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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1916
Page
2
The article advises separating male birds from hens to boost egg production and maturity. It notes cocks and cockerels waste feed, hinder hens, and suggests killing nonbreeders after November for market. It also provides a hog tonic recipe using charcoal, ashes, salt, lime, and iron sulfate for parasite control and better gains.
Three thousand salesmen and agents of a large agricultural implement firm will attend movable agricultural schools this fall and winter in 365 cities to learn improved farming methods. A two day session closed in the city with visitors from many places, as world conditions demand full use of land, soil fertility, crop rotation, diversified farming, and livestock raising for profits.
New York state official Joseph Hartigan accuses western farmers of concealing 25 percent of their wheat and various vegetables to inflate market prices. He travels across 29 states, citing flawed government crop estimates and claiming prices can be set by farmers like hens on a setting. He criticizes government crop reporting as optimistic and unreliable for wheat and corn.
Professor Eckles of Missouri notes dairy efficiency rises with high producing cows. He explains a 150 pound fat year uses over half feed for maintenance, while a 450 pound fat cow converts more of its feed to milk, lowering cost per pound of fat and reducing overhead per unit of production.
A Harlem farmer reports six acre plot produced 24080 pounds of beans sold to Lake Mercantile at ten cents per pound totaling 2480 dollars. The piece notes Montana housewives baking bread due to bread prices and flour costing 2 50 per sack yields about 45 loaves worth over 5 60. Some husbands welcome the change.
Sugar beet growers in the Billings district will receive seven dollars per ton for their crop next year, announced by W. L. Lawson, manager of the Billings plant. The price is about one dollar higher than last year and could raise revenue to the acre by fifteen to twenty dollars.
The article highlights Glacier National Park as a major driver of eastern tourist traffic to Montana, with Great Northern Railway promoting See America First. It notes growing hotel capacity, a 1911 dedication, a 1918 expansion, and a new $500,000 hotel on Lake McDermott, plus prominent visitors like W. Bourke Cochran and Nicholas F. Brady.
A digest of international and U S items notes Texas peanut value at 24 million dollars, Great Northern freight orders totaling 2 7 million, paper recycling invention, New York hotel staff insured for 250 thousand, and Lauder buying a 14 000 acre estate in Scotland. Other items cover compulsory service, municipal coal sales, rising living costs, and various world industrial plans.
J A Roberts a farmer near the old experiment farm delivered 196 bushels and 20 pounds of wheat to Roundup Elevator. He refused market price risking storage to seek a higher figure and would have earned 316.06 dollars if sold.
The 20 000 miners in the Butte district receive a 25 cent daily raise to 4 75 dollars per day as long as copper stays above 27 1 2 cents. Smelter workers at Anaconda and Great Falls also gain 25 cents. Butte now reportedly has the world’s largest payroll by population.
A patent has been granted for an electrically illuminated keyhole. The invention enables light to guide a key and improve visibility in dim doors. Inventor and assignee details are not included in the accessible text.
George C. Silver reports a Browning pullet laid an egg at six months and twelve days. Thomas Ferris counters with a pullet that produced an egg at five months and twelve days.
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