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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1924
Page
6
State Agricultural College at Bozeman authors lead articles funded by state and federal governments detailing tillage methods for Montana. Experts describe results and readers are urged to save the articles for reference.
State livestock conditions show bestgeneral health in years with 1924 lamb crop above normal and calves generally good. Range east of the Rockies is good to excellent. southwestern grass short due to drought. Sheep numbers rise, lamb shipments may exceed last fall. cattle shipments depend on feed, prices, and debt repayment, with likely total under 200 000 head. Exports show year by year totals, hogs rise in eastern Montana, poultry and turkeys up, carrot shipments expected to increase.
Silver Bow county commissioners face a rising indigent poor population in Butte and may raise the poor fund levy from four to six mills to cover increased relief costs.
A Seattle advertisement offers a formula and full directions for making ice quickly and cheaply. By sending fifty cents in coin or stamps to the ITSKOLD ICE COMPANY at 702 Stewart St, Seattle, readers can obtain the directions for producing ice and ice cream.
The article explains hen nutrition with Montana grown seeds. It details corn, wheat, oats, barley, rye, peas, spelt, and millet, noting protein, fat, and carbohydrate content, digestibility, and practical uses in mash or scratch rations for egg production.
This feature recounts Tom McTague, undersheriff and racing man, surviving a gun incident in a saloon, escorting stage thief Gamble to Iowa, and later turning to horse racing. It covers Gambling’s capture, McTague’s cautious policing, and McTague’s rise as a prominent horseman with Gold Bar and the mare Marietta, highlighting his colorful career.
Albert Day of Helena topped Montana’s poultry standings over a three year period with a flock of 42 to 56 hens. The birds averaged 103 166 and 164 eggs per hen, against a state average near 88. Net profits ranged from 159.10 to 161.05 dollars while prizes totaled 45.08. Albert and two Helena club members also won a state poultry show judging contest prize of 25 dollars.
Children cry for Castoria in this early 20th century ad promising relief for babies and children from constipation flatulence wind colic and diarrhea. It claims to regulate stomach bowels aid food assimilation and provide natural sleep without opiates with the genuine product bearing a signature.
Montana announces four new champion Holsteins from the Holstein-Friesian Association of America. Grace Koningen of the Montana State College leads with 32,294.4 pounds of milk and 1,051.9 pounds of butterfat, the highest record for cows 10 years and over. Other top cows include Agate Valentine Fairview Burke 10 months with 15,824.7 pounds milk and 683.9 pounds butter, Lucy Princess Johanna 2d 14,348.4 pounds milk and 570.8 pounds butter, and Lillian Johan Lad Walker 12,239.7 pounds milk and 515.3 pounds butter for 10 months as a senior four-year-old.
Paris newspapers publish photographs transmitted by radio as part of a new technology, while reports from the United States describe storms and heat across Ohio and Mississippi river valleys causing fatalities. Battles in Mexico City claim General Alphonso De La Huerta, brother of the rebel leader, is dead. Washington notes Brig. Gen. Charles B. Sawyer resigns as personal physician to the president. In New York City labor action, forty thousand workers vote to strike over clothing industry conditions. Montana Power Company stock surges from 62 to 68 in a single session. In Florida, Frank McGowan is found guilty in the slaying of his father mother and two sisters with mercy recommended by the jury. British Columbia votes show a wet outcome for the province’s election with Premier John Oliver defeated. War service compensation blanks are distributed via legion posts, six million in total. A Belfast tornado is described as unprecedented in the city’s history.
Marietta was praised as one of the best horses to run in the post era Emma Mack cited as Tom's fine piece of horse flesh. Tom sold his best horses to Marcus Daly in the late nineties and has shown little interest in racing since.
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