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Zbt Vol. 11, Nck• 1. gig.00 Per Year. nrctrb orth. STANFORD, FERGUS COUNT Y, MONTANA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1920. . — Montana Sunflower Good Crop to Put in Your Silo Alfalfa Timothy Sunflower May Be the Most Important The writer asked the lieuten- ant governor for some figure.. Cattle Feed Discovery in I \Take a day off,\ said Mr. Years I McDowell, \The men are liar- ; j vesting the sunflower now.\ This jwas the last few days of Septem- The following, taken from the ber. \See it in the fields, watch Country Gentleman of February them cut it and haul it to the silo 21, is of especial interest at this and note how it's chopped and time in connection with the ef- stored, You'll find a fish pole forts being made by the Farm and a gun on the place. Make Bureau to induce farmers to yourself at home.\ build silos: And the writer vasit. He found The thoughtless one, who has five acres mid& sunflower. It not been there, thinks of Montana was the Russian. variety. The as a place where the cowboy plants stood from, six to eight wiTops and shoots, the placer L'ect tail, as 'a general average. miner grubs for gold and copper, Same were ten feet tall and here and silver kings make millions. a.id there were a few that stood There is truth in the picture, but fifte-en feet. it's not complete. Out there the rroat the foreman he learned dairy farmer is looking for rec- that it cost five dollars an acre to cgnition. Yes, and the spotlight pl ow an d h arrow th e groun d . la turning his way. ,The seed for the five acres cost The light finds this dairy farm- four dollars an acre. The ground er experimenting on cattle feeds. had been prepared in May and He wants the feed that the cattle s , eded in June. It was really at like, that is beat for the cattle I, - •ast four weeks late. With this end that produces most milk. So handicap the yield on the strip of he has been trying his luck with tie Valley of the Moon ranch was runflower silage and the result is up to the average. highly satisfactory. 1 The sunflowers grew in rows Lieut. Gov. W. W. McDowell, 11.irty inches apart and were who owns the Valley of the M0011 Ilb011t six inches Apart in the ranch, n the heart of the Missou- mows. During the, growing sca- le National Forest, twenty miles son the sunflowers were culti- east of the town of Missoula, by voted between the rows just as his own experiments has found corn would be. The summer of these were average 'figures for 1919 was unusually dry in Mon - production an acre in Montana: , tans and a little irrigation was used. Plenty of %voter causes the 3 to 4 tons sunflowers to grow larger, but it 2 tons is said that they can be raised on 25 tons what is commonly ?Mown as dry For years the agricultural de - land. partment of the Montana State On a large acreage the cutting EXTENSION SCHOOL TO College at Bozeman, Montana, woud be done with machinery; BE HELD NEXT MONTH CHURCH NOTES . had experimented and had offi- but Mr. MPDowell used a corn cially announced that OttIlflOWer knife. The plants are cut as neat rittir ,... ch 11 and 12 Will Be Filled s\1\1\Y School \I \' l\. • ter on the inside. It is of lumber ---- - 10 b ecame and has double walls containingi Preaaing, 11 a. in. and 7:30 p. silage was a splendid feed for the ' ground as possible, a four -inch aim' space. This air. With Instruction for Mr. and The commandment for Sunday space acts as . a nonconductorotl , taoht is \Thou ahalt not ktil.\ heit and ix supposed to . prevent! , eial services will he held ev- ICE AND SNOW CRUSH BUILDING IN CAMBRIDGE The severity of me winter in the East is indicated by this photograph. Weighted down by poands of leo and snow, the roof of n Storage bonding In cumbridge, Mass.. reeentty collapsed, 'shim; the structure. Luckily no one was Itudile whOu the accident occurred. 5 Cents Per Copy Dry Farming Next Subject Next to Irrigation, SU/111110r Fal- low Is Best of Crop Insurance Only a small part of the total solo' of the state of Montana is ;ilii a t ed so fort un at ely as to come , wet and dry land farming will enssion. pr i ne i p l e wino is : — dry farming — is to eonserye the 1 , 1toisture for two years and apply . to one tiro!). yltis is done by 1 tttutner fallowing the land eaeh ti 1 1 ,, ritate year. Uhl stuff! Yes, hut if you mate 'o the mixt no—ting of the t -t i: . : 11 11 1 1 ,‘ 1. 7 d lli C tl . .?. illi tin t t il . ili ;.. ‘ o . ti Cl it t i ll ;ty , S g a e t t - 501111. lieW idetl't or what summer several thousand filtiniv ITIIIIY ii• co po e m y d eni m. In the eastern port of the tittlte t f Wrshington the annuLl pre- eipitation is only a little more 1 shocking them as is doue with farm and figuring the tonnage, HIGH SCHOOL BASKET than half of what we tut ve here, but Ow \Palotuse country\ is fa - corn in the Southern and E.stern values. and costs from the Nets - - ---- - mons eVerywhere for I heir bunt - BALL TEAM HAS GAME s ) States. Farina m's - near Huntley, before him. His errors are Montana. tried this last summer thrown in for good in Good Game Promised Friday P, ry Pr e r\PS. of wl\ 10 • ,TheY k\\ and found it worked all right.\ I We stated that t he sunflower Evening When Boys Meet (t farmin ntg woed dowll to All exact !edema. there. And then Mr. McDowell added:! seed was planted a few weeks Raynsford Th. pritie.iple npettlier at the \Sunflower silage is to cattle late. The same remark applies -- witat HtIllerkrout was and Liber- ' to the harvesting. Even at lieu- ty cabbage is to human beings. tenant governor cannot get what 1 se l i t i ztrf i i: li t ' s d ke l t ind ba l i t a li t t:!: i t i l n I s I It l i ‘ g i ii ii . , l e ii r a eli fa ii r : 1 7 r ni r g ro ;: i f e i n ili m t ' el i : il m lih w li ‘ : ill i i _ Cattle seem particularly fond of he wants on time farm in a few p i miy . al th,, cu y n o w s tonfor d , 1, 1 1i f il ii . m. M .. r . D 8 3.1 Par I r: 1 1 1 1 11 1 11,ni 11 , 1i l s n t g ex , t , it and will leave nearly any other . hou in them. days of reen ostr F ue- riday night, February 27. BotIt coin, mil ili a hear him. kind of feed to get the sunflower n ,, tio mid postwar activities. when le „ ms ti„‘,,, gone so fill' througiC silage. — . . i th em e t ail I ha d s eldt ii kW\' the seamoo with but one defeat. _ The silo on the Valley of the I out blew to t he supply. M r. Me- and the game without doubt will Aged Resident Stricken cattle—for dairy cattle in partic- every bit of stalk Is valuable iol- tiler; ,that it was .:good ,,for the..afilet,_ , Tbc, harvesting operation .cattle; that it made a cow give WAS rev temple. Six men at - more milk, and that the tonnage tended to the job. Two cut the an acre far exceeded anything plants, two hauled the sunflowers that could be expected of alfalfa in wagons to the silo, one fed the oar timothy. , chopper and the sixth played a Farmers began to think about hose on the sunflowers as they it. They heard, too, that in the fumed through the chopper. The Eastern States corn produced the five acres were cut, harvested, largest tonnage for silos and that chopped. and deposited in the ten tons an acre was the best ay. sslo in six days, or forty-eight erage corn could show in the most hours of actual work, favored states. Here, then, was Lieutenant Governor McDow- a sunflower variety, whose low- ell says: eat average was two and a half ''Time best way to use the sun - times as great mid which had flowers for silage is to cut them been known to produce as high green and prepare them at once as forty tons an acre, growing for the silo. At the same' time freely in the Montana climate farmers who did not have a silo and, on paper at least, with ev- have obtained very satisfactory erything to recommend' it. iresults by cutting them green and 0000000000000 0 0 000000 0 0 000 000000 00000000000000000000000 • 000 Danger In Sowing Poor Seed is something usually not given sufficient thought. This year practically all of the spring wheat seed will lutve to be shipped' in. Owing to the high price of seed, the dealers will undoubtedly handle only the very best of plump, properly colored, heavy test weight per bushel and of high germination. We have the soil and the climate and with the best seed to begin with we will reap the reward at har- vest time. The high price of seed may seem a hard- ship at this time but if it s better seed you are better off this fall. Durmn, often called macaroni wheat, is partic- ularly susceptible to intpurities. And when buying it insist on only the very beat. We suggest to sow less and sow better, and your reward will be great- er in the end. Basin: State Bank Stanford, Montano capital $20,000.00 Surplus $10,000.00 • 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 000000000000 ono 000000000o000. 00 00. Moon ranch has a capiteity of 100! Dowell is convinced that lie eon tons. It was built (luring the get hotter results this year. past summer. It measures thirty-, four feet from ground to roof. It is eirettlar or rat her polygonal in shape and fotn•teen feet in theme - silage from freezing during io t While . it is not possible at this night (luring Iltistor week. cold iv (lest eat her. dui It' to give much .of an idea of shepherd, the state sup - Tim wimt the complete program trill erintendent will In' here to e silo has (louble doors 'milt from top to bott , ' „ 01 , la• for the emext sion school to he pe , Oleil OH S11111111y, March 28, and om • eth about three feet toy two 'lid a held in ! Sts \ f°111 \ 1 \ 1.84 S \ifil out imp. until Easter Sun lftV. rid ay, March 11 and 12, enough All who 161111 10 Unite Wit h the half feet. Tiw doors open to 41 F iS 1(11011'11 10 SHOW 1I1111. tile IWO - ,e111leell dllring these services litid covered numway built 'outside of the silo. Iron bars on the out- g rmns esch day will be of special on Easter Sunday will be given ide of the doors furnish a ladder, t interest in this section. an opportunity. Persons wish - The chopper is placed at the Among the probable speakers, jog to 'mite by letter will plcace Parent -Teachers Meetini : base of the silo on the outside. ' will he ' T • l). of Bil-;sead for their church letters mootil The next meeting of the Parent The chopper is operated bv a fif-hi an irrigation expert of nu- eneog i t ori i i )) t t o h ave them Tenclierti Assoc hit ion will be here by Easter Sunday. 'held Friday afternoon, March 5, Rev, 11, A. Brown, pastor, 'at 4:00 n. um., at the school house. I All are weleome, whether mem- During the first week in March; hers or 1101 . special activities tvill take place, in the public schools to interest' Look at it any way you wish, -pupils and pilrents in Milted Lansing the cabinet wits a major States thrift stamps. • operation. Dowell says: 'If it can be demonstrated to, the satisfaction of Montana farm.- Community fairs are of particu- ers that a crop of this proportion -tar educational value, and 1»/1/11' can be raised on average ground.; if the feed values are such as suc- cessful experimet ts have shown to my satisfaction; if the feed is AR good for cattle and for mile)] COWS in particular, 811(1 ifthe cat- tle like it as well as is claimed, then sunflower silage is the most important cattle -feed discovery of at great many years. It pi•actically means that a num can winter twice Os many (tattle by raising sunflowers as lie could by raising alfalfa, clov- er, rye, Isarley, redtop, or any of the ordinay grasses or ,jtrops raised for cattle feed in Mon- tana.\ Mr. .McDowell prictical. lit' is a farmer nod not an agricul- turist,. Nor is he seeking to force hist sunflower views on others. Ills interest was attracted by the experiments ot the Montana State College and then he held his own experiment. Ile is telling what he knows, standing on his own teen-horse -power gasoline engine.' tional t•eputation, now in the The chopper cuts stalks, boughs,i serviee of the government in the and the flowers into particles billin g: 4 ; distriet . I nd ; Win ' Sl i nhi. • about half an inch wide. A fani titilte b la ry MNtO e0/tleOiler. 'time ii? 111 the chopper blows the chopped will he a number of other speak - I ens on both subjects. sunflowers; through a pipe to the top of the silo. Water is neces-I Mn' discussion on dairying will sary during the chopping, other- I be largely about the manufactur- : wise the silage may become mus-l!\g eilds • butter slid cheese ilmh\ ty or moldy. The chopper cuts'isg! lie ready with questions. at the rate of from three to six( Miss N°111 11°‘n• 'I I ome Demon - tons an hour, strator for Fergus county, will This par flrit particular outeTU h ; i---- have—with---her during—the—two , Silo $ 600 days Miss Elberta Brotwick, who holds the flame position in Cam - 'Chopper 340 eade county. One of the features Engine 1000 of the women's section will be the . construction of dress forma. Total $1940 • One evening 's entertainment will be furnished by the Stanford At' current Montana Prices, the school, and we understand Miss values in yields an acre for timo- thy, alfalfa, amid sunflower are: 16illy is Iww ' drillin g ' the stades\ for it. • Timot fly $ 70 We hope to 'print the complete Alfallas 120 program next week. Sunflower 400 In face of these facts, Mr. Me- COMMUNITY FAIRS PUT SPICE TO CLUB WORK time held each fall in various parts of the .country. Many hundreds peopie see a compreitemtive ex- position of time different Outset; of food preservation ...wide!! have demonstrated to the ,club girls and women by the home demon- stration agent. The pointa about Which Seenteii to need the most help hill V(' been ealteeitilly eniplutaiged: At the different centers girls eompetent to give demons'ratioes canned fruit a n (I vegetables, showed how to make it pectin test end gave directiona for drying the conditions of the policies. onstrated the us es ., o f diff ere nt sure their lives - even whe» they $ P $ 1. $ types of containers, and how tohave' wife and fainilY are Don't let eareless expenditure avoid 01. overconw difficulties that for or a busineas which may b e make a sieve of your puree. Buy might nrime with them. ;seriously injured by your death: wisely and increase your money The fair proved effec s 'tive' Of all time ineidenta tha holdings by inveating in W. S. S that holdings interestiog - the publie in the chat happen to your stock, your per- $ $ $ w ork for iwomen mid girls which monal property, or,your crop; etc., It Remit pretty generally comm- ie supervised by the United States notw of these may ever happen, ceded that John Barleycorn's Department of Agrieulture. and but just as sore us day follows death was due to acute alcohol - the state agricultural colleges. 'night every one of you will have ism. F _NATIONAL BANK NEWS Vol. 2 Stanford, Mont., Feb. 28, 1920 No. 1 A. J. Stough, President R. D. Taylor, Vice President Frank Meredith, Cashier J. P. Pieper, Aut. Cashier be well worth watching. The lo-' C. W. Cooper w w , ho onis the eal boys are tilaying a rim, dello !toot hall to.xt to the drug More genie and tletterVe liberal Sttpnort. suffered Stroke Of paralysis Saturday night. Ile and Mrs. Coop. r were stopping at the Ho- tel Stanford. A son, C. W. Coop- er, jr., of Neiltart and a daughter, .Mrit. M. h. Wood of Havre, were ouinitioned end are noW la his bedside. Another* 'sow who is now in the lumber woods of Ore- gon, has been notified. Mr. Cooper is nearly eighty yettra olil but is showing wonder- ful vigor' in his fight against the disease. At this writing he is showing some alight improve- ment. ,4fal A Strange Incident You insure your stock. against fire, lightning and disease. You insure your In and per8011- al property against fire. You in- sure vour Crops against hail and drouth. You insure your money, stocks and valuablem against bur- We can write you all kinds of glary or theft. You insure your ; insurance, stock, personal prop - employe against absconding or arty, crop, and Life Insurance. embezzlement. pur Life Insurance Policy you fluid both low-priced and Your stock may never (lie or good. We would be glad at any : kil;(11. The chances of your is hine to explain to you the policy ' house and' eontenta burni„g which we write, and feel that it about twelve • hundren to one. wilI meet with your approval. We handle nothing but. the best Stock. Eire and Burglar Insur- ance. If you are in need of itny or all we will be pleased to quote you vou rates and explain to you You may never have a hailstone hit your crop or lack for nwiistltre. A 'Milder many never enter your residenee. or 4111 it fail to turn over your property when (failed for. ju id twilling . M (N) groups d en ,_ But 1111111r HP1140118 (Id HOt, in - to pass from this,world into the great Beyond. buturance of every kind and diseription is founded upon A fi- nancial basis for the purpose of protection. The man who can carry life insurance and does not is not protecting his family or es- tate. , No farmer or business 101)111 should be without •insurance suf- fieient to liquidate all his indebt- edness. The time hiss long since passed when an individual can State that they do not believe in Life Insur- ance\ without being looked upon as foolish or ignorant.
