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Newspaper
Baker Sentinel
Location
Baker, Montana, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1917
Page
4
Old farming guidance outlines four storage groups for vegetables including potatoes cabbage and beets stored cool and moist in soil or sand while celery parsley endive and kohl rabi need cool moist air and keeping methods. squash pumpkins require warm dry spaces and onions need cool dry ventilated areas with attic placement to prevent freezing.
Proper stock and early hatching drive profit in pullet production. Keep birds uncrowded, culled for deformities or slow maturing, separate pullets from cockerels, and provide ample range and varied feed. A grain ration of corn and oats plus bran shorts corn meal meat scrap and oil meal is advised, with skim or buttermilk if possible. Oyster shell available, grain twice daily, water always, and one nest per three birds.
A Billings woman sold 500 dollars worth of berries from three fourths of an acre of ever bearing strawberries. The bushes labeled Superbs and Progressives produced from last spring and supplied berries through fall into October. The plants start bearing after establishment and continue through spring summer and fall, thriving until frost.
An analysis explains how farmers lose soil fertility when selling crops rich in plant food. It outlines alternatives to preserve fertility, including growing crops that return nutrients, using tops like beets and potatoes, or integrating livestock to recycle nutrients.
Practical poultry guidance advises feeding turkeys at a rising schedule with a corn emphasis two weeks before slaughter and free range for best flesh. It covers humane killing steps, including neck cut and brain destruction, dry picking, cooling, and packing for market with safe handling temperatures.
A digest of reports from London Paris Washington and New York covers German demonstrations in London and the Wu erzburg conference, Ford car production in Detroit, Wright’s airborne invention, substitutes for explosive cotton in Germany, and ships diverted to navy service. Government expenses and public notices across Kansas City Denver Providence and Washington are noted, plus rail and coal shortages and a widening war economy impact.
Great Western Sugar announces 1918 season price with $1.75 increase over last year minimum $8.37 and potential $10 per ton. Montana factories at Missoula and Billings expect to process at least 40 000 acres. Manager W L Lawson cites Hoover food admin request to boost beet yield.
Listings advertise residence lots for sale in new towns spanning Minnesota North Dakota Montana Oregon Washington and California. The copy highlights government townsites along Flathead Lake near Glacier National Park and the Great Northern Railway transcontinental route with railway branch lines.
Marketing of Farm Products offers to buy or accept shipments with bills of lading through American Bank & Trust Co of Great Falls Montana. They seek buyers and sellers for carrots oats hay oats coal wood fence posts poles house logs apples sacks and related farm items.
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