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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1925
Page
4
State Agricultural College at Bozeman articles describe government funded tillage experiments and results. Readers are urged to save these articles as reference for future farming practices and MT soil management insights.
Montana and Wyoming reclamation superintendents from Huntley Lower Yellowstone Milk River Sun River and Shoshone projects met in Billings with Reclamation Director present to plan land classification. The meeting, led by George Kreutzer, addressed methods and local farmer appointments for classifying irrigable lands under the 1924 act.
American Forest week will be observed from April 27 to May 3. Frank O. Lowden will head the national executive committee overseeing the observance. Officials urge better forest utilization, reforestation, and stricter logging and fire control to protect scarce timber and forests in Montana and north Idaho where 1924 fires burned 80 000 acres causing nearly 500 000 dollars in damage.
Bozeman calls for bids to replace supply mains with 3200 feet of 18 inch pipe and 850 feet of 16 inch pipe. The aging lines have supplied the city for many years with some laid about 30 years ago.
Montana's favorable outlook notes high gluten wheat retains premium value and suggests keeping 1924 acreage due to low-cost production and tariff protection. Diversification with crops and livestock is advised to offset seasonal risk while premium quality wheat supports northwest growers.
Miss Harriett E. Cushman poultry specialist with Montana State College extension service was adopted into the Blackfeet tribe at the Browning mid winter fair. She received the name Pe-ta-po-yea Eagle Word for delivering a practical message on raising turkeys and chickens. Interpreters and tribal leaders noted the significance of the name and its meaning.
Yellowstone valley and Billings are cited as the home of Montana beans. Ralph Schofield reports bean acreage near Billings will rise 76 to 100 percent from 1924, with the 1924 crop totaling 350 cars or 21 million pounds shipped nationwide.
The steamship Royal Scot designed for 22 knot speed sails the London to Edinburgh route as the world's fastest single screw merchant vessel with high speed ambitions.
The passage recalls encounters with water snakes along the river and an attic bull snake at Fort Benton. It recounts Ross Cox’s tale of a rattlesnake near La Course as the group guarded him, the snake’s attack warning, and a long rescue stick used to fling the reptile away.
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