Geyser Judith Basin Times (Geyser, Mont.) 1911-1920, November 12, 1915, Image 1

at :1 0 '6 1 .6 10 5 • 4 * ,• seems to be the favorite -and a few Make good by perseverance and a scot Ad genius for getting along under ally 'eircumstanceme Most of' them grow die - gusted with -their \bad luck\ iind - a vety few ever reflect that they tap because it is right and proper for them to tali, In the world of work as in the world of nature, nothing comes by chance; every effect has its cause. Where these rural enthusiasts make their mistake Is in believing that farming is differ. e t from, other occupations and that a 'Matt 4v1thout training or experience can succeed at it. When they hew been at it a while they all find that farming is like every other vocation in the world; to make good' It it one must know it thoroughly. No sensible man would think of tryleg t? make . a living as a lawyer or doctor' without years of study and pine - Ake. , The Inexperienced men • can not buy out a store or factory and make it pay until he has learned all its ins and outs. • There are a thousand wrong ways of FlulA/1 1 1,,,a fart?? and only' one . stleliit%%!erg little . , /^11 that ciatis tap In the routine•of a day's work. The ehanees 'therefore are that the dub who is long on enthusiasm and shy on ex- perieseei will hit upon the wrong ways and alias the right ones. It is a wise provision that requires skill before success. If it were oilier - we, everybody would be farmers. If it were poesible for the untrained per- son to make farming pay, it would still be •possible for the man of super- ior ability to excel. Competition be. Omen the fit sad the unfit will alweys - .Italie! Vie : it - 'Where •• eielimg. ;Thu s the lays o) celepensation holds` th'e : naiaitee'tVue'. ' I • I If the novice has the money and the patient° end enough gun0)it ion to •ettek Lo his farming long enough, he may /make bitter experience his School and . - • t N • 1, \. , 41;44.1 . l..1141174 . •S I • t • , , • %, • • • • • . • \: • - ..... ; • v 4 01; 10 - ) it le siMWNSEM. MONT., NOV. 12, ' 1915 • •.•1: • .- • • -.re/ l'ese.ereee41,„ es. _ • - S; \ „ • \ - • •• le. • ; ‘ 3 % 4 7. '. AA Cis t. ,.- - • • .s.s• -0- it , 0 Pitrinin'g is a Real sklatek ;Job 1 mci ofand the 'Fa ng i‘ a •roan% 'AO 'says ' Ali A. Heremap Oa the followieg article taken Hahn Fahis; Stbck' ana 4 clot i ne \Anybody can farm,\ -that was the world's opinion • a -generation. ago, 'and There is a good deal of it left, especially among those who do not happen to be farmers. Thousands of city workers are finally achieve results. 'But usually it H . I .... retina,. Nearness to town an. 'dreaming of life in the country. Some is by making many, many mistakes. , . market similarily rises the price, 'partly ; y of them give up their jots and go to m m c ., For the an of sall apital, tot social reasons, partly be•-ause the who farming -the five -acre chicken farm takes are costly, even fatal; for . 1 ,, make it possible to market more cheap- ly and to market certain products wind ha bittuilly blunders is soon distanced in ; (cou w n ld not be gloss profitably farthei the race. l . it is plain to one of el,' idol., town.ar vision who , titgareb (Mt (heti. that .4terndlig i 4 i thimi is the great essential I 4faeptini but ;,it ciften raised I , eriny , road'towealt4;, h. t ter to buy only tie rig the popular belief to the contrary. wind h e r it is hi st. land or' Ini:v poorer hind ,kt. is shoe -re by sin, aptboeitative ,spreei own . of Agri- build it up by applying the - discoveriit, Imade by the U. S. Ih•part t 4 the experimmt stutiona and of culture that the average labor-M.1111W 110.4 SUCC4.:4,4111.11 farmers. (if farm owners in the great agricultur- The personal preference and OAR , al state. of Inda»ia. Illinois and Iowa ' is $408 a year. of thi• buyer must be considered in de ; Farming is a job for a full grown termining whi the. - to buy as.small tarn at higher price per acre and ,whothe. man -one who Mix both muscle and Mains: probablY a farmer reiptired buy \\IS very fertile land with ' i:ren did toi 1\ sh\kbii i \f ti.r airel s e v o nook. ''so . 14 itelthetie faVors. Unusually deeireabb thoneelae. ins, and fences' may add tt the cost of land out of proportion t. !Pie ty their earning power and ean afford e. rtain things which brini great ph•astire and satisfaction but n. vita' . to twodtfeitig • only crops or tc to know inure things than Use nfember f any other trode or profeesiou. That, lUttlg a mixed farig . with some rough a greater variety of things. To wcil\drl'in\' porthole for permanent live 4.stock. learn it all is a- life tatek. and only \fools- rush in\ through ignorance. i•(her factors most also he consideree Even with those who are born and reared on a well -managed farm with ell the advantages of education and apital in their favor. farming is nut la business for one year, but for mane years. Sweetie will orly -stipends- !Lent effort as the \eqmulative climax of eentinuedL cTeentratiort .: \ . :' • • CHOOSING A 'PARM • Between now and the next crop s. %- son many farmers will choose w farms.. Emil step must be mere cure - !Silly taken than ev# 7 r b'efore en the 1;1,1 - 'ter Mere rungs are , the position. of ' ;hired man, I. mint . inn - rtgage Her. 'debt free palter and kerne:mg O4%' r. 'Without such help as that of . a %vea . father.. 4 . is no ionler .sp easy to . reiodi tthe top of tlii; ladder without climbing 'the lower rungs as it was whoa land 1.4 virgin fertilit y could Is , bought for as alit (hi • ii kind of neighbors an.I nearness to schools, grange and . Br quint . ..rd. Missouri College of Agricul- c tire. - - - THE PRAYER OF A HORSE , - To thee, my 'mister, 1 otter my prayer: Feed 111111. wcfl.er antI care far ine A and when me &Sr's work is done providé with shelter, a clean dry bed and a stall . wide enough for me to lie down in comfort. To/k to MC., Your roice meitta.4 as Intuit to nig' AS the rein.. Pet me smnetimes, that I may serve vi.11' Ili, More ellitt/y anti leant to love you. 10. n' it jefk the . ri•ins. and do not 4% II III me yvhen going uphill. ;err biqit, or . lick Me when I do not understand what you s but give me :I 111:1110e t;i understand including the supply awl price of labor I- 1 3 FURNISH YOU , FURNISHINGS Iliii*Ish.Your-Body -and Make -it Fit -to Live in Wehave all -wool \Malone\ suits, Gordon caps, Cooper under- wear, John Rich pure wool shirts, Ball Band overshoes. These will all do the job right. Just come in and gaze around and your eyes will sure.light on a necktie you will want or a nobby wool mackinaw you would likeio wear. We've got the goods. Wal- lie buys in large quantities. We sell for less. - Kennedy-McCOtikey Company The Quality. Store.. • .1 - • - yon. Watch me, and it I • fail to do before the bad weather came on. our bidding, see it something Is not ; Many will answer stacking was im- v.rong with my harness or feet, poasible owing tO the scarcity of labor \amine my teeth when do not' eat. In Sortie instances It Was hhpossible ,'.. may have , an ulcerated .tooth, end to stark it all, but IA OR could have bee!, !cat, you know,. ie very painful. :Mocked. hi Other hiatrincei and these Do not tie my head up in an unnat-; are greatly in the majority, it, was pos- ral position, or take away my best de. sible. It - is not because of the impos- . 1140 against thee and mosquitoes by sibility of stacking that so much grain utting tiff my tail, or liniit my range was left . unstneked, it was bemuse thn I siaion by blinders so that 1 am tanners felt that it called for less wort. ightened by what I cannot see. Ito threah from the shock. lif•ClillflO Ol And finally, .0 my master, when My this belief which of course is well found- outhful strength is gone, do not turn ' ed, they preferred to take the risk. ,e cut to starve or freeze, or sell me to Can this risk be avoided! Assure& mi.. cruel owner to be elowly tortured ly it con. How, it will be asked? It lel etc -geed to death; but do thou, my may be avoided first, in the east. of LA., take my life in the kindest, way, small farms, by stacking, er SI.001111. ad a r y; :e ur . God a ill reward you' here and by threshing with a small medium. Machines for threshing are now out the Von will lint consider line irreverent /market that may be obtained at a C041 I 11416: tide in the name of Him who of not more than 050.000, will as but in a stable. Amea. thresh say BOO bushels a day. The, earl be run with but few hands, probab ly not more, in some install:es than halt a dozen. Two or three farnP . r. eould run such a machine. They could ;well afford to own it and also not be MOTE than say ft to 10 home power. lif I his way but little of 'the clop need be lost. That ia one way of saving thy crop. 'but there is another find a better way. It is to gut miieh of the lend put into . !fella, and to lay a vonsiderable pro- ; pollard Wood, ortion of it down to suitable mixed • n et ; i you buy out of . , town and 1 buy out of towri . your CALL TO ARMS \A call to arms against war\ is the ogan with•whIch Commodore J. Stuart laekton is hearalding his Vitagraph ropaganda picture play \The Battle ry of Peace.\ Nineteen screen stars, - 000 National Guard troops, 800 metn• er s of the Grand Army of the Republic; Imo horses, 8.000 supernmnarice and George Dewey, Dr. Layman ; , Or•AI 1 • • • NO. 37 •. , • RED 'PEP'S PH PHY \The thingi . ihilt cam . e those who wait are the thinpi no one else wants.\ .11117tior-t ;mera) Abbott and hoe:on Maxim, the inventor, go to . take up the- cast of characters in this must wonderful of photo -plays. \TM attle Cry of Peace\ is about the big' .'t thing yet done by photo -play pro- 1114.ES. It is playing simultaneously, t the highest prices yet charged for ,hoto-plays, at, the- Olympic theater, \hicago;' the 'tritagraph theater, tlew ,'ork, and the Majestic theater, Boston. a all of which cities capacity audiences -re registering their ihtereat In the 'mace through preparedness\ movement. - 1 (lime to write \The Battle Cr)- of Peat.,\ the author. Commodore Black - Ion, says, \through a discussion with 'Inchon Maxim, whose book \Defense - \5. Anntriva\ has aroused such wide: spread comment. At Mr. Maxim's suit- ,. • estion I read the beok, and was struck e a 1.y the strength of his ariniment that I determined to produce a photo -play based upon it. The hien received an Immediate ritspOnsee 'in the fortis' of 'en- dorsetnents from America's most prom- inent people. and I fully expect fifty million persona wilt. - be Med! isware -of the unpreparedness Of their eMintrY !teeing the tilin.-Ex. • UNIVERSITY CROWDED There me more than 550 students rsgistered for regular work at the ';Iniyersity of Montana. Title is tic. '.enviest iitteminnee the institution ha. •. yet- knee!) and the capacity of all of he buildings is rifted to its utmost. tome departments - 11 . a),:it been coinpel- 'ed to turn away stuelcute and othep 'lave been forced to abandon courses h had been offered. Save The Waste By Prof. Thomas Shaw The year 1912 has been repeated twin. There ham been a bumper crop ire all the Northwestern States. This crop is the Dakotas and Mont:ula has been .plementenal. No Keener howeVer was he crep reaped and put iri shock 'or at '..aat corm after. the rains began. The outcome has been, that threshing was greatly hlayed. Expensive threshing outfits were idle in some inetaaoett for two weeks at a thne. The threshing emu - c had to he kept virtually idle and oleo the horses when both 8h(al hi have ,been busy turning over . the . ground for the next year's crop.. Vile they could pot do, although the ground wan nieely moistened with the rain, for the shocks which might have been in the sleek were yet in tlw It is practically unfortunate when such a condition meets the farmers of the Northwest. In 1912 the ferment lest heavily or at least very many of them did, because of the rainy weather after harvest, while th”r_o_ceeds \of that etop helped many it did not . help them marts' es much as if they had Saved it all. New in 1916 there is another grand atop, ,0ut it. ,is mucli dengsge.0)y PRIM Thin 100ear1a a 1eqsen.d:%aln M propor- tion to the damage done. Ala year ; again .he.: crop will mit togato these States what it ought to mean, it does l not mean to them what It would taltall 1 . 1sad .the grain been staeiritd ,er threswsd. eut in two also! I answel . emphatic- 'i m lly, no. ' The revenue, fro live stock the first, on such an instance would he much noire than the revenue from the he wat. A ;moist autumn instead of destroying ! Make ready tor the nnieh grain would be favorable to the big drive growth of grasses to austain. the stock.% Boy eig h t s heat $2.85 With so much grain standing in the' 'y work shoes $200 shock until late in the season, the p/ow 's heavy shoes lag has been greatly delayed. This is 4 -buckle o‘ershoes _ _ unfortunate for the nert years erep.! It will call for much plowing to be done 20 fire engine shares on sale In the spring. That means late sowing if at least part of the grain, which is for 9c per share not over 4 always hazardous. thares to any one person. Power Farming = j Golden RuIeStor e Farming by, inrehanieal power' mid ‘• Le't A: ionNso,v ;, making the ranch home equally as st- ractive as the one in town, is the Mom eno oreect Of Walter .11. owner of the ,.. t i p „teitenteat . • last „Hider. , nly cafeteria ill 1;relll FAN. MI\. na .. On Thursday vuening the gent ellille 4 ill the city from his lawful on, Ar- - ow. Creek bi , nch. He reports crops bi g ._ to. town: amid Matte - a -few -pine:besot .nd next yeas'5 premiers bigger. • with gOO'd cold 'clesh - and alsci talked \This is the first year I have under- with 1'. .7. O'llega concerning 4lic ptif- ..ken to farm my own lend,\ 'said Mr. chase of one of. his szeddle bories, Fil- ial, \but hereafter I will do so ex- ' day wits an unlucky day for4the! - ,eni. luttively. Every bit of work on me • Early in the forenoon he bought drinks , 00 acres has been done this year by • at several esloons, paying ler -same rector. I plowed and I reaped that ' with checks (ruin $5 to 625, always ey, and it beat. the horses.\ planning on getting several Millers in tr Mr. Bell's entire yield this year sells change. He worked his little gain.. 'bout 8.(00 litislielc The average yield until someone went to 'cash 1 . tulle of i Sr aece for drv-land was XI bushels Of these checks at the local hank anti were internee' they were forgeries, ahint the signature was cleverly- written) to im- itate Mn, Banta's. Cameron had, hired a horse from ri limit livery hers and spirted west, stopping at SpInn Kop long enough to play his game' at the mli0011. . ed. ' \Mootana land in the beat in the , As soon lt,. proisible three into loads world,\ declared Mr. Bell, enthusins- l of men were after the man and lie Watt 1 ically. \I came here from Warsaw, overtaken near Raynsford and . .brought (Missouri. four years ago, and have hero hack and placed in the local je.p. When teuceesaful. 'Before that time I worked lovertaken 'a large' dagger knife and a hard for what I got, find thud wits very ripeting gun was found in Iii.4' posses - little. I believe Montana farms il v •O• I ' ve Mil:O. That evening he w11.`4 breinght be• all the improvements you can give them. fore Judge Fresennin for a heetiini? and They'll pay you back.\ ' t Wn'l bound over to the dist rift , court. Mr. Bell has placed about $10,000 Chic had enough money on his pereen to worth of improvements into his home 'make good his checks and Saturday in the last two years, inch:Wing a fine morning accompaiiied by Deputg: Sheriff in alarm.- with hot and cold rniming liernaghtin wa-3 taken to Or(tat Falls seat' I . a 70 foot machinery shed, large and plactil in the (minty jail, S . M adder boric, 110,' trues and a itlWa that Woithi but Wiser it i i hOIO-41. , .lo credit to a- ontona, - couirt hous 1 e. lie t. .' ,. ' ------ , plan-. to eco into stnek raising extensive- I . RUNNING THE :NAN/ . , Is - next year. Mr. Bell's land is in two , E lied now, whew...there is Iso nmeli ranetics between Coffee Creek and ''.' . ' !talk about national defen4c, i there is Stanford.--Oreat Falls Leader. I'muell'Interest ii.;‘ both the Army and i:Navy. We ai.e in this ii.Sue thildishing CHARGED WITH l' - - - ERY la .sreialjUeattaxed article. \ eaten) in Harty Cameron. who hns keen employ- 'the . , Riiihtesit 011ie° of the, lavy,\ ed at the Banta ranch Avent of (leyeer i which makes mighty good reellini Try : ter several months, gave „ Gnu!: a iii- ' it and see.-fditor. ,illeat atm 00 bushels of oats. In cu built wit week.; Mr.. Hell will IttiVe half of 'pis Witt hack into winter wheat, after I be soil has been materially improved continuous cultivation. The other half of his farm lie has summer fallow - tasturte of comparativelv short dura• A considerable area sliould be Int into corn to be hogged off or eaten 'own by sheep. neighbo niittens and four-buck 'e rs buy all their warm Home corn should also be grown for ov- 'he silo, in fact a goodly acreage every etshoes out Of town; w at in year. In this way the acreege of the sam hill is going • to - b coupe wheat will be cut in two act that not more than half_ the harvesting and of this here town. Answer: threshing would be called for. But It -The .flies and. bed ' _bugs may be asked, would not the revenue be -will tow possegifOirJnne 1916. A ik .; 1 :414.-V*470.1 • fr. OWNT4r.1 •04,4 1 1 / 4 4,41. tAb - •• • .„1