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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1918
Page
2
Advice on placing farm houses near schools and markets to reduce seclusion and ease farm life. Emphasizes permanent materials, appropriate size, and consulting an architect to balance social needs with farm profitability. Consider road access, development plans, and economical relations to other farm buildings.
Montana faces a strong outlook as war demand boosts prices for the state’s outputs. Despite labor shortages and drought, metal and mining wages rise, with Butte’s pay rolls and silver demand surging. An ideal fall prepares fields for a bumper 1918, with wheat potential around 40 million bushels and farm profits soaring toward 100 million.
A wartime speech urges rapid postwar agricultural growth as labor shortages persist and idle hands rise in the United States. The speaker predicts global agricultural development and calls for planning to shift from raw materials to labor‑intensive products, with rebuilding the world after victory as a priority.
State Fire Marshal A. E. Eklund warns farmers to protect hay and grain from fire, suspecting arson by fire bugs or alien enemies. He notes more fires on ranches this year, with grain and buildings destroyed, and urges strict precautions to conserve crops for allies.
Major D. Gay Stivers of Butte leads the Camp Newark construction project where the government is spending about 20 million dollars on warehouses and buildings. James H. Casey, who has worked under Stivers for three months, reported the update in Butte before returning to California.
Practical farm guide on curing pork after slaughter. Details brine and dry curing, salt sugar mixes, quantities per 100 pounds, timing for brine immersion, and steps for packing the meat in barrels to preserve flavor and extend shelf life.
A digest of 1917 war era items notes Seattle employing women on street railways and Sears exports totaling 130 million dollars. Reports cover Germany subsidizing Sweden’s labor press, Americans’ property in Germany under trusteeship, sugar and lard shortages in Cuba, and widespread rail passenger withdrawals east of the Mississippi. Other items include plans to raise funds for repopulating Palestine, wheat area retaken in France, submarines destroyed daily, and a push to expand airplane production with a 1 billion dollar appropriation. Additional notes cite conscription expansion in Britain, land for postwar soldier farms, German propaganda in Latin America, and imperial airpower comparisons among the United States, Britain, and France.
The article urges growing grass crops on steep fields to prevent soil loss from surface runoff. It explains that surface soil rich in organic matter and nitrogen is blown or washed away, while deeper subsoil is less fertile. Maintaining high organic content through green manures or straw and manure improves water absorption and reduces erosion.
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