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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1923
Page
6
Jim Irwin faces a moral dilemma after a lively party ends with a pivotal proposal. Colonel Woodruff and neighbors offer a paid position to lead a new rural school, with a plan to move him from his current project, while Jim weighs the impact on friends, finances, and his hopes for transforming education through hands on experience.
A Montana Wheat Seed sample tested by the Montana Grain Inspection Laboratory at Bozeman showed 27.4 percent durum wheat with the rest a mix of hard red winter, red spring, rye, oats, inert matter, and six weed seed kinds. The bulletin stresses mislabeling issues and notes the lab can identify seed class but not all varieties, urging careful seed sourcing and labeling.
Jim goes to Ames and speaks before a county audience where he feels mocked by the reception the audience gives. Jennie consoles him saying the speech was a success and the best address of the meeting, a belief echoed by others including Jon Bonner. Jim struggles to respond to the lingering doubt about his performance.
Jim Irwin praises advanced agricultural education at the Ames college campus arguing for earlier exposure in schools. He contends that delaying agricultural study deprives children and pushes them toward college debt, urging reform to expand practical agriculture within primary and secondary schooling. The scene ends with plans for broader access and a political nudge as Don Bonner reappears.
Mrs Higgins notes she persuaded her husband to join a glee club and now can advise him on vocal care as he sings at home. The lighthearted exchange frames a domestic scene about music and family.
ThE Holstein cow named Lady on the Fallon county farm of ThEB. French freshened Sept 4 1922 and, after 305 days on test, produced 14996.9 pounds of milk and 585.81 pounds of butter. Lady, fed on mixed alfalfa prairie hay and ground grain, calved during the test and weighed about 1800 pounds.
Dairy sections note farmers switch to barley and low grade wheat to cut costs, with bran and shorts feeding reserved. Barley and wheat are effective dairy feeds, offering no advantage to use pricier alternatives when affordable options exist.
A double wall creates a dead air space that effectively retains heat. In a cold chicken house, tar paper building paper or newspapers can be used to improve comfort by exploiting this principle of trapped air.
The article urges eradicating the barberry plant to block the life cycle of black stem rust. It notes Montana escaped major wheat losses, but eastern states faced large damages due to favorable weather for rust development.
Instructions describe equipment for sausage making and three regional mixes. Pork sausage uses beef fat salt and spices. country sausage blends town pork with beef and spices. Frankfurt Vienna uses beef pork and peppers with salt. Steps include grinding, mixing, chilling, stuffing, and smoking to finish.
Montana State College President Alfred Atkinson endorses a plan to raise farm product prices via a national export operation. The plan would buy surplus crops to lift prices to match labor and manufactured goods, funded by tariffs and a tax on benefited producers to cover any deficiencies.
A Montana city tested a mixture of ashes and local gumbo for road surface. The method proved satisfactory in residential areas and cost two blocks at 885 compared with 3400 for paving in other parts of the city.
Silage is a valuable winter feed but cannot replace grain. It provides tasty nourishment during cold months, improves over bulky hay and straw, and does not require corn to mature. Corn silage is among the best milk feeds for cows.
W G Jones won first prize at the North Central Corn show in Teton county. The note advises selecting the garden plot before deep snow and applying manure now to let the spring thaw carry nutrients into the soil.
A frontier coach driver Free Thompson braves Stein’s Pass near Lordsburg New Mexico. With six companions they resist 600 Apache warriors for three days and nights, fighting to the last, finally killed but taking 150 Apaches with them.
A historic account recounts the pre Civil War camel experiments by the U S War Department. It notes 34 camels landed at Indianola Texas in 1856 with later imports, difficulties with desert sand and mule-handlers, Civil War distractions, and the ultimate demise of the project. Camel herds faced Apache killings and one camel ending up in a Phoenix pasture after a debtor seizure.
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