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Newspaper
Choteau Montanan
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1918
Page
7
A Montana study shows continuous cropping depletes soil, while fertilizer use strengthens and sustains productivity. Acid phosphate trials on corn, wheat, and alfalfa yielded higher outputs: wheat up 3.34 bushels per acre and alfalfa 0.86 more tons per acre with yearly phosphorus. Apply phosphorus when growth begins, typically fall for wheat or early spring for ready-to-use acid phosphate.
Dr. W J Butler reports Montana livestock declines and urges food administrator Hoover to back horse abbatoirs. Western range horses, deemed waste, could be slaughtered for meat to ease living costs, fund cattle and sheep production, and support small farmers under federal supervision.
Montana farmers faced wheat led shortages last year and many grew vegetables at home. The article urges planting a second year war garden, citing 3,000,000 acres planted and $350,000,000 in fresh produce with aims to expand acreage and organization for victory and economic betterment.
Rotation of grain crops with legumes boosts yields. In 1917 corn in rotation with cowpeas and with alfalfa and wheat showed 32.8 and 44.9 bushels per acre versus 17.6 with continuous cropping. Wheat in rotation yielded 13.6 in 1917 and 15.8 seven year average. The study recommends including a small grain, a row crop, and a legume in every rotation.
Sidney Miller registrar of the state land office reports 278 loans outstanding totaling 667,870 and 501 applications pending totaling 1,476,600. He estimates after dispositions and usual receipts and disbursements a cash balance of 750,000. February 28 cash was 1,981,036.56. Last month 69 farm loans totaling 796,400 were approved and 125,700 approved this month so far.
A digest of terse reports from New York to Berne covers wartime cuts in pleasure car production, a Navy retiree’s death, a gifted telescope aiding submarine surveillance, a proposed inter allied crippled soldiers institute, a rat-tail bounty in Fargo, an internment order for architect Lucas, Heidelberg asteroid with a moon, widespread knitting for the French front, and a North Dakota bill offering seed loans and farm labor support with caps.
Alhambra Hot Springs Hotel opens year round as a homelike resort with unexcelled cuisine and baths claimed unequaled for rheumatism. Rates are $2.50 per day with reduced railway rates and 50 days round trip coupon tickets. M. J. Sullivan, Proprietor.
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