Treasure State Farm and Livestock Irrigation System
Beaverhead County farm near Dillon completed an irrigation system with water conservation features, aiming to use Birch creek water efficiently and prevent waste from a 25 mile creek bed. The Beaverhead Ranch Company owns extensive cultivated land and decreed water rights to capture full stream flow.
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Beaverhead Ranch Company
Dillon
Bond Station
Oregon Shortline
Birch Creek
How to Keep Bees Through Winter
C. E. Hubbard offers practical pointers for wintering bees. He stresses abundant food, plenty of young bees, and strong wind protection. Recommend 30 to 35 pounds of honey, insulating packing under and around hives, and four-inch to eight-inch packing limits with outside tunnels for bee exit.
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Hubbard
C. E. Hubbard
Hay Crop Below Normal In Montana This Year
Hay output across Montana is light and will be consumed locally. Gallatin grain crops rose to prior-year levels with higher wheat due to more acreage. Northern Montana buys hay amid drought. Great Falls Timothy at 32 dollars, alfalfa 2 under, Butte quotes 27 and 25, freight from Gallatin to Butte noted. Oats scarce, Bozeman at 2.75 per hundred. Barley sold for feed, brewing halted. Potatoes slow in Gallatin, wholesale 75 cents to 1 dollar.
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Montana
Gallatin
Great Falls
Timothy
Butte
Bozeman
Equalizing reservoir enhances irrigation efficiency on ranch
An equalizing reservoir was built above the head of the first distributing laterals to use spring flow and avoid waste during high water. Completed and tested this fall, the dam stands 30 feet high and the structure holds 150 acre feet of storage to maximize both storage and normal creek flow.
Saline Valley irrigation reservoirs described with capacity and features
An engineer designed five reservoir storage dams along Birch creek from Boot lake to Anchor lake to salvage water for irrigation. Each dam uses concrete core walls and steel outlet gates, with spillways to handle floods, totaling about 6,500 acre feet of storage. The system, costing about 12 000 dollars, can store full stream flows up to 2 000 inches for 24 hours and double the irrigating head during daytime.
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Birch Creek
Boot Lake
Anchor Lake
Boot
May
Tub
Anchor Lakes
Poultry Show in Butte January 13 18
The eleventh annual Montana State Poultry Breeders show will be in Butte January 13 to 18. Entries expected from Wyoming, Dakota, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, and Calgary. Awards include AP A medals, cash prizes, silver trophies, and special ribbons. Rabbit show prizes and a state rabbit association are planned, with entry fees 50 cents per bird and pens priced at 1.50.
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Montana State Poultry Breeders Association
West
Montana State Poultry Breeding Association
Butte
Montana
Northwest
Wyoming
Dakota
Idaho
Washington
Oregon
Calgary
American Poultry Association
Rhode Island
Darsh
Will Purdy
Spokane
J. L. Dorsh
Montana Dairymen to Meet on January 9 10
The Montana Dairymen's association will hold its annual convention in Billings January 9 and 10 per secretary G L Martin. Program items include a review of Montana dairying, dairy projects for 1919, cooperative cheese factory plans, the cow in national life, disposal of surplus butter, safe milk for babies, dairy products at home, raw to finished product, equitable consumer dollar division, ice cream making, corn and sunflower silage feeding, eggs as a creamery side line, and dairy reconstruction challenges.
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Montana Dairymen’s Association
Billings
G. L. Martin
Montana
Cooperative Cheese Factory
Beaverhead ranch irrigation storage by Metlen of Dillon
A discussion of irrigation plants and storage systems cites a DillonMontana designer George R Metlen who built the Beaverhead ranch storage and distribution facilities. A plant capable of storing at least 25 percent water can enable daily storage schedules, boosting crop yields and allowing many Montana sites to be improved with minimal cost.
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Montana
Beaverhead Ranch
George R. Metlen
Dillon
Soldier settlement plan drafted for governor
A federal bill to create a soldier settlement fund and a soldier settlement board is before Governor Stewart. The plan allows eminent domain to acquire lands, uses state lands for irrigations, and enables loans and settler programs for veterans and workers to obtain farms with a 40 year repayment horizon at 4 percent interest.
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Federal
Department of Agriculture
Stewart
Federal Department of the Interior
State Agricultural College
Secretary of the Interior
Montana farmer nets 64 thousand from flax crop
In Montana a man named Stevens bought two sections of Northern Pacific land 40 miles north of Terry, planted the entire parcel to flax, and harvested 16 000 bushels at four dollars a bushel totaling 64 000 dollars, marking a bright spot in the state's agricultural year.
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Montana
Stevens
Northern Pacific
Terry
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Treasure State Farm and Livestock
Beaverhead County
Boot Lake Reservoir
Robt. L. Rowell
Central Ave
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
Blackfoot Land Development CO
Missoula, Mont
Anchor Lake Reservoir
United States
Idowell Ice Cream
Idowell Creamery
Great Falls, Mont
L. James Lumber CO
Como Avenue
Minneapolis, Minn
Montana Equity News
Special Department of Farm Bureau
Equity
Irving Whitehouse & Co
Davenport Hotel
Teemneteeneine
P. W. Murphy Commission Company
Union Stockyards
Spokane, Washington
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