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Newspaper
Baker Sentinel
Location
Baker, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1917
Page
6
The article urges farmers to save seeds due to 1918 seed shortages caused by European disruption and poor harvests. It outlines practical methods for beans, peas, corn, cucumbers, squash, tomatoes, winter squash, melons, and notes biennial crops like beets and onions require planning, including early orders from seedmen for small growers.
Advertisers seek sweet clover seed and Sudan seed for purchase. They will buy hulled or unhulled seed, provided it is weed and alfalfa free. Respond with quantity, exact sample, and pricing idea.
Ravalli county representative Maggie V Hathaway balances legislative duties with ranch work in Bitterroot valley. She tends her own farm in overalls, packs produce, and ships it to market. State fair prizes highlight her fruit and vegetable exhibit along with photographs of her farm labor.
Farmers in Billings and Missoula districts report moderate sugar beet feeding aids work horses. Amount depends on animal, hay and grain, and workload. monitor bowels for dosing. Beets are not for horses in heavy work or on bran and alfalfa, and a Saturday night feeding helps when Sunday rest is planned.
Farmers can plant earlier and improve seed beds by fall plowing, which protects moisture, reduces spring work, and warms soil. Frost and cold kill worms, while tractors replace horse power, offering constant work and wider farm utilities.
Registration over the first three days shows 1140 freshmen enrolled with 690 women and 80 men forming a large class at the state college in Bozeman. Total four year enrollments reached 334 by day two as veterans arrive for war effort training and the campus enforces a green cap dress code.
Montana produced about 16 million pounds of wool in 1917, roughly 5.96 million less than 1916, due to severe winter and a short lamb crop. Prices rise over last year but future levels depend on next winter conditions and possible government controls. Ambersom Brothers sold a 149000 pound clip for 62 1/2 cents and Frank Miracle reportedly earned 67 cents per pound in Boston.
A three section shipment of 32 cars of silk valued at 9,060,660 crossed the nation by rail to New York City. The cargo, the most valuable freight ever shipped by rail, traveled 90 hours coast to coast with two guards accompanying the train in addition to the regular crew. Yokohama wholesalers consigned the silk to New York buyers.
A A White promotes business and residence lots in Minnesota North Dakota Montana Oregon Washington and California along with 21 government townsites on Flathead Lake amid Glacier National Park scenic area. The ad highlights Great Northern railway access and dream of a major resort plan with offices in St. Paul and branch offices in Missoula Kalispell and Conrad.
A collage of war era briefs notes injuries in Washington Roumania war zones with sawdust dressings, draft signups, labor strikes, tool orders, bread and butter markets, prisoner of war kits, submarine losses and bold transport plans from Pittsburgh to London.
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