Orchard in the Missoula Valley. 



piizcr, who has a farm nine miles northeast of Glasgow, threshed 2,800 bushels of 

 excellent wheat off 100 acres. This wheat is all high grade and up to the standard 

 of the grain that is being raised on the north bench this fall. An average of 25 

 bus'iels of wheat to the acre from 220 acres w^as threshed on the farm of Nels 

 Dokkon near the city. 



Valley County News — A yield of sixty-nine and two-thirds bushels per acre of Mar- 

 quis wheat, thresher measure, is announced by the New^s correspondent in that 

 town as having been secured by W. B. Dolson, of Barnard. He expressed belief that 

 this wheat weighs seventy-three pounds to the bushel. The statement is made by the 

 correspondent also that Mr. Dolson thinks this big yield breaks not only the record 

 in Valley county but also in the State of Montana this year on spring wheat produc- 

 tion. Mr. Dolson is reported to have grown this big crop on summer fallowed ground, 

 plowed ten inches deep, and the enormously prolific yield is being attribuetd in 

 some measure in that neighborhood to this fact as well as to the favorable wheat- 

 growing weather which prevailed. The Dolson yield exceeds by far the greatest yield 

 heretofore reported from any part of the bailiwick. While J. E. Gasser was in the 

 city Friday from Valleytown, he stated that there were threshings in that vicinity 

 which disclosed crops of macaroni wheat running forty-five bushels per acre. The 

 bluestem, he said, gave up an average of about thirty-six bushels. His own blue- 

 stem, he added, yielded at the rate of twenty-eight bushels per acre. Throughout 

 the Valleytown region, he also explained, good grain crops were harvested. The J. 

 D. Kelly crop, twelve miles northeast of Hinsdale, is reported to have been forty-five 

 bushels per acre, sixty-six pounds to the bushel. This wheat is said to have grown 

 on fall-plowed land. Mr. Kelly harvested only eighteen bushels per acre off another 

 piece of land nearby which was merely spring plowed. In the Tampico district, 

 from which a great many reports of high yields have been coming, the News has it 

 straight and vehemently, from T. O'Connor, who was in the city Friday, that there 



