Cattle Exodus Tied to Short Grain Crop in Montana
D W Raymond Montana Live Stock Association secretary spoke during Farmers Week in Bozeman about last year's cattle shipments. He linked the surge to a short grain crop rather than feed shortages, noting large outflows of breeding cows and young cattle and predicting high future prices for calves and cows. He urged ranchers in sound financial position to retain cattle as Montana moves toward an all fence era in pasture management.
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Bozeman
Montana
D. W. Raymond
Montana Live Stock Association
Raymond
Chicago
Helena
Iowa
Proper Care of the Incubator for First Hatch
Instructions for inspecting all incubator parts, cleaning the lamp, and running the unit four days. Emphasizes level placement, disinfecting interiors, and testing the thermometer against a clinical standard. Eggs warm slowly, turn daily after day three, and hatch by day twenty one with the lamp refilled daily. Hatch should begin around March under typical farm conditions.
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America
World News in Brief From Chicago and Beyond
A digest of international and U S notes: labor in large cities reported sufficient. Dr J B Halstead marks 100th birthday. U S 1917 sugar consumption 88 3 pounds per person. American troops incur low casualties in northwest Toul sector. Iowa famine rumors from Sweden. Germany's Baltic gains plus 35 million added population. Russia’s bagmen system on railways. Kilauea lava lake at high level since 1894. Adalbert of Prussia authors front line trenches book. wheat acreage likely down due to barley price signals. nursing camp training for 5 000 college women at Vassar. German horse cards in Germany. British artilleryman near German trenches never sighted foe. Vladivostock Russian port occupation foreseen by Japanese in New York. Alton boy’s penny saves life in France. prohibition drive intensifies to secure 36 states. Streeter loses Lake Michigan district claim after long legal fight.
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Chicago
Breckenridge
Halstead
Henry Clay
United States
Paris
Toul
Des Moines
Iowa
Sweden
Amsterdam
Poland
Ukraine
Germany
Russia
Honolulu
Kilauea
New York
Vassar College
Poughkeepsie
Red Cross
National Council of Defense
Vladivostock
Japan
Alton, Ill
Alton
France
Theodore Gravely
Gravely
Farmers urged to keep poultry despite feed costs
Poultry dealers warn farmers are selling too much of their poultry. They argue poultry yields high profits, noting much feed is wasted without poultry and that poultry can outperform other livestock in profit. The piece urges greater attention to poultry this year.
Poultry Meat Rise Touted as Patriotic Duty for Farms
The article argues that poultry meat production can expand faster than other livestock. It contends higher profits and frames poultry farming as a patriotic obligation for farms this year.
Chicken Pox in Poultry A Recognizable Disease
Chicken pox or sorehead in poultry can be spotted by facial and head eruptions that become scabby. Prompt removal and full strength creoline dip help, with strict isolation until fully cleared. Uncertainty remains about causative organism and relation to human chicken pox.
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Delaware
Illinois
Rhode Island
Nevada
Florida
Texas
California
Minnesota
Lake Michigan
George Wellington Streeter
Streeter
Lincoln Park
Cleveland
Department of Farm
Snowy Mountain
Herefords
Dakota
Snowy Mountain Ranch
Carlo
Beau Jackson
Senator
Montana Ranch Company
Ross Brown
Moore
Meadow Brook
Marlow
Big Sandy
Cuba
Panama
A. B. Cook
Beau Brummel
Lamplighter
Don Carlos
Beau Carlos
Kansas Lad
Shadeland
Charles W. Armour
Kansas City
Missouri
THE
Weiss
Ae Pere
Tee Lawrence
Company
Insurance Department
American Society Equity
Stanton Bank
Great Falls
Nadie Tae
Baby Chix
Neen
Buckeye
Besex
Mandy Lee
Dorsh & Greenfield CO
Harrison Ave
Butte
Montans
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