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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1917
Page
2
Treasure State Farm and Livestock outlines how to break and seed new Montana land for high yields. It favors April to July breaking, 4–8 inch furrow slices, firm packing, and a two to three inch dust mulch to conserve moisture. Flax is highlighted as a top first year crop with barley corn and macaroni wheat as alternatives.
Montana Experiment Station reports mangels yield 37.6 tons per acre with 3 to 3.5 tons dry matter, carrots 15 to 16 tons, rutabagas 16 to 22 tons, and sugar beets 10 to 15 tons per acre under irrigation. Seed rates, spacing, and thinning guidance included for each crop.
Montana adopts federal grade standards for interstate shipments and uses Minneapolis grades for local grain until new federal samples are announced. The state lab at Bozeman will grade samples sent in, with free testing for initial reporting and a one pound minimum per sample.
Sugar beets should be planted in rows 22 to 26 inches apart with 12 to 16 pounds of seed per acre for a good stand. Roots grow mostly below ground, complicating harvest compared with mangels or turnips. Heavy acreage demands proper harvesting machinery, seed is scarce this spring due to limited imports, and labor shortages plus land availability limit root crop cultivation. A small acreage nonetheless yields valuable feed for dairy cows, brood sows and sheep.
Ranchers around Pony report a coyote bite on calves with rabies symptoms, prompting Montana officials to wage extermination of coyotes from Idaho to curb rabies. Hunters will patrol Madison national forest while farmers urged to hunt locally to eradicate the menace. Affected calves show six with symptoms after bites. one brain sample sent to veterinarians for analysis.
The Clark's Fork valley west of Thompson Falls in Western Montana offers logged off lands ideal for dairy, grazing and crop farming. Soils range from clay loam to sandy clay with good moisture retention and a mild climate. Prices run 10 to 20 dollars per acre with 10 percent down and ten yearly payments at 6 percent interest. Blackfoot Land Development Co. Missoula Montana.
World wide notes report 3000 German residents under surveillance in Chicago and political moves as Roosevelt considered, plus Canadian troop passage through Maine and Minnesota. Wells calls for an English republic while US leaders discuss Russia, Japan postings, and 1916 US male demographics.
Opinion notes that disrespecting officials carries no real benefit and undermines fair play in sports and life. It argues for restraint and sportsmanship over anger.
An advertisement touts Poslam as a powerful eczema remedy that relieves itching cools and soothes. It promises short treatment and daily skin improvement with Poslam for pimples rashes and eruptive disorders and notes a free sample offer from Emergency Laboratories in New York City.
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