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A Northwestern Montana Farm Scene, 



afraid it is a dream and that they have hardly become awake. Since the Pioneer was 

 published last week it has been learned that John Semar, living west of town almost 

 to the Flathead river, has an avearge of 44 bushels per acre on 50 acres. This wheat 

 was "stubbled in" last fall and is a remarkable yield. Besides he got 19 bushels per 

 acre volunteer wheat on 40 acres. Mike Gadbois had better than 20 bushels per acre 

 from his fall wheat and better than 15 bushels from spring wheat. This may not seem 

 worth mentioning, but when it is known that none of this land from which the yields 

 came has been touched for three years, then it is some wonder. This makes the third 

 time this acreage has been cut since it was sown. Henry McRae had 44 bushels per 

 acre on the Beck place in the same locality and this is all a volunteer crop. Not 

 having water to irrigate the land, and believing it useless to cultivate the land with- 

 out water, nothing was done last fall, but the grain came so well last spring that it 

 was looked after and 44 bushels per acre is the harvest. Miss Carrie Miltenberger is 

 another of the lucky ones in that neighborhood. She has sown wheat for the past 

 three years, but last fall became discouraged and did not sow any. This spring it 

 was like all other tracts in that section. The wheat came up so promising that the 

 land was allowed to remain as it was, and last week she threshed 120 acres and it 

 yielded over 30 bushels per acre. This entire acreage was pastured until June and was 

 all a volunteer crop. Miss Edna Whitney, a school teacher from Anacortes, Wash., 

 is another to reap a harvest without sowing. Miss Whitney has been on her land for 

 two months past and while here had the satisfaction of seeing 40 acres of volunteer 

 wheat harvested and threshed which averaged 26 bushels per acre. 



MUSSELSHELL COUNTY, 



Lavina Independent — Here are a few records of verified wheat yields in Mussel- 

 shell county. The address of each farmer and the kind of crop grown, together with 

 the yield in bushels per acre is as follows: M. R. McMullen, Ryegate, Turkey Red, 84; 

 H. B. Hersey, Elso, Forty-Fold wheat, 56.7; H. H. Porter, Elso, Forty-Fold, 54; Henry 



