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Newspaper
Choteau Montanan
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1918
Page
2
A. G. Thurman of Geraldine proposes a home made heading machine attachment for binders to harvest short wheat. The canvas platform with a floating roller and corner braces extends the binder’s reach, improving efficiency. Directions to build are available from Thurman.
A practical guide urging heavy feeding with a varied dry ration to maximize egg output. It warns against wet mash and measured feeding, promotes multiple feed hoppers, and notes digestion and shell quality depend on balanced, accessible nutrients and hen choice.
A publication from the secretary of agriculture advocates placing 100 hens on every US farm and expects each hen to yield 100 eggs annually. With about 6 million farms, this would total 600 billion eggs per year, described as a military resource. The plan notes most farms could support the hens with minimal waste materials and costs.
Charles MacRae of Woodside bought 65 acres of timothy near Victor from Simpson Kane at 19 dollars a ton in the field. MacRae and his crew began harvesting the crop as the price is described as a record breaker for western Montana.
O B Whipple of the Montana State College experiment station reports savings of seed from the most vigorous potato vines increases yields by over 30 percent. Varying growing environments yielded 16 700 to 24 000 pounds per acre in 1917. Perfect Peachblow shows commercial promise at 23 000 pounds per acre.
Washington officials anticipate 2,000,000 American soldiers in France before winter and 3,000,000 available by spring 1919 when operations commence.
Britain plans a new aircraft type that carries two men and two tons of bombs with machine guns. It is designed to climb to 20,000 feet and travel faster than any current machine in use.
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