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doimoomaissessates0141111•1 1 THE STANFORD WORLD. THEASU KE STATE IFAAM AND ILEIVEMTOCK BURBANK EVOLVES NEW SUPER -WHEAT ©MP nnommin SUGGESTIONS APPLY(' KC] TO) BRY IS ADAPTED TO VARYING CLI- \— MATES FROM FAR TO PATAGONIA New Wheat Is of the Winter Variety and Produces a Fine White Flour; Ciattains a High Percentage of Gluten; Is Now Ex perimenting With Rye Luther Burbank, the California wizard, has evolved a super -wheat. The noted California horticultur- ist and student of plant life, is said to have spent much of the past ele- ven years in building up a wheat plant which is adapted to varying climates from the Hudson bay to Pa- tagonia and announces that he has at last succeeded. There are many sections of the country where the wheat grown con- tains a very small percentage of gluten. In order to get any sort of flour effect this low grade wheat is mixed in grinding with the hard wheat grown in more favored sec- tions of Montana. The new wheat Is said to be of the winter variety, hardy and produc- ing a white flour. The production to the acre is said to run about the same as the California wheat. Mr. Burbank has turned his at- tention to a new rye and barley in which he hopes to increase the amount of gluten now obtainable in these grains. Mr. Burbank said eighty varieties of rye at present are under a cross- ing process on his farm in connec- tion with the experiments to create a new rye and barley which would eliminate difficulties similar to those found in wheat. 1 One Million Dollars TO LOAN ON MONTANA YAKMA LAND Kenn FOR SALE Frary & Burlingame TOres Nat'l Bank bldg. Titled Si ta.. OZZAT FALLS. MONTANA Alfred Atkinson, of the Bozeman experiment station, says tl first plowing of native sod is usually done during the months of April, May, June and early July. This is the best time as over half the annual rainfall conies during this period. 'The work can be easily done then, and theAnoist, succulent condition of the grass' during late May, June and early July causesit to decompose easily when it is turned under. Where spring crops are to be planted early breaking is urged to per- mit early seeding. Fall breaking is not generally practiced as the dry condition of the ground at this season requires a greater amount of power and makes the work costly. Breaking should be deep enough to furnish ample loose \soil for a seed bed, but should not be so deep as to prevent the firm packing of the furrow slice against the moist earth below. On average soil four to five inches is a fair depth. XV1tere soils are somewhat light seven to eight inch breaking may be done, but on heavy soils or where there is a tough sod a furrow slice of this thickness is very hard to work down. Again, where the sod is tough, deep plowing is apt to leave the furrows partiallly on edge anti this makes packing difficult. A further objection to the very deep plowing on heavy soils is the fact that if soil of this nature is taken from below the zone of root development where it is usually deficient in humus, and turned on top of the seed bed, it is apt to puddle and bq hard to work. • Immiallately after the furrows are turned, the necessary tillage should be given. This should compact the soil so as to establish contact of the freshly turned slice with the lower moist earth and should loosen the surface to furnish a moisture -holding mulch. Before the furrow slice is cut off the contact with the soil particles make possible the rise of the soil moisture from the lower layers up to the growing roots. If now the turned fur,row slice is not packed down, the rise of water will be interfered with. The result will be that plants which start in the seed bed (the furrow slice) will be deprived of the water stored below. Ile sure to pack the freshly turned sod. The movement of Die soil moisture that is of value in plant growth is always towards the dry place. During the warm weather evaporation is constantly going on; the surface soil layer tends to be dry, and the mois- ture comes to the top and is lost rapidly by evaporation. As moisture is the limiting factor in dry land crop production such loss ought to be prevented so far as possible. This may be done by starring the surface layer of soil so that the contact of soil particles is lessened and the rise of moisture to the top, where it will be evaporated, is prevented. Make a loose mulch on top, two or three inches deep. The tillage should be given the same day that the plowing is done. The furrow slice is then moist and will pack down readily, and if a mulch is made on the surface the loss of water may be largely prevented. On freshly broken sod, double disking—lapping the disk half each time to leave the ground level—v/111 get the results desired in many cases. A surface packer, followed by a harrow, may be a good combination on lighter soils. On very heavy soils it may be necessary to disk four times and then harrow. Sufficient tillage to make the seed bed firm below and loose on top is important. If heavy rains follow cultivation, harrowing aS soon as the soil is dry enough is important to re-establish the moisture holding mulch. Ye wish to dispose of several oail of horses from one to six years of ago and weighing up to 1,400 lb% These are mostly noires by a registered Percher- oirx mut out of high grade mares. For particulars address Heart Bar L Ranch Fishtail, Mont. Montana .3n1 Eastern Corporation howistown, Montana. \FARM MORTGAGE LOANS\ Correspondence lath,' I S. LOGGED OFF AGRICULTURAL LANDS 111111111 At $10 to $20 per Acre In 10 Yearly Payments Investigate the logged off lands of the Blackfoot Land Development Company. Ex- cellent opportunity to pur- chase direct from the com- pany without promotion or commission charges. Low priced agricultural land. Values have been fixed by experienced appraisers. Our holdings cover a coun- try of unparalleled fertility salubrious climate, ample moisture, rapid growing sea- son, beautiful mountain scen- ery, railway transportation, telephone, telegraph and good schools. Dairying is a type of farm- ing best adapted to these clay loam clover lands of Western Montana. This land has many advantages which make of it the finest section in which to live and work in the entire northwest. Address: BLACKFOOT LAND DEVELOPMENT CO, Drawer 1590 Missoula, Mont. SHEEP SHEARING 'MONTANA'S QUOTA. ABOUT TO START OF FORD TRACTORS OVEJt 100,000 WCK)IiIES WILL RH SEPA ItA'rE1) FROM THEIR 1\14EECP:44 AT INGOMAR Large Community Power Shearing Plant, Where the Sheep From Many Counties Are Sheared, Will Bo in Operollot Soon. Early next week the big commun- ity sheep shearing plant at Ingomar will commence operations. • This is one of the largest machine shearing plants in the state, it operates 83 power driven machines and will re- move the wool from the backs of 100,000 sheep during the next few weeks. This season, on account of the very high price ot wool, about three times normal, it will be almost a shaving process. The woolies will be shaved right down to the bare cu- ticle and the sheep that goes out of the place with even the suggestion of a wool stubble will have it all over his fellows. The flocks of many owners are sheared at this plant. Early in the year the shearing master begins to arrange his schedule. He fixes his dates far ahead so as to finish with one flock as another is driven up. The flockmasters of Yellowstone, Rosebud, Musselshell, Fergus and other nearby counties, some of them a hundred miles or more away, know- ing their dates, begin to move their sheep towards the shearing plants weeks before the time for them to arrive. They move slowly in order to permit the sheep to feed. A feature of the sheep shearing season is the annual meeting of the sheep -shearers' union. Each year, Just before they commence opera- tions, basing their demands on the price of wool, they fix their schedule of wages. The wage is regulated by piece work, Bo that the expert shear- er will receive more than the un- skilled. Last year the pay averaged from $12 to $15 per day. This year, wool being higher than it was at this time last year, the price will probably be more. ALLOT:WENT MADE WITH UNDER- WIANDING THAT THEitE IS N(1 MIDDLE PROFIT Machlueo Will Cost $825 Delivered in Montana; Will Pull Two 14 -inch Mouldboard Plows; State Council ot\ Iklense Aids in Getting the State's Quota. Piordaou tractors by the trainload will be brought to Montana to help the fertile prairies, now tired of growing buffalo grass, produce wheat with which to feed a hungry world. D. It. Alibiing of Roundup and J. B. Perkins of Billings left Helena Thursday night for Detroit to make the necessary arrangement for hand- ling the quota of tractors which Mr. Ford will set aside for. Montana. Mihillis and Perkins came to Ilel- ena Thursday for a conference with members of the State Council of De- fense and to get a request for a cer- tain quota of the tractors which will be allotted to the states which can produce wheat. Mihillis and Perkins will undertake to distribute these, tractors, but will make no profit on handling the Machines, neither will dealers be permitted to make a pro- fit on them at this time. No Prof it \Mr. Ford wants the tractors sold direct to the farmers without either' a dealer's, nor a distributor's profit. They sell for $750 f. o. b. Detroit or about $825 delivered in Montana. They will pull two 14 -inch mould- board plows in most any soil and two 12 -inch plows in any soil on earth,\ said Mr. Alihillis. \As soon as we heard the Ford people were ready to put these tractors out in the United States, we went to Detroit to see the tractor at work and ascer- tain what arrangements could be made for securing the maximum number for Montana. The President's Limited Authority There are some arbitrary limita- tions on even the wartime powers of President Wilson. At the flying field in Washington, watching the depart- ure of the first airplane mail carrier to New York; the president posed for motion pictures. After once passing through the ordeal, he was asked to pose 'once more with Mrs. Wilson. The president conferred with his wife and then replied: \Mrs. Wilson says 'No,' and you know, boys, my authority stops there.\ HAVE YOU SEEN THIS SIGN BEFORE • ? KEEP YOUR MONEY IN MONTANA ERN g. .4 ; 0014 OILS GUARANTEED QUALITY MONTANA OIL COMPANY. , , . WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO YOU CROP REPORT HAS OPTIMISTIC RING OUT1,001i FOR FARMERS mosT CHEERFUL; SEEDING AWA AHEAD OE I.AsT YEAR Ilank lug Corporation of Montana Says 95 l'er Cent of Spring ing Finisloxl as Against 00 Per 'cot Last Year; Miles City and Her Heat Units. \The most cheerful outlook in many seasons is the perspective of Montana farmers,\ according to the current crop report of the Banking Corporation of Montana. \Wheat seeding is practically finished, as against seeding as into as June 10 last year. Ninety-five per cent of spring plowing to be done in Montana has been accomplished, as against 60 per cent for the same date last year. Eighty-eight per cent of sow- ing and planting has been accom- plished, as against 35 per cent for the same date last year. Seeding of flax and potatoes is well under way. Early sown spring grain is up and growing nicely. Nearly all crop con- ditions are at maximum. \Apprehension was felt wild) , in the season as to winter killing but aside from a few disturbing reports from Phillips. Blaine, Beaverhead and Te- ton counties, where there was a 10 per cent loss in acreage, there has been nothing to give alarm. Some word has came hi regarding depreda- tions of wire worms, but they are negligible in extent and give no con- cern. Corn, l'egar Beets and Fruit \Montana had 74,000 acros in corn in 1917—there is an indi- cated increase of 7,isoo acres. Corn bhis fair to become a most important crop. The heat units Ii. corn growing compared with tilo heat units in Minnesota, re- veal the fact that we have more heat units at Miles City, for in- stance, than Minnesota, anti al- most AS many as Iowa and Illi- nois, the best corn states in the union. \Sugar beet acreage is disappoint- ing, being only about one-half of the normal in the Billings and Missoula territory; the lack of acreage of this important and profitable crop being caused by the high price yield for wheat and other cereals, and the fact that the sugar factories' announce- ment of $10 per ton flat, without re- gard to percentage of sugar content, was made too late in the spring and not until after farmers had practi- cally decided on their spring plant- ing program. On the other hand, there has been a planting of 7,000 acres as a supply for the factory at Whitehall, now under construction. \Cherries have been damaged, but apple trees in all fruit sections of the State, came through the winter in good shape, and there will be a heavy blossom this year—the fruit crop should be the largest in the his- tory of Monta 'a. Livestock Conditions \Grass alfalfa and clover are de- veloping well. Pastures are in good shape. However, the supply of hay and forage presents a requirement for constructive action on the part of farmers and stockmen—with 10,000 acres less than last year, in tame and wild hay; with the holdover of hay from last year's crop less than usual, and not the full expected increase in corn acreage; steps should be taken now to guard against possible short- age of forage this winter. \Prices for all kinds of livestock will be high this year. Government purchases during May, for dressed beef, have established a standard quite satisfactory to producers. \At the moment of this writing, the plans of the government for grad- ing and settlement on wool shim- menta are confusing. Shipments of wool out of Montana will begin June 16 and continue until July 10; it is understood that growers will pay 6 per cent interest on their drawings against shipments until the arrival of wool at terminals; after which the dealers pay interest to growers at the same rate, during the period of grading and settlement. From six to eight weeks will elapse from the time of shipment until the receipt of actual payment by growers.\ Georgia, for instance, will get no Fordson tractors this year. Kansas, the Dakotas, Minnesota and Montana May Get 50C i will come in for their share now. Some of the older states have been e supplied with a reasonable number. \We found they were to b allot- A Womlerftd Machine ted and while we would like to see a thousand sent to this state, it is \The tractor Is really a wonderful machine. It Is so simple a girl 14 doubtful it we can secure many more ' than half that number. They areile years of age who had never been on while one ran a race with a Ford car driver , now making 65 a day, and up a hill at the demonstration and there we saw representatives from the girl won. they are not wheat producing states. \ Sash, Doorsi . nllw 1 7, • Hardware ; Paints.. , 4 4 1 ' • • all built:BOO. materials. Send your -.14011tting list for Boyd's lou estimate or write g lig g - • bargains. foe our ; free catalog of a thousand building, ' THE REASON WHY We have been advocating no cash in advance on hail insurance because the farmers need the protection, but be- cause of poor crop conditions last year a large majority could not afford it on any other basis. To grant them this privilege it was necessary to procure the business without being obliged to pay out cash commis- sions to agents. We therefore requested that all farmers act as their own agents, not only by sending in their own appli- cation but also urging their neighbors to do likewise. There has been a very gratifying response to this and we have written over $2,000,000.00 worth of business direct, but some farmers fail to realize that this is their own campaign, instituted for their own benefit, in a company of which they are just as much a part as any of the officers, and have been content to merely send in their own applications. Now, it is an unfortunate fact that there is, in most communities, a large number of farmers who have been so long accustomed to the habit of having others do business of this nature for them that they have overlooked this advantage or else put it off for another day and eventually forgotten it. This makes our line uneven in spots and to remedy same so as to give those that have insured the maximum protection at the minimum cost we'are placing agents in the field. We intend, in this manner, to cover the entire state evenly and thoroughly, and with the vast amount of business we will write the cost will undoubtedly be the lowest in the history of the country. We have set June 10 as the last day we can receive ap- plications without any cash in advance. This allows ample time for those to whom this privilege will be of real benefit, and after that date the one per cent of the face of the policies will supply working funds to keep the agents going and pay the added expenses incidental to keeping a force in the -field. It is our earnest desire to carry hail in- surance this year at the lowest rate ever attained and if the farmers will support their own movement there is no reason why this can not be accomplished. ,If you have not sent in your application by the time one of .our agents calls on you we would be greatly obliged if you will give him any information that will assist him to close up all available business in your section as quickly as possible and thereby keep down expenses and lower your own assessment. Those who have not received application blanks and detailed information, and who desire to get in on the \no cash in advance\ proposition should fill in the attached cou- pon and see that it reaches us before June 10. Name Address __Acres on S T. _R INSURANCE DEPARTMENT American Society of Equity 27-31 Stanton Bank Building __Acres on GREAT FALLS Montana's greatest farmers' insurance company. Provides pro- tection at actual cost. Hail, Fire, Lightning, Automobile (fire, theft, and explosion), Livestock. We Want Shipments of CREAM OUR PRICES ARE RIGHT WE GIVE YOU THE RIGHT TREATMENT Send for Prices and Shipping Tags Great Falls Dairy Products Co. GREAT FAI IS, MONTANA If. S. Food Administration Licence G.25353 School Districts Avoid long and annoying delays caused by congested conditions of the railroads in the east Buy Your Desks, Maps, Globes, Flags, Dictionaries and Supplies at Home From MEE STATIONERY COMPANY GREAT FALLS, MONTANA McDOWELL CO. B. E. CALKINS CO. Billings, Mont. Butte, Mont. OUR MOTTO --PROMPT SERVICE HEREFORD CATTLE SALE THE MONTANA RANCH COMPANY OF MOORE, MONTANA, offers for sale its entire herd of PUREBRED UNREGISTERED CATTLE consisting of about 100 COWS AND CALVES 30 2 -YEAR -OLD COWS 30 YEARLING HEIFERS These cattle are GUARANTEED PURE BRED and the ,8111111' Hereford Strains run through them as through that Company's registered herd. ROSS BROWN, Manager MOORF„ MONTANA 4
