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Spring Plowing in Sight of the Snow-Clad Mountains. 



CUSTER COUNTY. 



Miles City American — Ed. Whitbeck brought to this office a very fine sample of 

 oats of the White Russian variety. Mr. Whitbeck has a fine large field of these oats 

 and feels confident that they will yield 75 bushels to the acre. The report has come 

 to town that wheat in the Rock Spring country has yielded 44 bushels to the acre and 

 oats 89. Who says Montana is not a farming state? 



DAWSON COUNTY. 



Dawson County Review — Although the crops of the season just past cannot be 

 said to be of the "bumper" variety, reports received from some of the agricultural 

 sections where threshing has been finished prove that many of the yields were excep- 

 tionally good- — in fact they were fully up to predictions made at the beginning of 

 summer. Secretary Rasmusson is gathering crop statistics and while the report is as 

 yet far from complete, he has secured sufficient data to show that the returns of the 

 harvest were very far removed from the "failure" category. For instance, Miles 

 Borntrager of the Bloomfield country had 155 acres of wheat which threshed a total 

 of 4,200 bushels. He has 10,000 bushels of grain altogether, and his neighbor, I. L. 

 Jones, harvested a similar quantity. A. H. Oellermann of the same country had a 

 50 acre field of macaroni wheat which showed an average yield of 41 bushels per acre. 

 In the Crackerbox neighborhood, A. E. Aiken cut 50 acres of Fife wheat which thresh- 

 ed 28% bushels per acre and his oats showed an average yield of 72 bushels. Willis 

 Maples cut 100 acres of oats which yielded 65 bushels to the acre, and the grain is 

 said to be of particular excellent quality. P. W. Hohensee had 46 acres of wheat which 

 averaged 26 bushel per acre; 25 acres of oats that yielded 45 bushels and from 20 

 acres of flax he threshed 320 bushel of seed, an average of 16 bushels to the acre. 

 Halvor Bjornson of the Union country harvested wheat which showed a yield of 27 



