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Newspaper
Choteau Montanan
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1917
Page
5
Beekeeping guidance urges careful colony assessment for fall honey and winter survival. It recommends merging two weak hives by stacking brood chambers with a queen excluder and a single sheet of newspaper to ease integration and boost surplus production.
Paris and Austrian prisoners held by the French state report Austria is starving for cigarettes. In Vienna lines form along sidewalks as strict limits fall to four cigarettes per customer.
A Northern Produce Co classified ad from Great Falls Montana offers to buy and sell grain potatoes apples peaches pears wool and more. They accept consignments operate on joint accounts provide bank guarantor and require shipments with a bill of lading attached to a draft.
Be an early and careful harvester as bean yields rise in Montana. Billings area forecasts eight bushels per acre on dry land and twelve on irrigated ground with beans at 10 to 15 cents a pound. Experts like Hugh Tanaka favor two row pullers, dew harvesting, and staged drying to protect quality.
Seventeen Herefords owned by Matador Land and Cattle of Fort Belknap reservation sold on the Chicago market at 14 cents a pound, a U.S. high. Another 20 carloads averaged 1,218 pounds sold at 13 cents, signaling a market peak this fall. The Matador company plans to ship 9,000 head to Clay Robinson & Company, with the first trainload sent recently as hay costs soar and winter feeding bears heavy losses.
The Minneapolis Commerce Association backs a plan to lure Montana sheep breeders into Minnesota logged off lands to boost wool and mutton production. The campaign argues Minnesota can offer grazing ranges while Montana faces feed shortages, with a push to gain support at the National Sheep and Wool Growers convention in Chicago.
Wealthy businessmen and corporate leaders in the East plan to invest large sums in raw western lands to avoid paying heavy excess profits taxes under the new surtax regime.
A humorous remark notes a husband ignores home counsel while he spends time downtown, implying limited guidance at home and the need for better listening. The line captures a witty take on domestic advice dynamics and urban distractions.
The No. 1 Northern spring wheat price set by the Washington wheat fair price committee ranges around 2.20 per bushel for the Montana crop, with grades detailed from dark hard winter to white club. State official Greenfield says farmers will be satisfied, while Equity head Lowrie disputes the rate as inadequate and presses for 2.50.
Montana officials and bankers told a Spokane meeting that federal seed grain aid is unlikely as the food bill was amended to supply seed at cost rather than cash. They urged government support to help farmers plant larger winter wheat and rye acreage amid wartime needs and financial strain.
A roundup from Philadelphia to Paris and Washington covers population famine in Poland, wartime production orders in Rome and London, U S wheat prices year over year, mining talks in Mexico, a high ram sale in Salt Lake, and a major peanut products plant planned for Tyler Texas. It notes German censorship measures in newspapers, U S taxicab transport for veterans, and government plans for heavy gun factories and railroads.
The U.S. marshal's office orders intensified efforts to find and apprehend men dodging military service, marking a period of heightened pressure on draft evaders in Montana and nationwide.
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