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Newspaper
Choteau Montanan
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1920
Page
2
Dairying suits timbered western Montana lands with low replant costs and strong profits. Pasture can be established cheaply. sufficient plowed acres supply winter feed. Hogs poultry and a range of crops including grains, clover timothy potatoes grow well. Buyer benefits from appraiser fixed values, no promotions or commissions. We offer site guidance for fit.
Montana farmers face high seed and farming costs as experts predict strong fall wheat demand. A survey by Putnam D. McMillan of the Royal Milling Co. foresees increased exports from India Argentina Australia and a 20 percent rise in U S and Canadian production to meet European needs. European buyers depend on North America for food amid war disruptions and transportation challenges.
Northern Montana stockmen, Spokane bankers, and St. Paul club members attended the dedication of a new Great Falls stock sales pavilion. Built by the Montana Livestock Pavilion company, the 100 by 150 foot brick structure features a pillarless roof with 100 foot trusses and will serve as sales arena and stable. The project, costing about 35 000 dollars for site and building, aims to improve Montana’s stock industry and is backed by local businessmen and stockmen with a 50 000 dollar capitalization.
Livingston official O M Holmes says Montana will lack farm labor this summer and urges an advertising campaign in eastern states to attract workers.
Erwin Schreiber of Wolf Point, owner of Home Lumber, returned from Germany after nine years apart from his two children. He reports no government, scarce food, and severe profiteering for the wealthy, with rationed meat at a fourth of a pound weekly and bread shortages. He recalls the 1718 rutabaga year and a meager barley soup that left him starved.
Montana farmers intending to grow field or grain seed for the coming season are requested to write the Seed Department of the T. C. Power Co. in Helena, Montana.
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