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A Fifty Bushel Crop of Wheat on an Eastern Montana Homestead. 



These figures, it should be understood are the average for the entire state. When 

 individual yields are under consideration, it is found that exceptionally good farm- 

 ers in every section of the state produced crops which are really amazing. 



The following newspaper clippings selected at random from the press of Mon- 

 tana, show something of what the better farmers In this state are doing toward 

 producing record-breaking yields: 



BEAVERHEAD COUNTY. 



Dillon Examiner — ' At the close of this week the threshing season in Beaverhead 

 county will be practically finished. According to John Ewing, a wellknown rancher 

 living at Barretts, nine miles south of Dillon, this year's crop of grain will be the 

 heaviest in the county's history. Mr. Ewing said: "More grain has been produced by 

 the ranchers of Beaverhead this year than ever before, and they have made the high- 

 est average yield per acre. Ranchers living on the west side of Beaverhead river, be- 

 tween Dillon and Barrets, produced 87,000 bushels of grain, according to the statis- 

 tics of the threshers. The average yield per acre in the county is about 65 bushels, 

 while in many instances a yield of nearly 90 bushels has been recorded." Mr. 

 Ewing's average yield per acre was 81 bushels. The average amount of bushels pro- 

 duced by the average rancher in the county varies from seven and eight thousand 

 to eleven thousand bushels. The Beaverhead Ranch company, which produces more 

 grain than any other rancher in the county, last year produced 100,000 bushels of 

 grain and it is understood that this year's yield from their grain fields will surpass 

 last year's amount by several hundred bushels." 



BIG HORN COUNTY. 



Hardin Tribune — George Lammers reports that his 120 acres of wheat on sod yield- 

 ed an average of 30 bushels. Peter Beck, who conducts the Bair ranch, had an aver- 

 age of 38 bushels, spring wheat, and 53 bushels, barley per acre. The Batty sisters 



