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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1917
Page
2
Montana farmers and home gardeners should mulch strawberry beds in early winter to shield plants from freezing and thawing. Use coarse slough grass or well threshed straw, avoiding packed airless coverings. Mulch should go on by early December and even earlier if soil dries, with attention to preventing root exposure during rapid thaw freezes.
The article explains yolk formation in the left ovary, the oviduct process for albumen, membranes, and shell, and how hatchery eggs are fertilized or infertile. It notes yolk suspension inside the egg, egg rotation through the oviduct, and rare cases like double yolks and eggs inside eggs. It ends with a caution on inducing hens to lay.
The article extols Montana alfalfa as ideal pasturage for bees with low cost and high profit. It cites Rosebud and Carbon counties’ large apiaries shipping thousands of pounds annually and describes Italian, German, Carniolan, and Caucasian bees, their traits, and disease resistance.
The text urges insuring valuable purebred livestock and those owned by men of limited means. It notes evaluating capital invested herd size and finances before insured. It mentions reliable insurers and questionable ones and cites the state insurance commissioner as a source of reliability information.
Practical advice on selecting market lambs and rationing from 55 to 80 pounds. Start with one eighth pound grain daily, increase gradually to 1.5 to 2 pounds, with generous roughage. Emphasizes proper feed lot drainage, weather protection, and convenient feed banks to improve intake and profits.
Numerous short items report geopolitical shifts in the Cau casus breaking from Russia, aviation school site in Lonoke Arkansas, Yale service flag, rising bread prices, military parlor debates, and civilian rights appeals. Other notes include warehouse fires, naval ship launches, and U S labor and war policy updates across Washington New York and Chicago.
D. W. Raymond of the state livestock commission fights a billing dispute after a Montana cattle mixup in an Omaha shipment. The mix included cattle from western, southern, and eastern Montana, with brands from Drummond and Twin Bridges misallocated. Shippers demand exact head counts, brands, weights, and prices. a Chinese stockman near Missoula seeks $3,779 in lost funds.
The postal solicitor Lamar rules there is nothing seditious in the November 10 article in the Butte Independent and it may go through the mails. He asks the editor to back the government.
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