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Corn Is a Profitable Crop Throughout Eastern Montana. 



the best wheat in the United States, best oats in the United States, best barley in the 

 United States and the best alfalfa in the United States. 



The $1,000 silver cup, donated by the late James J. Hill of the Great Northern 

 Railway, "for the best one hundred pounds of wheat grown in the United States in 

 1911," was awarded to James Todd of Geyser, Cascade county, Montana. Mr. Todd's 

 exhibit consisted of one hundred pounds of Turkey Red winter wheat that was grown 

 without irrigation. It was part of a yield of 75 bushels grown on an acre and weighed 

 65 pounds to the bushel. 



The $1,000 silver cup donated by A. J. Earling, president of the Chicago, Milwaukee 

 & St. Paul Railway, for "the best one hundred pounds of oats raised in the United 

 States in 1911," was awarded to Hartman & Patton of Bozeman, Gallatin County, 

 Montana. The oats entered by T. Menard of the same county were found to be the 

 next best. 



The $1,500 silver cup donated by Colonel Gustav Pabst of Milwaukee for the best 

 bushel of barley grown in the United States in 1911 was awarded to R. Eisinga, of 

 Manhattan, Gallatin county, Montana. 



The $1,000 silver cup donated by Paul L. Van Cleve, to be awarded "to the persons 

 demonstrating the best and widest uses of alfalfa as food for man and beast who shall 

 also exhibit at this exposition alfalfa meal or flour and bread and other products there- 

 from," was awarded to Dr. W. X. Sudduth of Broadview, Yellowstone county, Montana. 



At the Land Products Show, held in St. Paul under the auspices of the North- 

 western Development League, December 12 to 23, 1911, there were exhibited the best 



