Government study shows seed grain treatment cuts smut loss
J. W. Taylor of the USDA aids Montana county agents in testing grain smut control. Findings show consistent yearly treatment greatly reduces losses with formaldehyde preferred over blue stone. Proper dipping times and cooperative farming efforts key to preventing spread from infested to clean fields.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Department of Agriculture
J. W. Taylor
Montana
Fergus County
Ridding Flock of Slackers in Poultry Breeding Practice
The article urges thorough culling to remove unproductive stock from laying flocks to boost profits. It stresses selecting pullets by vitality and conformation, emphasizing head shape, back breadth, and capacity for food, and warns against moving pullets during laying. It also covers health checks, housing shifts, and feeding to improve production.
Planning the Montana Farmstead for Efficiency and Cost
The article argues for careful Montana farmstead planning as a factory like system. It weighs layout factors including farming type location topology wind drainage and road proximity. It contrasts European unified builds with Montana’s distributed structures for sanitation appearance and cheaper construction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
Europe
Year round care for stallions boosts breeding value
Stallion owners should exercise horses daily and keep them fed on clean hay and oats with bran. Break them to work like colts and maintain activity year round. During breeding season travel a stallion five to twelve miles daily and avoid solitary, filthy stalls to prevent bad habits.
Condition of Hogs Will Affect Future Litters
The breeding herd's condition before and during breeding determines litter outcomes. Start selecting sows early, group by age and condition, and improve gain two weeks before breeding. Provide ample range, balanced grain rations with corn and tankage, and feed alfalfa hay when pasture ends.
Northern Brokerage offers cash for eggs poultry and meat
Cash buyers seek eggs and poultry including dressed pork and veal, paying 0.01–0.02 above market. They promise payment within 48 hours of receipt, no commission, cash transactions, or COD with express weight settlement. Prices quoted for chickens turkeys geese ducks dressed pork and veal by weight and quantity of hay grain offered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O. B. Butte
Lewis Poultry CO
Butte
World News in Brief Collates Warfront And Finance Updates
A sweeping roundup from Washington to London reports census estimates of alien enemies in the U S and a $2 0 million life policy for Julius Rosenwald of Sears Roebuck. It covers German mark shifts in Holland, Dakota wheat forecasts, Liberty motor records, rising Atlantic fire insurance, and troop and shipbuilding developments as World War I dominates headlines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Census Bureau
United States
Chicago
Julius Rosenwald
Sears-Robuck Company
Amsterdam
Holland
Fargo
N. D
Dakotas
New York
Ralph de Palma
Atlantic
Central West
Atlantic Seaboard
Europe
Detroit
Dodge Brothers
Treasury Department
Tokio
Japan
Siberia
Russia
Paris
Colonel House
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
New York Railways Company
Ags
General Pershing
France
America
London
England
Austria
Daniels
Boston
Cape of Good Hope
India
Ceylon
War Office
Palestine
East Africa
Pershing
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Treasure State Farm and Livestock
Pyangerous
Lawrence-Wil 8 Company
Cleveland
Elk Run
Herefords
West
Thomas Melvin
Elk Run Ranch
Highwood
Cream and Poultry
Great Falls
S. Silberman & Sons
Far Club
S. Silberman & Sons Dept
C. H. Paer
First Ave. South
L. B. Gleason
New York County
Bellows Falls
Hetty Green
Herbert C. Hoover
Texas
Oklahoma
Kansas
Tella
F.C. Taylor Fur Cos 65 Fur Exchange Bl Bt
Louis, Mo
Trappers
Ota
Gsr
Srapne
Northwestern Hide & For CO
Minneapolis
Minn
Rogers Fur CO
St. Louie
Nat eShip
Reliable” Square Deal
Rea Te Ph
McMillan Fur & Wool CO
Les Ana le
American Junk & Machinery Company
Second Avenue South
FURS
R. E. Cobb Co
St. Paul, Minn
Farmers & Mechanics
Butte. Welding CO
Butte, Mont
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