Regrassing Efforts Aim to Restore Abandoned Teton Lands
County Agent Fred Willison outlines a long effort to reestablish grass on vast sections of abandoned range in Teton County. Despite poor 1936 results amid drought and grasshoppers, fall seeding with crested wheatgrass using deep furrow drills shows promise for early spring pasture, calving pasture, and later fall grazing if adopted widely.
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Teton County
Nature
Reton County
Oscar Richem
Choteau
O. G. Meadows
Kentucky
Bynum Community Notes Include Visits and Elk Story
Mrs Reid Swenson and her baby daughter are back from the hospital last week. L E Taylor visited Bynum last Wednesday. Mrs Martina Schenk of Logan Utah arrived for a visit with Dell Green and Reid Swenson, joined by Miss Veley Jensen of Lund Idaho. Bert and Edna Hanberg hosts and other locals joined gatherings and elk hunting highlighted by a mountain trip. About 30 residents attended a conference in Great Falls with speakers from Oregon and Alberta. Clara Vandenhook’s students hosted a belated birthday surprise party. George Belken left for California for an open ended stay.
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Reid Swenson
L. E. Taylor
Bynum
Martina Schenk
Logan
Utah
Dell Green
Veley Jensen
Lund
Idaho
Eddie Mohart
Agawas
Bert Stott
Edna Rowley
Han
Public Service Commission Rules Gas Content Posts
Montana service stations must post gasoline and petroleum product contents on at least two analysis charts per station, a PSC ruling announced last week. Railroad commissioner Horace Casey notes the law has existed but rarely enforced.
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Montana
Public Service Commission
Horace Casey
Agawam H D Club Hosts First Chicken Dinner Bazaar
The H. D. club held its first chicken dinner and bazaar in Agawam with good turnout from Chateau Farmington Brady. Mrs. Bob Fargen won the 4 H quilt. A farewell party for Mrs. W M Harris closed the event with gifts.
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H. D. Club
Chateau
Farmington
Brady
Bob Fargen
Gallop City
Albert Nelson
Adolph Moser
Idaho
W. M. Harris
Ferne
Edith Torgerson
Rose Schaeffer
Henry Weists
Ferne Torgerson
Local Ladies Host Demonstration Event
Mrs. H. H. Wuest will lead a demonstration with Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. Torgerson as hostesses. Mrs. Wm. Breeding was a patient at Maynard hospital last week.
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H. H. Wuest
Johnson
Torgerson
Wm. Breeding
Maynard Hospital
Community Tapestry at Chateau High School Armistice Day
A Chateau High School Armistice Day program featured Geo Carroll’s address, a band and choruses, two Civil War veterans with a supporting company, and performances by Miss Depner, Miss Conlin, and Miss Alum. Roosevelt fireside chat noted. reflections on unemployment and moral greed included. Bremers changed a tire after church. speaker comments on peace and hope framed by literary references.
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Chateau High School
Geo. Carroll
Depner
Donziti
Bremers
Mr. Roosevelt
Great Northern Pioneer James Hill and Farm Conservation
The Great Northern Railway under James J. Hill promoted soil fertility through crop rotation livestock raising and soil conservation. Early Minnesota debate attacked Hill for preaching the doctrine as ruinous, while the railroad’s Agricultural Development Department pushed soil conservation weed control irrigation crop rotation and market development within its territory.
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James J. Hill
Great Northern Railway
Soil Conservation
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Fred Willison
Flo Ward
Eleanor Norris
New York City
Levey Warren
Emporia
Kan
Miami
Fla
J. Peterson
Guernsey
van Brunt
Oliver
Farmington Oil Co
Ree
J. H. Byler
Martin Swanson
Agawam
Jesus
New York
Washington
Dakota
Great Northern
Cascade Mountains
Minnesota
Mr. Hill
Northwest
The
Agricultural Development Department
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