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Newspaper
Choteau Montanan
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1920
Page
3
Farmers discuss harness galls on horses and warn against neglect. Properly fitted gear and regular oiling prevent painful sores that can deepen into bone or muscle injury. Gradual conditioning, saltwater wash, and careful brushing aid healing and comfort for work animals.
Advice on treating galled areas and wounds on horses with time tested remedies. Suggestions include alcohol with egg whites, sugar of lead or zinc sulfate in water, carbolic acid in glycerin, and careful dissection for hornlike sloughs. Emphasis on rest, protecting the wound from further abrasion, and humane care from owners. The T. C. Power Company of Helena invites grain and grass seed inquiries after harvest.
Promotion claims Cuticura Soap doubles razor efficiency and promotes skin purity comfort and health. Detailing no mug slimy soap germs waste or irritation even with twice daily shaves. Advertises one soap for shaving bathing and shampooing.
An expert at Bozeman station warns fan weed, a European annual, infests many Montana valleys. It rapidly crowds grain fields, and unless control measures are adopted, it can render ground useless. The article details plant structure, spread methods, and recommended controls including alfalfa or clover seeding and thorough summer fallow.
Farmers are advised to select seed from the highest yielding hills at digging time. Choose hills with the most marketable tubers, aiming for eight or nine good potatoes per hill. Include small potatoes in seed value, as they share the same inheritance, and reselect every year for continued high yields.
An analysis estimates yearly fodder needs for a 1500 pound horse and a Holstein cow producing 7000 pounds of milk. It details daily rations of alfalfa oats and silage, annual totals, and acreage requirements of alfalfa oats and barley, plus potential concentrates to reduce hay and grain use.
Agricultural lands offered with 10 percent down and balance over 10 yearly payments at 6 percent interest. Lands logged off from Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Dairying favored in timbered western Montana, with pasture possible at low cost and dairy cows profitable with winter feed. Hogs poultry fruits berries garden crops grain clover timothy potatoes stock roots thrive. Values fixed by appraisers, free of promotion charges and commissions. Assistance offered to select suitable locations.
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