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Newspaper
Baker Sentinel
Location
Baker, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1917
Page
2
The article explains assessing honey stores per colony to ensure winter survival and outlines a method to merge two weak colonies. It advises adding brood from a second colony and a queen excluder between them, with a single sheet of newspaper to prevent fighting while they adjust.
Farmers in Montana expect a large bean crop with eight bushels per acre on dry land and twelve on irrigated ground. Jap growers near Billings lead in efficiency, using a machine to cut vines and windrows, with hand-picking in winter yielding higher prices and steady labor.
Paris and Austrian prisoners held by the French state face shortages of cigarettes. In Vienna queues form along sidewalks for limited cigarettes with a cap of four per customer.
Marketing Is Our Business advertisement from Great Falls Montana outlines offerings of fruit and produce such as apples peaches pears and citrus. It notes services for shipments and buying, with a focus on station delivery and general produce trade terms.
Seventy head Herefords from the Matador Land and Cattle Company of the Crow Belknap reservation were sold by Clay Robinson & Company at Chicago market prices of 14 cents per pound for 28 carloads averaging 12 5 pounds each. The deal signals high water marks as cattlemen expect to ship 9,000 head to Clay Robinson in coming weeks amid rising feed costs and winter feeding concerns.
The Minneapolis Commerce Association backs a plan to woo Montana flockmasters to Minnesota cut‑over timber lands for sheep production. It argues Minnesota could benefit from wool and mutton while Montana farmers face feed shortages, and suggests a development federation to keep the industry local and attract more ranges.
Reading notes suggest investors from the east plan to back large tracts of raw western land to sidestep heavy profits taxes under the new Burtax. The commentary probes marital tensions and domestic advice amid economic shifts.
Montana farmers react to a federal price fix setting No. 1 Northern spring wheat at 2.20 a bushel. State official Greenfield accepts 2.20 as satisfactory for most wheat, while Equity in Montana leader Lowrie calls the rate unfair and argues for at least 2.50 a bushel.
Congress amends the food bill to provide seed grain at cost rather than cash aid. F S Lusk of Missoula credits Montana’s readiness to fund its own needs but urges some federal help to increase winter wheat and rye acreage amid drought and finance concerns. Local bankers and agricultural officials at Spokane push for aid to bolster Northwest farmers during the seed grain plan debate.
Reports from Philadelphia Germantown and Rome note weather, shortages and price shifts. U S government orders guns and shells from St. Louis. automobile prices rise. wheat price improves from 1913 to 1916 levels. Prohibition talk in Berlin and martial law measures in Oregon and New York outline wartime controls and planned ordnance factories.
Montana men avoiding military service face intensified pursuit by the U.S. Marshal's Office. Officials vow thorough effort to locate and apprehend those dodging the draft as anxiety rises over conscription compliance.
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