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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1920
Page
2
Montana reports a smaller lamb crop and a notched wool clip while wool quality improves due to better winter feeding. Washington and Idaho also show reduced lamb gains with some losses from cold and rain. Shearers expect 17 1/2 cents per head, with average productivity near 100 animals daily.
The T. C. Power Company of Helena announces it will be in the market after harvest for grain and grass seed. Growers who have produce available are encouraged to write for terms and arrangements.
The article urges continuous gardening to cut winter vegetable costs, noting root crops store well in a cool cellar or dry sand. It highlights planting turnips for winter, sowing carrots and beets, and saving space by using peapatches for other crops. Emphasizes keeping the ground busy and using second and third crops like sweet corn and string beans for canning and storage.
Kill weeds while small and keep soil well tilled. Early May tasks include setting late celery and cabbage, planting peonies, and hardening soil around new transplants. Water deeply to roots, spray currants and gooseberries for pests, layer roses, and safely treat ant hills with carbon bisulfide away from flames.
Washington State Retailers Association reports major U S manufacturers raised factory prices 10 to 25 percent over 60 days. Increases vary by item with grain drills up 17 to 20 percent, plows 10 to 25 percent, feed cutters 8 percent, cutting machinery 10 percent, wood and cast iron machinery 25 percent, steel heavy equipment 10 to 12 percent. Rising production costs cited by manufacturers as the reason for the hike.
Poultrymen are urged to evaluate laying quality beyond age two years. A vigorous healthy hen that lays even moderately is valuable and worth keeping, while indiscriminate culling risks ruining the dairy business in days.
The practical poultryman should keep fowls and chicks in good health to maximize nature's power to resist disease. Successful poultrymen focus on health and management rather than disease mastery, ensuring toxins develop to counter germs.
The state highway commission plans bid openings in Roundup on June 15 Helena on June 18 and Laurel on June 22 for highway work. Roundup and Laurel bids cover paving while Helena bids cover gravel surface on project 95 in Hill county toward Havre. Also plans for a Havre to Gildford highway and progress on project No 52 paving near Billings are noted.
Campbell's Scientific Farmer argues that cooperative insurance by farmers themselves offers lower costs and keeps funds within the state. He cites the American Society of Equity fire and hail department, organized in 1916, carrying about 3 million dollars in coverage at cost and saving farmers money while avoiding profits extracted by traditional insurance firms.
About 50 000 head of cattle are returning to Montana from Texas Nebraska and other states and from Crow and Blackfeet areas. Losses occurred due to a late snowfall in the middle west. Most cattle are headed to the Crow Indian reservation with some to the Blackfeet. Montana estimates a near normal summer but ample range and beef cattle remain.
Reports from 18 counties under Commissioner Greenfield describe favorable conditions with early sown grains advancing well. Winter wheat varies by county. some alfalfa injury and reseeding noted. Pastures excellent, livestock improving, and corn and flax planting underway with adequate moisture and labor constraints shaping acreage plans.
The report notes heavy spring planting with winter wheat reseeded in places and oats flax corn and sunflowers rising in acreage. Weather favors farm work with good soil moisture in Lewis and Clark and Ravahili reporting ideal seeding and rapid range improvement.
Informal opinion from Clay Tallman, commissioner of the General Land Office, says Carey act tracts reclaimed for oil are subject to oil development. Oil operators must compensate surface-right holders for damages to agricultural improvements, with precedence for oil rights depending on conditions.
Discussion on how section 20 of the oil leasing law applies to Carey act entrymen. If a preference or permit is denied, mineral rights would fall under general leases and permits under the leasing act of February 25, 1920, but still constrained by the act of July 17, 1914.
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