Record Enrollment Expected for State College Short Course
Montana State College prepares for a winter 12 week short course in agriculture beginning January 4 with high demand from farmers across Montana. Inquiries cite dairy manufacturing horticulture beef cattle animal husbandry and crops soils irrigation and machinery as popular study lines. Directors list include M J Abbey C N Arnett J M Hamilton F M Harrington Clyde McKee H E Murdock G O Romney and others with Tretsven coordinating registrations.
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Hether
Montana
Montana State College
J. O. Tretsven
Tretsven
C. D. Young
H. P. Bilis
Bozeman
Quote on love and guessing in relationships
A pithy reflection notes it is easier to keep several lovers guessing than to keep one lover guessing after he stops.
Glasgow's Busy Seed Warehouse Boosts Alfalfa Trade
The Northern Montana Alfalfa Growers association in Glasgow expects over $100,000 in business this year. It handles alfalfa seed from Phillips Garfield and Valley counties, controls seed pricing, and operates advanced cleaners. The Polar Brand is the trade mark, with shipments of 60,000 and 40,000 pounds to Northrup King & Co and Interstate Seed & Grain.
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Montana
Alfalfa Growers’ Association
Glasgow
Murray K. Stebbins
Valley County
Phillips
Garfield
Stebbins
Alfalfa Association
Dan Garrison
Saco
Mr. Simonson
Ninth Point
Harry Magruder
Charles Tanner
Dale Brown
Hinsdale
Pete Tehista
Garrison
Association
Sutton, Steele & Steele
Theodore Gran
F. E. Walworth
Fred Pahlka
Sixth Point
C. H. Newton
Ole Enkerud
Tampico
Enkerud
United States Patent Office
Northrup, King & Co
Grimm
Interstate Seed & Grain Company
Fargo
Montana Leads in Home Economics Efforts
Montana state leaders say farm wives would earn 400 dollars a year for water hauling and dish washing at current labor rates. The state’s rural home improvement program and kitchen contests, with nearly 400 farm women enrolled, highlight the progress alongside agricultural advances.
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Montana
Blanche Lee
Miss Lee
Western States’ Conference of Extension Workers
Pullman
State Extension Service
Gertrude Hoffman
Seed peas prove profitable farm venture in Montana
W R Smith of Lincoln County demonstrates seed pea growing as a viable farm enterprise in northwestern Montana. He planted half an acre with seed from a seed pea house, yielding 20 bushels per acre and $28 cash plus seed return. Cooperative livestock shipments in Teton county rose with four carloads shipped last month and a volume exceeding $8500 for the period.
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Montana State College
W. R. Smith
Lincoln County
Montana
Vy . Cooperative
Shipping Association
Teton County
Electrically Driven Pump Lifts Water to Stam Ranch Near Chinook
Maine sugar beet grower Rod ney Stam demonstrates a 10 horsepower electric pumping plant that lifts water 29 feet from the Milk River to irrigate 120 acres on the Stam ranch near Chinook. The system cost 1200 dollars with season charges of 117.60. Beets yielded about 800 tons sold for 1800 dollars while crops included flax oats and wheat. Kennedy reports pumping capacity 84,000 gallons per hour and notes potential for widespread electric irrigation in Milk River valley.
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Stam
William Kennedy
Havre
Montana Power Company
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Kennedy
Huntley
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Blackfeet
Lohman State Bank
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Roosevelt
Potato farmer reports ten ton yield per acre
H. W. McGuire of the Tobacco Valley near Eureka reports an average yield of 10 tons of potatoes per acre on his farm this year.
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H. W. McGuire
Tobacco Valley
Eureka
Miss Miram Hawkins Directs Montana Home Clubs Drive
Miss Miram Hawkins now directs work for over 100 Montana home demonstration clubs with more than 1000 members. The Montana Extension Service outlines projects in clothing foods and nutrition under Miss Inez LaBossier and Miss Susanne Thompson. Clubs act as community centers reducing farm home expenses through water hauling and dish-wiping cost contests.
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Miram Hawkins
Montana
Miss Lee
Local farmer offers sugar beet cultivation with pump power
Kennedy proposes to equip a highway land with pumps and gas engines and lease it rent free for one to three years to any reliable grower who will plow the land to sugar beets. Water for irrigation will come from Big Sandy creek as part of inaugurating beet culture in the community.
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Kennedy
Big Sandy Creek
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