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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1917
Page
2
Montana farmers and poultrymen are urged to double egg flocks to meet domestic demand as consumption nears seven million dozen annually while current output runs about half that. The appeal, by poultryman William F. Schoppe, calls for early hatching and widespread participation to prevent shortages and high prices.
Veterinarian Dr. Riley warns Montana farmers of a wartime horse shortage. He notes Europe’s horse values have doubled and nearly a million U.S. horses shipped for war. Breeding mares, careful foaling, and strict infection control are urged to boost future horse supply.
D S Fox of the Montana Experiment Station urges farmers to plant as much spring wheat as possible to avert a world food shortage. He notes the United States exports 24 percent of world wheat and that 1915-16 crops were below last year, with Europe short on labor and supplies.
Agricultural guidance from O B Whipple of the Montana experiment station outlines seed size and cutting methods to economize seed usage. It covers row spacing of four feet, 15 inch rows, seed per acre, sun drying steps, and warming soil before planting to avoid rot.
Seed in demand has nearly doubled prices for all classes in Boston. Reportedly much seed needed by farmers is being redirected to buyers with little knowledge of food production, fueling concern over supply and proper use.
In St Augustine Florida Mrs William Carcaba wife of a cigar magnate shot and killed her husband in front of their home according to her police statement. Stephen Tompkins the family chauffeur fired the shot and is named in Carcabas dying statement. Both are in jail awaiting further action.
In central eastern Montana the Redwater valley along the Great Northern cutoff offers affordable land. Alex B. Lehman of Lewistown has over 20 000 acres for sale, selected from Northern Pacific lands and now marketed at attractive prices. The region promises rapid value growth due to a long frost free period and grain and vegetable suitability.
The Blackfoot Land Development Co offers 40 to 160 acre tracts in the Clark's Fork valley west of Thompson Falls Montana. Soils range from clay loam to sandy clay with good moisture retention. Prices run ten to twenty dollars per acre with ten percent down and ten annual payments at six percent interest.
Senator Walsh and Representative Evans propose a 5 million dollar seed appropriation to Farmers for sowing fields damaged by winter. Seed loans at six percent would be available through the federal farm land board within 30 days after passage to farmers buying seed. The secretary of agriculture backs the measure and the senate committee plans rapid report after house approval.
A So Far friendly dispute over Irish freedom escalated when editor J B Mulcahy of the Butte Independent and editor Cooney of the Butte American exchanged public blows on Main Street. Mulcahy retreated after two exchanges and was declared the loser by Cooney. Mulcahy plans an editorial titled He Who Fights and Runs Away May Live to Fight Another Day.
Hogs on the hoof sold in Great Falls for 15 dollars per hundred, a record price for the state of Montana.
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