Nerve tonic urged to boost middle west cattle feeders
Charles O Robinson of Clay, Rob inson & Co Chicago appeals to Montana cattlemen with a plan to strengthen feeder markets in the middle west. He cites a multiweek market decline, heavy receipts, and a strategy to ship well conditioned cattle and use ensilage or corn to sustain gains into spring. He invites buyers to place orders and suggests shipping fixes to improve market outcomes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles O. Robinson
Clay, Robinson & Co
Chicago
Livestock Commission
Montana
Middle West
Robinson
Deer Lodge Poultry Trick Fools Magpies for Feed
Fred Foster, a Deer Lodge poultryman, devised a clever method to curb magpie thefts of chicken feed. He filled a stuffed magpie with boiled wheat and chopped beef, hanging it near the flock to lure birds. Chickens soon learned to peck the bait, and when live magpies approached, leghorns attacked, driving them away.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Foster
Deer Lodge Valley
Foster
Missoula Mills: Births, Mines, and a Growing Frontier
The 1860s rise of Missoula as a frontier hub with Helena era names and early events. First white marriage in Montana, first white child born in Missoula county, Kootenai placer discoveries drawing hundreds, price surges for food and supplies, gold dust currency, and Wor den & Company’s sawmill and grist mill ventures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bishop” Brooks
Montana
Robert
Adaline Pelky
Missoula County
Jefferson Henry Pelky
Washington
Man’s Estate
Kootenai
Hell’s Gate
Alder Gulch
Bitter Root Valley
James Doran
McLaughlin
William G. Cook
Doran
Cook
Worden & Company
Missoula
Missoula Mills
Wheat Growers Wire Plea for Aid
Seven hundred growers from Fergus Wheatland Chouteau and the Judith Basin petition the Ninth District Federal Reserve Bank at Minneapolis for continued credit relief. President Cresap of the Central Montana Wheat Growers Association cites crop costs scarce labor high and falling prices delaying harvest and asks for secured credit to ride out the financial distress in 1920.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fergus
Wheatland
Chouteau
Judith Basin
D. R. Cresap
Central Montana Wheat Growers Association
Federal Reserve Bank of the Ninth District
Minneapolis
Wheatland, Chouteau
Judith Basin County
Montana Wheat Growers Association
Montana
Zinc plant starts second reverberatory furnace at Anaconda works
Great Falls reports the operation of a second reverberatory furnace at the Anaconda company's reduction works zinc plant. The move signals increased processing capacity and production activity at the site.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Falls
Anaconda Company
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Treasure State Farm and Livestock
Charlie Robinson
C. O. Robinson
Holiday Poultry Wanted
P. E. Cobb CO
ST. Paul, Minn
Devil’s Lake, N.D
Tracy
Minn
Canadian Pacific Railway
North America
Cigsed
Canada
Lloydminster
Battleford
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
Boran
Chiesa
New York
Montreal
Bureau of Consorian Informaies
Broadway
New Pa
Tano
Canadian Pacific
Ated
Katchewan
Seager Wheeler
M. E. Thornton
Wirst Street
Calgary
Free Illust
Ortann
Sead
L. Thornton
Canadian Pacific RY
First St. E
Deer Lodge
Central Montana Association
Martin
Owensboro Ditcher & Grader Co
Mtrs
Spokane
B. Butte
Mont
Henningsen Produce Co
Butte, Montana
Edmonson
E. E. Edmonson
Great ‘Falls
Third Street
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