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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1922
Page
15
Ramsey Milholland recalls his Civil War era grandfather and the Decoration Day parade in his hometown. In school he struggles with arithmetic and recitations while Dora Yocum stands out as a rival, later sharing a tense moment with Milla Rust at a class picnic before Milla departs town.
Sadie Clews discloses Milla married to Milt, a twenty-one year old in Chicago, after a trip funded by Milla's cousin. Ramsey, now a high school graduate, confronts a new reality as Dora Yocum becomes a varsity rogue in his university life, forcing him to face an empowered social scene and looming assignment debates.
Professor Harry Embleton of Oklahoma A and M states there is no best chicken breed. He notes three classes: egg producers, dual purpose, and meat birds, advising buyers choose by goal and verify breeder reliability and lineage.
The article explains how laying hens show thinner flexible pelvic bones and a wider pelvic gap. When not laying, fat makes the bones feel thicker and less flexible, and the distance between the bones increases during non laying periods.
Advice on keeping charcoal accessible to fowls at all times and maintaining clean poultry runs and coops before chicks hatch. Emphasizes geese as holiday birds, timely egg setting, and having poultry remedies on hand for emergencies. Recommends grit oyster shell clean water and preventing mites or lice.
Dick Millin Montana extension service specialist explains that the historical terms blood and blood grades no longer indicate sheep breeding. He notes pure bred Shropshires Hampshires and Oxfords yield various blood grades while modern crossing produces three-eighths or quarter-blood wool with little to no meaningful distinction.
Progressive poultrymen adopt annual culling to save feed raise egg yield and improve quality. External traits such as maturity, general appearance, and color changes in comb wattle eyelid and vent help separate good and poor hens. Montana extension service provides charts and a bulletin titled Culling available by writing Bozeman.
North Montana farmer J. W. Swinney near Gildford recounts how milking Shorthorns kept his dryland farm viable. From 1913 arrival with two cows and Percheron mares, cream and colt sales funded the operation amid harsh winters. The herd, now 18 registered cattle, plus five mares and a colt, continues to generate income and labor compare.
Stockmen failed to give potassium iodide to pregnant sows across Montana during the previous winter, leading to increased hairless piglets. The issue caused greater losses than in recent years and drew attention to feeding practices.
The Montana extension service schedules 85 demonstrations this summer to show a variety of tillage implements, highlighting equipment options for farmers.
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