Hold Your Seed Wheat Says Montana Extension Chief
Director F S Cooley urges Montana farmers not to sell all seed wheat now noting market oddities and seed demand. He warns against futures speculation and stresses keeping high quality seed for next season while pointing to domestic shortages and rising prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. S. Cooley
State College Agricultural Extension Service
Montana
Cooley
State College of Agriculture
Bozeman
United States
Report on cereal yields and seeding rates in crop trials
Seed rates per acre for various oats and barley types are outlined with the Sixty-Day oats at about 4 pecks per acre and barley at 5 pecks for hulled varieties and 4 pecks for naked types. The White Smyrna barley yields highest on average, Kharkof winter wheat ranks second, followed by Nepal naked barley and Pelissier spring wheat. Emmer spelt underperform barley and oats. Proso millet shows little promise. early brown kaoliang and broom corn fail to mature seed. Early flax sowing between April 15 and May 1 is advised with 20 to 25 pounds per acre as optimal.
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Kharkof
Nepal
Only One Name In Book Campaign Issue Hinges On Tenny
Helena dispatch reports independent candidate C W Tenny for superintendent of public instruction stands alone in requesting a campaign text book this fall. Secretary of State A M Alderson says law requires issuance if Tenny demands it and that the book would carry only material provided by him. Tenny is currently out of the city with unclear attitude.
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C. W. Tenny
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Democratic
Republican State Central Committees
Tenny
Helena
A. M. Alderson
Passing of Montana Pioneer Alpheus Badgley
Alpheus Badgley pioneer of Montana since 1864 died at his Bozeman home on September 28 at age 80 after old age and paralysis. Born September 11 1886 in Illinois he joined the 1864 gold rush to Idaho and Virginia City then farmed in Bitter Root valley and homesteaded near Bozeman. He married Emeline Little and after her death remarried Nancy Dixon before returning to Montana in 1883.
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Alpheus Badgley
MontAna
Bozeman
Territory
Illinois
Badgley
Belleville
Ill
Idaho
Virginia City
Omaha
Plains
Alder Gulch
Helena
Bitter Root
Fort Benton
Emeline Little
Nancy Dixon
Lewistown Man Jacob Wyrouck Dies in Virginia City
Jacob Wyrouck aged 84 arrived in Virginia City in 1864 and lived in Montana since. He died Sunday in the arms of his daughter Mrs. James Smith after a groan drew her to his room, the death attributed to heart failure.
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Lewistown
Jacob Wyrouck
Virginia City
Mont
James Smith
Pioneer clothing merchant Henry Frank dies at 72
Henry Frank longtime Livingston resident and pioneer clothing merchant, died Wednesday morning last week at age 72. A 51 year Montana resident who first settled at Fort Benton in 1865, he later lived in Helena and Livingston. He was a thirty third degree Mason and built a major eastern Montana clothing business before his death. remains sent to St. Louis for burial.
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Henry Frank
Sweet Grass County
Livingston
Montana
Fort Benton
Helena
St. Louis Mo
Pioneer William Hackney 90 Dies at Helena Masonic Home
William Hackney aged 90 died Sunday at the Masonic home in Helena. He came to Montana about 1865 and mined in Washington gulch. Hackney fought as a U S soldier in the Mexican war and served in three battles as a member of Company C Second Regiment Tennessee volunteers. He had drawn a $39 monthly pension in recent years.
How Appendicitis Prevention Stirs Reader Interest
An old ad claims a simple Adler-ika mix with buckthorn bark and glycerine relieves or prevents appendicitis. It asserts one spoonful cures constipation and gas and promotes chronic stomach relief, signed by A Potts, a druggist.
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Dillon
A. Potts
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Canada
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Dardanelles
Lord Kitchener
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Legal Blanks Tribune Office
C.W. Tenny
William Hackney
Beaverhead Lumber Co
Dillon, Montana
Johnson Brothers
Johnson
Red
Dillon, Mont
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Henry Schoenborn
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