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Newspaper
Choteau Montanan
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1918
Page
14
C B Hubbard offers practical wintering advice for bees detailing hive construction and packing for cold protection. Emphasizes sufficient honey reserves, wind protection, and insulation with materials like cork leaves chaff shavings and sawdust. Provides packing dimensions and arrangement in boxes to shelter four hives.
Montana hay production this year is below normal with most output consumed locally. Gallatin area reports strong grain yields and higher wheat from larger acreage while Northern Montana hay buyers contend with drought. Prices vary: No 1 Timothy at Great Falls 32 dollars. alfalfa about two dollars under. Butte quotations 27 and 25 dollars, Bozeman higher by two. oats scarce at 2.75 per hundred. barley sold for feed at 2.10 per cwt. potatoes slow in Gallatin at wholesale 75 cents to 1 dollar.
Terms require 10 percent down and balance in 10 yearly payments at 6 percent interest. Lands logged off by the Anaconda Copper Mining Company offered for sale.
Beaverhead Ranch Company near Dillon completed a water conserving irrigation system praised as among the state’s most complete. It uses an Equalizing Reservoir to reduce wastage and better utilize Birch creek water rights to improve crop production on land along the Oregon Short Line railway.
The eleventh annual Montana State Poultry Breeders show will be held in Butte January 13 18 with entries from Wyoming Dakota Idaho Washington Oregon and Calgary. The event is official A P A show under American Poultry Association rules offering gold medals cash prizes silver trophies and special prizes for various breeds and pens. Entry fees and deadlines are listed with premium lists due December 10 and entries closing January 4.
An engineer led a decade long effort to conserve water for irrigation by building five reservoir storage dams at Birch Creek headwaters from Bagot to Anchor lakes. The concrete structures with spillways gates and outlets total about 6 500 acre feet, enough to irrigate roughly 6 000 acres, delivering up to 1 000 inches over 116 days. The single plant, costing 12 000 dollars, equalizes flow and stores nighttime excess to boost daytime irrigation efficiency.
The Montana Dairymen's association will hold its annual convention at Billings January 9 and 10. G. L. Martin secretary says key topics include dairying conditions in Montana dairy projects for 1919 the cooperative cheese factory and how creameries can dispose of surplus butter along with discussions on safe milk for babies dairy products at home and dairy reconstruction.
The Beaverhead ranch storage project was designed and built by George R. Metlen of Dillon Montana. The plant enables higher efficiency of irrigation by storing water and distributing it as needed, potentially boosting crop yields.
A federal draft to the Idaho governor outlines a soldier settlement fund and a five year term board including the state engineer and the state agricultural college president. The plan allows eminent domain on lands, state lands, and irrigation works, with two cooperation options and loans backing farm improvements. Soldiers must take land within six months, reside eight months yearly for five years, with staged payments over up to forty years on land and twenty years on improvements.
A Montana farmer named Stevens bought two sections of Northern Pacific land 40 miles north of Terry. He planted the entire field in flax and harvested 16 000 bushels, selling at 4 dollars per bushel for a total of 64 000 dollars.
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