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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1912
Page
7
The article argues for using straw as feed and mulch to boost farm efficiency. It notes straw feeding alongside grain, straw helps winter stock, mulch for tree planting, and protection for fall wheat with two to three tons per acre. It emphasizes extending straw use in gardening and forestry.
Agronomist Alfred Atkinson discusses seed quality as key to grain yields, advising local, well-cleaned seed, winter selection methods, and careful planting. He compares drill versus broadcast methods, notes irrigation influence, and gives seed rate guidelines for irrigated and dry farms in Montana.
Reports to the Experiment Station describe a yellowish green naked caterpillar that feeds on small green apples and leaves. Fully grown it reaches about one and a half inches, causing corky rusty lesions under the skin mistaken for apple scab by some observers.
The insect damages apples and pears and also feeds on many other plants including reach plum quince currant oak hickory wild cherry box elder and rose, showing a broad diet beyond common fruit crops.
An elderly woman with a heavy basket boards a train and keeps the burden in her arms. A working man suggests she set the basket down to let the train carry both, illustrating how some refuse to ease burdens even when relief is available.
Representative Isaac R Sherwood of Ohio, author of the dollar a day pension bill, backs President Taft over Colonel Roosevelt on veteran pensions. He notes Taft would sign a moderate pension bill costing about 15 million dollars, while Roosevelt blocked the bill during its four years in committee.
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