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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1916
Page
6
A historic nod to classified advertising notes how peddlers once matched buyers and sellers. It extols modern classified columns as a broad service that reveals opportunities readers may not notice.
An old classified listing promotes stock ranch and farm lands in Montana. Fagan and McCutcheon offer 1800 acre stock ranch with timber shelter and 1100 acres plow land at 850 per acre with long terms. Additional 640 acres diversified farming at 8 per acre with 1200 cash and six percent interest. Pratt Heath Co advertises 600 acres stock and grain land at 22 per acre with one fourth cash and ten years at six percent. Listings note North Realty Co and Great Falls referrals.
Montana land listings from the Equity Cooperative Association describe parcels for sale near Conrad and in the Great Falls area. They include 820 acres plow land with 200 acres in grain, a 5,000 acre sheep ranch near the Forest Reserve with 10,000 sheep, a 600 acre stock ranch with cattle and horses, and a 6,000 cattle ranch in Big Hole country. Prices range from 11.00 to 25.00 per acre, with varied improvements and irrigation.
Classified note from Brandon Oregon seeking to trade coast property for Helena or Montana property. Will send particulars upon request. Address Box 131.
Classified ad seeks an experienced cafe operator with 200 to 300 dollars to take over a profitable venture. Address at Great Northern Motel Malta Montana.
Montana Experiment Station recommends shrubs and trees for dry land farms to beautify homes and raise ranch value. Russian olive, Siberian pea tree, common lilac, Tartarian honeysuckle, and buckthorn suit hedges or specimen plantings. Plant in fall or spring when frost is out.
C. W. Barr, a Billings millionaire, plans a large model stock farm near Hardin occupying 850 acres of alfalfa and 250 acres of sugar beets along with other crops. The facility will be one of the state’s largest stock farms with gas heating from a well on site. Barr owns top Northwest cattle including a Percheron stallion that won at the International Livestock Show and a Poll–land China boar that earned honors at the Montana State Fair.
The formation of the Potato Growers Association in Lewistown area last spring has led to Fergus County farmers planting more Standard types this year than ever before, with both association members and nonmembers expanding their acreage.
Montana farmers report tall corn with counties Yellowstone Rosebud Musselshell Big Horn Fallon thriving. A Billings field yielded 35 bushels per acre with corn reaching 14 feet, grown by W. B. George who notes northern adaptation and climatic evolution similar to Illinois and Minnesota.
A Richland county trial of 15 cows found one produced $85.82 yearly while others earned far less. Using a small milk scale and butter fat tester, farmers can identify profitable cows. a 20 cow testing outfit costs about $5 and can quadruple earnings by culling low producers.
Montana grain traction slowed last week due to storms and poor roads but deliveries this week rose. Receipts at main stations stay fair while last year's movement was heavier. Car shortages persist but railroads push extra supplies. growers increasingly sell amid higher prices.
The American Society of Equity in Montana has grown to over 10 000 members with 16 county unions. From 200 members two years ago to 3 000 last year the state formed a formal organization July 8 last year with charters in five counties. It now operates six wholesale houses in Great Falls Butte Missouri Lewistown Sidney and Billings and owns 65 elevators buying grain. It runs retail stores in Denton Fort Shaw Monarch Nashua Power Square Butte Ashmore Floweree Bole and Great Falls and recently sold 20 cars of oats to Seattle buyers at seven cents per hundred over eastern markets.
Helena reports a Montana railroad commissioner denounces using stored cars as a remedy for grain-crop car shortages. He cites Great Northern troubles and Big Sandy delays, warns against applying demurrage rate increases as a remedy.
Reports from Blaine County indicate excellent harvests this season with wheat yields up to 30 bushels per acre on the Mathewson place and nearly 25 bushels on the Radke farm. Prices at the elevator exceed 1.50 per bushel while flax yields surpass 19 bushels per acre from the Wing place.
President Wilson opened 95 786 acres of Fort Assinniboine in Hill county to public entry. Homesteaders may file at Havre land office from 9 am October 25 to noon November 15. First six months price 2 50 per acre, then 6 15. deposits 50 cents per acre required. Initial limit 160 acres. after six months the 320 acre enlarged homestead is granted.
A Musselshell county bench land record was set when H. P. Lambert sold a north quarter to C. A. Henninger for 40 dollars an acre. The Lambert parcel lies south of the section housing the experimental farm. Henninger, having sold his Wheaton farm, reinvested in local Musselshell land.
Threshing in the Billings region shows non irrigated wheat yields about half normal. Beet crops are unusually heavy this season, signaling uneven regional performance in agriculture.
Oh Joy German Kitchen and A Pancake of Keenova West Virginia have volunteered to help around the Feed Box department of the Club.
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