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Montana Has the Greatest Water Power in the Country. 



Not only do Montana products excel in quality, but figures from official sources 

 show that this State is in a position of undisputed leadership in its high average 

 production per acre. The Yearbook of the United States Department of Agriculture, 

 for 1915, shows that the average per acre production of oats in this state during the 

 past year was 52 bushels — the highest state average given any state by the 

 Department. This report also shows that with an average of 22.5 bushels, Montana 

 last year led all the states in the per acre production of rye, while with 155 bushels, 

 it tied with Maine for the high record in the per acre production of potatoes. Aside 

 from a few states where wheat raising is only incidental and where less than 20,000,000 

 bushels are produced, Montana with a state average of 26.5 bushels led all the states 

 in the per acre production of this great cereal. 



These, it will be understood, are the averages for the entire state, an area of 

 more than 147,000 square miles. When only the records made by really good farmers 

 throughout the state are considered it is found that results have been achieved 

 which would stagger the belief of those unacquainted with farming in Montana. 

 Down in Beaverhead county, in the southwestern corner of he state, a farmer filed 

 upon a homestead less than a year ago and last fall he harvested a crop of wheat 

 which averaged 66 1/^ bushels to the acre for the entire hundred acres he had put 

 under the plow; Over in Fergus county, in the central portion of the state, in the 

 now famous Judith Basin, over a dozen farmers reported yields running from 50 

 to 60 bushels per acre. Near Cut Bank in the extreme northern part of Montana 

 350 busshels of flax were harvested from a measured ten acres — the highest flax 

 yield of which there is any authentic record. In Sheridan county, in the northeastern 

 corner of the state, a newcomer leased a section of state school land, for which he 

 paid a rental of $320, put it into flax and marketed his crop for $12,000. In Cascade 

 county, in the central portion of Montana, was a field of oats yielding 103 bushels to the 



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