Proper Care of Kitchen Utensils
Montana State College outlines methods to clean and preserve utensils Iron and steel to prevent rust burn residue removal and soda boil cleaning rust removal with bricks kerosene for heavy rust aluminum care with neutral soap and whiting enamelware use Sapiro and Dutch cleanser tin cleaning and wood care avoiding hot water oil on steak planks wood dent repair with hot iron zinc cleaning with mild soap and kerosene grease removal
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Montana State College
Cuticura Advertises Hand Care Routine
An advertisement extols Cuticura for sore hands and as a daily routine. It urges soaking hands in Cuticura Soap, drying, rubbing in Cuticura Ointment, and removing excess with tissue. It claims Cuticura Soap Ointment and Talcum cover all toilet needs.
Montana Business Institute Office Training Ad
Efficient school offers stenography bookkeeping accounting secretarial work and civil service prep with promises of rapid advancement and job placement. Home study available with flexible entry. write for full information and start today. Miles City Montana.
Montana farm page reports on tillage experiments at Bozeman
Leading agricultural articles prepared by State Agricultural College experts describe results from Montana tillage experiments funded by state and federal governments. Readers are urged to save these articles for reference.
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State Agricultural College
Bozeman
Montana
Lupine Poisoning Menaces Montana Sheep and Cattle
Dr. Howard Welch warns lupines in Montana pose acute poisoning risks to sheep and occasionally horses and cattle when seeds and pods are on the stalk. Poisoning peaks in late summer with rapid deaths after grazing. Careful management and avoiding lupine patches, especially in July and August, are advised.
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Montana
West
Indian Warfare on the Frontier A Difficult Costly Undertaking
The piece discusses frontier conflicts, Fetterman’s disaster and its blame, General Carrington’s winter move to Fort Casper, and the harsh Arctic conditions that led to amputations and deaths. It contrasts civil war era treatment of women as non combatants with soldiers’ forays into villages and self defense.
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Carrington
Fort
Casper
Wyoming
Washington, D. C
the Big Hole
Montana Seed Growers to Form Organization
Tentative plans aim to form the Yellowstone Seed Growers association uniting Custer and Powder River county growers with others in Garfield Rosebud and Prairie counties. Members will market seed under a common trade mark while retaining individual sales this year. A manager and full cooperative marketing are expected within a year as alfalfa seed demand rises in southeastern Montana.
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Yellowstone Seed Growers’ Association
Miles City
Custer
Powder River
Garfield
Rosebud
Prairie Counties
Montana
C. M. Yerrington
Custer County
Volunteer Wheat Harvest From Second Year Seed Near Melstone
Field near Melstone shows a freak crop with volunteer winter wheat from a seed crop two years old. Curran notes a 1922 good winter wheat yield from the same field and a follow up corn crop last year. Despite standard spring plowing and cultivation, the volunteer wheat promises a yield close to regularly sown fields.
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C. Curran
Melstone
Curran
Dairying Pays in Eastern Montana
Southeastern Montana farmers are diversifying into dairy with the Miles City creamery shipping about 10 carloads of butter monthly to markets in Los Angeles San Francisco Seattle Boston Philadelphia and others. July cream checks surpassed 85000 and August is expected similar.
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Montana
Miles City
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Seattle
Boston
Philadelphia
Fred Merrill
Merrill
Mr. Merrill
Show Grains and Grasses Bulletin for Montana Exhibitors
Farmers in Montana are invited to request the free bulletin Gathering and Preparing Show Grains and Grasses from the State College extension service in Bozeman. The bulletin offers guidance for preparing grains and grasses for exhibition at local county and state fairs.
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Montana
State College Extension Service
Bozeman
Bulletin
Peacock Rides Streetcar Two Miles Before Returning
A peacock from the Columbia Gardens aviary rode a Butte streetcar for two miles. The bird boarded at the gardens depot and was not found until Braund house. It was returned to its original corner of the zoo.
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Columbia Gardens Aviary
Butte
Gardens
Braund House
Zoo
Critique of Civil War Era Indian Policy and Command Failures
The writer argues defeated officers faced incompetence charges and possible court martial risk, cites General Howard mocked for not tracking the Nez Perces, and notes headquarters and the East misunderstood the obstacles. The piece condemns the government’s failure to honor treaties with Indians as a cause of most Indian wars, while not defending the Indians.
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Howard
Nez Perces
Plains
Hans
Castoria’s Longtime Use Cited for Child Ailments
Mothert Fletcher's Castoria has been used for over 80 years to relieve babies and children of constipation diarrhea stomach upset feverishness and colic by calming the stomach and bowels and aiding digestion.
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Fletcher
Corn Seed Selection Before First Frost
Seed corn for the coming year should be selected from the field before the first killing frost. Choosing ears from the earliest maturing stalks improves strain for a community and preserves germination even if curing causes some shrivel.
The Donkey Boarded the Streetcar in Rain
A jocular scene unfolds as a donkey attempts to ride a streetcar on a heavy rain day. The passenger quips at the conductor. the conductor replies there is room for the donkey and invites him aboard.
Early tomatoes harvested at Billings by Captain Bivins
Captain H. W. Bivins a World War veteran turned planter reports the likely earliest tomato crop in the state. He planted over a thousand early plants last spring and, despite a late season, fruit is already ripe three weeks ahead of normal. He distributed nearly 20,000 plants to Montana and Wyoming gardeners and farmers and aided Yellowtone county growers with 4,000 sweet potato plants. He plans to distribute 1,000,000 sweet potato plants next spring and has 1,000,000 giant pansies and 1,000,000 potted plants planned for distribution next year.
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H. W. Bivins
Captain Bivins
Montana
Wyoming
Yellowtone County
Billings
Virginia
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Montana Business Institute
Lolo National Forest
Blackfoot Land Development CO
Missoula, Mont
Treasure State Farm and Livestock
Howard Welch
Wals
Fetterman
Springs
Noetheen Creamery CO
Great Falls
Jack
Weiller & Weiller CO
Livestock Commission
South ST. Paul
Minnesota
Chicago
Illinois
Royal Milling Company
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