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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1931
Page
6
Montana State College expert Louis Vinke says alfalfa shortages for winter sheep feed are manageable if concentrates are available. He ranks replacement values for hay and concentrates, notes cottonseed cake often beats corn, and places wheat and barley above oats for feeding value.
Donald Meehan of Winifred lost three fingers on his left hand when rope ended between rope and post as a bronco fought. Clinton Peck carried him to Lewistown where the wound was dressed.
The phrase capitalism is on trial echoes in a climate of fear among many well informed observers who worry it will be judged guilty. The discussion highlights concerns about economic systems and the potential consequences of an unfavorable verdict.
C W Doherty of Great Western Sugar in Billings told editors at Havre that sugar beets, grown on under 1 percent of Montana lands, already account for about 74 percent of crop farm value and could become a major driver for state agriculture with better prices, markets, and supportive policy.
State engineer John S. James finds diverting Clark Fork headwaters into Rock Creek costly for irrigation relief in Carbon county. He notes long tunnels and expensive dams would be required and water value unlikely to justify a commercial transaction. He recommends government study of small storage sites on Rock Creek for flood control and irrigation and organizing Rock Creek water users.
Members of the Montana Press Association who met at Havre toured the Chinook Idaho Sugar Company plant in Chinook. They accepted an invitation and were lunch guests of plant manager Bob Howard while inspecting the factory to gain firsthand knowledge of the beet sugar industry.
Joseph M. Dixon assistant secretary of the interior and Edward C. Finney solicitor visited Flathead valley to inspect the Phoenix construction camp building the Polson power dam. The $10,000,000 project for Rocky Mountain Power uses the contractor since July 1930. Finney noted his long interior department service and prior interest in the irrigation and power development. Mrs Finney accompanied her husband.
A Montana Extension Service survey reports several thousand tons of hay in western counties and hints at more from North Dakota. Director J C Taylor notes that transport costs drive decisions to move livestock to hay supplies or move hay to counties in need, while co operative efforts and reduced railroad rates ease the emergency.
Montana State College veterinarian Dr. Howard Welch warns that Sudan grass and other plants such as sugar cane wild cherry chokecherry peach plum flax can develop prussic acid. With a dry season more cases may occur this fall and winter. He advises feeding tests on a single animal and vigilant avoidance of susceptible plants to limit losses.
Maj. Gen. Smedley Darlington Butler will tour Montana starting Oct. 1 after retirement, with Butte as an early stop replacing Count Felix von Luckner who missed a prior engagement. The report notes unemployment conferences and concerns over livestock feed shortages affecting buyers from other states seeking cattle and sheep at low prices, urging access to feed at market-aligned prices.
July tuberculosis tests among cattle show 3 reactors from over 2,800 tested. Poultry tuberculosis reportedly higher than 28 years ago. Farm tenancy rose 42.4 percent in 1930. Milk fat in butter praised for energy and nutrition. Scrub cows drain owner pockets with no return. Fall farrowing likely 1 percent higher than 1930. Feeding flax risks include prussic acid in immature seeds.
Five percent fewer hens on farms in July versus the previous year and ten percent fewer young chickens suitable as pullets for housing this fall. The poultry sector is among the first farming branches to retrench amid reduced production.
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