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Productive Alfalfa Field Near Billings. 



Paul, a conservative Scotchman, has made affidavit as to the acreage and the thresher 

 has made affidavit as to tlie yield. One of the largest paint manufacturing firms in 

 America, whose representatives travel through the flax belt of the United States 

 and Canada, says this is the biggest yield ever recorded. A yield of 32 bushels in the 

 Golden Valley of North Dakota, three years ago, was the best to this time, the man- 

 ager says. The manager of the paint house says the region east of the Rockies, in 

 which Cutbank is located, is the best flax zone in the United States or Canada. 



TOOLE COUNTY. 



Devon Register — Following are some of the grain yields reported around Devon: 

 J. H. Creighton, two fields wheat, 27 and 32 bushels per acre; oats, 70 bushels; Clin- 

 ton Craig, oats, 90 bushels; J. L. Clark, wheat, 39 bushels; oats 95; Owen Doolittle, 

 wheat 54%; Ed. Wilkins, wheat, 32; Clifford Bros., wheat, 38; Gust Dukleth, wheat, 

 36; Mrs. Bertha Hinman, wheat, 28; T. Mallette, wheat, 33. 



VALLEY COUNTY. 



Valley County News — Word comes from Hinsdale to the effect that the oats yield 

 this year on J. T. Rowe's farm was at the rate of 102 bushels to the acre, machine 

 measure, and this grain averaged forty-six pounds to the bushel. The stalks stood 

 over the field six feet in height and the heads were seven inches lang. It is recorded 

 as one of the banner yields of the county, exceeding in acre yield the 100-bushel rec- 

 ord made on the farm of H. C. Christianson, whose place is a few miles south of 

 Opheim. 



Glasgow Courier— The biggest yield reported to date is that of Charles Tanner of 

 Hinsdale, whose wheat averaged between 45 and 60 bushels to the acre. Reports of 

 threshing in this vicinity give yields averaging between 20 and 30 bushels of wheat 

 to the acre, while oats is running as high as 100 bushels to the acre. Pete Breig- 



