Government Wheat Prices Set by Grain Administration
The Treasure State Farm and Livestock notes new federal grading standards will shift more wheat into higher grades. Prices are adjusted to offset rail and sea freight increases, with specific differentials by grade. Some intermountain areas will receive direct compensation due to freight costs, to be announced soon by the grain corporation.
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Red Walla
Grain Corporation
U. S. Food Administration
Washington, D. C
Railway Administration
The
Food Administration
Seaboard
New York
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Portland
Seattle
Astoria
Montana Farmers Back Equity Proposals to Relax Immigration
Farmers in Montana show strong interest in a proposal backed by the Equity societies of South Dakota and other states and the Farmers' union to ease immigration restrictions. Washington is urged to suspend immigration laws during the war to provide labor for farm production. The call notes a shortage of labor and mentions that oriental labor is the implied focus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
Equity Society of
South Dakota
Equity Societies
Farmers’ Union of
Washington
A. J. Johnson
Towa State Equity Society
I. A. Fuller
Minnesota Society
J. Weller Long
National Organization
S. W. Ricords
South Dakota Farmers’ Union
United States
Congress
Blanket exemption saves Billings farmers from draft move
Seventy five Yellowstone county farmers slated for Camp Dodge Indiana received blanket exemption after the district draft board and Governor Stewart coordinated. The district board advised sending a portion of the quota while deferring others until crops are gathered. The board emphasized it is vital that crops be harvested before further calls.
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Yellowstone County
Camp Dodge
District Draft Board
Yellowstone
Stewart
District Board
Yellowstone Board
War Department
Montana grain crop to yield dollars per acre despite below average bushels
The Montana harvest shows lower than average yields due to insufficient rainfall, but dollars per acre may match or exceed past years thanks to irrigation and good soil. The hay crop, however, is scarce and priced high, likely forcing breeding stock out of state and weighing on stock farmers. Alfalfa prices may rise above spring 1917 levels.
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Fort Collins
Loveland
Colo
Northwest
E. D. Gantt
Montana
Sumer
Threshing Prices Set At Lewistown Conference
At a Lewistown gathering of threshermen food officials and chamber representatives threshing prices were fixed for grain. Wheat eight cents oats five cents barley six cents flax sixteen cents timothy twenty five cents. If crew is furnished and boarded by the thresher wheat twenty cents oats ten cents flax thirty two cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bergus
Lewistown
Chamber of Commerce
Sprouted Barley as Fodder for Hens
Sprouted barley serves as a good sprout for hens and equals oats in usefulness. A cellar provides an excellent sprouting space. Feed sprouts soon after they form. keeping them very short maximizes benefit. There is no danger in feeding large amounts.
Montana Farmers and Wheat Price News From Washington
W M Burlingame head of Equity reports cheering news from Washington on government stance toward Montana farmers. Ocean shipping rates have risen, affecting grain transport and prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana Farmers and Wheat Price
W. M. Burlingame
Equity
Washington
Montana
Montana Farmers Win Ground In Grain Freight Reform
W M Burlingame reports to the Montana farmers after a Washington mission with Railroad Commissioner Hall. The group secured at least four and a half cents per bushel this year and opened the way for larger future savings by routing western grain through the Columbia river ports Portland and Astoria, reducing transport costs overall. The effort, backed by the American Society of Equity, aimed to shield farmers from high eastern freight charges and artificial marketing routes.
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W. M. Burlingame
American Society of Equity
Washington
Montana
Food Administration
Burlingame
J. H. Hall
East
Columbia River
Portland
Astoria
Western Dakota
Montana and Nearby Counties News Briefs From 1920s Dispatch List
A roundup of terse notes from Phillips to Yellowstone counties reports doctors shortage in Phillips, Pioneer meeting in Anaconda, vast corn acreage in Musselshell, disloyalty claims against a Roundup night policeman, fingerprint system adoption in Hill County, land planted to beans near Crew reservation, county nurse hire across Musselshell, bankers seeking aid for farmers, Glacier Park grazing due to feed scarcity, draft-age men released for harvest in Yellowstone, city warrants market failure causing garbage workers walkout, minister Christler’s army cantonments assignment, Edward Foster convicted of sedition in Lewistown, Bear Spring Everson petition for Milwaukee railroad spur, and Roundup bookkeeping problems.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Malta
Phillips County
Anaconda
Society of Montana Pioneers
Musselshell
Cascade
Hayre
Hill County
Billings
Musselshell County
Conrad
Teton County
State Council of Defense
Helena
Montana
Glacier Park
State Livestock Commission
Yellowstone County
Butte
Havre
Christler
Baker
Lewistown
Edward Foster
Bear Spring
Everson
Milwaukee Road
City treasury funds tied to various improvement funds
City officials report 27000 dollars in the city treasury cannot be placed into specific improvement funds. In Lame Deer a cloudburst in Rosebud county caused extensive damage with a wall of water fifteen feet high and a quarter mile wide, sweeping through the valley and causing thousands in losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lame Deer
Rosebud County
Electric Light and Water Plants boost efficiency and labor
The Montana Electric Co advertises electric light and water plants promising time saving, easier housekeeping, and better labor. It touts affordable prices and seeks agents in unallocated territory from Box 1366, Butte, Montana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
THE
Montana Electric Co
Butte, Montana
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Somme
France
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