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Newspaper
Grass Range Review
Location
Grass Range, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1918
Page
13
A. G. Thurman of the Geraldine district proposes a home made heading machine attachment for binders to harvest short wheat. The device adds a platform and canvas, trims the binder roller, and uses corner braces and iron rods. Directions for making the attachment are available from Thurman.
A historical poultry guidance piece arguing hens should be fed a producing ration with constant access to varied dry feeds. It warns against wet mash, overfeeding, and meal-based schedules, advocating hopper-fed dry mash and allowing hens to select preferred coarser grains to maximize egg output.
A recent Agriculture Department circular 107 argues that the nation could produce 600 billion eggs yearly with 100 hens on each of about 6,000,000 farms. It notes this would be achievable with modest waste-material handling and no major added costs and suggests methods to raise per-hen output toward the national target.
Charles Mac a stockman of Woodside bought 65 acres of timothy near Victor and crews began harvesting the hay at nineteen dollars a ton in the field. Simpson Kane of Woodside is to pay the price, a record for western Montana.
O B Whipple of the state college experiment station reports that saving seed from the most vigorous potato vines can raise yields by over 30 percent. Tests show environment greatly affects seed performance with 1916 to 1917 yields ranging from 16 700 to 24 000 pounds per acre. Thirty three varieties were tested with Perfect Peachblow noted as promising and yielding 23 000 pounds per acre in 1917.
Washington advises that 2,000,000 American soldiers will be in France before winter, with 3,000,000 ready by the spring 1919 operations opening. The forecast outlines early bulk deployment and expanding force readiness for Allied campaigns.
Great Britain is constructing a new type airplane that will carry two men and two tons of bombs, armed with machine guns, capable of climbing to 20,000 feet and faster than any current aircraft.
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