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Newspaper
Baker Sentinel
Location
Baker, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1917
Page
6
Montana farmers harvest 30 000 acres of beets this year and beet tops yield about nine tons per 13 tons of beets. Tops have similar feed value to alfalfa hay and can be silaged in pits for over a year. Feeding with hay and grain yields best results.
The article explains aging birds by examining breastbone foresight, feather quality, skin and toe smoothness, wing vein visibility, and eye appearance. It notes young chicks show flexible breast bones and smooth skin, while older birds have firmer breast bones, coarser skin, longer feathers, and visible veins in wings.
Officials urge stockholders to watch for blackleg in calves and yearlings, especially in fall and spring. The disease spreads from contaminated pastures via skin breaks. mortality is rapid. Vaccination is advised and free vaccine is available from the Bureau of Animal Industry and state veterinarians.
Farmers will supply feeders and fattened stock to a new Billings exchange formed with a $350,000 packing plant and a large stockyards holding company. The 40 member exchange aims to protect sellers, prevent price manipulation, and route cattle and hogs to Omaha Chicago Denver and coast markets.
Reports from Tokyo, New York, Washington, and Europe span plans to negotiate German vessels, record altitude feats, ship coal, and mobilize vast war funding. Notable items include a Chinese mission to discuss war finances, Norway coal chartering to Brazil, and Submarine Boat Corp. winning a contract for 24 submarines.
Valley county ranchers conducted hemp growing experiments using Kentucky seed. Ten foot hemp samples were shown in Chinook. International Harvester plans a field visit to Chinook to study the results and potential interest in Montana hemp prospects.
Members of the Alger Marketing association in Sanders county plan shipping two carloads of pea straw from Spokane county Washington and distributing it among farmers as a winter feed experiment. Authorities say the straw is worth about three times oats or wheat straw and is useful as rough feed though not as good as alfalfa hay. The price difference should make it valuable and results will be watched with interest. If black looks from other women would kill the father of ten or eleven children would die once an hour.
A. A. White advertises business and residence lots for sale across Minnesota North Dakota Montana Oregon Washington and California along with 21 government townsites on Flathead Lake near Glacier National Park. The text touts the Flathead region as a future world renowned resort with access via the Great Northern railway. General office listed at 1210 Pioneer Building St Paul and branch offices in Missoula and Kalispell.
A figure explains resignation by noting others avoid worry by unloading troubles onto him. The remark hints at role fatigue and the social dynamic within the group.
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