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Newspaper
Choteau Montanan
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1918
Page
3
The article outlines core feeding rules to reduce dairy failures from poor feed. It advises balancing grain to milk yield, ensuring abundant clean roughage, and adjusting rations if cows gain fat. For roughage, it prescribes silage and hay per 100 pounds of cow weight, noting feed quality affects intake.
Poultry experts say egg production hinges on breeding and selection. Choose hatching eggs from winter-laying hens to foster early profitability, with early hatched chicks proving best for meat and eggs. General purpose breeds should hatch by late April, egg breeds not before mid March.
A noted conservative woman, once wary of beer, now has a daughter who must start the day with a dry martini. The shift highlights changing attitudes in a family once associated with strict temperance.
Governor Capper of Kansas received a letter from President Wilson stating that skilled farm laborers will be deferred in class 2 under new selective service rules. Furloughs may be granted for planting and harvest, to maintain food crop production, with war department seeking congressional authority to grant paid or unpaid furloughs as conditions justify.
The farmer should perform a complete annual inventory each winter or early spring on a consistent date. Include resources and liabilities such as real estate, cash, livestock, equipment, accounts receivable, and growing crops to determine business progress and net worth.
A sea serpent is described as a large creature yet small enough to fit into a whisky bottle, highlighting its compact size despite being a sizable beast.
Hazen J. Titus, dining car superintendent for the Northern Pacific, created the Great Big Baked Potato slogan that boosted the railroad’s dining service and earned fame from travelers and fans. He is leaving the railroad to start a Northwest chain of cafeterias, with plans including Montana locations, and Montana potato growers like Pat Carney of Waterloo credited for the crop. Titus aims to match his baked potato success with his new business venture.
The new government rule bars any person dealing in poultry from Feb 11 to April 30 from purchasing shipping selling or negotiating sale of live or freshly killed hens or pullets to protect America’s food supply. The rule saves laying stock for eggs incubation and cold storage while not restricting sale for egg production or use of ducks geese turkeys or male chickens. Head and feet must remain on for all chickens offered for sale to aid enforcement.
J. E. Lane, chairman of the Fergus county defense council, reports Fergus plans a bumper crop with 357000 acres to plant. Already 151381 acres winter wheat and 2622 fall rye. Space left and crops listed include spring wheat, oats, barley, flax, corn plus other crops.
A rapid digest reports 750000 bushels of corn to the Allies from the Midwest and notes health issues for Germany’s crown prince. It covers lenient court martial sentences for Belgian senators, Lodge’s re-election filing, Lloyd George’s health, a soup kitchen at the House of Seven Gables, violin thefts in Chicago, lynching near Delhi Louisiana, a $20000 Hereford bull sale in Alberta, meat conservation gains in the U.S., Puglisi’s prison term for Black Hand fraud, predicted German casualties, War Secretary Baker’s shoe orders, Pershing’s supply goals, and Paris spying concerns involving guides and troop movements.
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