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THE EKALAKA EAGLE • i• '1 t p a RIREASURE STATE FARM LINESTOCK READY TO TEACH; MING CATTLE FON SALE HIM ADVISES REDUCED BECAME FARMER PRESIDENT DE slinItTtionN socIATION WAS TRAINED .X1' NDIt11.‘1. SERODI. Not Taught About Cattle There But Course Didn't Hurt Him Any, Says Carl E. Axtell of Sa Montana; Has Built Up Good Herd of Shorthorns. It may be a tip to some of the young farmers who aspire to own and develop a betel of bovine bluebloods to let theta in on the secret that Carl E. Axtell Salesville, Montana. the president of the Montana Sherthorn Breeders' associatioa. was trained to te a teacher in the Iowa state eormal college of Cedar Palle, Iowa. He tesn't particularly recommend the ormal course as the best prslimin- 'try to farming, but there are many worse things at that, he says. Some of the credit for making the Axtell herd of Shorthorns one of the best in southern Montana belongs to Carl E. Asti's!, Mrs. Axtell. who is actively interested in the business. In fact it was Mrs. Well who went back to Iowa last spring and at two of the big Short- horn anction sales of the year bought four purebred OlIFVO fill . the Axtell herd at an average pries! of close to two thousand dollars each. This year for the first time the Well herd put a string of Shorthorns in competition at the state fair, and they earneti ley W. X I to i I st,ter It ;s „Iles whole :airs cattle were droen tresh frote .lutte pasture to tho sales grounds many miles distant. and of- fered to critical !fusers the following day. Then because the gaunt and ill - kept appearanee of the cows kept them down to a low selling average, the consignor went home in high dud- geon, complaining that the public sale is a graft proposition. That sale cattle must be properly fitted in order to sell well is a les- son that many breeders learn only etter similar costly experiment. While I do not claim that fitting alone will sell a cow, if the animal is a first class individual and really worth a high price, fitting will help mightily in securing that price. Fitting a dairy cow is not such a hard matter. The nub of the proposi- tion really lies in the feed bin. A dairy animal tuust be grain fed. and fed liberally, so as to be well flesh- ed. A good conditioned cow will also have naturally a sleek hitie and glossy appearance. Many consignors believe that clip- ping a sale animal is ail there is to the fitting game. Clipping is only done by the man who did not have. time to start fitting his herd until a few days before the sale. Then, by running the clippers over tlte animal. the wild and woolly look may be eliminated and the animal made half way presentable. On the other hand, clipping will show up lack of flesh and any little blemishes of the hide. Again, many buyers object to clipped cattle in the fall or winter, because they are more subject to pneumonia and other diseases due to exposure. A COW clipped tn winter will shiver like a leaf, even if kept in a warm stable. unless she is blanketed. some ribbons in the keenest competi- tion ever seen in the state. Like a great many of his neighbors in Montena. Carl E. Axtell came front Iowa. establishing himself and his family in Montana about eight years ago. Ile was graduated from the Iowa normal school in 1900. married that sante year. anti immediately went to farming. The place they sel- ected in alontana is a few rods from the West ,Gallatin titer, plenty of water, acres of lush. green pastures. good trout fishing. a half-hour's run to beautiful canyons, and altogether en attractive home. The Axtell Shorthorn herd num- ber! around aalf a hundred, headed by the renowned Master Avondale, werthy son of Avondale. anti for- merly the herd bull of the College View herd of Harry L. Summers. who ehowed Master Avondale successfully at the Montana anti other western !Ars for a number of years Every Livestockman Appreciates a Consistent Market A omparison of we- quotatitms 'FIX other livestoek centers shoes a steadier market anti less variations in daily quotations. This is the natural result of the constant bus ine-dentand of local packing-piante and the consequent keett competition among buyers Ship your offeringe here. where this constant demand means a quick turn-oter at b'.gliest prices. Write for 4 xminiunity Shipping Plan mill Market Letter SPOKANE UNION STOCKYARDS Sheep Ranch For Sale \ I 1 . 1.1 I \ T WIN ll'it Val) •st ‘11‘11elt 11ANto la tit TI11111 I THOUst Nit SHEEP Ninartlalents District. Nett atetieo. Thirts•Teo Thou.:end .acres Deeded and Leastel Land- lbree to Four Hundred Seetione open Range. For Particulas• %advt... W. G. LOGAN 4 'nue of Sliuli t y, ULM et.as sa env) 0 Cattlemen: Sheepmen: The range cattle and sheep shipping is in full blast and we are strongly equipped at all points with a big force of salesmen, assistants, etc., to handle the business in a business -like manner. We would like to handle your stock on the mar- ket. Can we keep you posted, or otherwise serve you? CLAY, ROBINSON & CO. Chicago, Kansas City, Omaha, St. Louis, St. Joseph, SL Paul, Sioux City, Denver, Buffalo, Fort Worth, El Paso alore breeders tio ise elip thee consignments at all. but make .• ,•• felt -lined blankets take the ie • p 7 . .• 1 •, ItCP tlITNIEN I' I. IZI put on pasture, but are fed in the . ItecosisteNitATioN barn on less succulent feeds in order; To Tills EFFECT to keep the skin naturally oily. Afterl a cow has been stable fed anti blan-!„ n of 15 Per cent in Winter keted for six or eight weeks. and her \' nut \' hide groomed daily. she will have a W heat and 12 Per Cent in Spring skin and hair as soft and lustrous Wheat Below 1919 crop Acreage as silk. A few days before the sale is suggestion I lit* Neat Year's it will be merely necessary . to clip the planting. head. ears, tall and flank. anti polish the horns. Polishing the horns is not diffi- cult. First go over them with a fine rasp, follow with some broken glass, and endtng with sandpaper. A final polishing with a mixture of emery dust and sweet oil will give the the outstanding fall farming recom- horns that glossy appearance so much appreciatett. There are other meth- ods. but this one is the commonest and very satisfactory. To give the tail a Diet', gutty ap- pearance it should be carefully comb- ed out some weeks in advance, and then a week before the sale. braided• The department's suggestions are After the braid is released the tail! imbed on the observations of special - will have those floffY• flowing lines; ists who were sent abroad to report that add so much to the appearancel on foreign conditions anti probable of the animal. needs, anti on the most extensive re- it goes without saying that the cat-i ports it has been pos.sible to obtain tle must be absolutely clean, anti thatifront other sources in this country thorough washing is essential. Do! and other countries. not wait until the last minute. how -1 As to whilst. %heat, the depart - ever, before trying to remove barn ! meta suggests that 42,000,000 acres stains. That may require several! h e sown this fall, and that 20,000, - weeks, so begin the washing in time.1000 aeres be sown in 1920 spring Then. on sale day, it will be an easy wheat, making a probable aggregate matter to lead your charges into the production in 1920 of 830,000,000 ring clean and immaculate. ; bushels. of which 200,000,000 bu- tt vau have neither the time nor / sheis would be available for export the facilities to tit your stuff right., after home needs are met. This pro - at least put them into the barn a a udt i on wou l d appr „ N i mately eua i week before the sale. and keep them ! tee average yield of wheat in the there. Clipping should be done at . United States for the five years 1915 least six or seven days previously. ecIto 1919 inclusive. The five-year ars else the cattle will have an ebrionslY erage is thought to be a safe guide a \ b n i ak e . ed\ appearance that is objection- for American farmers. The suggested acreage for fall - Beginning at least a month beforelsoe a wheat is approximately 85 per the Fate. every animal shoniti be eare- cent of the area sown in s the fall of fully halter broken. Unless heifers11918 and is about the sanae as was are given this training. thes . will very sowtt in the fall of 1917. The sug- likely be \bad actors\ and cause all sorts of trouble. Nothing is ntore disconcerting at a sale than to have an animal dragged in by the com- bined might of half a dozen men. Such animals cannot be made to stand properly in the sale ring. even after they are brought in. — — wore efficient methods of productioa. Whether increased production should undertaken must necessarily tie- : and on local conditions as to feed. 1..bor, and other factors. - o litItit; %TED ACRES xx (imp wORTII $1,000 Four acres of irrigated land on the WHEAT ACREAGE s „ ; ,. r , ;( 4 g r a o: ER A OF siRSH1P ROUGH ON FOWLS SCIENTIFIC POULTHA'NIEN Attie SPECULATING ON 11.11* WHEN Alit GETS CROWDED ai It Evolte Tnieted-Nte•ked or sky Gasing I) setts- Eloeke, or Will she Barnyard liens Get Used to the Air Monstets?; How a Tont Turkey Took It. ----- After watching the frantic beha- vior of his old turkey tont and the members of his harem in their at- tentpt to seek a haven of rest anti keep their eyes on a hotering air- plane at the same time, a Miles City poultryman with a scientific turn is wondering If the coming era of air- planes mill result in the develop- ment of a sky -gazing breed of fowls. A hovering hank can tauee enough disturbance in a barnyard but a gi- gantic biplane looks much more men- acing. and the confasion among the hens and turkeys ellen an airplane is in the sky is near bedlam. so pont- try growers assert. Charles teeter of Nines City feels that Ile will have to put a roof FIN Or hit; 110111FT) sard It airplanes come frequently. in order to preeerve the sanity ef his old tur- key tom. whose behatior on the oc- casion of the appearance of a plane over Mlles City he thus describes: \The bird would run into the chicken house and then out again and eonitl jump ttp anti down. scratch the groonti and acted gener- ally as thought it was going to have a fit. I could not understand the -natter until I heard the nolee of the plane. which the bird had evidentls seneed before I did anti mistook for a hawk. The eobbler made more tits- terbance over the plane than he NS mild have over a hauk as the plane ens bigger than the -hawk. It was surely some fuss.\ —0 THIRD MOST VALUABLE BEAVERHEAD WOOL CROP More wheat should be sown this fall than was the average in pre-war years, but not so much should be sown as was sown last year. This is mendation of the United States de- partment of agriculture, whicli is watching the changes of world supply and demand while European coun- tries are gettiag back to normal in food production anti thus affecting the market for Anterit•an products. gested area for spring wheat is ap- proximately 88 per cent of the area sown In CGeil OE the last two years. The combined acreage of winter and spring %%heat suggested for 1920 is about 86 per cent of the acreage sown for tl.e 1919 crop. slightly more than the acreage sown for the bumper erop of 1915 anti about 4 per cent less than the area sown for the 1918 crop. Winter Bye The pressure of ear demand for rye Ilan ceased. and it does not seem probable that exports next year will greatly exceed 25,000.000 bushels. Consumption of rye in this country eas stimulated by the ear to about 50.000.000 bushels. If Hits rate of , entsumption is maintained. a crop of 75 to 80 tnillion bushels would be necessary to provide 25.000.000 bu- shele for export. Indicating a total acreage of 5.500,000 to 6,000,000 acres. In comparison eith 6.800,000 acresetoen last fall.. \In any consideration of the prob- able foreign demand for American wheat and rye based on pre-war con- sumption experience,\ says the de- partment, \a greatly inereased trans- portation cost anti the ex:sting condi- tion of international ex. hange cannot be disregarded. It seems clear that if the foreign 0\411:Inge situation con- tinues as it is or becomes more ab- normal it will constitute a pouerful stimult.s tor some foreign countries to seek gratin in countries other titan the United States. or to produce it.\ Dairying It Is probable that several years eill be required for European coun- tries to get back to their normal cat- tle population. In oreter to supply their needs it will be necessary for them to import dairy products, and at the present time this country is supplsing laree quantities. sear's export% were PO IHTIEC i th a ;; I t about 2.000.000.000 pounds of mill wera rsquired to make the product , . or 100 pounds front each cow tn the United Stat , .. The department es - 1 sets 1 , at exports will decrease anti imports ell! hoe - cape with the excep- tion of condensed milk. It recom- mende that antrymen give partieu- :ar ettention to economical feeding. throtigh the buying of concentrates :a large lots or tit e cooperative buy- ', g of feeds; attention to pasturee that h tve been allourel to run doer attention to the feeding needs of their tams by tlte use of cow -testing associntions; and the best use or libor anti labor -sating devices. Live Stock i \What our foreign trade in meat and meat products will be In the fu- ture la impossible to predict eith any degree of accuracy, oaing to tnany factors ehich may affect it.\ the de- partment sesta \The exports will probably decrease as compared with , the past year. as the European coun- I tries inereaee their production of Ileaverhead oounty, one of the livestock towards the pre-w - ar pro - greatest wool counties in the United iduction.\ States, this year marketed a wool! Other factors affecting American erop of 2.855,280 pounds. 9.175 bales export trade are rates of exchange, or 98 carloads. There have been whleh in many cases ate decidedly four previous years in which the ag- unfatorable to those countries most gregate volume of lie wool market- In need of our meat and meat pro- ed et Dillon has been in exeess of that ducts; campaigns being staged in the ,of 1919-1915.1916,1917 and 1918. European countries for increased pro - !tut there have been only two, years duction and decreased consumption; —1917 and 1918—in which the total prices of meats end meat products in (ash value of the wool crop market- this country as compared eith the tel at Dillon has been greater than prices in other countries having meat that of 1919, which brought to the for export; available ocean tonnage growers a total of $1,439,102.39. for shipping from other countries. ! The average price paid for wool et However, pork exports at least Atillon this year, according to the probably will be greatly in excese figures emptied this summer. was next year of the pre-war annual ex- , 50.4 cents a pound. ports. The European countries prob- ably will require two years to get In treating —° fence posts with pre- back to pre-war pork production and otervativee the posts should be dry, their present needs are great. , well seasoned and carry no bark. Pre-war production of poultry in 'The preservative is applied hot. It most European countries. the depart- i will penetrate better and will kill the tnent Reset, will soon be resumed. Etn- germs of decay. phasis in this country Is placed on , eiced 83 bushels of prime alfalfa see' this season, the seed running ett ;emote to the bushel, and having a conservative value of 23 cents per potato!. 'rite vaitte of the seed grown from these four acres this year was $1,145.40, the owner estimates. THICKNESS OF FURS IS NOTICEABLE THIS YEAR Taxidermists at Livingston, who sell curios and postcards to tourists in the summer tante, and mount ani- mals and tan hides and furs in the \tinter, are predicting a long, winter, and basing their forte asts the fact that the furs that are ing in to them are the thickest have seen in years. The fidelities: the furs so early in the season Is ticeable, so the furriers litty, hides from that of the grizzly l e . down. ORSE or cOw DES Maiti'tato Robes or Costs. We sea are . fi e er stake Over tat eat Setae tor ClUI61,At 'HIGHEST CASH PaicES FOR RAW Hat DLINGST AST ATILTANED Ft HOLSt Is.M0'4 . 7k%4 • EC,KMAN RR() flan/M. -- GKEAT FALLS MON CREAM. If vou are near one of our buying sta- tions, sell our agent --)ur cream. If no sta- tion is near ship our house direct. WE PAY THE HIGHEST MARKET PRICE FOR CREAM, POULTRY AND EGGS Keep in touch with our market. We al- ways pay the highest prices. Quick re- mittance. Holiest treatment guaranteed. Hennipgsen Produce Company Butte. Montana Encouraging Bolshevism Everything that falsely en- courages unrest also encourages bolshevistn. Misunderstanding of American industrial organization, and of its benefits to mankind, leads to un-. rest, dissatisfaction, and radical- ism. For example, the Federal Trade Commission tells the pub- lic that the packers had an agreed price for lard substitute (made of cotton-seed oil.) It reproduces letters taken from the files of one of the pack- ers, showing that stwh agreed price existed. But it failed to mention that the agreed price was determin- ed at the request of and in co- operation with the food admin- istration! Even the Department of Jus- tice, in its unjust attempt to create prejudice agaitist the packers, has made public th.ese same letters, with noexplanation. How long - must this kind of misrepresentation continue? In so far as it is believed, it not only breeds discontent, but results in injustice to our industry. Let us send )ou \Sikift It %ill interest you. Address Swift & Company. Union Stock Yards. Chicago. III. SWIFT & COMPANY, U. S. A. , Of' %mull! ogia k 12.110 \ 3 / 4 °' 0 85 „ X, Mid Atisir\ ie a THIS SHOVES WHAT MEOWS OF / THE AVERAGE DOtt AR RECEIVED BY SWIFT 8. COMPANY MOH 7101 Silt( OF IIICAT ONO 00001.•C FS OS CFO'S iS FOR T.a LIVE APF ISA Al i7EPS MOS FOP SABO* t PINS( S Ana) filito6mt \ 7 04 C7404 AEHA•44 Wi T COMPANY J11 /11001, IIIIME1111116
