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Library of Congress1901

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), November 21, 1901

LITERARY NEWS AND NOTES The contents of the New England Magazine for November are a3 follows Sherburne Farms by Henry L Hazel ton When Me and Ed Got Religion by Fred W Shibley Isaiah Thomas the Patriot Printer by Frank R Batcliel der A Political Conspiracy by Epes W tSargent Ye Ancient Inns of Boston Town by Frederick W Norcross Self ishness by Charles H Town An Archi tect of the Old School by Henry T Bailey Manda a story by Jeannette Pemberton WashingtonGreene Cor respondence A Castle in Spain by Frederic lteddale Is there a decadence of New England Agriculture by Charles S Phelps The English Com monwealth by Burdett Hart For seventyfive years The Youths Companion has been published every week as a family paper In these sev entyfive years the papers constancy to a high standard has won the confidence of the American people It has kept pace with the growth of the country Its stories its special articles its edito rials its selections represent all that is best in American life For 1002 the foremost men and women of the Eng lishspeaking world have been enlisted as contributors The work of an un precedented number of

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Library of Congress1907

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), August 22, 1907

THE BEST TIMBER TREES How the Government Studies Them for thi Benefit of Forest Owners and the Public Timber owners and manufacturer will be interested in the results of thi detailed studies of commercial timbei trees which the Forest Service of thi V S Department of Agriculture ii making These studies are not confined exclusively to the wellknown trees oi recognized value but owing to thf rapid decrease in the supply of oui valuable woods include those cheapei woods whose properties are imperfect ly known Such studies of the tupelc gum and western hemlock have done much to overcome the common preju dice against these species and have add ea materially to their commercial im portance Commercial tree studies begin with the tree in the forest and follow it all the way to the finished product in the market The intermediate steps are many and complex but a little expla nation of them may not be amiss since they typify the field methods of a forest investigation The selection of a suitable place is the first step in this the aim is to ob tain average conditions as far as pos sible When the range of the species to be

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Library of Congress1907

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), October 17, 1907

THE FARM HOME MAKER The Importance of Good Citizenship on the Farm President Roosevelt at Keokuk Iowa You in Iowa have many mauutac taring centers but you remain aiul I hope you will always remain a great agricultural State I hope that the means of transporting your com modities to market will be steadily im proved but this will be of no use un less you keep producing the commodi ties and in the long run this will large ly depend upon your being able to keep on the farm a high type of citizenship The effort must be to make farm life not only remunerative but attractive so that the best young men and girls will feel inclined to stay on the farm and not to go to the city Nothing is more important to thiscountry than the perpetuation of our system of mediumsized farms worked by their owners We do not want to see our farmers sink to ttie condition of the peasants of the Old World harelv able to live on their small holdings lior do we want to see their places taken by wealthy men owning enormous estates which they work purely by tenants and hired

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Library of Congress1908

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), December 24, 1908

u 1 Wealth By The Billions Tears Farm Products Worth 7 778000000 Washington December 14th After twelve years of service as head of the Department the Secretary of Agricul ture in his twelfth annual report to the President issued today renders a com prehensive account of his stewardship and presents a review of the progress of agriculture in the United States during this period Concerning the farm pro duction of 1908 he says that the farmer has created wealth by the billions Pro duction has been above the average of recent years with few exceptions and while some prices have fallen others have risen The farm value of all farm products ot 1908 reaches the most extraordinary total in the nations history7778000000 This is about four times the value of the products of the mines including mineral oils and precious metals The gain in value of farm products in 1908 over 1907 is 290000000 and would have been much larger had not the prices of cotton and hay been low Greatest of all crops is Indian corn whose production this year is 2543090000 bushels The value of this crop is 1015000000 It seems likely that the cotton crop is one

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Library of Congress1910

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), May 5, 1910

Missouri Matters The Growth of Springfield Elections and OfficeSeeking The Agricultural Outlook Correspondence of The Journal Springfield Mo April 30 1910 The weather for the past winter and the spring to the present time has been de lightful The fall months are uniformly pleasant in this latitude The winter weather is often far from pleasant changing frequently from cool to warm with quite a percentage of cloudy and rainy days The spring weather is apt to be tedious warmer and cooler The past seasons however have been an ex ception The winter months set in dry and cool and so continued for an unusual ly long period Late in February the weather began to get warmer and up to the present writing we have had no seri ous or sudden changes All kinds of fruit trees have been full of blossoms which fortunately have not been subject to either freezing weather or cold rains so that at the present time the prospects for a large fruit crop are excellent Two or three weeks ago the blossoms on the trees presented a beautiful picture One of the most beautiful of the blossoms is the peach and one of the most fragrant

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Library of Congress1910

Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), December 22, 1910

VearforFarmProduCtS 0 KdT3926000000 lUlUe f omniscience can gras ilnffho farm products of thii lf statement of the U S is pe agriculture in his annua gttf otiqVo At no time in th for a country produces b lS within one year with i lit cOiOOO which is the f nciiltural products ol iiii The total value for i lie last 12 years ii MiiPnjj f 121381000 busheli rpcord year 1906 anc itfs he average crop of the yars by 14 per cent of this corn crop ii any and also of 1908 il ckoned as less thar I crop of this year maybe It j seed a round 900000 ir r more than the corr s r on year prior to 1901 if r ce nt above the five value i i it o the hay crop is aboul unt which has beer i ce and that in 1907 it if i v the average of the per heat crop is dividec atumn and spring sc ft subject to differ ts as was the case notion of spring anc 1767000 bushels oi rage of the preced f ioas the value is i 76 per cent above in point of value

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Library of Congress1909

Image 2 of Judith Gap journal (Judith Gap, Mont.), June 11, 1909

LET ME SHOW YOU THE BEST IN THE JUDITH LAND DISTRICT It will PAY YOU To see Me Now RELINQUISHMENTS HANDLED Thorbahn THE JUDITH GAP JOURNAL S J SMALL Published every Friday in the Journal htiilditiK Judith Cap Menuher county Montana Subscription rate f20ii a year iu advance other wise f250 Yearly advertising rate 20 cents an inch Short time rate 35 cents an inch each insertion Entered as secondclass matter Decent lier 111 90S at the postoflice at Judith Gap Montana under the Act of March 3 1S79 Marion Small IHsinkss Masai i n WATCH MONTANA GROW Butte Miner Fiftylive Riant steam plows are turning over new sod in Fergus county at tlie rate of over 1000 acres daily says the Democrat published at Lewistown It is such little items as this quoted that tell the story of Montanas marvelous agricultural development Two or three weeks asm the Miner referred to a comment from a paper published in Wibaux that nearly Mi steam plows were at work within a short radius of that town It is almost impossible for the res ident of Butte who does not travel over the state to realize how rapidly Montana is being settled

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Library of Congress1941

Image 2 of Carbon County news (Red Lodge, Mont.), April 11, 1941

73 fjifz erjsJi gfegggsgs s F Government to Encourage Greater Food Production m o SÏ Prepare for Increased Aid to Democracies Newspaper Men From Small Town Make Good in Washington By BAUKHAGE National Farm and Home Hour Commentator WNU Service 1343 H Street N W Washington D C WASHINGTONBefore long the government will take steps to give the American farmer an incentive for raising more animals and in creasing the egg and milk output for this arsenal of democracy it can be safely predicted at this time Fur thermore with the incentive will un doubtedly go some type of guaran tee as in the case of the manufac turer that the farmer will be pro tected at least from possible loss in such undertakings At most he might even be guaranteed a profit Here is the background of the situ ation details of which government officials are not ready as yet to make public Food is as much a munition of war as guns The United States in pledging its aid to democracies is starting to send food supplies to them Important FoodWeapons One of these foodweapons is wheat We have plenty of that grain The department of agriculture esti

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Library of Congress1946

Image 1 of The Camas Hot Springs exchange (Camas, Mont.), January 24, 1946

The Camas Hot Sprmgs Exchange VOLUME XX NUMBER XLVUI VHAI Underlies This Banks Growth hen a tree grows the soil that nourishes It Is as Important as the life within It f Likewise the patronage and con Sk fidence of our patdons have been OWL sun and rain to the growth of this In The more people we serve the Wmjj greater our responslbllty to pro VM vide complete and uptodate sac mtles which they and YOUwin And most helpful We are doing our best to measure up to what you expect of us First National Bank of Plains Plains Montana MWlTIff of the FEDERAL DEPPSTT MB OOBKa ll Longer Life for TowCl V The lucky lady who found a gift of towels under the Christmas tree will want to give those towels the care that will make them last Here are suggestions from home econo mists of the U S Department of Agriculture Rotate supplies by putting fresh ly laundered towels on the bottom of the pile so that a few towels will not get all the wear and laundering while others lie In storage Long storage without laundering may cause the fabric to deteriorate be cause smoke dust

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Library of Congress1926

Image 7 of The Kevin review (Kevin, Mont.), April 15, 1926

1111 Dt IDG 5 YEARS AN EDITOR Robert N Sutherlin Started IRocky Mountain Husbandman in 1875 at Famous Diamond City Was Witness to The Balmy Days When Millions Were Made on Montana Bar I L By DAN R CONWAY I hear the tread of Pioneers Of nations yet to be The first tow wash of waves where soon Shall roll a human sea Whittier NCLB Bob Sutherlin has pass ed on and with his passing the State of Montana has lost a citizen to whom the state is indeed greatly indebted for Robert N Sutherlin spent the greater part of his life In advocacy of sane and perman ent development of the agricultural re sources of the terri tory in which he had chosen to make his home u f i At the age of 81 years Robert N Sutherlin editor and publisher of the Rocky Mountain Husbandman pass ed away in a hospi Dan b Conway tal at Great Falls Thursday April 1 His death came following an illness of a little more than a years duration After the first attack twelve months ago the veteran editor recovered sufficiently to be around until about thirty days prior to his

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Library of Congress1926

Image 11 of The Bozeman courier (Bozeman, Mont.), August 13, 1926

The Modest Beginning of the Press in Montana Territorial Press Association Organized in 1885 3E The Newspaper uAfi r By DAN R CONWAY T HE location of the town was in the upper valley of the Madison river at the head of Alder Gulch elevated on a sloping hillside and with a background that was rocky and sparsely wooded It had one lone street which was lined on either side by falsefronted and for the most part crudely constructed business houses It had many houses that were builded after as many dif ferent fashions the substantial of It ft more these being of logs or adobe In its day with a popu lation of a few thousand souls it was perhaps as lively and wicked a place as this coun try ever knew was the metropolis of Montana Territorythe seething center of the New EldoradoVirgin ia City If we compare this simple picture of the frontier with the present Mon tana its railroads its agriculture its industry and commerce its educa tional and recreational facilities its many cities of business palaces and beautiful homes we may realize what energy and enterprise have ac complished in the last sixty years It

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Library of Congress1927

Image 6 of The Bozeman courier (Bozeman, Mont.), July 15, 1927

THIRTY NINE NEW LAWS WENT INTO EFFECT FRIDAY JULY FIRS Thirtynine of the 163 laws passed by the twentieth session of the Mon tana legislature went into effect July 1 Except for a provision requiring that personal property taxes on autoJ mobiles must be paid before a license is issued the 1927 budget now is in force The automobile law goes into effect December 1 when the 1928 li tenses are ready I As summarized by E C Toomey for the Corporation company of Hel en a the new statutes are i Chapter 1Increasing the monthly maintenance allowance for persons receiving state vocational training Chapter 4Fixing the order of ad mission at the Montana State Tuber culosis sanitarium for males and fe males according to available accom me da cions at the time of entry Chapter 5Limiting liability of coropration directors for failure to file statements as required to debts which may thereafter after failure to file be in any wise incurred until such report shall be made and filed Chapter 6Making Eastern Mon tana State Normal school at Bil lints and Northern Agricultural and Manual Training school at Fort As sinniboine component parts of the University of Montana Chapter

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Library of Congress1926

Image 7 of The Poplar standard (Poplar, Mont.), August 13, 1926

rjp IkT _ itw The Modest Beginning of the Press in Montana 1 11 lx eWSUaPer Territorial Press Association Organized in 1885 11111 WWW num i By DAN R CONWAY THE location of the town was in the upper valley of the Madison river at the head of Alder Gulch elevated on a sloping hillside and with a background that was rocky and sparsely wooded It had one lone street which was lined on either side by falsefronted and for the most part crudely constructed business houses It had many houses that were builded after as many dif ferent fashions the more substantial of these being of logs or adobe In its day with a popu lation of a few thousand souls it was perhaps as lively and wicked a place as this cun try ever knew It was the metropolis ft Ww Daa R Conway of Montana Territorythe seething center of the New EldoradoVirgin ia City If we compare this simple picture of the frontier with the present Mon tana its railroads its agriculture its industry and commerce its educa tional and recreational facilities its many cities of business palaces and beautiful homes we may realize what energy and

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Library of Congress1865