Farm and Home Week speakers set for Montana State College
Special Stockmen's Program at Farm and Home Week January 4-8 at Montana State College Bozeman features John T. Caine III and other leaders. Sessions cover marketing, production, wool and beef cattle, sheep and wool, crops and soils, with displays and demonstrations for stockmen, farmers, and women.
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Montana
American Ramboillet Sheep Breeders’ Association
Montana Potato Improvement Association
Montana State Dairymen’s Assolation
Montana Holstein-Freisian Association
Montana Farm Bureau
Stebbins Leaves Extension Post for Wool Growers
M. E. Stebbins, longtime Valley County agricultural agent and a leading state extension figure, will resign around mid February to become secretary and director at the Montana Wool Growers' association focusing on sheep marketing. His work boosted crop standardization, pure seed use, diversified farming, and cooperative marketing, with Valley County earning top state honors in pure seed production and alfalfa seed organization growth.
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Montana
Pioneer County
Montana Wool Growers’ Association
Stebbins
Valley County
United States
Sheepmen of
Glasgow
State Extension Service
Northern
Alfalfa Growers’ Association
Valley
Bere
Association
Grimm
Yates Holds World Wheat Crown After Surprise Win
L P Yates of Fishtail Montana won the 1925 world wheat prize. He doubts feeding prize grain to hogs and turkeys. The win came after judges selected his sample from a 20 acre field yielding about 40 bushels per acre. The winning sample was taken from the threshing machine spout.
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Yates
Missouri
Montana
Gallatin Valley
Stillwater County
L. P. Yates
Fishtail
Mont
Peanut Butter Proves Aid to Health of Children
An article extols peanut butter as a nutritious school lunch filler for children. It highlights The Rogers Company of Seattle producing School Boy peanut butter, notes high quality roasted peanuts, oil and solids balance, and airtight red and blue tins.
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Johnny
Mary
Rogers Company
Seattle
Eders
John
Northern Creamery Ships 22 Carloads of Turkeys from Great Falls
Northern Creamery company at Great Falls shipped six carloads about 400000 pounds of turkeys for Boston New York Yonkers Brooklyn East Orange Newark Pittsburg Los Angeles San Francisco and Seattle. The firm led seven of eight pools in its district with shipments from Conrad Chateau Augusta Geraldine Moccasin Havre Chinook and Great Falls. J Gilmartin said turkeys were high quality and would fetch two to three cents a pound over southwestern birds, with Pondera turkeys likely to top the market due to early pooling. The firm has handled the Pondera Christmas pool for three years and may total 22 cars for the season, about one third of Montana's state total. The industry supports Montana producers through cash marketing and strong demand locally.
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Northern Creamery Company
Great Falls
Associated
Boston
New York
Yonkers
Brooklyn
East Orange
Newark
N. J
Pittsburg
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Seattle
Northern Creamery
Montana
Peerless grows as grain town on Great Northern extension
Peerless Montana emerges as a bustling grain town after the Scobey Opheim extension brings rail service. The Northern Grain Co and a farmer’s elevator build facilities, over 135 cars of wheat shipped since November 16, with local commerce expanding as post office duties shift from Battleson to Peerless.
Richland Names New Extension Agent in Home Demonstration
Fannie H Gorton of Kansas has been appointed Richland county Home Demonstration Agent succeeding Miss Jessie Marion who resigns to study home science. The program under Miss Marion boosted girls clubs with 163 members in 15 clubs and state and national contest involvement. Contests in kitchen and living room design spurred home improvement and 4-H club work, with annual mothers camps and boys and girls camps expanding outreach and serving as a model for other counties.
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Montana State College
Iss Fannie H.gorton
Kansas
Kansas Agricultural College
Jessie Marion
Richland County
Miss Marion
Montana
May Obergfell
Sidney
Chicago
Richland
United
Marion
State Costs Decrease in Montana Government Expenses 1923-24
Montana state government costs for the fiscal year ending June 30 1924 totaled 4 904 325 dollars. The per capita expense was 7 82 compared with 9 29 in 1923 and 8 46 in 1917. Education apportioned 892 364 to minor civil divisions. Interest on state debt reached 385 292 and permanent improvements 2 032 267.
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Montana
Department of Commerce
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