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Newspaper
Choteau Montanan
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1916
Page
7
A nostalgic note on how classified advertising evolved from handmade notices to modern columns. It emphasizes readers scanning for opportunities and buyers finding sellers through period ads. The piece highlights the enduring value of classified sections in connecting people with goods and services.
A compilation of Montana farm land offers from Great Falls and Helena. Listings include 600 to 1800 acre cattle stock and grain ranches, 320 to 10,000 acre tracts, prices from 4 to 22 dollars per acre, various payment terms, and notices from Fagan McCutcheon Watt & Weather Co and Northern Lands Co.
A note announces a swap proposal from Oregon. The writer offers to trade coast property for Helena Montana property and says particulars will follow at Box 151 Brandon Oregon.
Printer advertising for Circle Montana merchants to join a sales program by Canfield Mfg Co offering $5 commission per sale, no collecting, no expense or risk, and return of unsold goods. Targets towns under 100,000 with live pocket line for restaurant hotel cafe and general store products.
Experienced cafe man seeks profitable venture with 7000 or 300 to manage at the Great Northern Hotel Malta Mont. This classified note places a candidate for a cafe operation in a hotel setting offering immediate handling of a lucrative opportunity.
Five acres in fruits located via the Sacramento valley on California's foothills paved site highways two miles from town. Modern five-room bungalow with good outbuildings telephone electric light and power. Priced exceptionally reasonable for business interests. Address for information P O Box 148 Helena Montana.
Montana experiment station recommends shrubs for dry land farms to beautify ranches and increase value. Russian olive and Tartarian honeysuckle provide hedge and specimen use, Siberian pea tree offers hedge value, lilac serves as hedge or lawn plant, buckthorn forms stockproof farm borders, best planting is fall or early spring when frost is out. Help make Montana beautiful.
News from Montana reports experimental corn growing thriving across Yellowstone Rosebud Musselshell Big Horn and Fallon counties. A Billings field produced corn reaching 14 feet with W B George noting local climate adaptation and a 35 bushels per acre yield.
Billings. A model stock farm with the latest scientific ideas will be established by C. W. Barr a city millionaire near Ward this year. He owns 850 acres of alfalfa 250 acres of sugar beets and other crops and plans gas heated barns. Barr has bred cattle including a Percheron stallion that won grand champion and a Poland China pig that won honors at the Montana state fair.
Largely due to the Potato Growers' association formed last spring Fergus county farms show record planting of standard types this year with participation by both association members and nonmembers.
Montana farmers with milk cows can boost profits by testing butter fat. A Richland county trial of 15 cows found one earned $85.82 annually while others earned far less. A simple milk scale and fat tester for herds up to 20 cows costs about 4 and helps identify high producers, replacing guesswork with measurable results.
Movement of grain from farms to country elevators was limited last week due to storms and poor roads but deliveries this week were liberal. Principal stations show fair receipts, lighter than a year ago, with railroads providing extra cars and growers selling to capitalize on higher prices.
The American Society of Equity in Montana expands to over 10 000 members across 16 county unions since fall 1913. From 200 members two years ago to 3 000 last year, the state group established six wholesale houses in Great Falls Butte Missoula Lewistown Sidney and Billings and now owns 65 elevators. It operates retail stores in Denton Fort Shaw Monarch Nashua Power Square Butte Ashmore Floweree Bole and Great Falls. Officers reported selling 20 cars of oats to Seattle parties at seven cents above eastern market, about the loading station price.
A Montana railroad commissioner criticizes shippers who use cars for storage amid a grain crop bottleneck. He cites Great Northern reports of limited cars and demurrage rate increases, urging restraint and caution before any drastic measures at Big Sandy.
Harvest reports from Blaine County show crops performing well with wheat yields near 30 bushels per acre at the Mathewson place and about 25 at Radke’s, both on well tilled land. Flax tops 19 bushels per acre on the Arthur Wing farm after spring breaking.
President Wilson signed a proclamation opening 95 786 acres of Fort Assinniboine in Hill County Montana to public entry. Homestead filings at Havre land office begin October 25 through November 15 with a 2 50 per acre rate for six months and 6 15 thereafter, 50 cent per acre deposit, 160 acre limit then 320 acre enlarged homestead.
H P Lambert sold a quarter section north of town to C A Henninger for 40 dollars an acre, the high price for Musselshell county bench land. Henninger, after selling his Wheaton farm, reinvested in Musselshell county land near the experimental farm site.
Threshing across the Billings region reveals non irrigated wheat yields are about half normal. In contrast beet crops show exceptionally heavy yields, signaling uneven crop performance this season.
Oh Joy German Kitchen and A Pancake of Keenova West Virginia volunteer to assist with activities in the clubs Feed Box department reporting their generous community service.
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