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Many Montana Farmers Stack Their Wheat. 



was an average threshed of twenty-five bushels per acre throughout that territory. In 

 the Opheim country the Carl J. Anderson oats crop is reported to have yielded fifty- 

 five bushels per acre, on an 100-acre harvest, which yielded 5,500 bushels. In the 

 same region John St. Germain harvested sixty bushels of oats to the acre. The flax 

 crop of J. Pudois yielded at the rate of twenty-two bushels per acre and his wheat 

 forty-three bushels. Havener and Brathovde, in the Tango country, are said to have 

 procured a yield of seventy-eight bushels of oats per acre. In the Baylor region Forest 

 E. Hale's wheat gave up twenty-six bushels, and oats in the same neighborhood is 

 said to be running about sixty bushels per acre. 



WIBAUX COUNTY. 



The Wibaux Pioneer — C. H. (Dad) Molton who lives two miles east of Wibaux has 

 just completed threshing a crop of 20,000 bushels of wheat, which averaged close to 

 30 bushels to the acre. If you want to find out what this splendid crop of wheat is 

 worth to the producer, just look up the market reports and you will find it to be 

 in the neighborhood of $25.50 per acre or a total of $17,000 for the entire crop. It is 

 reported that the crop of wheat just threshed on the Van Luchene ranch immediately 

 south of town averaged 42 bushels to the acre. 



YELLOWSTONE COUNTY. 



Laurel Outlook — Another big yield of Turkey Red wheat that was grown on dry 

 land was made on Miss Helene Wold's ranch southeast of Laurel. Miss Wold has 

 320 acres of land that she acquired by homesteading. It is located on the ridge be- 

 tween Duck creek and Spring creek. She hired seventeen acres plowed last year. It 

 was summer fallowed and seeded early last fall. The crop was threshed yesterday 

 and it yielded 1,000 bushels of No. 1 grain. This lacks only a trifle of making 59 

 bushels per acre. This average is a tie with the yield secured by M. E. Dye on his 

 place on the Whitehorse flat. Miss Wold now holds the record for high yield on the 



