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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1917
Page
2
The article argues uniform calf size and breed improve sale value. It advises using the same breed bulls year after year, keeping bulls separate until late spring, and capping calving to spring to ensure uniformity, quality, and easier buyer assessment.
The article urges prioritizing weed control to boost net revenue, noting gardens weeded with horse cultivation stay cleaner and conserve moisture. It recommends wide row spacing to ease cultivation, using any available rainy day to weed, and giving children small plots to teach upkeep.
AWSON’s famous Antarctic motion pictures will be shown at Chautauqua. They depict the Mawson expedition with views from 10,000 miles from America and 2,000 miles from the nearest settlement. The program includes native fauna and deep sea life and cost about $300,000.
The Lyric Glee Club, a leading Lyceum and Chautauqua organization for fourteen years, presents two concerts on the Ellison White Chautauqua opening day. Featured are tenor Wenwick A. Newell, bass Charles Reid, James Reid, Brancis Hendry, and a novelty brass quartet. The program blends music and merriment with a strong male voice ensemble appeal.
The article notes hot weather and little rain will ruin dry land gardens unless well cultivated. It urges winter vegetable growers to spend spare minutes on the garden, weeding, cultivating, and doing all possible to protect crops.
Montana horse breeders are urged to improve size and quality through strong early feeding and proper winter care. The author warns that starved yearlings stay scrubs, and promotes a simple south window shed for winter work and chick rearing while stressing the first year as key to ultimate horse weight and market value.
Montana’s greatest display of farm power machinery and giant tractors will be shown at the State Fair grounds this fall. Exhibitors say Montana farmers are progressive in using power gear and the land adapts well to such machinery. No rental charge is needed for heavy equipment on the grounds, encouraging dealers to exhibit the latest farming tools and keep machines in motion to prove their capabilities.
On farms tools lack a home with items like a wood chisel and rip saw misplaced. The text notes hours wasted monthly searching for tools and missing a proper carpenter’s bench.
The piece notes extreme heat and parasite problems hit flocks hard this time of year, stressing chickens' vitality as lice and other pests multiply rapidly.
A reader asks how to stop potato bugs that defoliate potatoes and another asks for calf castration methods. Solutions include thorough spraying with Paris green and water, or hand removal for few bugs, and castration by removing the bottom of the scrotum to ensure drainage.
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