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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1908
Page
2
A report on the experiences of touring party members as the company describes the trip. Tourists paid a total of 907 dollars for the excursion and shared impressions of the journey.
United States forest service offers a large scale, five state windbreak program to quantify how trees affect heat, moisture, wind speed, frost, and snow cover. Nebraska Colorado Oklahoma and Kansas begin this year with cooperation from state experiment stations and aim to extend across fourteen states.
The forest service will study windbreak and shelter belt effects on crops with corn as the test crop. States will use weekly readings by agricultural experiment station personnel. An expert from Washington will lead a small team and publish results after fall harvest and winter observations.
A small pond near Libertyville becomes Lake Exara after a fifteen foot dam and spring feeding raise it to over a hundred acres. A. P. Sheldon of the Sheldon school led the project, transforming a marshy basin into a crystal clear lake with wooded shores and a natural amphitheater.
Near Waterbury Connecticut farmers show keen interest in a bush grown potato hybrid developed by Samuel Wilson of Wolcott. The cross fuses yellow tomato traits with sweet potato qualities, promising higher nutrition and quick cooking. Wilson’s secret methods surprised experts, who praise its rapid boil and bake times and durability in heat. Stiles Wheeler had explored vine grown hybrids, prompting a Waterbury Grange study of Wheeler’s beds and Wilson’s progress.
An Optimistic League is organized in Montclair New Jersey with resolutions urging citizens to smile at least once daily and spread the habit. The group aims to counter a business downturn by fostering confidence and a positive view of prosperity.
Martin, once deafened in Spokane Washington when a team he drove was struck by lightning, recovered hearing in an odd way by lying with his head on the ground to expose each eardrum to sunlight. He found his hearing now as good as ever.
Great Western railway staff in England claim an invented apparatus fixes fog signaling by audible cues from the engine cab. A whistle signals danger while an electric bell means all clear, indicating the driver’s exact signal position.
American Association results include St Paul 3 Louisville 4 Columbus 12 Kansas City 6 Minneapolis 8 Indianapolis 0 Milwaukee 0 Toledo 7 with Milwaukee 3 Toledo 0 after eight innings due to rain. National League games show Philadelphia 1 at Chicago 0 and St Louis 6 New York 5 with St Louis 3 New York 2 in the second game and Cincinnati 5 Brooklyn 0 plus Cincinnati 5 Brooklyn 1 in seven innings to let teams catch trains.
Minneapolis and St Paul market notes list wheat prices for Sept Dec and nearby contracts with small discrepancies. Cattle and hog prices are given for good to choice steers cows and heifers veals, hog prices, and sheep with ranges for wethers yearlings and spring lambs.
Market notes show wheat prices steady with No 1 hard at 1.19 and No 1 Northern around 1.18 in Duluth while Chicago futures list Sept wheat at 98 1/2 cents and corn at 75 1/4 cents. Flax prices vary with Sept near 1.32 and Dec around 1.26. Butter and eggs quoted with butter at dairy creameries 19 22 cents, eggs at 56 cents.
The report lists cattle prices for different grades in Chicago including Texas steers and western steers with bid ranges, hog prices for light mixed and good to choice categories, and sheep values. A stray gray mare, three years old branded on the right thigh, strayed from Swamp Creek last January near Big Timber, with an $820 reward offered by A H Arneson.
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