Government aid on spring wheat loans outlined
Federal seed grain loan office in Great Falls outlines spring wheat aid at five dollars per acre with a maximum of 100 acres. Applications will be made using new blanks. counties urged to secure and store seed, with Montana and North Dakota receiving major fund allocations and plans to aid drought affected farmers.
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Houston
United States Department of Agriculture
Federal Seed Grain Loan Office
Great Falls
Wilson
Montana
North Dakota
Washington
Federal
Seed Grain Loan
Elevators Fixed Charges Set for Grain Storage
Charles D. Greenfield announces the state law fixes elevator charges for grain storage. Receiving elevating insuring and delivering and the first fifteen days storage cost two cents per bushel, then one half cent per fifteen days up to ninety days, then one half cent per twenty days. Flax storage starts at three cents per bushel for first fifteen days, then the same after.
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Charles D. Greenfield
Farmers Asked To Sign Drought Era Feed Pledge
The Food Administration urges farmers nationwide to sign a pledge to limit wheat mill feeds to essential dairy poultry young pig use and to maintain at most a sixty days supply. It seeks equitable mill feed distribution among states and warns of price relaxations if compliance fails.
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Food Administration
United Stats
Turning Bronze Turkeys To Gold
Ulm rancher Fred Kessinger sold 68 bronze turkeys at auction for 323.65, averaging 4.76 each. The birds hatched last spring, lived on grasshoppers and grain for two weeks, weighed about 16 pounds each, and yielded a price per pound around 29 to 48 cents, making Thanksgiving dinner pricey but profitable.
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Tom
Kessinger Farm
Butter Prices Soar as Government Seizes Creamery Output
An old worry returns as butter climbs toward one dollar a pound with 80 percent of creamery production commandeered for the army. Retail prices are forecast to rise through 64 and 67–68 cents soon, with restaurants charging extra for butter as slabs become costly.
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United States
Bessie
May Work German Prisoners Here
Congress members from Northwestern states propose using German prisoners of war as farm laborers in the Northwest. The plan, submitted to Hoover, suggests paying prisoners $1 a day plus 13 cents for allotment, with deployment to farms by February 15, 1919.
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Congress
France
Montana
Washington
Werbert Hoover
Northwest
America
Mr. Hoover
George M. Young
North Dakota
Young
Hoover
War Department
Boys and Girls Raise Lambs Under National Clubs
Government urges youth participation in farming with Lewis and Clark county joining last spring under national boys and girls clubs. As lambing season arrived, youths engaged in livestock production through organized efforts.
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Lewis and Clark County
Lamb rescue story funds aid to Red Cross
One day old lambs were saved from death by volunteers who rode to camps and selected twins. About 500 lambs were distributed among 75 children who cared for them and fed them milk. Anna Taylor raised 40 lambs and valued her winter investment at 850 dollars. Vada Strom raised ten lambs and won a prize at the state fair plus 30 dollars for the Red Cross. Max Estill raised five lambs and won 25 dollars at the Gilman fair.
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Anna Taylor
Augusta
Vada Strom
Wilborn
Mont
Red Cross Fund
Max Estill
Clemons, Mont
Gilman Fair
Mink Furs Back in Fashion Says Expert
Eight years ago mink furs were popular and trappers earned 5 to 10 dollars per skin. Fashion then shifted away and prices fell, but in the current season demand and prices have risen again. Trappers are advised to wait for prime pelts and use muskrat or fish as bait.
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D. B. Silberman
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Federal loans aid drought farmers in Montana and North Dakota
Federal loan bureau reports drought relief loans totaling 296273 to farmers in Montana and North Dakota for sowing wheat. Choutadu county leads with 96460 for 30909 acres of wheat and 1286 acres of rye, Hill county follows with 62560 for 21528 acres, across 43 counties 17 received aid.
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Houston Wires
Federal Grain Loan Office
United States Food Administration
Experiment Station
Bozeman
Ulm
Fred Kessinger
Mr. Kessinger
Bortewestern Hide & Yue GO
Minneapolis
Minn
West
Silberman
S. Silberman & Sons Capital
West 325Th Street
Culenes
Alhambra Hot Springs
M. J. Sullivan
O. B. Nelson
Sloan’s
U.S
Choutadu County
Hill County
Hape
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
Blackfoot Land
Missoula, Ment
Murphy Commission Company
Spokane Union Stock Yards
Spokane
Chicago, Til
South Omaha
Neb
Kansas City
Fort Wi
South St. Joseph
Sioux City
Jows
Denver, Cole
Rth
Texas
South St. Paul, Mins
Buffalo, N. Y
East St. Louis
el Paso
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