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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1927
Page
6
Montana Extension Service outlines a farming grazing system combining crop land with grazing land to form large economic units. It notes grazing lands need better management to raise carrying capacity, and calls for public and private action to consolidate checkerboard land into coherent units with tax title sales and changes to land laws.
Montana State College reports nearly 20 000 pounds of poisoned bait used this spring to combat ground squirrels, largely via the county extension office. About 40 percent more poison than last year, with farmers in Chinook Harlam Ram burg and other towns growing Supreme wheat under crop standardization.
Five Lewis and Clark farmers and Agent L G DeVore toured Judith Basin County to inspect furrow drilled wheat. They observed cultivations and claimed a 5 bushel per acre yield advantage over ordinary drills, and planned to switch this fall after seeing Moccasin experimental plots and local growers' results.
Sixty eight Ohio feeders will tour the west starting July 28 with stops at Billings Livingston and Miles City to study Montana cattle conditions and high range cattle benefits for fattening. The plan is organized by the Billings Commercial Club with talks by Dr. W. J. Butler I D O'Donnell and Charles Ruzicka as part of a smoker event.
State Lands Commissioner I M Brandt explains new mineral prospecting permits and mining lease rules with royalties of at least five percent of mineral value. Permits run three years and require annual work valued at 100 dollars. coal oil and gas are excluded. Revenue may boost public schools and state institutions as prospecting suggests possible deposits in the northwest. An advertising blurb for Cuticura soap follows.
Howard Elliott longtime Northern Pacific chairman and Montana cattle rancher promotes western settlement. He touted Canadian and Dakota immigrants as ideal for state growth, noted reduced rail passenger traffic since 1914, and described a 28 000 inquiry influx from prospective settlers. He spoke during a visit to Gallatin and Shields river valleys en route to the coast and to the White House in Jamestown.
On the Crow reservation Ed L. Dana buys the Heinrich herd comprising yearlings and 2-year-olds. Expect delivery after roundup for about 7,000 head at 650 dollars per yearling and 65 dollars per 2-year-olds. The sale marks a major regional livestock transaction.
Howard Elliott rose from rodman in 1880 to president of the New Haven in 1913, later chairing the Northern Pacific. He guided major railroad mergers and served with Harvard Alumni, the railway war board, and the American Society of Civil Engineers. He tours with Charles E. Perkins, son of a Burlington founder, now a director in Burlington and Northern Pacific.
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