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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1928
Page
6
Analysis urges a farm flock of 25 to 300 ewes as the core of a profitable ranch. It cites high lambing percentages and wool returns from properly cared for flocks, with examples from Twin Bridges and Gallatin valley. The piece notes shares as a cash route and emphasizes forage, care, and flushing to boost yields.
The guide stresses feeding lambs with straw grain and cotton seed cake at lambing to maximize healthy starts. It notes lambs are far more valuable than wool, predicting owners earn roughly 2.14 times more from lambs than wool and urges maximizing lamb numbers and weights at fall marketing.
A promotional note extols Fletcher's Castoria as a safe vegetable remedy for infant stomach issues. It highlights no harsh taste and claims quick soothing of fretfulness, fever, and sleep disruption, urging use under physician recommendation and noting accompanying care booklet.
Organized at Fife last month with Clark Bumgarner as president and Carl Halgren as vice president, the club will meet at the Fife school house. Valley county farmers seek purebred Milking Shorthorn cows this winter while the Yellowstone Registered Livestock association plans a mid winter sale at Billings with about 75 sires and 25 females. Arborist Robert Wilson notes axle grease as a protective aid against rabbit damage to young trees, applied via a gloved hand.
Farmers in northern Montana urge an open season on Chinese pheasants citing rising numbers and crop damage. Other items note copper carbonate seed wheat treatment proved superior in Stillwater county demonstrations and a Gallatin county wool pool sale plan with 170000 pounds sold last year.
A Montana advertisement invites investment in a cooperative to buy 20,000 breeding ewes. Backed by noted business and sheep men, the plan proposes shares from $125 with non-assessable status and profits from farming across the state. Investors are urged to write for full details and quick action.
A Northern Pacific passenger train moved two million dollars worth of raw silk through Montana on its way from the Orient to eastern silk mills. The operation used standard passenger schedules to transport the cargo.
J. G. Bryson of Hamilton topped the statewide hog feeding contest sponsored by Hansen Packing Co. of Butte. His pigs averaged 2.31 pounds daily gain, starting 89.6 pounds and ending 233 pounds after 62 days, earning a $100 prize. County winners and feed details follow with gains ranging from 1.34 to 2.95 pounds daily. Bryson credited alfalfa pasture, ground corn and barley, and a daily middlings and Vitamont meat meal mix.
Thousands of acres on the Flathead Indian reservation were opened to homestead entry with a staggered filing period from April 6 to 25 for general public applicants. A subsequent entry period begins April 26. Applicants pay one third of appraised land value at filing. 1904 act appraised first class lands from $1.25 to $8 per acre.
An advertisement promotes Cuticura Ointment and Soap to treat pimples redness and itching. It also suggests drying gently and dusting on Cuticura Talcum for a pleasant fragrance, priced at 25 cents each.
Havre weather bureau reports 1927 as the most favorable crop year at the station. January and February were cold but near normal, with heavy May rainfall setting a record. A wet May to July period produced soil moisture for a record crop, aided by mild autumn and a 140 day growing season.
Stanley Dean, president of the Great Falls realty board, is appointed a member of the federal legislative and tax commissions of the National Association of Real Estate Boards. This honors his public service and real estate expertise.
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