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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1917
Page
2
The article advises beekeepers to inspect each colony to ensure sufficient honey and winter strength. It recommends merging two weak hives by stacking brood chambers with a queen excluder and a veil of paper to minimize fighting, resulting in one stronger colony focused on brood and honey production.
Montana farmers expect a bumper bean harvest with Billings leading yields. Harvesting tips cover timing pulling methods field sizes machine options, stacking protection, and threshing choices to minimize bean cracking and loss. Jap bean growers in Billings often hand-pick in winter for higher prices and steady labor.
Report from Paris indicates Austrian prisoners held by France are starving for cigarettes. In Vienna long cigarette lines form along sidewalks. Regulators cap sales at four cigarettes per customer to curb shortages.
Northern Produce Co announces marketing services in Great Falls Montana. They buy and sell tay grain potatoes apples peaches pears coal wood fence posts poles house logo livestock and sacks both new and used. They accept consignments and offer joint accounts and bank guarantees with shipments attached to drafts.
Seventeen Herefords owned by Matador Land and Cattle Co of the Fort Belknap Reservation sold in Chicago at 14 cents per pound, the highest price in U S range fed steers. Another 20 carloads averaged 1,218 pounds sold at 13 cents. The Matador plans to ship 9,000 head to Clay Robinson in coming months as stockmen rush cattle east before market surge. Hay costs rise, feeding over winter threatens substantial losses.
The Minneapolis Commerce Association backs a drive to lure Montana flockmasters to Minnesota as feed shortages loom. It argues Minnesota cut over lands can host sheep and aims to influence the National Sheep and Wool Growers convention in Chicago. The piece questions Minnesota’s feeding capacity and urges a development group to safeguard local wool and mutton industries.
Montana officials report the Spokane conference heard that the federal food bill will not provide seed grain aid. The House amendment would issue seed grain to farmers at cost for cash, limiting government support. Montana bankers urged aid to help farmers expand winter wheat and rye plantings amid financial strain.
Millionaires and top eastern executives plan to invest large sums in raw western lands to dodge heavy excess profits taxes under the new surtax.
A married man ignores home counsel and stays downtown seeking cause of strain as domestic support shifts. The remark highlights tension between spousal expectations and public actions.
Montana farmers react to the No 1 Northern spring wheat price set by the federal fair price committee led by H A Garfield. The $2.20 per bushel base is seen by officials as fair for many growers but Equity in Montana calls it unprofitable and argues for at least $2.50.
A survey of global wartime events notes Polish famine deaths under German rule, fuel and food shortages in Rome Paris and London, a surge in U S gun and shell orders, rising car prices, wheat prices and government grain buying plans, large textile and mining projects, and military manpower and public notices across sites including Philadelphia Paris Rome St Louis Detroit Washington Mexico City Salt Lake Paris New York London Atlanta Chicago.
The article notes days of anxiety for slackers as US marshal's office intensifies efforts to locate and apprehend men avoiding military service. It highlights Montana as having few such individuals but emphasizes nationwide pursuit and enforcement.
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