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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1940
Page
6
After years of tight pay envelopes families spend on gasoline, cars, liquor, cigars, and entertainment, with 25 percent more theater tickets and radios. Savings rise, home building accelerates, and life insurance gains, while wage earners boost industrial coverage as wartime optimism fuels a return to prewar luxuries.
A severe frost wiped out the 1940 tobacco crop near Vredefort South Africa, causing losses to local farmers and raising concerns about next season's yields and regional supply.
Christine Kieffner of Belt is named to a blue award group of six national winners in the girls 4-H record contest. She was among 46 Montana delegates to the national club gras in Chicago from November 30 to December 7 and will receive a $200 college scholarship for placing in the national contest.
The article explains that hens perform best in a clean dry well-ventilated house with insulation and sanitary drinking fountains. It recommends absorbent litter like peat moss or shredded oat hulls and frequent stirring to maintain dryness and improve laying.
Members of the 163d Infantry Montana National Guard in training at Camp Murray Washington would receive olive drab sweaters from Santa Claus. Col. George Bloomquist, commander, told Adj. Gen. Fred Lange the sweaters are needed. Other clothing is supplied by the government. Mail for 163d members should go to Lieut. Col. George F. Bloomquist, 163d Infantry, A P P No. 41, Camp Murray Wash.
The Moccasin branch of the Montana Agricultural Experiment Station conducts a winter feeding trial with 32 Hereford calves in four groups to compare crested wheatgrass hay strains and maturity stages. One group receives the Fairway cut pre bloom, another the Standard cut pre bloom, a third the Standard at maturity, and the fourth uncut mature hay reserved for winter grazing.
Equine encephalomyelitis outbreaks have fallen this year to about 4,800 horses, the lowest since 1936, with most cases in the Midwest. In 1939 roughly 8,000 cases occurred, and 184,000 the prior year, while 1936 and 1937 saw 3,929 and 173,889 respectively. Officials credit dry early summer weather and note mosquitoes spread the disease. vaccination use is down but improved skin injection reduces severe reactions and vaccine needs.
The Forest Service planted 2,013,000 seedling trees this fall in western Montana and northern Idaho as part of a 1940 refor estation program. Plans call for 4,700,000 seedlings in spring 1941 on 2,515 acres across Idaho forests Clearwater Coeur d Alene and St Joe and Montana cabinets Kootenai. Species include Ponderosa pine white pine and spruce. Seedlings produced at the Savenac nursery.
The article warns that insulation materials like sawdust mill shavings or corn stalks can harbor vermin. It advises spreading, then sprinkling with creosote or a repellent and mixing well to deter pests and prevent rotting. Lime is less effective but used where creosote is undesired. factory-treated commercial insulations exist.
Caution against using badly worn crescent, open end, or pipe wrenches as jaws may be heated and reshaped with torches and grinding. End wrenches may be rebuilt with altered jaws, increasing the danger of knuckle and hand injuries.
A farmer uses ears of corn attached to electric fence wire to teach grazing sheep to stay back after they receive shocks, overcoming wool insulation.
A Persian cigarette factory reportedly faces capacity limits amid increased demand. Officials consider expansions to meet supply, with potential investment plans under discussion by company leadership and regional regulators.
The article notes that TB is contagious not inherited, early disease is curable, X rays detect early TB, rest aids recovery, and surgery can help. It highlights Christmas Seal funded research across seven U.S. universities tackling remaining TB mysteries.
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