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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1922
Page
3
Delinquent land contracts and farm loan issues shrink state school revenues. Montana State Treasurer J W Walker reports per child funding will drop to about 4.88 to 4.90 while 1921 receipts from land contracts and investments total around 784000 dollars.
Montana beekeeping grows as a specialist industry with hundreds of colonies in irrigated apiaries. Yellowstone, Clarke Fork, Sun River and Bitter Root valleys lead production totaling over 350000 pounds last year. Montana honey is praised for superior color flavor and body and is packed in diverse sizes for local consumption.
The article argues for strategic culling to improve flock performance, stressing early selection of high laying birds, distinctions between egg producers and breeders, and the value of selective breeding and banding. It notes winter incubation, the advantage of early molters, and the need to remove low performers to boost profits and efficiency.
County farmers will meet in Malta Dodson and Saco in February under the farm bureau to discuss standardizing potatoes as a step toward a Phillips County market. F H Harrington and Blaine Ferguson will cover varieties disease irrigation. Two standard varieties Irish Cobbler and Netted Gem were chosen with 15 demonstration plots established.
Farmers show willingness to align for a salt market in the territory and to produce a uniform potato product. Meetings are planned to organize growers, reduce varieties, and may lead to a county wide market meeting with the Northwest Potato Exchange of Kalispell involved.
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