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A Heavy Stand of Winter Wheat., 



FERGUS COUNTY. 



Fergus County Argus — A report reached town this week of a most remarkable 

 yield of wheat on the Cape ranch near Coffee Creek. The wheat from 149 acres 

 was recently threshed and showed an average yield per acre of 57 bushels. This field 

 was damaged by hail during the summer and the insurance company allowed a 12 per 

 cent loss on it, which was conservative. Just how big the yield would have been had 

 there been no hail damage is a matter of wonder. Assuming that the insurance 

 company allowed the full loss it would have been around 65 bushels per acre, but it 

 would probably have been higher. 



Stanford World — There have been so many prenomenal yields reported from the 

 different sections of the Judith basin during the 1915 harvest period that it is ex- 

 tremely difficult to create any excitement by mentioning them. In fact no one who is 

 acquainted with the basin's potent power to produce thinks anything of these big 

 yield reports, they have rather learned to expect them and as long as the yield ranges 

 between 25 and 75 bushels the report does not create much comment. If a farmer 

 states to another than his wheat made only 20 bushels to the acre that provokes the 

 question, what was the matter? But so long as it is above that mark the yield is 

 taken as a matter of course. Last Saturday E. E. Haker was in town and upon 

 being asked concerning the amount of wheat he threshed he stated that the final count 

 showed a total of 56,000 bushels. Think of it— 56,000 bushels. There are places where 

 that would be a remarkable yield for an entire community, but not so in the Judith 

 basin. Mr. Haker came to this section of the country in 1912 and afterwards leased 

 the Prank Strouf home ranch. He has worked it for three years and this year he 

 harvested 56,000 bushels of wheat from an acreage of 1800 acres. A little figuring 

 will show that that is an average yield of a little more than 31 bushels to the 

 acre. Yields of seventy bushels to the acre may be attained from small acreages, and 



