Hornless beef in the future and the Hereford trend
The article reports rancher R. P. Morris predicting hornless cattle dominance as predatory threats decline. It notes a shift in Hereford popularity with breeders removing horns, citing stock shows and breeding trends in Denver Chicago and Kansas City, and attributes the trend to natural selection and easier handling.
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America
R. P. Morris
Evergreen
Colo
Chicago
Kansas City Royal
National Western
Denver
Sam
Nature
Percheron Stallions Available From Bar U Ranch
The Bar U Ranch, the largest Percheron breeder in North America, overstocked with 100 young black and gray stallions weighing 1800 to 2000 pounds. Raised outdoors, they are hardy and desirable. Montana lacks good draft horses, an opportunity for buyers. Send for the catalog from George Lane in Calgary Alberta.
Hill Selection Improves Potato Seed Yield and Quality
Progressive potato growers use hill selection to identify high yielding, uniformly shaped tubers. By digging hills with 4 to 6 tubers from a single stem, grouping by block, and tracking vigor, uniformity, and tuber quality over several years, the best strains emerge.
Hereford Dehorned Line Likely to Supersede Horned Herds
The article traces Hereford cattle from Herefordshire England where hornless stock appeared as a sport in early American white face herds. It notes that crossbreeding with polled stock yields polled calves, claims the poll ed line is older and stronger, and predicts horned range cattle will become rare as polled Herefords dominate.
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Herefordshire
England
America
John Gammon
Iowa
Nature
Texas
Montana Governors Through Territorial to Statehood Era
A review of Montana leaders from territorial officials and governors to state executives. It traces figures like Tufts Ashley Potts Crosby Hauser Leslie White and Toole, noting roles in legislatures, rail developments, and key milestones from 1867 to statehood in 1889.
Success on Farm Depends on the Man Says Wilson
A Montana State College extension agent summarizes a study of farms in north central Montana. Eight propositions outline how a permanent and successful agriculture rests on the operator, diversification, large acreage, low costs, tillage and weed control, inter tilled crops, a farmer's reserve funds, and dry land irrigation to secure crops on many farms.
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M. L. Wilson
Montana State College, Extension Service
Montana
Montana Development Association
Wilson
Association
Governors without oath in the governor’s chair case
A list of lieutenant governors and presidents pro tem with uneven tenures from 1908 to 1922 shows none took the oath as governor on their dates. The piece notes Governor Richards, acting as lieutenant governor, observed a quorum by visible Democratic members, a ruling later echoed by Tom Reed. It recounts Toole’s 1908 resignation and Norris’s April 1 succession and oath.
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Baptist Church
United States
Tufts
New England
West
Territories
Nebraska
Legislative Assembly
Dakota
House of Representatives
Idaho
Lewiston
Montana Territory
James M. Ashley
Toledo
Ohio
Colorado
Arizona
Montana
Andrew Johnson
Helena
Virginia City
Ann Arbor
B. F. Potts
Grant
Hayes
Garfield
Arthur
J. S. Crosby
Florence
Italy
Northern Pacific
Independence Creek
Crosby
Arno
New York
B. Platt Carpenter
Duchess County
N. Y
Carpenter
Samuel T. Hauser
Territory
Cleveland
Leslie
Hauser
Kentucky
Benjamin F. White
Dillon
Harrison
William B. Webb
Anaconda
State Senate
Senate
Joseph K. Toole
John Ezra Richards
Alexander C. Botkin
Robert Burns Smith
Archibald E Spriggs
Joseph Kemp Toole
William M. Biggs
Frank G. Higgins
Edwin UL. Norris
Arthur W. Miles
Edwin L. Norris
William R. Allen
Geo McCone
Ira L. Leighton
Vernon Stewart
William W. McDowell
A. R. Dearborn
J. M. Burlingame
Sam Vernon Stewart
Tait
Tom. O. Larson
Chas. H. Williams
Joseph M. Dixon
Nelson Story, Jr
O. H
Richards
Tom Reed
National House of Representatives
Federal Congress
Supreme Court
Toole
Norris
Best of Beans for Seed Select Best of Beans for Seed
Montana farmers are urged to save clean bean seed to prevent anthracnose and bacterial blight. Pick seed from pods before threshing, choose clean pods, thresh and weed out damaged seed, and plant on new ground if possible. Clean seed and crop rotation are key bean crop assurances. Missoula George L. Carpenter purchases six million feet of lumber from the forest service.
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Montana
Missoula
George L. Carpenter
Haugen
The
Forest Service
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Wilson Hag
Extension Service
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Beart
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Tipton
Northwest
Great Falls
Anaconda Copper Mining Co
Blackfoot Land Development CO
Missoula, Mont
Montana Western Railway
Conrad
Williams
Pondera County
Mont
Conrad Banking Co
Pondera Milk Products Company
Hampshires
American Hampshire Swine Record Ass'n
Stone
Peoria
Illinois
Charles O. Robinson
Charles O. Robinson & Co
Clay, Robinson &Co
Robinson
A. W. Thomas
New Brighton
South St. Paul
Hastings, Neb
Charlies C. Robinson & Co
Chicago, Il
C. Koehler CO
Omaha
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