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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1925
Page
2
State Agricultural College at Bozeman leads articles prepared for the Montane farm page. Government funding supports tillage experiments to identify best practices in Montana. Former readers urged to file these articles away for reference.
Montana State College reports a loaded refrigerator car of Bliss Triumph seed potatoes sent from Glasgow to Baton Rouge free of charge. The shipment includes Belzer and Sharples strains from Valley and Blaine counties, to test in Louisiana fields under Professor Tiebout. The Belzer strain leads in yield and disease resistance, boosting Montana seed to southern markets.
Montana sowing of winter wheat for 1925 reaches 767000 acres, 112 percent of the prior year, aided by favorable prices and weather. Winter rye in Montana rises to 169000 acres, 135 percent of last year, with strong fall conditions and prices. U.S. winter wheat and rye acreage show gains over 1923 and 1922, with national sowings around 42.3 million acres and 4.21 million acres respectively.
Harlem bluejoint hay known for high feeding value is now fed to race horses in Tijuana Mexico near San Diego California where 1600 horses are housed for the season. A prior shipment from Harlem to that point by C A Watkins via F E Benedict proved satisfactory and an additional car has been loaded by Brekke Bros from H C Anderson's Harlem ranch.
The Montana State Poultry Breeders Association plans 2 000 exhibits at the Great Falls show January 17 to 24 with entries from across Montana and outside states. Premiums will be awarded across divisions including a boys and girls club section. The annual banquet is scheduled for January 23 and officers include A J Hedrix as president and J R Scott as vice president. Judges named are E C Branch Mis soula E D Manilaw Iowa and Charles D Greenfield Montana.
County Agent Lantz tabulates results from a Phillips county test near Bennett Lake, southeast of Malta. Twenty varieties including four flints and nine dent types show Dakota white flint and gehu flint as high yielders, mixed flint at 38.4 bushels per acre, with maturity around 88–90 percent.
A Blaine County soil survey map will be copied at the State College and sent to County Agent G. W. Gustafson in Chinook for public inspection. The survey links good soil regions with farming activity, notes glacial Scobey and Turner soils, and explains how abandoned farms align with poor soil areas and irrigation findings.
Market news for the week ending December 20 reports Montana wheat with high protein leading Minneapolis prices. A car of 15% protein Montana wheat sold at 2.11 per bushel. No. 1 dark northern spring and durum premiums rose, with Duluth December closing at 1.668-4.
A white leghorn pullet at the State College topped 263 eggs in a year, the highest in a college lay ing contest directed by poultry expert G P Goddard. Breeders from Montana loaned pens. other birds from private pens exceeded 200 eggs with 231 by a White Orpington. Goddard notes breed variety, breeding, feeding and care drive high production.
Great Northern railway offers half of regular tariff for pure bred registered horses and cattle shipped into Montana. The Milwaukee system makes a similar move. The new tariff excludes race horses and applies to breeding stock only with a minimum charge of seven dollars per shipment.
The Bozeman based Fairway Farms corporation financed by the Rockefeller Foundation has purchased section 7 in township 23 range 58 for 12000 cash. It plans to operate as a holding company reselling farm holdings on long contracts and conducting experiments in several northwest states and Canadian provinces. Augustus Vaux serves on the board with other northwest farm authorities.
Advertised advice recommends bathing the infant with Cuticura Soap and applying Cuticura Ointment for red rough itching skin. It also suggests occasional use of Cuticura Talcum powder for scent and skin care as part of the trio.
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