Montana Products Lead World 



Not Only Is the Treasure State First in the Quantity of Its 



Grains Rut it Is Likewise First in Quality as Shown 



h\ Record-Heating Awards. 





I' .MONTANA it may be truthfully said that the 

 products of this state are not only first in 



quantity per acre, but also first in quality. 



l^^g^^^^KKfMM m From the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in 



I^H^flP^jV A St. Louis in 1904 to the Panama-Pacific and 



I^^^^Hg^ K B Panama-California expositions in 1915, the 



I^^HpP^' H H products of Montana's farms and fields have 



l|^^ H H been in the front rank of prize-winners, and 



njj^fa^: H H the success of Montana at the various exposi- 



MWI^ W iaiMr'"l>i'''M tions and land shows held during the past ten 



I BPSPlMMil^ MvPIVB^ V years has done much to establish the perma- 



"*' —" "" nent reputation of this state as the premier 



agricultural commonwealth of the nation. 



Montana's long string of consecutive vic- 

 tories was crowned last year with the greatest 

 agricultural conquests ever won by any state 

 in the Union. At the Panama-Pacific Inter- 

 national Exposition at San Francisco, Mon- 

 tana won the grand prize in cereals, the high- 

 est competitive award in the agricultural division, and the grand prize in apples, 

 while Montana farmers were awarded more gold medals, more silver medals, more 

 bronze medals and more honorable mentions than were given the agricultural exhibi- 

 tors of any other state or foreign country. 



Montana received nine medals of honor, these being awarded on wheat, oats, 

 barley, flax and general agricultural products. There were awarded to the 

 agricultural exhibitors of this state 73 gold medals, 236 silver medals, 195 bronze 

 medals, and 100 honorable mentions. 



At the Panama-California Exposition at San Diego, the grand prize in agriculture 

 was awarded the Montana exhibit, while 15 gold medals were awarded to exhibitors 

 from this state on cereal products, flax, alfalfa, barley, wheat, oats, wild grasses, clover, 

 peas and other displays. 



As long ago as the Chicago Exposition of 1893, besides mining awards for gold 

 nuggets, crystals and placer gold, for collections of silver and silver crystals, for 

 copper ores, for coal and for building stone, this State won distinguished recognition 

 by its agricultural products, awards being made to the State of Montana on apples, 

 and also on a collective exhibit of flaxseed, oats and hay. J. W. Dawes, M. M. Fer- 

 guson, Sam Fowler and the Manhattan Malting company secured awards on barley; 

 William Caldwell and J. Mason secured awards on wheat; Bailey & O'Donnell on hay, 

 and Thomas Blake and Mrs. Ed. Duke on Timothy hay. 



At the Louisiana Purchase Exposition held in St. Louis in 1904, the Grand 

 prize for the mining industry was awarded to the State of Montana. The State of 

 Montana was awarded a gold medal for fruit; Bass Brothers of Stevensville received 

 a gold medal for apples, and the Bitter Root Farm of Hamilton a gold medal for apples 



