Sunflowers Prove Valuable For Silo Use In Montana
The Giant Russian sunflower shows strong potential as a dairy feed in high altitude Montana. At Bozeman the 1917 crop yielded 30 tons per acre, with feeding trials showing sunflower green forage rivaling green corn for milk production and fat content. Ensilage tests indicate sunflowers can replace clover hay, with 33.6 pounds of sunflower ensilage equaling 9 pounds of hay, boosting milk output to about 34 pounds daily with good fat.
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Montana
Bozeman
C. N. Arnett
State Experiment Station
Arnett
Planting Trees on Homesteads and Farm Groves
A Montana guide urges homesteaders to plant protective tree groves around homes noting wind and snow considerations. It advises square or L shaped layouts, ample spacing, and growing trees from seeds, with fall planting possible and spring cultivation.
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Montana
Close contest in egg laying race at Storrs Conn
National egg laying contest near finish in Storrs Connecticut features Leghorns and Barred Rocks in a tight battle for first with both breeds averaging over 200 eggs per bird. Four pens topped the weekly tally led by Obed G Knight White Wyandottes Bridgeton Rhode Island with 46 eggs.
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Storrs
Conn
Montana
Aplecock Farm
Fitzwilliam
N. H
A. P. Robinson
Galverton
N. Y
New York
Leghorns
Obed G. Knight
Bridgeton
R. I
Merritt Clark
Brookfield Center
Jay H. Ernisse
Webster
Black Fox Breeding Starts Near Dillon
Beaverhead County inaugurates fur farming at the D S Vail farm sixteen miles south of Dillon in Sheep Canyon. John Hohm of Butte directs the venture with ten thousand dollars for fencing and fifteen pairs of black foxes valued at six thousand dollars per pair arriving from Prince Edward Island.
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D. S. Vail
Dillon
Sheep Canyon
John Hohm
Butte
Prince Edward Island
Beaverhead County
University War Garden Yields Fine Potato Crop
At the state university a war garden planted last spring by James H. Bonner produced two hundred sacks of prime Murphys potatoes stored in the provision house. The project began as an idea to use campus land for food production and succeeded under careful cultivation.
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Chicago
The
State University
University
James H. Bonner
Cascade County Man Tops Sheep Market in Chicago
J. B. Taylor of Cascade County topped Montana lambs at Chicago market with 958 head of lightweights averaging 55 pounds selling at 18 dollars per cwt. Other Montana shipments joined an unusually large lamb movement amid high prices and hay scarcity.
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J. B. Taylor
Cascade County
Montana
Chicago
Knitting Face Epidemic Spreads Across Montana
A novel illness dubbed knitting face has emerged in Montana after the war outbreak. It is described as contagious and infectious with symptoms including constant lip movement and deep concentration. Husbands, physicians, and children notice mothers and older sisters altered in appearance and demeanor.
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Montana
War contracts for army shoes and food price rules noted
Washington reports 1,000,000 pairs of army shoes contracted at 4.65 a pair while food administration orders wholesalers to base prices on cost. The government takes control of all packing houses, and other items include a shipyard output target, currency moves, and various international notes.
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Washington
The
Food Administration
Chicago
New York
James Carroll Beckwith
Theodore Roosevelt
Shipping Board
London
Germany
Beirut
Syria
W. H. Hall
Syrian Protestant College
Charlottesville
Thos. F. Ryan
John D. Archibald
Santa Barbara
George G. Greenfield
Congregational Church
Los Angeles
Italy
Mexico
Federal Reserve System
St. Paul
Minnesota
Portland
Ore
Consumers League of Oregon
Industrial Commission
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Worthwestern Hide & Oh Co
Minneapolis
Minn
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Wash
M. O. Evans
Oregon Agricultural College
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Great Britain
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Belgium
Servia
Camp Meade
Dan T. Moore
310Th Field Artillery
79Th
National Army
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Teddy
John Biddle
Bliss
Biddle
Seattle
Gill
Beckingham
H. A. Greene
Danny Lewis
Ancon
Canal Zone
U. S
Wu.s
John B. Kendrick
Wyoming
W. S. Kenyon
Iowa
John J. Rogers
Massachusetts
James S. Parker
Copenhagen
Poland
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Funsten Bros. & CO
St Louis
FUR CO
C. Taylor Fur Co. Fur Exchange
St. Louis, Mo
McMillan Furs We Co
Sapie Bros. & Co
Old Square
Bex
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Great Falls
Farmers & Mechanics
Butte Welding. CO
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