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A Field of Standing Oats. 



CARBON COUNTY. 



Red Lodge Picket — A winter wheat yield of sixty-four bushels per acre is the 

 record established in Carbon county without irrigation by W. A. Brockway on his 

 Shane Ridge farm, nine miles west of Boyd, according to A. G. Anderson, the Boyd 

 merchant, who was in Red Lodge on Saturday. The field comprised seventeen acres 

 and it threshed 1090 bushels, or on an average of sixty-four and one-eighth bushels 

 to the acre. This yield was obtained on non-irrigated land and demonstrates that, 

 under changed climatic conditions, the words "dry land" are no longer applicable to 

 Montana acres. Reports of other large yields on non-irrigated land in the county 

 come from the Boyd section. From C. A. Sauerwein, who was in the city on Satur- 

 day from his irrigated ranch, it was learned that one of his neighbors, Nels Bue, 

 threshed forty bushels to the acre from a forty-acre field of Turkey Red, and that 

 other non-irrigated wheat lands thereabouts yielded equally as well. On Mr. Sauer- 

 wein's own ranch, Judson Underwood, who had in a field of the Marquis wheat, a 

 new kind just being introduced in Montana, this week threshed 1800 bushels, ob- 

 taining a splendid yield per acre. Mr. Sauerwein's ranch is one of the finest in the 

 valley and he recently topped the apple market in Billings with seventy-five boxes of 

 apples of the Wealthy variety grown in his orchard. 



CASCADE COUNTY. 



Great Falls Leader — Thomas Daley lives four miles northwest of Portage in Cas- 

 cade county. His postoffice address is Portage, Cascade county, Montana. Mr. Daley 

 is a man who lives upon a homestead taken up two years ago, and has not been able 

 to farm extensively, but has had to work his way. This year he had 36 acres in 

 Turkey Red winter wheat. No. 1 hard. The 36 acres yielded 1,542 bushels, or a little 

 less than 43 bushels to the acre. Sixteen measured acres of the land was upon new 



