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sod, well ploughed and went 62 1^ bushels to the acre. This was measured land and 

 measured yield, and the threshing was done by Adolph Ingold. "I have been two 

 years on my homestead four miles northwest of Portage, Cascade county, Montana, and 

 20 miles northwest of Great Falls," says M!r. Daley. "I have done my best, farming 

 under the circumstances. I had 16 acres on the sod, deep ploughed and dry farmed, 

 which went 62% bushels to the acre. The land was measured and the wheat was 

 measured before witnesses. Adolph Ingold did the threshing. In all I had 36 acres 

 in the same kind of wheat, but the second 20 acres brought down the average, the 

 entire 36 acres yielding 1,542 measured bushels of Turkey Red No. 1 hard wheat, or an 

 average of a little less than 43 bushels to the acre, which is not so bad. I have 160 

 acres under homestead, taken up two years ago. I have lived in Montana all my life." 



Great Palls Correspondence in Butte Miner — Reports of authentic character from 

 Highwood, 26 miles east of here, tell of one of the largest wheat yields ever secured 

 in this section of Montana. W. Vaughn, one of the successful ranchers of the Nine 

 Mile bench, north of Highwood, using a combined harvester, completed harvesting 250 

 acres of wheat from which he got 19,973 bushels of wheat. This is an average above 

 57 bushels per acre. Mr. Vaughn cut 500 acres with a binder, but this has not been 

 threshed. Seventeen acres from the Wheeler ranch, near Highwood, yielded an aver- 

 age of 63 bushels. Mr. Wheeler is on the engineering staff of the Milwaukee railway 

 and formerly was located at St. Paul. Threshing is in full swing here. 



CHOUTEAU COUNTY. 



Chouteau County Independent — Harry Kelso of Highwood raised a record crop on 

 twelve acres of ground, when his field of Turkey Red wheat gave him the heavy yield 

 of 65 1-5 bushels. Carl Pinske of Goosebill was in the city last Saturday, bringing with 

 him some fine potatoes. Mr. Pinske exhibited 26 potatoes from three hills, and they 

 weighed 32 1/' lbs. 



