Wool grading demonstrations planned across Montana
Montana State College extension service announces a series of wool grading demonstrations from October 21 to November 14 to educate wool growers about quality standards and pricing. Dick Millin will lead sessions with expert graders from the National Wool Warehouse and Storage Co. of Chicago.
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Montana
Montana State College Extension Service
Dick Miilin
Hamilton
Ei Carney
W. P. Stapleton
Glasgow
Murray Stebbins
Millin
National Wool Warehouse and Storage Company of
Chicago
Montana Wool Growers Association
Do Not Delay Seeding For Grasshoppers
Montana Experiment Station warns against delaying fall wheat seeding due to grasshoppers. Most remaining hoppers feed in fall before egg laying. use poisoned bran mash where hopper density is high to kill adults and prevent egg laying while seeding proceeds.
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Montana Experiment Station
Montana
Cinnamon sugar mix for tea time bread and rolls
To the women who serve afternoon callers a small container of sugar and cinnamon with a touch of salt is kept ready to spread on toast. Cinnamon substitutes crisp cake and can be served with tea. The mix also saves time when making cinnamon rolls.
Biscuits as Ex Tender Top for Meat Casserole
Left over meat served as a casserole with ample gravy can be topped with small biscuits as an attractive ex tender. Cut biscuits very small and add only after the mixture is heated so they bake through in usual time. Dropping biscuits onto cold mix results in a soft lower portion and poorer digestion.
Pasture Crops Help In Pork Production
Pasture crops balance deficiencies in grains used in swine rations and provide large amounts of cheap feed with relatively little labor.
Montana State College Announces 15 Staff Changes
President Atkinson releases a list of fifteen changes to the Montana State college staff made during the past summer. The updates include two new men in dairy production and one new instructor in horticulture.
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Atkinson
Montana State College
State College
Copper carbonate dust offers new seed treatment for wheat smut
Montana State College researchers advocate dusting wheat seed with finely ground copper carbonate to control stinking smut. The method coats each grain, avoids soaking, and can be done days before planting. Trials since 1915 show promise in California Oregon Washington and New South Wales.
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Botany Department
Montana State College
New Wales
California
Oregon
Washington
Grain dealers warned to file bonds or face fines
Nearly 100 Montana grain dealers operate without licenses or bonds. John M. Davis of the state agriculture department warns they must comply by October 10 or face a 25 dollar per day penalty. He notes most elevators and dealers have already complied.
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Montana
John M. Davis
Bureau of Grain Standards and Marketing
State Department of Agriculture
Davis
Corn valued as forage crop in dry Montana regions
A. B. Seamans of Huntley experiment Farm notes corn requires low moisture and serves as a valuable forage crop in Montana’s dryer areas. In plains regions it remains secondary, while corn stabilizes Montana as a staple. In wheat zones corn replaces summer fallow with comparable small grain yields to fallow land.
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Plains
Montana
A. BE. Seamans
Huntley Experiment Farm
Northern Montana corn and potato show set for Malta
At Fort Assinniboine a meeting of county agents and state college representatives selected Malta as the site for the first northern Montana corn and potato show. The event will occur in November the week before the state show at Miles City. Exhibits will come from Hill Blaine Valley Phillips and Roosevelt counties.
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Malta
State College
Fort Assinniboine
Miles City
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Blaine
Valley
Phillips
Roosevelt
Stylish Wool Clip From Sweet Grass County
Montana extension service confirms J. L. Rapstad of Sweet Grass County produced a stylish wool clip for 1924, praised for bright color, good character and condition, well grown staple, and bags ready for selling. The Rapstad fleece is noted as a 4-blood fine and fine medium with a few medium fleeces.
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The
State Agricultural College
National Wool, Warehouse and Storage Company of
Chicago
J. L. Rapstad
Sweet Grass County
Rapstad
Agronomy Programs Hold 437 Conferences in 1922 Statewide
In the 1922 second quarter agronomy effort the state held 437 conferences eight committee meetings and 47 farmers meetings drawing 3 260 farm people as participants across multiple projects.
Britain and United States war debt relation clarified
Secretary Mellon declares the 4.135 billion dollar British war debt to the United States is separate from other war loans and reparations questions. He states the loans originated from American purchases and advances to each government covered its own purchases without requiring guarantees for other allies.
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United States
Ashington
Great Britain
Mellon
Ansing
Treasury
Mr. Mellon
Coloring Canvas for Weatherproof Farm Covers
The Department of Agriculture warns that waterproofing canvas without light protection can fail to shield fabrics, and suggests earth pigments like yellow ochre raw sienna and umber to color and lightproof canvas. It provides pigment ratios for linseed oil based waterproofing solutions and lists alternate formulas using petroleum products and asphalt.
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Department of Agriculture
Bermudez
Court by Mail and Repeat at Leisure 4 Post Office
The Post Office bears no blame for marriages formed via newspaper ads or mail courtships. Solicitor Edwards cites the department handles only mail logistics and not the content or promises within sealed letters. He warns censorship would threaten liberty, though many deserted brides seek redress for failed unions.
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Post Office Department
Edwards
The
Postal Service
Post Office
Importance of Thrift by the People I
Secretary Mellon explains the Treasury’s sale of savings certificates to finance war debt and stimulate thrift. He states the program will not compete with banks, seeks bank cooperation, and argues savings benefits for farmers laborers and industry. He notes early maturities totaling over six hundred million dollars in war savings stamps due January 1, 1923.
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Treasury
Mellon
Kansas State Bankers’ Association
Treasury Savings
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