Certificates of merit to Montana cows hitting butter fat benchmarks
Montana cows in cow testing associations reaching 300 pounds of butter fat per year will be honored with certificates of merit issued by Montana State College and the Montana State Dairy Men's Association. The plan, put forward by J C Paisley and J O Tretsven, aims to recognize high producers and relies on accurate records from member associations.
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Montana
Montana State College
Montana State Dairymen’s Association
J. C. Paisley
Lake County Cow Testing Association
J. O. Tretsven
State College Extension Service
Alfred Atkinson
Montana Livestock and Farm Developments Across Counties
State livestock orders ease as the sanitary board lifts certain bans. Sheridan county reports rising purebred stock activity and dairy herds expansion. Montana irrigation districts total nearly two million acres with several projects under federal and state care. Polar brand seed potatoes gain regional designation. Guernsey cow Nepaul's Tomah 64841 tops Montana class AA with 10,424 pounds milk. Miles City flocks forecast strong spring lambing. Prospects improve for beet sugar tests in Pondera county. Conrad to Chinook freight at 46 cents per ton boosts profitability. Hogs outlook favorable per Montana Agricultural Outlook. Daniels county reports robust farm labor interest from midwest seekers. Seedling containers aid transplanting. Glacier county forms poultry cooperative modeled after Pondera group.
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Forsyth
Fairway Farm Corporation
Sheridan County
ML PL Ostby
Montana
C. S. Heldel
United States Reclamation Service
Indian Service
Northern
Montana Seed Potato Growers’ Association
Norhern
Valley County
Nepaul
Mark D. Fitzgarrald
Stevensville
American Guernsey Association
Miles City
G. B. Pope
Sunday Creek
Tongue River
Pondera County
Conrad
Chinook
Daniels County
Middle West
C. C. Starling
Horticultural Department
Montana State College
Glacier County
Pondera Poultry Growers’ Association
Blaine Ferguson
Glacier County Association
Ducks foot cultivators shipped to Hill county farms
A farming community in Hill county has received two carloads of duck foot cultivators for the coming season. The purchase signals growing farming development in northern Montana in recent years.
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Hill County
Montana
Farm tests to combat soil blowing in Chouteau county
A series of farm tests will be conducted in Chouteau county during the coming season to determine the best soil blowing control methods. In some areas the issue has become serious and an effective remedy is hoped for.
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Chouteau County
Big Ranch Deal in Toole Follows Industry Revival
The Pritchard ranch near Shelby sold to W C Musgrave for 110000, one of Toole county’s largest realty deals. The 5000 acres of grazing and farming land were owned for 25 years by William Pritchard of Sweetgrass, a pioneer stockman. With revived stock raising in the county, the land gains value for sheep and cattle, and Sweetgrass hills ranchers are restocking.
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Pritchard
Shelby
W. C. Musgrave
Toole County
William Pritchard
Sweetgrass
Sweetgrass Hills
Agriculture Expansion in Rosebud County Foreseen This Year
The county expects rapid agricultural development with all lands in the Forsyth area and northeast districts slated for cultivation after years of inactivity. Increased seed acreage, farm machinery upgrades, and overall improvements mark the year's farming plans across Rosebud County.
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Rosebud
Forsyth Flat
Purebred Herefords Added to Emmerick Herd at Birney
Emmerick Bros of Birney received two purebred Hereford bulls and six cuts of purebred Hereford cows from Dell Montana to upgrade their range herd and replace common cattle in the effort to improve quality.
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Birney
Emmerick Bros
Dell
Montana
Mexican beet workers arrive for Lower Yellowstone fields
One hundred thirty Mexican beet workers arrive at Sidney after traveling from Kansas City where Holly labor officials arranged their shipment north for work in local beet fields.
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Lower
Yellowstone
Sidney
Kansas City
Holly
Montana Poultry Marketing association gains members
Membership in the Montana Poultry Marketing association is growing rapidly and drawing wide interest. Mrs. J. D. Veach of Helena, secretary, says circulars about the group are being mailed to poultry breeders and county agents.
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Montana Poultry Marketing Association
J. D. Veach
Helena
Cross-Word Puzzle From Copperfich First Wife And More
A historical crossword puzzle listing numerous clues and partial answers across many lettered slots. It includes references to names such as David Copperfield and various wordlists like verbs, prepositions, nouns, and abbreviations, with a note that the solution will appear in the next issue.
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David Copperfich
Asimian
Atrike
How to Solve a Crossword Puzzle Rules
Instructions describe placing correct letters in white spaces to form horizontal and vertical words. Numbers indicate word definitions, with clues for filling until a black square, and no letters go into black spaces. All words are dictionary entries except proper names. abbreviations slang initials technical terms and obsolete forms may be used in definitions.
Foolish to Worry About One's Heart
Boston heart specialist Dr William Duncan Reid explains in Hygeia that many people misjudge heart health. He cites so called effort syndrome where symptoms imitate cardiac disease without heart impairment and urges periodic medical exams rather than worry.
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William Duncan Reid
Boston
Reid
Converse With Insects Only Matter of Time
J B Haldane argues in The Forum that humans will soon converse with bees and ants. Wheeler of Harvard suggests social insect behavior rests on an economic system similar to ours, where workers are paid with nectar. A Kiel entomologist studies how much one ant can tell another.
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J. B
Haldane
Wheeler
Harvard
Kiel
Talking with Bees Might Beat a Voyage to Mars
The author imagines communicating with bees to coordinate tasks such as fertilizing apple trees, proposing a model bee to mimic sensory signals and scents. They argue humans already have social, intelligent beings on Earth and question waiting for extraterrestrial contact when local collaboration is possible.
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Mars
Man’s Wave Salute Sparks Confusion at Downtown Office
A Salute Bill stretched when yawning at a downtown office, lifting his arms in a wave. A business caller nearby misread the gesture as a salute and returned it, leaving the passerby puzzled as he left the building. The incident drew comment from a friend who asked who the man was.
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Bill
Indianapolis News
Jinx in Numbers Haunt Famous Composers
The piece notes that composers like Wagner and Rossini feared a certain number. Rossini disliked the number thirteen because his Barber of Seville premiered in thirteen days and he died on November 13, 1868.
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Wagner
Rossini
Barber of Seville
Stibolt’s War Wounds Shape Lawyer and Inspector Career
Noble Stibolt, wounded with forty leg injuries from a World War I shell at St Mihiel on Sept 12, 1918, becomes an attorney and inspector for the American Surety Co in New York City. He credits the American Legion and government rehabilitation programs for enabling his return to civilian life and professional progress, praising their support and urging citizen backing. He notes postwar shifts from hut salesman to a steadier legal and insurance career, aided by veterans’ services.
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Noble Stibolt
American Surety Company
New York City
Stibolt
St. Mihiel
Lfe
North Shore
American Legion
Chicago
Naonal
Indianapolis
Plans for Monuments Laid Before Congress
The American Legion Battle Monuments commission presented final plans to Congress for marking battlefields abroad and honoring American troops overseas. Proposed are cemetery beautification, commemorative monuments for all participating organizations, historical markers for major operations, a home monument for U S Army and Navy actions in Italy and surrounding waters, headquarters tablets for the American Expeditionary Force, two memorials and three naval monuments, with an estimated cost of 3 million dollars. Commission members include Gen. John J. Pershing as chairman and Thomas W. Miller of Fidac.
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American Legion Battle Monuments Commission
Congress
American Legion
Washington
United States
Italy
The
Legion
Harmon Playgrounds Awarded to Numerous Cities
The Harmon Foundation awards playgrounds to American Legion communities nationwide. Dillon and Marion in South Carolina are the latest to receive grants after Legion posts led the campaigns, following a year of notices that 50 awards would be granted from over a thousand applications across the nation.
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Harmon Foundation
American Legion
Dillon
Marion
S. C
United States
Wives Wanted in Germany as Old-Fashioned Marriage Ads
In Frankfort on the Main, young men advertise for wives while insisting they must not be too modern. Some use relatives as go-betweens to screen applicants, avoiding embarrassment by giving vague reasons to reject unsuitable matches.
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Frankfort-on the-Main
Germany
Advertising Pays in Peru Boosts Shoe Polish Sales
An American manufacturer’s agent in Lima proves the value of aggressive advertising by lifting sales from 14,400 boxes in 1928 to 432,000 boxes in 1924, illustrating the power of marketing in a tropical market.
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Lima
Peru
Patience Is a Virtue in American Legion Weekly
A humorous line about a wife staying up late waiting for her husband is quoted from American Legion Weekly. The exchange notes the wife enduring long nights and questions the effort, ending with the remark that she waits for him.
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American Legio
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State Livestock Sanitary Board
J. E. Erickson
California
Department of Agriculture
Yellowstone County
Fallon
Gallaon
Prairie
Lewistown
Jans Jansma
Cle. Proniek
Billings
Montana Agricultural Outlook
Montana State College Extension Service
Spokane
Toole
India
Hades
England
Legiong
American Legion News Service
Noble Stiboit
Harmon
Page Old-Fashioned Girl
Liquid Veneer Company
Ellicott Street
Buffalo
United States Rubber Company
Henry Moeller
Marysville
Kan
M. Sat
Say
Bayer
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