Thousands of Cattle Driven to Green Pastures in South Dakota Drouth
Dust clouds roll over parched prairies as thousands of cattle head toward feedable grazing areas. Graze-depleted farms in Rosebud country sell livestock at sacrifice prices while grasshoppers and drought decimate crops. Over 3,000 head shipped this week from adjoining drought-wasted districts. Nebraska frees influx if cattle are disease and scab free.
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Paxton
South Dakota
South Dakota Rosebud Country
Prairie States
Drouth
Nebraska State Department of Agriculture
Survey of Upland Bird Situation Is Taken
Montana deputy game wardens under state warden Robert H Hill conduct a comprehensive upland bird survey to decide on continuing the closed season or opening in certain counties. Reports show blue grouse returning and prairie chickens steady, with strong sportsman support and protective measures amid ongoing conservation efforts.
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Helena
Montana
Robert H. Hill
Fish and Game Department
State sportsmen rally 33 clubs active in Montana
Montana sportsmen report record activity with 33 affiliated clubs, up from 20 last year, representing about 80 percent of organized sportsmen. The group cites growing support from businesses and individuals, urges funding for refuges on public domain lands, and calls for forest-fire prevention as forest districts face high fire danger.
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Helena
B. F. Gerry
Montana Sportsmen’s Association
Montana
Gerry
Montana Farm Bureau Protests Freight Hike
The Montana farm bureau federation protests a proposed 15 percent freight rate increase. President W S McCormack says prices for agricultural products are too low to bear higher costs and railroads should use their surplus reserves instead. Agriculture is suffering and any rise will further burden commodities.
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Helena
Montana Farm Bureau Federation
W. S. McCormack
Montana Railroad Commission
Democratic Leader Is Called to Account on Tariff Criticism
Senate debate centers on tariff revisions with Senator James E. Watson urging Senator Joe T. Robinson to state if he favors lowering rates. Watson claims Republicans oppose tinkering and prefer scientific revision by the tariff commission. Robinson had said there would be an earnest effort to revise the tariff in the next Congress. Read the Dillon Examiner.
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Washington
Joe T. Robinson
Arkansas
Robinson
Republican National Committee
James E. Watson
Indiana
Watson
Tariff Commission
M Ambiaston Stomon
Gandhi proposes ten commandments for modern conduct
Simla India. Mahatma Gandhi balks at issuing a new decalogue for present needs. He lists ten rules with brief explanations including truth ahimsa brahmacharya restraint sobriety nonpossessiveness earning by labor swadeshi equality of all mankind and equality of all faiths and fearlessness.
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Mahatma Gandhi
Simla
India
County Exhibits at Fair to Be Doubled This Year
Ralph Darling ton superintendent of Three Forks reports Montana State fair county exhibits will exceed double the 1929 count despite conditions. The horticulture building will be taxed to capacity with larger displays and a new feature by George L Knight of the state agriculture department. Trees and shrubs damaged by parasites will be shown with charts and literature on eradication.
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Ralph Darlington
Three Forks
George L. Knight
Division of
State Department of Agriculture
Blackfeet Exhibit Lead at Helena Agricultural Fair
A full blooded Blackfeet Indian will head the agricultural and handicraft exhibit from the Blackfeet reservation with Robert E. Stone, the reservation superintendent, visiting Helena to reserve a booth beside Glacier county. The U S department of agriculture will display, covering farming, animal husbandry and forestry. Western fruit will be shipped to Helena for display and stored at Swift and Company’s refrigerator. Participating counties include Jefferson Broadwater Madison Park Glacier Stillwater Missoula Lake Ravalli Flathead and Powell.
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Blackfeet
Robert E. Stone
Qaid
Stone
Helena
Glacier County
United States Department of Agriculture
Swift and Company
Jefferson
Broadwater
Madison
Park
Gallatin
Glacier
Stillwater
Missoula
Lake
Ravalli
Flathead
Powell
Wool Output Set Higher in 1931 Texas Leads Gain
The Agriculture Department estimated 1931 wool shorn at 367,655,000 pounds, up 7 percent from 1930. Fleeces totaled 47,331,000 with an average weight of 7.8 pounds. Texas boosted 1930 production to 48,262,000 pounds and 1931 to 63,361,000, contributing to the national increase.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Texas
Department
Clayton Boyle and Miss Ethel Murz Tie Idaho Falls Marriage
Clayton Boyle and Miss Ethel Murz of Idaho Falls were married here last Monday by Judge George Opp.
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Clayton Boyle
Ethel Murz
Idaho Falls
George Opp
Case of infectious disease at Castle Rock Girl Scout camp
Mrs. Morgan Wright reports a suspected infectious disease case at a Girl Scout camp near Castle Rock. The ill girl is slight, camps placed under quarantine, private physician and county health authorities informed, visitors barred, and the fourth-week reservations canceled.
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Castle Rock
Morgan Wright
Births in Montana Decrease 3.5 Per Cent in 6 Months
Montana births fell 177 to 4 824 by July 1 1931 from 5 001 in 1930 and June births dropped 67 to 794 from 861. Registrar Lucien Benepe notes declines for six months with May the only month showing an increase.
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Montana
Lucien L. Benepe
Registrar of Health
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S. D
Riers
State Fish and Game
Boulder Hill
Jefferson City
State Fish and Game Department
John M. Powell
Boulder
Emerson
Jack W. Carney
Dillon Furniture
Montana Farm Bureau
The
Dillon Examiner
Twin Bridges
Butte, Ditton
Rainbow
Highland
Ruby Valley
Miss Rainbow
Scout Resort
Richfield
Beaverhead Auto
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