Various Montana Briefs Highlight Wage Talks and Local Demise
News notes from Great Falls and beyond report a $725000 yearly wage increase for 2000 Great Northern railway workers, the death of Adam Vanderhayden veteran of the Monitor, and Elias LeFrance a 12 year old who died after a tack removal infection in Kalispell. Other items cover a Clyde Park school district bond dispute, federal tax refunds on storage duties, wild hogs near Yellowstone, Montana rail rate petitions, a Yellowstone River bridge nearing completion, U S court judgments, a fatal industrial accident in Great Falls, a Kremlin child’s death, police uniforms for summer, and the Montana Society of Pioneers meeting in Great Falls with vaudeville plans at the state prison theater.
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Elias LeFrance
Kalispell
Spokane
Colleen Moore Leads California Cleanup Campaign
Motorists of California join the state board of health and the Automobile Club of America in a cleanup effort along coastal highways to the national parks. Actress Colleen Moore participates actively including climbing a tree to illustrate the campaign.
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Cifornia
Breard of Health
The
Automobile Club of America
Colleen Moore
Miss Moore
Yale grants Porter prize to Marjorie Hope Nicholson
Miss Marjorie Hope Nicholson daughter of Washington journalist C B Nicholson won Yale Universitys John Addison Porter prize of 500 dollars at recent commencement the schools highest student honor marking the first time the award went to a woman.
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Porter
Yale
Marjorie Hope Nicholson
C. B. Nicholson
Washington
John Addison Porter
Worth Noting World of Numbers and Nods.
Australia hosts 5 030 300 people while farms use 49 195 trucks and rising. Mrs John Gerken judged a New York horse show after winning nearly 1000 blue ribbons. Over two million barberry bushes were dug up in America last year in a bid against black stem rust. Bermuda onion seeds largely came from the Canary Islands before the war. Mount Wilson Observatory’s new telescope is a quarter of a million times more powerful than the human eye.
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Australia
John Gerken
New York
America
Black Stem Wheat Trust
Mount Wilson Observatory
California
Cow Surges Past Records on Roughage Diet at Huntley
Helen Uilkie Calamity 145857, sent from Beltsville to Huntley, is tested on a roughage only diet of alfalfa hay silage and pasture. Milk output rose from 11,476 pounds at Beltsville to 14,210 pounds in a year on roughage with no grain, surpassing prior records by over 2,400 pounds.
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Helen
de Kol
Dairy Division
United States Department of Agriculture
Beltsville
Huntley
Mont
Montana Experiment Station
Right care of cow's teats for milk yield
The teat is a delicate part of the cow and its proper care greatly influences both the quantity and quality of milk. Proper management ensures the milk-yielding function remains strong and healthy.
Summer Attention to Cows
Keeping cows in a cool darkened stable during the heat of the day and turning them out to pasture at nights will tend to reduce the fly aggravation. All stable doors and windows should be screened, and manure, which is the breeding place of flies, should be kept cleaned away and either scattered over the fields or kept in a place where it can be screened.
Desirable Butter Flavor Through Proper Cream Ripening
Butter made from sweet cream lacks flavor and is not desirable. To achieve a clean sour taste, extreme care is required in producing and ripening the cream.
Soundness First in Horse Selection for Buyers and Breeders
The U S department of agriculture stresses thorough, systematic exams before purchase. Note both presence and severity of unsoundness, distinguish temporary from permanent faults, and evaluate blemishes, vices, conformation flaws, and general traits like flesh, temperament, color, and age. Weigh good qualities against defects.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Bolsheviks of Live Stock
A Wisconsin farmer coins a nickname for dairy cattle critics calling them scrub bulls the enemies of production. He labels them bulsheviks and ties the idea to the Better Lives Better Stock campaign by the USDA with state and local agencies.
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Wisconsin
United States Department of Agriculture
Ith
Iis
SHY AT REGISTERED CATTLE
Writer argues many farmers avoid registered cattle because some registered bulls do not outperform calves from good grade sires. He urges breeders to cull inferior stock to improve satisfaction among small and large breeders.
Live Stock Notes on Sheep and Hog Health
The article warns about stomach worms in sheep and cautions vaccinated pigs should not be placed on infected premises. It notes foot-sore lameness from concrete/floor confinement, favors clean barns for calves up to three months, and highlights sheep ticks irritating lambs and causing weight loss in severe cases.
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News of Montana
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Adam Vanderhayden
Monitor
Butte
Amsterdam
Holland
Montana
United States Navy
Clyde Park
Nation
Treasury Department
Helena
Montana Railway Company
Yellowstone Park
Park County
Cal Railways
Interstate Ecommeree Commission
State Railway Commission
Interstate Commercce Commission
Onn
Yellowstone River
Ehintley
Yellow Stone County
United States
Hetena Ahinst Billings
United States Fidelity &. Gilianty Co. Assivety
G. I> Ae
Charles McDaniels
Crow Reservation
Gust Nordberg
Aniconda
Rreat
Catherine Simmons
Mrs. Flob. Simmons
Kremlin
Coulnt Kremlin
Montana Society of Pioneers
W. A. Clark
Anaconda
Missoula
Peer Lodge
State Prison Theater
Frank Conley
Arena of
Nimes
France
Alice Paul
National Woman's Party
Miss Paul
Mary Thistle
Ada Mixon
Elizabeth Kolb
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Pranklin D. Roosevelt
Secretary of the Navy
Ro Street N. W
Colleen
Boston
Kasuga
Baron J. Kamimura
Bermuda
Canary Islands
Helen Uilkie
Carnegie
Wisconsin Farrmeer
DOE
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