

THE TREASURE STATE 



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A View of the Beautiful Kootenai. 



than the rule. In some instances. Mr. Pray says, this is the first crop which has 

 ever been produced. One of his neighbors has been cultivating his homestead for 

 four years without results, and this spring rented another place which he thought was 

 better. His abandoned farm produced a volunteer wheat crop of 600 bushels on 30 

 acres, and he has heard of another case where a volunteer wheat crop went 30 bushels 

 per acre, but this could not be vouched for. 



GALLATIN COUNTY. 



Bozeman Courier — Joseph Kountz, farmer and banker of Bozeman, is pleased with 

 the returns from the threshing machine on his ranch near Whitehall, where 38 acres 

 of Turkey red winter wheat yielded 2,175 bushels, or an average of 58 bushels to the 

 acre, 35 acres yielded 1,700 bushels, or an average of 481/2 bushels to the acre, and a 

 field of 60 acres planted in Marquis spring wheat,- also on dry land, yielded an aver- 

 age of 30% bushels an acre. 



Belgrade Correspondence in Butte Miner— Corn was pulled by Thomas Gordon, a 

 rancher, residing about five miles southwest of Belgrade, and brought to Belgrade, 

 where it is on exhibition in a department store. The cornstalks, including small 

 roots, measures 10 feet 11 inches in height, with several ears on each stalk. The 

 corn was planted in June and Nebraska seed was used. It is the finest specimen of 

 corn ever seen in this locality. 



Bozeman Correspondence in Butte Miner— A yield of 40 bushels of Alaska peas 

 from one field and 35 bushels of the same variety from another field are the per 

 acre returns Charles Spick reports after the George Border threshing machine had 

 completed part of his crop last week before the rain interrupted. He has a fine field 

 of Gem peas worth $2 per bushel which should thresh out in the neighborhood of 

 50 bushels per acre. 



