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Newspaper
Grass Range Review
Location
Grass Range, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1919
Page
6
Motor trucks have reshaped livestock transport with hundreds of farmers and independent haulers delivering steers hogs and sheep to markets. Indianapolis stockyards show about 150000 hogs and 58000 cattle moved by road in eight months boosting weight quality and sale price.
A Montana Experiment Station essay argues that despite three years of drought the state can thrive through irrigation and moisture management. It cites dry farming adjustments, summer fallowing, potential land returns to range, and large water storage plans to unleash Montana’s harvests while noting public support grows for irrigation projects and policy.
E. L. Vineyard's American Junk Hide and Fur Co offers $6 to $10 per horse hide. Ship hides to Great Falls for prompt payment and fair value.
Farmers storing ensilage in wood metal or concrete silos face souring from year old particles. A new silo coating forms a moisture and alcohol impervious film, resists acetic acid, blocks air entry, and is non poisonous ensuring cleaner fermentation.
Dr. W. E. Joseph of Montana State College Bozeman returns from Utah and Idaho visits to study sheep varieties. He attends the Salt Lake Ram sale featuring Rambouillets and other breeds, then tours the U.S. sheep experiment station at Dubois to explore crosses Rambouillet Lincolns and wool improvements for range adapting mutton-type sheep with longer staple wool.
Frank Brown in Blaine county west of Chinook fills a wood double walled silo with corn and Russian sunflowers grown on 20 acres for silage. Sunflowers reach 14 feet, value about ten percent below corn, to be fed to sheep this winter.
Montana state board of equalization boosted stock cattle valuations in Jefferson county by 100 percent and raised assorted cattle figures across 25 counties. Several counties saw increases from 5 to 50 percent while two counties, Garfield and Toole, saw decreases. No changes were made to horse valuations.
R L Smith explains summer culling of hens based on laying patterns. Early moult indicates poor layer, while the best producers keep laying through summer with shiny feathers. Yellow skin tones help identify strong layers, and vent and pelvic indicators distinguish laying from nonlaying birds.
Thirty agricultural college graduates were brought into Montana this year from other states to take good positions, and there is a strong national demand for agricultural graduates. Prof. M. J. Abbey of Montana State College notes the country needs about 17,500 such graduates with expanding roles in extension, colleges, vocational teaching, and corporate farming. The shortage grew during the war and is expected to widen over the next decade.
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