries 20 per cent of cop' er, however. Carranza wants to declare war against Ger- many for commercial reasons. No matter what you tackle, always proceed on the theory that a big league scout is watching you, and you are bound to be successful. AGRICULTURAL LANDS AT $10 TO $20 . PER ACRE Anaconda Copper Mining Com- pany's Western Montana logged off lands; excellent opportunity to purchase direct from the company without promotion or commission charges; low -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- tion, telephone, telegraph, good schools, in the near future electric light and power, and many other advantages i.vhich combine to make it the finest and richest sec- tion in which to live and work in the entire Northwest. Address': BLACKFOOT LAND DEVEL- OPMENT CO., DRAWER 1590, MI SSOULA, MONT. Saves 2 Horses On the Binder Weighs Only 167 Lbs. WATER \Atm 4 H. P. Cashmaa sea Madan Sawa Itagla• Dims AS Other ,Fanw Week. Cushman Binder EALie For All Farm Work The 4 H. P. Cushman is the original and snocessful Binder Engine. Thousands are in use every harvest —saving horseflesh and saving grain. tt mess team, because engine operates sickle and all machinery of binder. leaving horses nothing to do but pull binder eat of gear; also takes away side draft. 'Therefore. two horses east. ly handle 8 -foot binder in heavy grain. ft saves the grain, because it runs at uni- form. steady speed. putting grain on platforrn evenly. allowing platform and elevator can4as to deliver it to packers straight. and thus it is tied without loss. saving a large per cent of tho nat- ural waste of binder. It saves the crop in a wet season, because slipping of bull wheel or slowing up of team does notstop the sickle. and it never ckm You can cut wet grain same sus dry. It saves thee because you can move right akng all the time in heavy grain without killing the horses. and with no choking of sickle. eleva- tors or packers. it saves the binder, because It operates at same regular speed all the time — no jerking of machinery by quick stopping and starting. of team or when bull wheel drops into a rut. That's what tears a binder to pieceg, With • Cushman Engine your binder will last twice as long. Write for book with complete description. tlitopiall MOTOR MOOKS.951 N.2istilLUnoolmlleb. $ $ EGGS $ $ PRESERVE them with the Genu- ine 'WILLIAMS FiGO PRESERVER, no water glans or grease. Two sizes, 13e and $1.60; large size will pre- serve 120 dozen, mall Mae, ISO dozen. Makes fun look (real', taste frenh, harmlenn. l'rezerven perfectly for three years. If your dealer cannot eupply you order direct from R. P. Beath & Co., Billings, Montana. Sat- isfaction warranted. Accept no substitutes. Demand the Genuine Williams Preserver. 31. N. A.—W K —7- 1 0- 1 7. HOW DOES YOUR CROP LOOK? See Me About An Irrigation System NOW IR the time to make ready for your harvesting. Check up your repairs and I can save you time and money on them. A full line of parts to fit, all makes always in stock for immediate delivery. I carry everything needed on a farm. Agent for CUSHMAN BIND - Flt ENGINES. Call, write or wire your needs. E. L. VINEYARD Irrigation, Power and Farm Machinery. GREAT FALIA MONTANA.
