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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1917
Page
2
A 1912 guidance piece urges beekeepers to assess each colony’s strength and honey stores for winter. It recommends merging two weak colonies at dusk using a queen excluder and a sheet of newsprint to ease integration and boost brood and honey production.
Montana sees record bean plantings and rich harvest prospects especially around Billings where yields on dry land average eight bushels per acre and twelve on irrigated ground. Japs in Billings use two row pullers and hand-picking in winter to boost profits, suggesting white farmers adopt similar methods for higher returns.
Report notes prisoners in Paris and Austria facing cigarette shortages. Paris and Vienna authorities impose limits. in Vienna queues form for cigarettes and lines stretch along sidewalks. French state claims Austria is starving for cigarettes and controls tighten with a four cigarette per customer limit.
Marketing Is Our Business We buy and sell hay grain potatoes apples peaches pears coal wood fence posts poles house logs livestock sacks and more. We accept consignments and work on joint accounts with bank guaranty. shipping accepted with DHL bills of lading attached to draft. Great Falls Montana.
Seventeen Herefords owned by Matador Land and Cattle Co of the Fort Belknap reservation sold at 14 cents a pound in Chicago, highest US price for range fed steers, with 20 carloads averaging 1,218 pounds each at 13 cents. Matador plans to ship 9,000 head to Clay Robinson in coming months as hay prices spike.
The Minneapolis Commerce Association backs a plan to underwrite Montana sheep breeders moving to Minnesota on logged off timber lands. The effort targets Montana and Wyoming herds facing feed shortages, arguing Minnesota's ranges can support feeding. The push leads to the National Sheep and Wool Growers convention in Chicago.
Montana officials reported renewed resistance to seed grain aid. The amended food bill would supply seed grain at cost in cash, blocking the agriculture department plan. Montana bankers urged federal help for farmers facing credit challenges as they plan larger winter wheat and rye plantings.
Wealthy eastern financiers and corporate chiefs intend to invest large sums in raw western lands to avoid payment of excess profits under the new surtax, signaling a strategic shift in tax planning amid tax reforms.
A wry note suggests a married man may ignore advice while downtown since that is all he gets at home.
Montana farmers and Equity officials debate a No 1 Northern spring wheat price set by a Washington committee. The bulletin lists prices by grade with No 1 Northern pegged at 2.20 per bushel. Equity head C F Lowrie says the price is too low and unprofitable for many growers.
Dispatches report shifting names in Philadelphia area and harsh wartime conditions in Poland, with observations on Rome’s milk shortage and London to Paris fuel and food issues. U.S. arms orders, farm prices, and military logistics feature alongside mining, Bible demand, and government controls on rail and ordnance.
The article notes days of anxiety for slackers and reports the U S marshal's office orders to spare no effort to locate and apprehend men seeking to avoid service in the United States army in Montana.
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