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The Sanders County Independent-Ledger (Thompson Falls, Mont.), 26 Sept. 1918, located at <http://montananewspapers.org/lccn/sn86075282/1918-09-26/ed-1/seq-6/>, image provided by MONTANA NEWSPAPERS, Montana Historical Society, Helena, Montana.
SANDERS COUNTY INDEPENDENT -LEDGER I:TREASURE STATE FARM AND LIVESTOCK MORE PROFIT FOR MONTANA FARMERS FINE SHOWING OF PUREBRED CATTLE EXHIBIT AT STATE FAIR' THE BEST EVER SEEN IN MON- TANA; THE WINNERS Shorthorn Display Biggest Ever Made in Northwest; Hereford Breeders Organize and Will Have Rigger Showing Next Year; Out -of -State Exhibits. The display of cattle at the state fair was the -best ever seen in Mon- tana, and no better evidence could have been forthcoming of the fact that Montana is fast getting into competition with all other states of the union as a breeder of fine live- stock. The Shorthorn exhibit was the lar- gest ever keld in the northwest, and attracted entrants for prizes from Colorado and Canada, as well as from various sections of Montana. There were only two Hereford herds exhib- ited, but the Hereford breeders of Montana formed an organization dur- ing the fair week, and next year there will be many more exhibitors. The Hereford exhibitors were A. B. Cook of Townsend and the Curtice Cattle Company of Calgary, Alberta The Aberdeen -Angus showed up with three of the finest herds of the northwest — the Sun River Cattle company, the J. M. Wylie outfit of Bozeman and the Ohrmandale Ranch of Philipsburg, Montana. Cook a Heavy Winner In the Hereford ring, A. B. Cook, although not winn'ng the grand champion bull premium, carried off the majority of prizes, his bull Pana- ma 37, was first in the two -year -old class. The other prizes he won are: Junior yearling 1st Panama 50; 2d Panama 49; 3d Bull Standard. Senior bull calf 1st., Panama 76; junior bull calf, 2d. Panama 79. Aged cow, 1st, Lady Perfection 3; two -year -old hell', er, Miss Joy; senior yearling, 1st, Lady Panama 49; junior yearling 1st, Lady Joy; 3d, Perfect Maid; senior heifer calf, 1st, Lady Joy 2. Junior champion was Panama 76. Lady Perfection 3 carried off both the se- nior and grand champion ribbon of her class. Lady Joy 2 won the junior champion ribbon. Besides winning many of the individual prizes, A. B. Cook also won the aged herd rib- bon, the young herd, calf herd and get -of -sire. While he came second and third in the produce of cow. A Ten Times \Phainp\ The Curtice Cattle company's bull, Beau Perfection 48th, won the grand champion ribbon. This bull is re- puted to be one of the b t in North America. Already he has won ten grand champion prizes throughout the United States and Canada. Beau Donald 192 carried off the blue rib- bon for the junior calf class. The Curtice company came out first in the produce of cow clans. Power Company Strong C. 'B. Power's Sun River Cattle company won the great majority of prizes in the Angus -Aberdeen class. Teton Tyler has won the admiration of all who have seen him. He is an 18 -months -old calf well proportioned and of striking appearance. The prizes that Mr. Power won are: Aged bull and grand champion, Evermore Star won the blue ribbon. Junior champion and junior yearling, 1st, Teton Tyler; senior champion cow and grand champ an•cow, 1st, Green- wood of Sun River; two -year -old heif- er, 1st. Tyrose of Sun River. Besides these Mr. Power also won the junfor out, the senior heifer and junior heif- er prizes. He was also winner of the produce of cow, herd and calf, and 3d in get -of -sire. Wylie Makes Good J. M. Wylie had the smallest of the three herds. However, he won third prize for the aged bull, Eric E. 3d. Thickset Lad of Bozeman won the red ribbon in the junior yearling class. In the to -year -old class he won the first prize with his Blacker Boze- man. On produce of cow he won the second prize. Mr. Wylie won the 3d prize on get -of -sire. Ohrmandale Ranch The Ohrmandale Ranch same in for a generous share of the prizes. This is the first time that August Ohrman has shown in Montana. He is well known in the livestock cir- cles of Minnesota where he has car- ried off many prizes for his Angus- Aberdeens. In the senior yearling bull he made a clean sweep, carrying off the first, second and third prizes. Senior bull calf, his Adam's Model proved the winner. In the junior yearling heifer class his Queen of Granite won the blue ribbon and also won the junior championship. Mr. Ohrman won the get of sire and the young herd. No aged cattle were ex- hibited except one cow over two -mars *Id. - NEVER AGAIN!\ CRIES FARMER WHO DID NOT TREAT HIS SEED Never again! \ A certain farmer looked over his field of smutted wheat in which from 16 per cent to 20 per cent of the heads were black with smut. The loss was serious, not only for him, but for his country. \Did you treat your grain before planting?\ was the inquiry. \No was the reply. • \I thought the seed was clean and did not treat —but never again!\ It will not cost more than two or three cents per bushel to treat the small grains. Hetice, considering the low cost of treatment, the farmer can Ill afford to use anything but clean seed. Seed treatment can be done any time during the year it certain pre- cautions are taken. , The Why of Fall Plowing Does it not look as if in these times of the\ shortage and high price of farm labor as though we were overlooking a large factor that would reduce the producing costs—that is, fall plowing? If you follow a proper system of rotation on your farm so as to keep up its fertility, which on high priced lands has become a necessity, you should have some land' that could. be plowed in the fall for seeding thel following year. There is always a time before harvest that most farm- ers could, if their rotation of crow; was worked out on the right system, hate some ground that could be irri- gated and plowed. Take stubble land, for instance. If that could be disked and then irrigated as soon as the crop was off the ground, in a short time there would be a consid- erable after -growth which, if plow- ed under, would secure good decom- position of vegetable matter to help enrich your land. Fall plowing will also be a great help in the eradication of weeds and insects with which we have had a considerable experience this year. Another thing, on the ground fall plowed you will get the full belief of winter action upon the soil, a - lowing yaw to plow deeper, thereby bringing more of the subsoil to the surface. A seed bed can be made ready for planting much earlier and better -en land fall plowed than spring plowed land. It allows earlier planting. thereby giving the farmer a chance to get hiswork done without employing Co much labor. A good deal of the antipathy to fall plovting in the east has arisen from the fact that the majority of the farmers there are tenants and the most of them hold land under a one-year lease. This is not true in Montana. The one-year lease is a mistake on the part of the land owner as the fertility of their soils will never be _brought up to their maximum pro- duction under such a system. Leases should be drawn for a term of years or a clause embodied in the lease that if he must move, any fall work done by tenant for crop the ensuing year, he shall receive a reasonaLle remuneration and said remunera- tion should be stated in the lease. That Machine Shed So much printers' ink has been used in the past . dingdonging on this machine shed proposition that it hardly seems any more could be said, but under conditions as they exist now, the writer thinks the subject can be viewed from an angle entirely different from what has been possible in the past. The average farmer of today will say, \Oh well, I would like to have a good machine shed, but the ma- terial costs too much and labor is too high to do it now. I will just wait till the war is over and then build a dandy shed for my machinery.\ This pipe dream will fade away and the machines will stand out doors and rust, and the paint will peel off and next year that new machine which cost so many hardearned dollars will look like it is ten years old. Building material is only relative- ly high. Labor is relatively h'gh, food is relatively high and a dollar as we used to know it is worth about two bits. A binder a few years ago would cost about 16,000 pounds of wheat; now 10,000 pounds of wheat will more than buy that same binder. A mower a few years ago cost 800 pounds of pork; now 800 pounds of pork will buy a mower and leave a balance which will pay the way of the farmer and his entire family to the state fair for three days. Lumber a few years ago cost about 10,000 pounds of alfalfa hay per 1,000 feet; now. 10,000 pounds of al- falfa will buy practically 2,000 feet of lumber. Some of our best farm- ers still waste as much by deteriora- tion of their machinery as they gain by being good farmers. A good farmer is not always a successful business man. The successful farm- er must be a good business man, a good farmer and an all around sound fellow. The writer knows of a binder which was used more than 20 years and still can be used for harvesting grain. Proper housing and proper handling made that binder last sev- eral times as long as it would have lasted had it' received the usual slip- shod care. Machinery takes up considerable space as we all know, but by a sen- sible arrangement the machine shed can be made so very little space is wasted. Lay out your plans to fit a certain layout of machines, do not build without carefully calculating the area needed to store what you wish to store, figure on double deck- ing, using the lighter pieces, such as plows, harrows and mowers for the upper deck and it will pay you well to have a good machine shed. SUNFLOWER ENSOLLIGE FINE FOR MIRK aND MAT MAKING Fine Growth of Sunflowers on Ayrshire Farm of Harry B. Mitchell, Near Great Falls; Some Heavy 'Yields. Growing sunflowers for cattle feed is a new line in agriculture. Some people still insist that it is a waste of energy. The experiment station at Bozeman is, however, very confid- ent to the contrary. They take a good deal of credit to themselves on this sunflower business. They are the originators of the idea of grow- ing sunflowers for the making of beef and milk and they are very en- thusiastic about it. For several years they have been experimenting and they report most satisfactory results, especially when fed to milk cows. Practically speaking, the sunflower ensilage was about equal, pound for pound, to the corn ensilage. So con- fident are the experimental authori- ties that they advise Montana farmers to build silos and grow sunflowers if they want the cheapest roughage that can be produced in the state. They advise the growing of sunflowers by both the irrigated and dry land farm- er. The returns to the former will, of course, be considerably larger than to the dry hinder, but the latter is assured of more feed from an acre of sunflowers than from anything else that he can grow. Sunflowers also stand drought very well, and it takes quite a frost to affect them so that they are available for the high- er altitudes. Bozeman agricultural experimental station results showed something like 35 tons to the acre on irrigated land and 22 tons to the acre on dry land. The above picture shows the growth Of sunflowers on the Ayrshire dairy farm belonging to Harry B. Mitchell, located a few miles month of Great Falls. Mr. Mitchell Is stand - SHIPMENT OF GRAIN WEST IS TO MEAN SALVAGE OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS Difference in Profit Will Be From 10 to 12 tents a Bushel to Grower of Montana Grains; Equity Planning the Construction of Elevators at %Varrhigton. When the war is over and the arrior sheathes his sword and goes back to the pursuits of peace, the thousands of ships now in the making will cease the carrying of soldiers and muni- tions and go to make up the greatest merchant marine fleet in maritime history. These ships n ill carry the American flag and American goods into every port in the world, and there will be no ,harbor, no matter how re- mote, in which the Stars and Stripes will be a strange emblem. And this is a subject in which the Montana farmer should be very much An Ocean Freighter Coming Into Warrington Harbor interested, because these ships will revolutionize the carrying of grain grown all over the west. This grain, which has heretofore been shipped to eastern markets, will go from Mon- tana to the Pacific coast, and from the coast to the markets of the world. Even the flour that feeds the people on the Atlantic seaboard, and far into the interior, will go west to the Pa- cific coast and through the Panama canal to ports on the Atlantic coast. Will Help the Farmer This movement of grain to the west coast means that every bushel of wheat grown in Montana, and away east into the Dakotas, will return to the 'grower from 10 to 12 cents more than under present shipping condi- tions. The movement is of further interest to Montanans because of the fact that officers of the Montana So- ciety of Equity saw the opportunity, got the approval of Secretary McAdoo and, in conjunction with similar Equity organizations in other states affected, is planning the expenditure of millions in order to facilitate this salvage in freight, and put into the pockets of the farmers many millions of dollars annually. Montana at no distant day will be growing 100,000,- 000 bushels of wheat annually, and the salvage on the Montana crop alone would be the value of 12,000, - Dig among the plants and as he is five feet ten and a half inches high, an idea of the growth can easily be obtained. He does not claim to be any authority on the subject. His sunflower experience consists of the planting and cultivating so far, but his faith in the experimental farm people led him into planting a little over nine edits of the sunflowers and the growth seems to justify all the claims that have been made. Next ' spring after the ensilage has been fed to his cows he will be able to speak from practical results of the *benefit obtained. The Bozeman agricultural people had a good deal of trouble in con- vincing anyone that sunflower ensil- age was a feedable possibility. No- body had ever heard of such a thing before, and everyday farmers ate al- ways inclined to be conservative and a little doubtful about what the book farmer tells them. But the Boze- man authorities seem to have gone on and proved their case, and now there are sunflower fields to be found in nearly every section of Montana. While Mr. Mitchell has had no ex- perience' with sunflower ensilage, he is a great believer in the silo and has used one for several years. Just at present he is erecting another on the Ayrshire farm. Previously he ilftv filled his silo with corn, and he found that a very eheap feed. Last year he harvested atjout 14 tons of corn per acre, and speaking on the com- parative growth of corn and sunflow ars the other day he ventured the pre diction that the growth of sunflowers as shown in the picture should yield twice as much as his corn • year age ATTENTION FARMERS and RANCHERS lour Government wants you to hold all stock possible and to help you our halt arranged to ere you balf freight rate on hay, grain, etc. They request you to place your order• early in order to get special rate. Get your permit from your county agent. If you cannot use full cars get your neighbor to work with you. Get our prices on hay, oats, etc. We will save you 540 to $50 on a car. Dog 1552. 0. R. NELSON, GREAT FALLS, Montana. , E $ BEST BUYERS. -SELLERS o CATTLE HOGSwItSHEEP STOCK YARDS.OMAHA ) ROS CO \O'BRIEN' sfontana'sjrnrento•t 1.adieti. Tailor Modiste to the Elite Perfect Workmanship by a Staff of Experts \THE FIT'S THE THING\ Intent cloth sample. and Patlerns your. for the asking. Wrlt• for there NEE ME IN BUTTE, O'Brien Phoenix Illoek 111•TTE. MI/NT 000 bushels of grain. And Montana is only one of the breadstuff produc- ing states and provinces that will be affected advantageously by the move- ment. To Build Terminal Elevator The great clearing place of all this Montana grown grain, after the war, will be Warrington, Oregon, a little hamlet of the Pacific coast, which, with this nation-wide traffic in breadstuffs clearing through her wharves, is destined to I ecome a c'ty of importance. At Warrington the Equity proposes to erect large ter- minal elevators and cold storage plants. The matter of financing this undertaking is well under way, and by the time the war is over and the ships ready for this traffic the neces- sary elevator facilities will be com- pleted and in readiness. Warrington is ideally situated for the handlins of this grain. Its friends claim for it that it has the best natural, fresh water, land -lock- ed harbor on the Pacific coast. The water stands 42 feet deet at low tide, which is four feet deeper than the New York harbor at high tide, and ocean steamers can steam right up to their docks on their own power. The harbor is 12 miles wide, suf- ficiently large to accommodate, at one time, all the ships Uncle Sam will build during war times, which will give an idea of its capacity. Big Government Expenditure The government thinks so well of Warrington harbor that it has ex- pended $20,000,000 on improvements and in the construction of the Cilio canal in order that the Columbia river, leading to it, may be navigable for 500 miles. Jim Hill so approved of it, because of the fact that it is reached by roads running away into the east and north into the Alberta country that he acquired one railroad running to it at a cost of j100,000,- 000. It looks as though nature, the government and the big railroad in- terests of the west are in collusion to make of it one of the great shipping points of all the west coast. One great advantage of Warring- ton is that It is reached by railroads built on a natural water grade, while other ocean ports of the west coast are reached by roads which must go over great elevations, at an enormous cost in motive power. This advantage Is such that when the Equity eleva- tors are completed much of the grain grown in Western Canada, and all of that psoduced as far east as the Da- kotas and Kansas can be shipped via the Panama canal to the Atlantic coast much more cheaply than under Fall Seed TURKEY RED SEED WHEAT — 1917 CROP $2.50 Per Bushel in 50 -Bushel Lots WINTER SEED RYE $2.85 Per Bushel ORDER EARLY BARKEMEYER GRAIN & SEED CO. GREAT PALLS, MONT, present condition. It is expected that all of the grain grown in Montana west of the Rocky mountains this year will take the west coast routing, according to the understanding betweea President Burlingame and Secretary McAdoo, had on the occasion of the recent visit of the Equity head to the direc- tor-general of railroads with refer- ence to shipping western grows grain to the Atlantic coast via the Panama canal. So the movement has already started, and all It needs is skips, and they are being built with a rapidity that is attracting world wide atten- tion, amimminnummimmummunnom E • LET YOUR NEXT CAN OF CREAM COME TO US a == We Per Pay aqk E 7 7: Butterfat Delivered gaffe E E = E. Henningsen Produce Co. i F. = E Butte E = Ennumtunnumummunnummung Agricultural Lands At $10 to $20 per acre. Terse of 10 per cent down, balance 10 yearly payments, bearing ti pee cent interest. Logged -off lands of the Anaconda Copper Minis* company. Dairying is • type of farming best adapted to the timbered mo- tions of western Montana. Most of the land can be converted into pasture at very little expense and dairy cows will yield • splendid profit from the land without the necessity of removing the stumps although • sufficient acreage must be put under the plow to supply winter feed. In connection with dairying, hog and poultry should take an important port. All fruits, berries, and garden truck thrive; field crop* of grain, clover, timothy, potatoes, and stock roots do well. You are buying at valises fined by experienced appraisers, strip- ped of promotion charges, rem - missions, and other trimmings, which are usually added before it reaches the farmer. We will aid you in selecting • lecatiou that is adapted to your needs. BLACKFOOT LAND DEVELOPMENT CO. Drawer 1590 Missoula, Mint. MR. LIVESTOCKMAN If you are a producer of less than carload lots of livestock, get your neighbors to join you in a community shipment. This will put you on the same basis of marketing as the car- load fellow and at the same time you will be helping to build up your home markets. ^ Write or wire for prices and weekly market letter. WE CATER TO BOTH LARGE AND SMALL SHIPPERS Spokane Union Stockyards Spokane, Washington. Important to Range Cattlemen Range cattle shipping season is on. Early sales indicate • splendid market with prices $8.00 to 114 , 00 higher than • year ago. On Monday, July 22, we sold at Chicago 50 bead of 1,190 pound Montana grass steers at $17.10, • new high record. At the flame time best corn feds sold at $18.80. There is the broadest demand for beef both for civilian and fighting force* known for • long time. The record -breaking corn crop will mean no doubt a big demand for feeders. The range men's prospects are therefore most favorable. Keep In touch with us and let us advise you the best market and time of shipping for your cattle. Our location at all the prin- cipal markets enables us to post and serve you to the highest pos- sible advantage. Send for our weekly livestock report, which is free, and write or wire us for any special market information Clay, Robinson & Co. at Livestock:CommissionYtock Yards Chleago, Ill. Sleuth St. Josiah. Ms. Reath St. Paul, Klan. Snail/ Omaha. Neb. Pious my, l.w. East !wash.. N. T. Kansas City, M• Denver, Colo. Rost St Leal& DI Fort Worth. Tam. 111 Paws. Tema
