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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1924
Page
2
State Agricultural College at Bozeman reports on state and federal investment in Montana tillage experiments. Articles describe descriptive results and practical methods for farmers. Readers are urged to file these pages for reference.
The article notes 1923 market dynamics where feeders contract for western and native lambs, driving up prices for thin lambs and diverting fleshier types to feeders. It explains two lamb groups natives and westerns, seasonal trends, and how wool cycles affect meat and pelt costs, plus how stray lambs and poor slaughter facilities cause price swings.
President Burton of the University of Michigan lists Thomas Edison Henry Ford Theodore Roosevelt and Orville Wright as the four outstanding Americans of the twentieth century in a notable address.
The article warns that farming demands capital and experience. Pioneers risk loss unless they gain knowledge by working with an experienced farmer or at agricultural colleges. A staged path—laboring on others’ farms, renting, then buying—helps build capital, credit, and land savvy to avoid failures in dry, irrigated, and mixed farming areas.
The Yellowstone county corn variety trial on C. C. Melcher’s Broadview farm compared six varieties Minnesota 13 Northwestern dent Minnesota 23 Payne’s white dent Mitchell’s white dent and Melcher’s white dent. Northwestern dent led in dry corn yield, Melcher’s white dent in dry stover, and Minnesota 23 matured fastest.
An old alert urges customers to demand Diamond Dyes on packaging and refuse substitutes. Each 15 cent package supposedly includes simple directions for dyeing or tinting garments and household fabrics, claiming suitability for any user and any color choice at the drug store.
In Madison County Montana State College reports join with farmers and sportsmen to destroy magpies seen as pests harming cattle brands eggs and game birds. campaigns include poison bait winter use and egg destruction funded by local clubs with hundreds of birds killed.
The Drug Reporter notes 1924 arsenic output projected at 26 000 tons, 16 000 of which to be produced in the United States. 1923 world output was 23 455 tons with the US supplying 12 870. Anaconda Copper Mining leads domestic production, followed by U S R and Jardine of Park County. Imports come mainly from Mexico Germany and Japan.
Beaverhead beef shipments accelerate with ten cars sent from Armstead in one day. Loaders include George Clemon Dan Pendergast Holman Marchesseau and Carrol Brothers. Tom Pendergast moves about 500 fat cows from Divide to Ogden. John Peterson of Horse Prairie has sold many cows to San Francisco buyers. Prices reported reasonably satisfactory and many fat steers contracted with moves starting late month.
A prisoner at Deer Lodge attacked guard A. E. Strage, beat him, then surrendered to authorities at the prison. Details of motive and charges are forthcoming.
Montana seed potatoes topped U S tests with 192.3 bushels per acre, beating Wisconsin at 166.5. Horticulturist F M Harrington will return to Louisiana to repeat the study, funded by the Montana Development Association, as Montana aims to become the nation’s seed potato hub.
Washington party leaders from both chambers reach accord to move quickly on a measure cutting income taxes. The plan aims to speed passage through Congress with bipartisan support and expected executive alignment.
Montana collected 2 381 522 in federal income and profits taxes in 1928, up 528 606 or 29 percent from 1922. The state ranked eighteenth in rate of increase while the average rise across states was 21 percent.
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