Farm and Home Week Set at Montana State College
The thirteenth Farm and Home Week will be held at Montana State College in Bozeman January 8 to 7. Montana Extension Service asks farm groups and departments to join lectures and discussions on farming, livestock, home and community development as rapid changes reshape Montana agriculture.
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Montana State College
Bozeman
J. C. Taylor
Montana Extension Service
Montana Farm Bureau
Montana Potato Improvement Association
Montana State Dairyman’s Association
Montana
Taylor
The
Agricultural College
M. L. Wilson
Montana Experiment Station
Wilson
Louis Vinke
Don’t Envy a Pretty Woman but Be One
Advice on female health and appearance from a period piece urging women to be well, resist envy, and maintain natural beauty despite nervousness backache and headache issues.
Montana State College Institutes Dairy Short Course
A dairy short course as part of the winter school of agriculture runs January 3 to March 26 at Montana State College. It trains men to lead Montana’s expanding dairying industry, with emphasis on butter cheese and ice cream manufacture and related dairy production and engineering topics. Participants should be 17 or older with good English. prior creamery experience is helpful but not required.
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Montana State College
Montana
J. A. Nelson
Nelson
Farming notes include dehorning chute kitchen contest and beets
RVIN COX of the Knobs community Fallon county built a dehorning chute per USDA bulletin 949 and reports excellent results. Fifty three Pondora county women join a kitchen contest directed by Miss H Miriam Hawkins with five meetings and ongoing scoring for improvements. Duroc Jersey hog stock inspected in Hill County to standardize pricing. About 170 acres of beets harvested in Lewis and Clark county with some losses due to irrigation timing. beets shipped to Chinook Utah Idaho factory. Roughly 500 sheep placed in Phillips county via Agricultural Credit Corp to form small flocks. Sanders County Cow Testing association inspires western farmers to start a club. copper carbonate reduces smut in Stillwater County. Lincoln county farmers pool orders for war explosive pyrotol. land valuations refined in Phillips county. Blaine County Poultry Marketing association ready for turkey and capon shipments for Thanksgiving. turkey crop similar to last year.
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Montana State College
Rvin Cox
Knobs
Fallon County
Farmers
United States Department of Agriculture
Pondora County
H. Miriam Hawkins
Montana Extension Service
Lewis and Clark County
Utah-Idaho
Chinook
Weekly Market Report Market Prices on Cattle and Hogs
Market report from October 26 1926 notes steady butcher stock prices despite lighter receipts with Western cattle still available. Montana steers sold up to 9.25 a hundredweight, 700 lb heifers at 7.25, and 1060 lb cows at 6.50, while heavy horned Montanas reached 8.60. Forecasts point to continued range cattle supply. price ranges include 1200-1300 lb steers 8.50-9.25 and various feeder, cow, and veal categories with a spread across quality levels. Breeding cows remain in demand with sales up to 800-900 dollars.
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Montana
Agriculture School Details From Montana State College
For broad field knowledge students may obtain extensive information on the agriculture program. Special courses across multiple lines of agriculture are offered and details are available from Principal J. O. Tretsven at Montana State College in Bozeman.
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School of Agriculture
J. O. Tretsven
Montana State College
Bozeman
Praise for Project Near Red Lodge Gains State Support
The Montana public service commission verified the Red Lodge Hoosebud irrigation district under state law. A $118,000 bond issued by Farm Mortgage corp funded by C Myers of Billings backs a cannery and crop expansion including peas. Northwest Agricultural Co forms to recruit 25 farmers. canals will supply 9,719 irrigable acres next spring.
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Montana Public Service Commission
Red Lodge-Hoosebud
Red Lodge
Carbon County
Commission
C. Myers
Bilings
Farm Mortgage Corporation
Myers
Public Service Commission
Montana
Cairy
Red Lodge Canning Company
State Railroad Commission
Northwest Agricultural Company
D. P. Fabrick
Billings
Raze Fort Keogh Landmark Recovers Lumber for Experiments
A barracks built in 1877 at Fort Keogh near Miles City was razed. Salvaged lumber is used to build six hog houses for the United States range livestock experimental station run by Robert Hutton and to remodel a beef experiment barn. Metal checks found hint at Miles City commerce years past.
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Fort Keogh
Miles City
United States Range Livestock Experimental Station
Swine Supere Meat Department
Robert Hutton
Poultry Brooder Invented by Mount Prospect Farmer
Hermann Stemnman, owner of a Stevensville Mount Prospect poultry farm, has invented a carbide fueled chicken brooder. It can care for 400 chicks from hatching to roosting at a cost not over 15 cents a day. He reports a year of use with no deaths and elimination of crowding and other defects.
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Hermann Stemnman
Mount Prospect
Stevensville
District Wool Growers Form New Montana Group
Roy Clary of Great Falls elected president of the revived Northern Montana Wool Growers district association. J Baucus named secretary treasurer with directors from Cascade, Chouteau, Teton, Pondera, Toole, Glacier counties. The group plans affiliation with the state wool growers association and welcomes additional counties. Wool market strength cited with needs to triple sheep numbers to reach 1904 peak.
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Roy Clary
Chouteau, Teton, Pondera, Toole
Glacier
Baucus
Montana
Great Falls
Stebbins
Plan Aerial Tramway Near Libby For Zonolite Company
Civil engineer Tiggelback of Sand Point Idaho leads a crew surveying a proposed tramway near Libby for Zonolite. The route from the mine to the Great Northern track would run about 15 000 feet long with a decline of over 1900 feet, pending final drafting.
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Tiggelback
Sand Point
Ida
Libby
Zonolite Company
BR. N. Alley
Great Northern
Uiegelbeck
Great Northern Railway
Will Enlarge School At Lewistown High Next Year
Fergus county school board seeks to add a second high school unit in Lewistown with $85,000 from county funds. Funds were in banks during the financial crisis and the board asks the county commissioners to release the amount promptly for planning and construction.
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Fergus County School Board
Lewistown
Doughnuts for Halloween and How to Make Them
A nostalgic guide gives Halloween doughnut lore and recipes. It explains spook lore, kitchen tips, and multiple doughnut varieties including Sweet Milk and Sour Milk doughnuts with tested fat temperatures and sugar guidance. It covers doughnut dough handling, rolling, and frying techniques.
Diamond Dyes Offer Home Dyeing Tips and Free Guide
The ad promotes Diamond dyes for 15 cents offering true tinting for underwear stockings and dresses. It claims easy home dyeing on any material and color with professional results and mentions a free booklet and color samples sent postpaid from Burlington Vermont.
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Burlington
Vermont
Doughnut Recipe Notes and Techniques from an Old Cookbook
A collection of pastry directions detailing doughnut making with milk cream vanilla and varying leavening options. It covers mixing wet and dry ingredients, shaping into doughnut forms, frying, and finishing with sugar, plus notes on avoiding over kneading and yielding lighter raised doughnuts.
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Treasure State Farm and Livestock
DR. Pierce
Invalids
Buffalo, N.Y
McCaull-Dinsmore Co
Minneapolis
Duluth
McCarthy
Grain Commission
Chicago
Clark's Fork Valley
Blackfoot Land
Hill County
Hill County Duroc-Jersey Association
Phillips County
Agricultural Credit Corporation
Sanders County
Plains
Stillwater County
Lincoln County
Blaine County Poultry Marektng Association
Weekly Market Report
Weiller & Weiller CO
Fletcher
State Commission
Watson
Mase
Home Service Department
Royal Milling Company
Dougit
Weiller Zweiller” Livestock Commission
ST. Paul
Minnesota
Steffey Bros
North Mers Bee
Nols
Zoe Prid O'Mark
E.scott Commission CO
Aggressin
Lederle
Montana State Veterinary Dept
WM. E. Anowles
Helena
S. C. Huseth
Great. Falls
Optician
Northern , Fur Company
Missoula
Western Montana
National Bank
Ist
Val
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