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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1916
Page
6
Advertising cries from a hundred years ago praise peddlers as best buyers finders. Today classified columns render the service on a grand scale, guiding readers to opportunities they may not realize they were seeking.
The Equity Cooperative Association of Great Falls Montana advertises 320 acres near Conrad with 200 under cultivation at 12.50 per acre and 820 acres of plow land with 200 acres in grain plus a reservoir and wells. It lists 10000 sheep ranch near town at 11.00, 600 acre stock ranch with cattle and horses, 625 acres irrigated near a railroad town at 25 per acre, 6000 cattle ranch in Big Hole country at 12.50, and other large tracts and subdividable lands with reasonable terms through Fagan McCutcheon and B P McNair.
The Canfield Manufacturing Company of Chicago offers a live pocket side line to merchants in towns of 100,000 and under. It claims a $5 commission per sale with no collecting, expenses, or risk to the merchant, and promises to take back all unsold goods.
In a Montana diary style feature, Sam Johnson and Robert Templeton champion corn as a drought resilient feed crop. They test and promote Flint and Dent varieties, involve schools, and distribute seed while noting early successes, challenges, and regional lessons for livestock farming.
A Montana advocate argues stacking grain is the long term crop insurance, cheaper per bushel, keeps grain safe from weather delays, enables threshing any time in fine weather, and yields better curing than shocks, with a tested instance of thirty seven years in England showing grain can keep well in stacks.
Poultry experts urge farmers to clean poultry houses of lice before winter. Start by removing waste, burning or composting it, then spray with kerosene mixtures and creosote dips. Dust birds or dip them if weather allows, repeating spraying after ten to fourteen days to target hatched lice.
Breeding or dairy heifers or any range cattle for sale. Right price and dependable options. Tuberculin tested free of charge. Also sell cattle on time to responsible buyers with satisfactory statements. Write or wire for information. King Cattle Co Union Stock Yards South St Paul Minn.
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