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The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1916-12-15
TREASURE STATE FARM AND LIVESTOCK
D. S. Department Of Agriculture Is
Preparing Standard for Northwest Grain

According to Professor Alfred At
kinson OF Bozeman, who has just re-
turned from Washington, d. c., the
United States department of agricul-
ture is now formulating grain stan
dards for the northwestern states,
which will become authoritative in
Montana, with regard to all grains
in interstate commerce. Authority
to make such standards was granted
by congress last August and it is
expected that when established and
in operation under competent inspec-
tors, that much Of the former diff
Guilty as to grading that has arisen
between buyers and sellers will be
prevented.
No industrial controversies have
been more bitter in recent years than
these between the grain growers and
the grain buyers at the terminal mar
kets. 1t has been repeatedly charged
that the buyers made immense profits
by purchasing great quantities of
grain which they insisted was low
grade and subsequently selling it as
high grade grain. The present law
is welcomed by the buyers and sellers
as settling a long drown out dispute.
Prof. Atkinson says that tn stand
ards will soon be ready for publica
ton and that they involve no resolu
tionary features, but are rather based
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1916-12-15
APPLE BLIGHT IS
M0NTANA'S PEST
DESTROYS THOUSANDS OF TREES
IN THE STATE EVERY YEAR:
CAUSES MANY FAILURES.
Can BE Fought Best in Winter When
Blight Appears in Your Trees.
Use the Knife and Cut Away Parts
Affected; Use Corrosive Sublimate
as Disinfectant.

Apple blight is undoubtedly the
greatest enemy of the apple industry
in Montana. Each year it DESTROYS
thousands of valuable trees and it is
factor which may in years time
transform a profitable and prosperous
orchard venture into a dismal failure
Blight is a bacterial disease which
affects the leaves and bark, causing
the former to wilt and turn brown
and the bark to become blush black
at first and later to shrivel and dry
up. The disease passes the winter
in what are known as "hold over
cankers," which are situated in that
part of the branch where the diseased
bark joins the healthy tissue.
Use the Knife.
The only known successful method
of fighting this disease is that of sur
gery-cutting out and burning all af-
fected parts of the tree. The easiest
and best time to do this is during
the late fall and winter months be-
cause the affected branches can then
be more readily seen and the disease
is in dormant condition. It seems
simple to say that the only way to
cure blighted tree is to cut out and
burn affected parts, but there are i'm
portant details that determine be-
tween success and failure. The fol-
lowing rules should be thoroughly
mastered and religiously followed:
1.-See that no blight is allowed to
winter over in the trees. The most
effective time of the year to cut it
out is late fall Or early winter, though
summer cutting may also be done.
2.-During the dormant season the
blighted branch should be cut off at
least foot below any visible portion
Of the diseased bark; in summer two
or three feet below. Even if this
necessitates cutting off larger limb
1t should be DONE
Disinfect Cuts
3.-After each cut the saw or
shears must be disinfected. The dis
infectant can best be carried in
milk bottle attached to a belt and
can be applied with swab. Small
corrosive sublimate tablets (four to
pint of water) make an excellent dis
infectant. A five per cent solution
of carbolic acid is also good.
4.-Burn all diseased parts
promptly after cutting.
5.-lnspect every tree carefully
after the orchard has been gone over.
Even an expert blight cutter has to
do this two or three times to get
every holdover canker and a canker
or two left may ruin the whole cam
paign by starting the blight the next
spring. Another and final reinspec-
ton should always be made Just be-
fore the buds open in the spring.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1916-12-15
HOG CHOLERA AND
HOW TO TREAT IT
MEANS TO ADOPT TO PROVIDE
AGAINST INFECTION; TREAT
NIENT OF THE DISEASE
How to Disinfect the Premises; While
Montana Is Practically Free of
Cholera, Breeders Should Take Ey-
cry Precaution to Prevent Disease
From Getting Started.

While Montana is now practically
free from hog cholera outbreaks have
occurred in the past and undoubtedly
will occur in the future. Outbreaks
are most likely to occur during the
fall and early winter months and
hog raisers should take every precau-
ton at this time to prevent the dis
ease from getting started in their
herds. Should cholera appear prompt
and energetic measures are necessary
If even part of the herd is to be
saved. The following rules contain
in condensed form the most up-tO-
date information concerning the pre-
vention and treatment of hog cholera.
To Keep Cholera Out of the Herd.
LOCATE your hog lots and pas
lures away from streams and public
highways, and do not allow the hogs
to run free range.
2.-Do not visit your neighbor or
allow him to visit you, if either of
you has cholera on your premises.
Uses.
3.-Do not drive into hog lots
when returning from market or after
driving on public highways.
4.-Do not use hog lots for yard
ing wagons and farm implements.
5.-Do not place newly purchased
stock, stock secured or loaned for
breeding purposes, or stock exhibited
at county fairs with your herd. Keep
such stock quarantined at least two
weeks, and use care to prevent carry
ing infection from these to other
pens in feeding and attending stock.
6.-Burn all ashes or cover with
quicklime and bury under four feet
of earth all dead animals and the Wis
cera removed from animals at but
cheering time. They attract the atten-
ton of magpies dogs, ETC., which are
liable to carry hog cholera infection.
7.-Confine your dogs and do not
keep pigeons unless you conf'ne
them.
If Hog Cholera Appears.
Treat your hogs Immediately with
anti-hog-cholera serum, after which
they should be keep on a light diet
and pure drinking water and con-
cleaned daily and sprayed three times
u WSch Will Ouc pdIC VI CO1HpOuuu
cresol solution to 80 parts of water
until the disease has abated in the
herd. To obtain the best results the
serum must be administered before
the disease has progressed in the
herd.
To Rid Premises of Infection.
Remove all manure and saturate
with quicklime.
Burn all litter, rubbish, and old
hog trOughs.
After the premises are thoroughly
cleaned, spray walls, floors, and 9TH
er surfaces with disinfectant Il part
compound cresol solution in 80 parts
of water). Where nog houses are
small, turn them over, exposing in
terror to sunlight.
Wallow holes and cesspools should
be cleaned and disinYected and then
boarded up.
Destroy hogs that do not fully re-
cover, as they may be carriers of
cholera infection.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1916-12-15

Mr.. Conway purposes to construct
and equip the lines and then turn
over the entire stock and the man
agement to the farmer patrons and
stockholders, who will constitute the
several company organizations.
Roughly estimated, the cost of es-
tablishing and equipping a line is
$50 mile and unless there is at
least one patron and subscriber for
each mile the work will not be I'M
dertaken, said Mr. Conway.
The cost of maintenance and use
for each subscriber is figured at
about SIS per year. Contributors
to the construction cost will own all
of the stock and will, through their
board of directors, assume the man.
agement and will be entitled to the
profits.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1916-12-15
Big Crop Of L;scon,b
Alfalfa Seed Producer
Bought BY Seed Firm

Helena.-The State Nursery &
Seed Co. reports the purchase of the
entire crop of one of the largest and
oldest producers in Montana of the
"Liscomb" variety of alfalfa seed.
This strain is undoubtedly of the
same origin as the Grimm, and &C
cording to the Minnesota agricultural
sation reports it can not be detected
from it. This firm also reports an
unusually large number of enquiries
from the northwest for high grade
alfalfa and grass seeds, and antici-
pates an early clearance of many
stocks which in the higher grades are
of necessity limited in quantity.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1916-12-15
Rural Telephone Lines
For the North Country

Farmers living along the line of the
King road between Havre and St. Jo-
seph, between Havre and Cassaday
and also along the Wild Horse trail.
are to be given all opportunity to own
and operate a rural telephone line.
The st. Joseph line is most needed
and will probably be the first one or
ganiZed.
William G. Conway has interested
Manager F. w. Mccarthy of the
Mountain Power company and T. E.
McCroskey, secretary of the Havre
Chamber of Commerce, in the enter
prise. Right after the holiday season
has passed, Mr.. Conway was assured
they will aid him in every way posi-
BILE in organizing his companies and
soliciting patrons.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1916-12-15

on the accepted usage of conservative
authorities. Under the new system,
when grain has been graded and the
grade duly made know by licensed
inspector at the place of production,
that grade will hold at the terminal
unless on appeal in proper form,
some error or fraud is clearly shown.
The department has already issued
rules and regulations covering much
of the details of the administration
of the law. 1t is up to the states to
appoint and pay inspectors in such
method as they see fit but the fed
eral department recognizes such in
spectors only when they have duly
qualified under the federal law and
received license which may be re-
voked at any time.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1916-12-15
ICE NECESSARY
FOR DAIRYMEN
COST OF COOLING is ABOUT
HALF CENT PER POUND OF
BUTTER PRODUCED.
Government Estimates That 1000
Pounds of Ice Should BE Put Up
for Each Cow, Which Allows Fifty
Per Cent for Shrinkage; Ice n
Cheap Harvest.

On many Montana dairy farms ma
tural conditions are such that an ice
pond could be constructed at very
small cost. Where this is possible an
ice crop should by all means be har-
vested and stored for summer use.
The Importance of a good supply
Of ice on the dairy farm is recognized
by all progressive dairymen because
be produced in summer only when it
creamery men realize the Importance
of obtaining good raw material and
this is good time to call the atten-
ton of the patrons to the necessity
of ice for the production of first class
cream. AS the quality of cream de-
1ivered determines TO a certain ex-
tent the prices paid for it, farmer
can we'll afford to provide sufficient
ice to enable him to cool his cream
properly throughout the summer.
Half Ton for Each Cow.
In an article on Cream grading"
published in the year book of the
department of agriculture it is shown
that in the northern states 500
pounds of ice annually will properly
cool the cream from each animal in
20 COW dairy but it recommends the
storing Of 1000 pounds of ice for
each COW to allow for shrinkage and
for household uses, or ten tons for
a herd of 20 cows. Investigation has
shown that the average ice house
costs less than $50 and that the cost
Of harvesting and storing ice seldom
exceeds one dollar a ton. On this
basis the cost of sufficient ice to cool
cream from 20 COWS would not exceed
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1916-12-15
Austrian Emperor's Long Reign,

Emperor Francis Joseph of Aus
tria, &c years old az time of his death.
assembled throne at age of - years,
making his active reign 6s years.
This is longest reign in recorded his
tory. Tradition says Pharaoh reigned
SO years and there is more credible
instance of Rameses II, Sesostris of
the Greeks, whose reign is reputed to
have. covered 81 years. Louis XIV
of France was nominally king ~
years, but actually occupied throne
little more than SO years. Queen
Victoria of England ruled Ga years.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1916-12-15
Only Natural.

A sailor named Laundry was
washed ashore off Manitou Island
after a shipwreck last week.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1916-12-15

one half cent pound of butter
fat, or total cost of about SIS after
the initial year.
Ice Harvested Cheaply.
Ice is harvested at a season when
most dairymen have some leisure
time so that the actual amount of
money expended for this purpose is
very small. No producer of milk or
cream in sections where ice can be
easily obtained should be without it,
Those who wish to obtain a knowl-
edge of ice-house construction should
write to the department of agricul-
ture and ask for Farmers Bulletin
No. 623, "Ice Houses and the Use of
Ice on the Dairy Farm"
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1916-12-15
Winnipeg.-A. Bonar Law. who

Winnipeg.-A. Bonar Law, who
was offered the premiership of Great
Britain by King George a few days
ago, is the first man born out of
Great Britain to have been rendered
this place. Law was born in Canada,
and went to London a few years ago,
where he achieved signal distinction
both in law and politics.
Chicago.-There were Sc hunting
fatalities during the past season, dis
tributed by states as follows: Califor-
mia 2, Colorado 2, Illinois 10, Indiana
3, Iowa 4 Maine 1, Michigan %,
Minnesota -, Missouri 2, New Hamp-
shire 1, New Jersey 4, New York II,
North Dakota 2, South Dakota 1,
Wisconsin 6. Forty were injured
and recovered. There were no fata-
lities in Montana, except among the
hunted.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1916-12-15
Many Want Farm Loans.

Advices from Washington are to
the effect that more than $4,000
farmers have made application for
farm loans aggregating $3.50, 900,
or more than II times the amount
of money that will be available i'm
mediately. The rate of interest will
not exceed five per cent, and may be
kept down to four and one-half
Der Nordstern. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1874-1931, 1916-03-23

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Der Nordstern. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1874-1931, 1916-03-23

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Der Nordstern. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1874-1931, 1916-03-23

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@@mbe. fur Mdmmer.

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Pocahontas star herald., 1916-02-04

E1owod candidate for governor ever
GIgao ho began paying his poll tax
u 'As professor voted IN the VA.
H0us city school, congressional, gen.
yHal ana primary elections the hy.
years he failed to pay hlf poll tnx. he
committed each time an ludlctable OF.
tense II he did not vote he was ders.
uct IN HIS duties as citizen. ana Ia
not worthy OF the support OF tic TAR.
perB Tor any position, much less Tor
governor OF the great State OF Arkan.
saa lie has been professor on Doll.
teal economy In tho university; his
main idea Of political economy aD,
pears TO be tax lodging.
Great Teacher This.
A great teacher 10 instin into IN.
r..Ug youths Of the land tho urincL
pies Of good government when Il ap.
pears he himself was sinking hs
frst principles OF citizenship! Ha
trla8 20 compare himself with Wood.
row Wilson (what a shameD. He IA
due the president an apology. II he
did go 10 school TO Wilson. Wilson
couldn't help Il; however. tho facts
are that be did not so 10 school "a
President Wilson, but was iu another
university where Wilson occasionally
Ioctured Woodrow Wilson IVES presI.
dent Of one OF the greatest uuIv .Fsitiss
N America for many years. but Dr.
BrouFh has never been mentioned. nor
oven thought OF. by any OF the uaiyer.
sIy boards as being qualified for ths
position oil president OF the University
Of Arkansas.
am a native OF Arkansas and have
been a taxpayer ever since ] was twsn-
tyone years OF age; do not believe
the good people OF Arkansas win ia.
feat me for governor and nominate a
man who Is merely passing through
this state / have faith In the good
people OF Arkansas and submit ny
candidacy 10 them.
Very respectfully
EARLE W. HODGES
Candidate for Governor ef ArkanEas.
Pocahontas star herald., 1916-02-04
10 CENT "cAsCARETs"
IF BILIOUS OR CosTIVE
For Sick Headache, Sour Stomach,
Sluggish Liver and 6owels-They
work while you sleep.

Furred Tongue, Bad Taste, Indiges-
tion, Sallow Skin and Miserable Head
aches come from a torpid liver and
clogged bowels, which cause your
stomach to become filled with undi-
gested food, which sours and ferments
like garbage In a swill barrel. That's
the first step to untold misery-indi-
gestion, foul gases, bad breath, yellow
skin, mental fears, everything that is
horrible and nauseatlng. A Cascaret
tonight will give your consupated
bowels a thorough cleansing and
straighten you out by morning. They
work while you sleep-a 10-cent box
from your druggist will keep you feel
ing good for months.
Pocahontas star herald., 1916-02-04
rnR ErrEEsENTATME

We arr authorized 10 announce =, NJ" Ton
FlIisasa a candidate for Esprsontau'" ~
Randolph county, subject tnlho action ai The
Democratic party.
We ar authorized 10 announce j. j. LOWS
Of Pnrahautas o. a candidate fur representa-
tive Of Randolph county, subject 90 tho ac-
tlnn OF Tho nemnrIalLc nanE
Pocahontas star herald., 1916-02-04
DECLARES HONOR OF
NATION IS AT STAKE

Cleveland, o., Jan,90. President
Wilson warned the nation tonight.
the time may come when he cannot
keep the United States out Of war
and maintain Its honor, as he De.
clares the country must be prepared
to doieud itself aud prepare At once.
81 am afraid Of the danger of
shame. ] am afraid Of the danger
Of inadequacy, am AFRAID Of the
danger OF not being able TO express
the correct character of tins coun.
try with tremendous might aud ei.
feotivencss whenever We are called
upon to act m the field OF the
worlds aiTars.n
The president spoke m Cleveland
tonight WITH more gravity aud force
than he has shown during any oil
his previous addresses on prepared |
ness, lie was applauded frequent
ly, aud when he spoke of defending
the nations honor the cheering was
tremendous.
"Lct me tell YOU very solemuly |
you cannot postpone this thing. | !
do not know wha, a single day may |
bring forth. don't wish 10 leave
you with the impression that ! am
thinking Of some particular danger. !
1 merely wish to tell you that you
are ireading amidst intricate dan.
gers. The dangers are not Of our
own making and not under our con.
troll. thuk no man m the United |
States knows what a single week, a |
single day, a single hour may bring
forth" !
Again and again the president
spoke Of the nations honor. lie
declared man believes his honor is
dearer than bis life ard a nations
honor Is dearer than ITS peace aud
comfort. lie said il has been dihi |
cult to keep the United States out
OF the war aud he felt he had prov.
ed he was man Of perez when
possible.
Regret that the question has come
up in a campaign year was expressed
by MIR, Wilson.
Let us forget" he said, "that
this Is a year Of national elections"
The preparedness issue should have
nothing to do with politics. For
the first time during his present
tour the President spoke OF the
navy aud Of the coast deIenscs
The latter, he said, ara good M
quality, but not IN quantity. Some
people say the navy ranks second,
he declared, but the experts agree
ii ranks fourth. lie added It should
be increased.
Among the possible sources Of
danger mentioned by the president
are the difficulties Of the protection
Of Americans abroad and the obi,
CATION of the United States TO mann
tam the liberties of the people of
the western hemisphere.