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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1917
Page
2
The Billings school board hired O G Romney to supervise home gardening and food conservation. Of 110 entries 104 finished and 85 kept gardens all season. Garden rows totaled 23 miles with truck worth about 6500 dollars per season and 66000 dollars for all ages.
Montana stockmen hold onto breeding stock as hay scarcity drives cattle shipments to eastern markets. A. B. Hammond of Armington and P. M. Jeffers of Norris report favorable cattle prospects, favoring cattle over hogs despite high hay prices. They note Northwest beef confidence and describe mixed hog outlook and strong hog sales earlier in October 1915.
The article advises selecting only top quality birds and removing excess roosters and nonproductive hens before Thanksgiving. It urges disposing of old males hatched in 1916 or earlier, poor layers, two year old hens, and overfat or deformed birds, while stressing careful culling based on size vigor and health.
Last spring large tracts were planted to beans in the Yellow stone and tributary valleys. Harvesting is complete and the crop is excellent in quantity and quality. Eastern seed houses praise the beans and want to buy and contract for next year. Although plantings doubled, the supply remains insufficient.
A compact saying warns against chasing trouble and suggests avoiding confrontations by not pursuing risky situations. The note emphasizes prudence and self restraint to prevent problems before they arise.
A urging notice warns trappers to order steel traps and supplies now to capitalize on high fur prices this season. With many trappers joining the army or switching jobs, competition drops and catch potential rises, promising big money for those who trap full or part time before a likely steel trap price surge after January.
L H Kennedy of Harlem shipped a carload of Montana swine to St Paul and earned 3872.80 dollars after premium. The 99 hogs averaged 210 pounds each, fed mainly on alfalfa with bran and shorts in finishing, and the car sold at 18.76 dollars per hundredweight plus a five cent premium.
Mont Angus of Terry has been granted a patent for an ensilage machine designed to attach to a farm wagon. The device cuts corn stalks from the stubble and prepares them for the silo, offering a simplified design likely useful to farmers in the livestock industry.
MOTHERN BROKERAGE CO advertises purchase of oats coal wood fence posts poles house logs apples sacks and other goods. Calls for immediate oats and asks readers to write regarding prices at 500 First Great Falls.
A. A. White lists business and residence lots for sale in Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and California plus 21 government townsites on Flathead Lake near Glacier National Park. The ad highlights the Great Northern Railway line, claims the area as a future world resort, and gives office locations in St. Paul and Missoula.
The report indicates Tokio Japan plans construction of 30 submarines in the coming year as part of wartime naval expansion. The brief item notes the broader context of global submarine programs and Allied naval actions.
A cautionary remark compares some men to a bogus dollar, noting they appear respectable but lack genuine integrity. The line underscores distrust in outward appearance versus inner truth.
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