Montana farmers boost via cooperative marketing efforts
More than 5 000 Montana farmers in 17 counties engaged in cooperative marketing, handling about two million dollars in sales through 34 associations. Livestock, wool, poultry and grain led, with Stillwater wool pool the largest and poultry bodies totaling nearly 200 000 dollars. Phillips and Stillwater counties tied for highest overall business, split across wool, potatoes, creamery and elevators.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana State College
Montana
Montana Extension Service
Fred Bennion
Co-Operative
Lvestock Shipping Associations
Prairie County Shipping Association
Livestock Shipping Association of
Teton
Biaiie
Will Counties
Custer, Daniels, Gallatin
Pondera
Sanders
Valley Counties
Judith Basin
Gallatin, Hill, Sanders
Stillwater
Gallatin County
Monana
Pondera Association
Plaine
Will
Flathead
Phillips
Stillwater County
Phillips County
Northern Potato Association
Phillips County Creamery
Top Hog Prices Highlight Market Variations
Montana State College notes top price of 13 dollars per hundred for 48 hogs in Seattle last month. County agent Paul M. Lewis cites Baugatz Bros and wheat feeding as factors, with Seattle often higher than Sioux City St. Paul or Chicago, due to market distance and transport costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana State College
Seattle
Baugatz Bros
Garfield County
Paul M. Lewis
Custer County
Montana
Mr. Lewis
Sioux City
St. Paul
Chicago
Lewis
Castoria Promises Relief for Digestive Ailments
A vintage advertisement touts Fletcher's Castoria claiming over 30 years of use to relieve constipation flatulence wind colic and diarrhea in babies and children. It asserts feverishness will ease as stomach and bowels regulate aiding food absorption and natural sleep without opiates with the genuine bottle bearing a signature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fletcher
ARQUIS wheat trials planned in Daniels county tests
ARQUIS wheat will meet all comers in tests to be conducted in Daniels county during the coming season. Five acre Marquis test plots will be laid beside similar plots of other spring varieties with Feltis of Butte Creek and Ferguson of Scobey coordinating trials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana State College
Daniels County
Marquis
Henry Feltis
Butte Creek
William Ferguson
Scobey
Feltis
Renfrew
Ferguson
Supreme
Forest Homesteads Unsought in Public Entry Era
District No 1 engineers found only one homestead entry last year signaling easy forest access has faded. About 25 claims remain in Montana and northern Idaho, with some likely to reach final patent while others revert to the government for failure to prove up. Most are in the Kaniksu and others scattered in smaller forests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Forest
Montana
Idaho
Kaniksu
Montana Counties and Towns Named for Pioneers and Tribes
The list explains why Montana places bear their names. County and city names honor figures such as Sidney Dillon, Thomas Benton, J. W. Forsyth, and Gen. Nelson Miles, along with tribes and natural features. notes Lewis and Clark era naming origins for many rivers and towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sidney Dillon
Flathead
Forsyth
J. W. Forsyth
Yrort Benton
Chouteau County
Thomas.h. Benton
Missouri
Gallatin
Lewis
Albert Gallatin
Treasury
Glendive
M. R. Campbell
Ghndlive Creek
George Gore
Ranite—County
Granite Mountain
Harlowton
Harlow
Telena
Lombard
Lewistown
Avre
City
Havre
Navre de Grace
County
James Jd. Hill
St. Paul
Minn
Judith
Lewis and Clark
Judith Hancock
Faircastle
Kalispell—City
Flathead County
Livingston
Clark's City
Charles Livingston
New York
Northern Pacific Railway
Missoula County
Madison
James Madison
Marias
Maria
Maria Wood
Meagher
Thomas Francis Meagher
Valley County
Powder River
Powell—County
Maj. J. W. Powell
Pryor
Captain Clark
Ravalli
Rimini
Lewis and Clark County
Lawrence Barrett
Francesca da Rimini
Rosebud
Sanders
Col. W. F. Sanders
Sidney Edgerton
Shields—River
Silver Bow
Smith—River
Robert Smith
Stevensville
Royalls County
Isaac I. Stevens
Washington
Terry
Alfred Herry
Teton
Three Forks
Townsend
Broadwater County
Northern Pacific Railroad
Victor
Ravalli County
Kootenai
Pend Oreille
Wibaux
Pierre Wibaux
Yellowstone
Roche Jaune
Yellow Rock
Cold 1881 Winter Remembered by Flathead Sage
Duncan MacDonald of the Flathead Reservation recalls the February 1881 82 cold snap when frost blinded surveying instruments near Ravalli and a passerby froze to death. He contrasts a milder February with a brutal March plunge and reports bluebirds found frozen after the storm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sage
Flathead Reservation
Rodman
Duncan MacDonald
Missoula
Flathead Reserve
Mr. MacDonald
Ravalli
Charley Plant
Bison ‘Range
Camas Prairie
Strain Family Heads South America Eagle Trip
W R Strain president of Strain Brothers store Great Falls and Mrs Strain with Eddie O Connell of Helena head of Eddy Bakers embark on a two month journey to New York West Indies Panama Canal and both South American coasts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W .R. Strain
Strain Brothers
Great Falls
Parker reelected president of Montana IT horticultural society
Fred T. Parker of Hamilton will serve a fifth consecutive term as president at the annual Hamilton session. Dr. G. B. Porter and Earl Miller of Stevensville are vice presidents with trustees C. P. Frost Hamilton M. H. H. Marshall Missoula R. G. Ostergren Darby. WF. Pollinger was re elected secretary and treasurer. A resolution backed forming a single association to manage the Montana McIntosh Red apple was adopted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred T. Parker
Hamilton
Montana IT Horticultural Society
G. B. Porter
Earl Miller
Stevensville
C. P. Frost
M. HH. Marshall
Missoula
R. G. Ostergren
Darby
WF. Pollinger
Horticultural Society
Montana
Resignation of Lake County Cow Testing Chief
A Arnet resigned as cow tester for the Lake County Cow Testing association due to ill health and was succeeded by Gordon Bond. Arnet noted the association’s cows increased production by nearly three pounds in his December report. The 710 cows across 27 herds produced 7,973 pounds of butter fat valued at 3,848 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Arnet
Lake County
Feeder lambs rise in Montana despite national drop
The U S Department of Agriculture reports an 8 percent national decline in sheep and lambs on feed from January 1, 199 to the same date this year. Montana shows an increase of about 70,000 head on feed, reflecting regional growth amid broader contraction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
United States Department of Agriculture
Classification Repeal Favored At State Assessor Meeting
At the state convention of county assessors in Helena the prevailing view supported repealing the current classification law or amending to place livestock in classification No 2. This would base 20 percent of the assessed valuation on livestock rather than the present 83 and 18 percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tmelena
Ice Cream on the Back Porch in Zero Winter
Jeanette Beyer explains turning Jack Frost into an ice cream maker using an outdoor cupboard. She lists recipes for Coffee Parfait Prune Ice Cream Dried Apricot Dessert and more and notes freezing outdoors yields six servings per dish.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Frost
Church suppers and hosting tips from Calumet guide
Marian Jane Parker from Calumet Baking Powder offers practical church supper advice. Plan balanced menus with donated foods, hospitable reception, low obstruction centerpieces, economical linens, and serve from the kitchen to reduce waste. Suggested dishes include scalloped chicken, baked beans, croquettes, and ice cream desserts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marian Jane Parker
Calumet Baking Powder Company
Chicago
Icing and Lemon Filling and Cheese Biscuits Recipe Fragments
Mixed fragments outline icing with sugar butter cream boil thirteen minutes and spread once cooled. Lemon filling uses milk butter egg sugar flour lemon salt cook until thick and creamy then cool. Cheese biscuits require flour bak ing powder salt cheese fat milk and a rolled dough baked hot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ayers
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Treasure State Farm and Livestock
Burlington
Vermont
Absorbine Trade Arm
Aegus Pat Off
Mueller
Sandler Bee
Jisatin
Fred Mueller
Denver
Coro
Q. H
W. L
Northwest
Queen Hatchery
Second Ave
Conrad
Pondera County
Valier
Utah-Idaho Sugar Co
Casement
W. M. Jardine
National Stockgrowers’ Association
Salt Lake
P. L. Robinson
T. J. Wegener
D. E. Cole
Treasure
Billings
R. D. Mercer
Delaware Leeson
Loren Pierson
Bainville
Roosevelt County
Sidney
Co-Operative Marketing Association
Frowers
Sail
South America
Parker Heads Horticulturists
Moller Barber College
Fargo
Xerth
Dakotas
State Nursery and Seed Co
Helena
Jeanette Beyer
Home Service Department — Royal Milling Comr
Devil’s Food
Goeden
Dean
Doan
Foster-Milburn Co., Mfg. Chem
Fargo Seed
Ment
Frary & Burlingame
Shields River
Wilsall
John Swandal
M. Corwin Company
First National Bank
Oultry
Clark’s Fork Valley
Blackfoot Land Development. CO
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