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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1925
Page
4
State agricultural college experts in Bozeman publish leading Montana farm articles on tillage research funded by state and federal governments. Readers are urged to file away these descriptive results for practical use.
Montana State College outlines prevention and control of soil blowing. Factors include fibre replacement, tailored tillage, duckfoot weeders, furrow drills for winter wheat, sharing plowing, and summer fallow without plowing. Strategies vary by soil type and climate, with strip farming as a barrier method and corn rotation supporting livestock and manure returns.
The Agricultural Credit corporation plans to ship a carload of Guernsey cattle to Richland county farmers with local reps to purchase. June meetings in Baker and Ekalaka covered dairy improvements with J A Nelson and creameries reps. Gopher poison results in Madison county are positive. Farmers in Hill and Phillips counties test Bliss Triumph seed potatoes and milking Short horns and Holsteins are favored in non irrigated areas. Spaying demonstrations in Cabin Creek Fallon Flat and Prairie county trained 156 heifers and 22 men. County wheat and oats seed growers in Fergus county prepare for next year demand. Anthrax outbreak in Sheridan county killed nine cattle. vets controlled it. Daniels county farmers study corn production costs and planting methods. Lincoln county clubs plan farm trips to Sand Point Idaho for tillage crop trials. Valley county women send regular eggs to Butte. pooling managed by Mrs Frost and Mrs Tinney. Flathead county women attended Lake Rowan camp with 15 delegates.
Eastern buyers seek Montana clips while Montana Wool Growers secretary H H Pigott notes signs of early recovery in wool values. Idaho Bar 6 Livestock Co clip sold to St Louis at 47 cents, with Madison county offers at 42 1 2 cents. Market outlook remains cautiously optimistic for higher values.
The text discusses sowing oats or rye as late season cover crops to control erosion and improve soil fibre. Green manuring and turning under green crops are noted but have few advocates in Montana. Barnyard manure and straw are applied slowly to dry land soils, with limited widespread adoption due to the large farm areas and gradual input.
Montana growers expect higher profits as they consign clips for mill markets while favorable hay, range conditions, and low lamb losses bolster the sheep industry. Dr. W J Butler cites healthy flocks and a large hay carry, with the annual meeting at the New Finlen Hotel in Butte drawing legal professionals from across the state to hear the keynote address.
C F Kelley president of Anaconda Copper Mining Company and longtime Montana bar leader will give the principal address at the Montana State Bar association annual meeting in Butte July 9 10 11. He has long ties to Butte and plans a Montana summer visit before resuming New York headquarters duties.
J H Carmichael announced completion of the sheep shearing on the Carmichael ranch twelve miles south of Augusta. The total clip weighs 105000 pounds and was contracted last January by Hallowell Jones and Donald of Boston at six tenths of a dollar per pound.
A total of 9,012 books were published in the United States in the past year with Fiction leading followed by Theology and Religion.
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