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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1924
Page
2
The page previews leading articles by experts from Bozeman State Agricultural College on Montana tillage methods. State and federal funds back ongoing experiments to find optimal practices. Readers are urged to file these articles for reference.
Extension specialist M L Wilson warns Montana flax growers are shipping 1923 flax while wheat is held. Continued heavy shipments may deplete good seed for 1924, risking higher spring seed prices. Montana, a top flax state, saw high profits this year. 1924 acreage may rise with tariff protection and demand. In Havre, Ted Clouths 18 is hospitalized with knife wounds. suspect Robert Pike 17 arrested.
Coleman Lamp Co of Wichita promotes the Quick-Lite gasoline lamp that self generates gas from motor fuel and outshines twenty oil lamps at a tenth the cost. Safe economical and operable by a child it lights with ordinary matches. Dealers nationwide offer Quick-Lites and free information is available by mail from Wichita.
Bonuses totaling six dollars per ton have reached Sun River experimental beet plots after a remittance from the Billings refinery of Great Western Sugar. George O. Sanford will distribute the funds to seventeen growers. Further bonuses are expected before next October as beets continue to prove viable in the district.
Montana State College dairy specialist J. O. Tretsven outlines U S dairy division experiments with about 1500 dairy cattle across the United States. He says the aim is to breed a pure high producing strain by selecting for durable transmission of milk and butterfat, using performance records and pedigrees to guide mating choices.
Multiple brief items report earthquakes felt in Los Angeles and Ancona Italy, deaths and injuries from Denver apartment fires, Washington selling war material to Mexico, Harry Thaw seeking freedom, Volstead law amendments urged, polygamy restrictions discussed in Angora, a Denver labor conference call, Lt. Osborne Wood resigning amid wealth rumors, Mexican revolutionary gains, embezzlement warrants in Fargo, a Denver oil operator shooting in Los Angeles, and a 14 inch 50 caliber postwar gun under development by Army ordnance experts.
Montana State College bred and owned College Elvira finished a year test with 21 970 8 pounds of milk and 1098 6 pounds of butter becoming the butter champion among state institutional cows. The cow started with a 502 5 milk and 25 24 butter weekly record and weighs 1860 pounds. Grace Koningen is another Montana State champion with 29 647 pounds milk and 1164 pounds butter. both cows show strong breeding and herd improvement at the college.
The Montana land settlement congress executive committee postponed the Helena meeting originally set for January 14 and 15 to a February date to be announced. Delays by key attendees and the aim to resolve national legislation affecting Montana prompted the shift, with a tentative February program covering land advertising farm sizes soil surveys and settler information. committee members listed include M. L. Wilson A. H. Stafford H. F. Buell John P. Fabrick John Lovelace and J. A. Harader.
Snow and cold weather are not expected to seriously interrupt work at wells in the Kegin-Sunburet field. Most wells are substantially housed with storm sheds, protecting rers from the cold.
In the Libby area a rich strike of galena ore was reported at the Silver Crown mine near here. The dispatch notes few days earlier activity and highlights local mining prospects at the start of the year.
An advertisement extols Cuticura for soothing an itching scalp and smoothing the hands. It recommends a nightly routine using Cuticura Ointment and Cuticura Soap with hot water each morning, touting daily use as a path to clear skin and soft, white hands.
The state board of prison commissioners revoked the parole of Nelson May Belle and ordered his return to the state prison to serve the remainder of a term from one to five years. The action places Belle under arrest at Livingston.
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