Wheat harvest ranks third largest on record in Montana
Montana's 1938 wheat crop totals 710,916,000 bushels, remaining the third largest on record despite a drop from August forecasts. Winter wheat already harvested at 22,050,000 bushels, spring wheat forecast down to 48,866,000. Rust and grasshopper damage trimmed the drop by over 6.5 million bushels as per the Bureau of Agricultural Economics report.
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Montana
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
North Central
Continental Oil announces pension plan for employees
Continental Oil Co introduces a cooperative retirement fund for 65 year old men and 60 year old women with employee monthly contributions and company matches. Minimum 30 dollar monthly benefit, average retirement income 1/3 to 1/2 of salary including federal pension. About 5,000 employees covered. Administered by Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Read the Classified Advertisements.
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Continental Oil CO
Dan Moran
Moran
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co
Harvest of Montana's Largest Sugar Beet Crop Under Way
The Montana potato growers association reports fields pass two inspections and the crop is allowed to bear the association tag. Holker credits local leaders and voluntary helpers for improving stock and pota work while noting most club members’ fields are not turned down, indicating thorough seed pota work and disease-free prospects for next year.
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Montana
Montana ‘Potae
Holker
Billings
Hardin
Missoula
Chinook
Sidney
Pondera County
Great Falls
Chicago
Yellowstone
Hill
Blaine
McCone
Wibaux
Richland
Dawson
Dawson County Fair
Don Gibson
Union
Clear Creek Potato Club
I. O. Thompson
Dawson County
Gibson
Bliss Triumph
Victor
Orville Thompson
Montana Agricultural Experiment Station
Early Montanans Meet Telephone Pranks At St Louis Hotel
After the 1876 Philadelphia exposition a Montana buying party gathers at the Planters' House in St Louis. A new telephone is demonstrated to visitors from Fort Benton Helena and elsewhere. A prank club strikes a newcomer on the head as friends shout invite him to come down.
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Edna Lamoore Waldo
Philadelphia
Billy Bofinger
John Bofinger
Mississippi
St. Louis
New Orleans
Louisiana
Planters
Fourth and Pine
I. P. Baker
Montana
Fort Benton
Helena
Deer Lodge
Ben Stickney
John T. Murphy
Cody and Baker
Weston
T. C. Power
W. B. Jordan
Joseph Leighton
Jordan & Leighton
Fort Buford
Fort Keogh
F. Y. Batchelor
Leighton
Pittsburgh
Miles City
Baker
So and So
Season's Fish Planting in Glacier Park Ends
Glacier national park ends its fish planting season with 17000 brook trout fingerlings released into Lakes Swiftcurrent and Josephine. About 2,250,000 fry stocked since early summer across park waters under John Aiten and Cleon Thomas. Thomas completed five years transporting fish along remote park roads covering roughly 25000 miles.
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Glacier Park
Glacier National Park
Cleon Thomas
Glacier Park Station
Thomas
Woods Road
Dawson County 4-H Clubs Set Record Growing Spuds
Dawson county 4 H clubs have grown certified potatoes to a record, earning nearly $5,000 and showing a side line for farmers. National recognition cited by county extension head T B Holker in a report kept at the extension office.
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Dawson County
T. B. Holker
Warn Sheepmen Of Spear Grass In Montana Ranges
United States forestry department warns Montana sheepmen about spear grass a corkscrew seed that can embed in wool causing infections. Chicago buyers have paused purchases forcing near term calls for shearing and dipping facilities in feed lots.
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Montana
United States Forestry Department
Chicago
Treasure State Ranges
Helena Forestry
Merrion & Wilkins
Sheep Commission Company
Union
Snyder Sheep Co
Billings
Cold storage and meat industries face rising costs
The fragment notes increased costs in cold storage warehouses and meat processing, suggesting price pressures over the period described. It mentions an individual seeking to occupy road space, hinting at infrastructure or access disputes impacting operations.
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Anaconda Copper Mining Co. Lands Department
Missoula, Mont
Western Horseman Magazine
Lafayette
California
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John Etchart
Tampico, Mont
Sam Freeman
Dillon, Montana
Greenwood Ranch
Dalton, Nebraska
Heart-Barl Ranch
Ralph W. Selkirk
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Montana Newspaper Association
Great Falls, Montana
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