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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1913
Page
6
A Northwest dairy writer argues cows that freshen in fall produce at least 20 percent more milk yearly than spring fresheners. He cites climate control, heat and pest pressures, summer feed limits, and rest periods as key factors shaping annual output.
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The farmer should select pure seed and cows with high converting ability to milk. Crossing common cows with dairy sizes can raise butterfat by about fifty pounds per year per ten cows, increasing revenue and reducing herd size and work.
Items from the farm including call fruit small potatoes and kitchen wastes which would not sell find a good market through the hog Farm and Fireside.
The meadow lark, a farmer friend, feeds mainly on insects including grasshoppers and cutworms, helping reduce pests. It eats beetles caterpillars and flies and even weed seeds, is a ground feeder, and should be encouraged and protected despite occasional seed-eating concerns.
Rural Farming states breeding heavy draft horses is profitable for farmers. It urges avoiding small mares and requires breeding stock to be large and well built with a minimum weight of 1,500 pounds to meet market demand.
Advice on storage of onions parsnips potatoes and horseradish from a historical guide. Preserve onions on left side prevent sprouting while sweetening carrots and roots. Lift parsnips store in sand cellar. potatoes in raised bins. dig some beets and store with heads down in a barrel.
The article urges late winter propagation of shrubs like hydrangea privet and dogwood. It instructs making cuttings, burying them under leaves for sweating, and later separating rooted shoots in spring. A sharp knife and a four inch trench are advised to start a ready stock for summer landscapes.
A household guide suggests converting a clothes roller into a sterilizing vat for canning. It details a tight lid, a false bottom to prevent jar contact, and using netting or wood to support jars. Open door steam cookers or a deep covered saucepan offer alternatives for sterilizing.
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Farmers in many regions with adive roads can smooth dirt with road drags when the surface is mealy. First time trappers should know most furs are not prime if trapped before December 1, with opening dates set in several states and others to follow.
The article notes railroad ties and telegraph poles will be treated with creosote to extend life as timber supplies wane. Kansas City banks pledge $10 000 to seed wheat fund aiding drought hit western Kansas counties. A Bermuda submarine life pictures project and a new rat poison method using barytes and cornmeal are described.
In Manitoba hunters must wear a white coat or sweater and a white cap while hunting. In Saskatchewan big game hunters must wear an entire white suit with a white cap. The light clothing may cause game to shy but helps prevent being mistaken for scenery by less observant hunters.
Sugar appears in shoeblacking and transparent soap making and is used for copying ink and ink rollers. It forms 40 to 60 percent of some explosive mixes and aids in dyeing and tanning. It also hardens mortar, composing about half the mortar mixture with lime and sand.
The United States bureau of chemistry conducts tests to measure fruit shrinkage from Pacific coast loading to eastern markets. Ten earloads will be weighed at shipping and destination to determine how much fruit to pack to meet secret weight requirements at sale.
The author argues for expanding yearly book purchases beyond light fiction. They favor investing in substantial works that address major human problems and track achievements, suggesting a broad, useful array of volumes over time rather than mostly current fiction.
The article notes that trees along south side of east and west roads made a 100 foot shaded section dangerously slippery during a winter crossing. Beyond the shade the road was drying out. the writer jokes that converting such border trees into stove wood would be a public benefit.
National list names Woodrow Wilson Thomas Marshall Bryan McAdoo Garri son McReynolds Burleson Daniels Lane Houston Redfield Wilson White. Includes Cabinet posts Secretary of State Secretary of the Treasury War Attorney General Postmaster General Navy Interior Agriculture Commerce Labor and Chief Justice.
Federal judge George M. Bourquin based in Helena is listed with clerk George W. Sprouls and U S marshal William Lindsay U S attorney B K Wheeler and Surveyor General Jerome G Locke among Helena contacts.
F. W. Appleton of Bozeman H J. Kelly of Lewistown and Fred H. Foster of Billings are listed as registers of land offices announcing their appointments in the state capital dispatches.
Governor S V Stewart of Helena and lieutenant governor W W McDowell of Butte lead a roster of state officers including A M Alderson secretary of state W C Rae treasurer D M Kelly attorney general Wm Keating superintendent of public instruction H A Davee railway commissioners Dan Boyle chair E A Morley and J H Hall state veterinarian Dr W J Butler chief justice Theodore Brantly associate justices W H Holloway Sydney Lanner and clerk John T Athey.
Stenographer A C McNaught Livingston records proceedings in the case involving Judge A A Stark of Livingston with court stenography services listed.
A compiled roster lists officials including Commissioners John T Esp and C M Rein, State Senator Robert Brownlee, Representative W N Nye, Sheriff O A Fallang, Treasurer R S Jarrett, Clerk F R Hickman, Clerk of Court H C Pound, Assessor D J Woolward, Attorney R S Steiner, Superintendent Mrs Jessie I Evans, Surveyor B J Kleinheasselink, Coroner J A Tsowry, Administrator J G Ellingson, Justices T G Shipton and George M Briner, Mayor J R Kaiserman, Police Chief Joe Michels, Clerk E C Hale, Attorney C W Camupbell, Treasurer J I Roecher, Police Magistrate T K Lee, Councilmen Wards One C W Allen and BE Patterson, Two Dr A K Wearne and Fred Webb, High School Board C T Busha and others, City Schools J A Lowry chair with T K Lee, O A Fallang, A L Bray, J F Asbury and Fred Webb.
Church listings for Rev J J Burris indicate Sunday School each Sunday with Epworth League at 7 pm. Worship at 10 am on the second fourth and fifth Sundays with evening service 7 29 pm. prayer meeting Thursdays. divine worship first and third Sundays 1 30 pm and Saturdays precombine notes.
The notice states Reverend Father Joseph Blaere as the priest in charge with Sunday School every Sunday at 0240 2 percent? The fragment references monthly and weekly activities under church supervision.
Lutheran Church Rev Lucas G Engelstad pastor at St Mark's Episcopal Church Rev G W G Van Winkle rector announce regular services on the first and third Sundays each month at 10 0 a m and 7 30 p m with morning and evening worship times listed.
Community schedule listing services at the South M EB Building corner Anderson Street and Fifth Avenue. Sunday service at 1 a m and Wednesday service at p m, with overview by welcome.
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