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A. B. Cook's Famous Prize Hereford Herd at Townsend. 



SANDERS COUNTY. 



Sanders County Signal — OUie Gregg finished threshing Sunday. He received a 

 larger yield than expected. His wheat running about 24 bushels to the acre and his 

 oats running as high as 50 bushels to the acre. He got in all about five thousand 

 bushels. 



SHERIDAN COUNTY. 



Sheridan County News — Threshing on the Fort Peck reservation has been going 

 at full swing during the past week and everyone is well satisfied with the 

 yields obtained. Jacob Brombarger threshed a field of wheat averaging 25 bushels 

 per acre, Grant Maxwell, 21 bushels per acre, Mr. Chipman, 20 bushels per acre. 

 A. S. Barlow threshed a field of oats which averaged 50 bushels to the acre. Flax is 

 running about 12 bushels per acre. Thus it would seem that by using these crops 

 as an estimate the Fort Peck land is as good as any within the State of Montana. 



STILWATER COUNTY. 



Park City Pioneer — Postmaster Ed Peck went up to his ranch in Lake Basin last 

 Saturday, and while in that neighborhood took advantage of the occasion to find out 

 how crops were. Mr. Peck says on the ranch of his neighbor, Frank Vanoy, from a 

 40-acre tract an average of 45 bushels per acre was threshed. Mr. Peck reports that 

 the threshers haven't got to his ranch yet, but he is confident that the grain yield on 

 his place will equal any per acreage mark yet reported in that locality. 



SWEET GRASS COUNTY 



Big Timber Pioneer — Perry Jasper of the Boulder, who was a business visitor in 

 the city yesterday, reports the biggest wheat yield so far reported — 260 bushels from 

 four acres, or 65 bushels to the acre. The grain was hauled two miles to the machine 



