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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1923
Page
2
The leading articles on this page are prepared by experts of the State Agricultural College at Bozeman. They describe experimental results funded by state and federal governments to find the best tillage methods for Montana. Readers are urged to file these articles away.
Judith Basin rancher B C White urges Montana farmers to raise sheep to turn farm waste into cash and boost prosperity. He argues the state can support millions more sheep, predicts steady income from wool lambs and mutton, and urges even small farms to keep a hundred sheep year round.
Montana’s agricultural experiment station guides seed variety testing and distribution from trials to county agents to accepted growers. In 1922, 385 demonstrations produced 96,169 bushels of approved seed. 124 growers produced 22,136 bushels of registered grain and alfalfa seed. Alfred Atkinson, from Bozeman, developed Montana-36 wheat, now widely sold. a carload shipped to Minneapolis earned a 10 cent premium as the finest wheat shipment to the terminal.
The article argues for shifting from a single income crop to a diversified system including stock, dairy and poultry to reduce risk. It highlights low priced land, local feed production, and the role of silos in storing rough feeds for year round use. It notes crops like sweet clover alfalfa sunflowers and corn as effective feed crops and suggests two silos for seasonal feeding.
Eleven brick buildings are under construction in Shelby's business district as spring development progresses. The oil town reports ongoing construction and related activities signaling a busy season.
Montana experiment station data show 70 percent of farmers are native white. Among foreign white farmers Norwegians are most numerous, with substantial numbers from Canada Germany and Sweden also present in state farming.
A Montana poultry expert says raising turkeys in north central Montana is highly profitable due to ideal growing conditions. He argues the region rivals the northwest for turkey farming, with high fall prices compensating for the distance to large markets and encouraging a significant expansion.
Figures from the state's college extension service show 4,000 children in Montana schools enrolled in regular nutrition classes. The program operates in 35 schools with school nurses, county superintendents, teachers and extension agents reporting improved health. In one class 14 of 28 were underweight last fall. this spring 22 of 28 reached average weight.
In Blain county and the Milk river valley sugar beets will be trialed this season by Idaho farmers with seed from Germany provided by the sugar company at 15 cents a pound. Contracts limit each farmer to four to five acres, with collective estimates around 125 acres near Chinook and 75 near Harlem. I D O Donnell of Billings, an expert, represents the Great Northern and oversees seed use and bed approval. Great Falls real estate shows strong sales in the first quarter of 1923 compared with all of 1922.
Montana seed dealers are urged to comply with state inspection and labeling laws. The Bozeman seed laboratory has sent posters and sample tags and inspectors are active to verify labeling, purity, and germination against stated information.
Ethan E. Allen, calling himself the Man from Montana, arrived in Great Falls as he pursues a $1000 wager with the Winifred Times. The plan requires visiting the governor of every state and major city mayors, delivering information about Winifred and the Treasure State and giving 30 lectures on Montana in the eastern states.
Looters broke into the Hiret National Bank of Valter vault using a axe or sledge to steal 70 safety deposit boxes. They cut Valter off from outside calls, demanded silence, and fled in a car with property of unknown value.
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