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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1916
Page
2
The article assesses dairy cattle as steady money for Montana farmers, stresses selecting disease free stock, analyzes sheep profitability in forest regions, warns against feeding hogs waste, highlights state freedom from disease, and compares draft and saddle horses with trends in range farming and war era demands.
The International Institute of Agriculture in Rome warns of strict food economy due to war demands. It projects 2.8 billion bushels of wheat consumed in the year ending July 31, 1917, leaving a global wheat surplus of 46 million and a five-cereal surplus of 533 million, with fodder scarce and Russian stocks of 300 million bushels potentially exportable if conditions allow.
A critic claimed college courses were impractical and that few graduates became farmers. Montana State College cites data showing over half of graduates work in farming, with evidence of dairying gains and diverse employment among 56 graduates in fields from farming to forestry and education.
A joint study will examine Montana farm marketing conditions and problems for a year. The research is funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Montana Agricultural Experiment Station, and the Montana State College extension service, with the investigator to be appointed soon.
More than 150000 bushels of wheat are stored along the Flathead Lake docks awaiting shipment. Officials say the wheat likely cannot be shipped until next spring due to current conditions.
Noble C. Donaldson, Bozeman native and Montana State College graduate, joined the U.S. Department of Agriculture soon after graduating in 1912. He authored two bulletins on Montana topics just issued, one on cereal experiments in the Judith Basin and the other on grains for Montana dry lands.
A terse dialogue between a doctor and a colonel about killing describes a cold banter. The colonel responds with a wry question about feeling after taking a life.
The Montana Farmers Federation will hold its gathering in Billings on December 19, 20 and 21. A major cattle deal saw the Jackway ranch and livestock sold to Day and Hansen of Spokane for 100000 dollars, near Ovando. Rancher M Heinrich near Billings set a world steer price record with a 1560 pound white faced Hereford sold in Omaha at 12 dollars per hundred. twenty-one other steers averaged 1400 pounds at 10.60 per hundred on the Omaha market.
The 640 acre stock-raising homestead bill, passed by the senate with amendments, was sent to conference by the house a few days ago. It faces opposition from large western cattle companies while smaller stock men back the measure.
The Miles City corn show for the year displays diverse local corn varieties proving Montana’s rise as a corn state. The event, held in the Elks Home basement, becomes a yearly institution with larger exhibits anticipated, and Elks Lodge extends open house to visiting guests for the three day event.
Various items report copper selling above 36 cents a pound, U S military rule in San Domingo, a $5 million loan approved in Pekin, and Charles E Hughes resuming law in New York. Wilson signals a food cost investigation while Boston Rubber Shoe Co raises wages for 3 000 workers.
John Roof a Teton county farmer bought a pig six months ago for 5 dollars. He sold it recently for 19.68 dollars and estimates about 5 dollars in costs to get the porker ready for market, concluding he nearly doubled his money.
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