Dry land farming methods for Treasure State region
Prof. Alfred Atkinson summarizes Montana’s dry land farming approach. Tips cover early spring planting of flax, macaroni wheat, hulless barley, or corn, seed-bed preparation, and crop rotation to conserve moisture. Emphasizes fallow years, alternating grain with corn or alfalfa, livestock feeding, and proper manure use. Notes 16 demonstration farms and two sub-stations under Montana State University FiBozeman. bulletins offer winter wheat, spring grains, corn, flax, alfalfa, potatoes, trees and shrubs guidance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bozeman Agricultural College
Moccas
Fergus County
Huntley
Yellowstone County
Bozeman
Montana
Wheat Pest Puzzles Montana Experts in Cascade County
State Entomologist studies the wheat stem maggot a new pest appearing in Cascade and other counties. It is a small white worm boring inside stalks then resurging to the surface before returning underground. Two farmers report total crop destruction others suffer smaller losses. A. L. Stewart and the Bozeman entomologist bureau plan a summer study to find control methods.
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Cascade
F. E. McSpadden
Angus Hunt
Portage
A. H. Bossom
Sun River
Yellowstone
Lewis and Clark
Fergus
Montana
Farm Bureau
A. L. Stewart
Bozeman
Cascade County
No crime no forgiveness when love drives a man
A personal aphorism notes that romantic affection can excuse misdeeds in a woman's view, suggesting that expressions of love may soften a partner's judgment and reduce accountability for wrongdoing.
Hog Cholera and How to Check It in Pigs
A Montana agricultural notice warns hog cholera seasonal risk and urges early detection. Suspect pigs show high fever above 104 degrees F and should be segregated. Owners should sacrifice a few sick animals for veterinary examination rather than attempting cures and avoid purchasing so called cures that spread disease.
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Montana
Hog cholera serum effectiveness limited by animal vitality
Serum given to healthy hogs can halt hog cholera progression and premises disinfection can destroy external infection. Do not expect perfect results after serum in animals with low vitality from parasitic infection poor housing faulty feeding inbreeding or mild hog cholera or swine plague infection.
Flathead Reservation Grapples With Grasshoppers
Word reaches from the Flathead reservation of the first appearance this season of grasshoppers near Leon school. County Agricultureist Campbell of Missoula orders immediate action to combat the pests that devastated grain and vegetation in 1917. Traps proved most effective, catching eight and a half bushels in under two hours last year, with dried catches used as chicken feed in winter.
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Flathead
Leon School
Campbell
Missoula
Registration Day for Youths Set for June 5
Registration day for youths who reached 21 since the first draft is fixed for June 5. The resolution awaiting the president’s signature, while the provost marshal general’s office has largely completed preparations to implement the new registration.
Scarcity of binder twine warns Montana farmers
Food Administration urges farmers to order twine and supplies early as a growing shortage looms. Mexican sisal dominates twine, with railroad limits and high prices seen this year. Circular notes prewar prices and sharp increases through 1917, and that early orders can avert grain losses once harvest begins.
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Food Administration
Montana
United States Food Administration
Gulf Ports
New York
Mexican Trust
Manila
United States
Farm Machinery Put Under License By Wilson Proclamation
President Wilson issues a proclamation placing all importers manufacturers storers and distributors of farm machinery under license to ensure adequate food supply. The rules bar unjust profits resale restrictions price rises and waste with accompanying regulations.
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Wilson
Farming States Lead in Libety Loan Quota Push
The Kansas City Star notes that Iowa and Arkansas led Liberty loan quota exceedances, with rural, sparsely populated states driving the pace. It highlights farmers’ conservatism before they commit and their decisive momentum once started, praising rural resilience across western states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Oregon
Massachusetts
New York
Ohio
Arkansas
Kansas City Star
Fuel Oil Shortage Spreads to Pacific Northwest
Mark L. Requa the oil director of the fuel administration considers an order prohibiting fuel oil use in parts of the Pacific northwest to relieve the California shortage. If issued, more than 1,500,000 barrels of oil a month could be diverted to California.
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Washington
Mark L. Requa
The
Fuel Administration
Pacific Northwest
California
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Treasure State Farm and Livestock
Alfred Atkinson
West
Agricultural College
Lewis and Clark, Fergus, Cascade and
Yellowstone Counties
Heart Bar L Ranch Fishtail, Mont
Montana and Eastern Corporation
Lewistown
Blackfoot Land Development Company
Northwest
Blackfoot Land
Missoula, Mont
Aoe
Monteay
Tore
Yk Ata
Flathead Reservation
REAM
Great Falls Dairy Products CO
Elas
Fudt Boyd
Insurance Department
American Society
Stanton Bank
Great Falls
Farmers’ Insurance Company
East
McKee Stationery Company
Great Falls, Montana
McDowell
Billings, Mont
B. E. Calkins
Butte, Mont
Montana Ranch Company
Moore, Montana
Ross Brown
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