As was pointed out in case of wheat dockage, Montana, by reason of newer, 

 cleaner soils, does not have the weed problem to the extent noted in the older 

 states of the interior Northwest. Montana farmers are attempting to control 

 weeds by summer fallow and rotation. 



Dockage in Flax as Threshed in 1928 

 average per cent by counties 



Average Dockage for; North Dakota-15.8%- South Dakota -1 6. 9%; 

 Minnesota-l6't%and Montana-7.'*% 



CRAIN INVeSTIGATIONS 

 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT Of AGRICULTURE 

 BUREAU or AGRtCULTURAL ECONOMICS 



CORN 



fOOOACfiSS 



j^A/7>,/v^ CO/2A/ ^c^EAGE ^om acreage in 1928 would probably have 



increased over that of 1927 as indicated by 

 the expressed intentions of farmers in 

 March, but dry weather during most of the 

 planting season resulted in a decreased 

 acreage compared with 1927. 



Acreage planted in 1928 was estimated at 

 274,000 against 305,000 in 1927; 359,000 in 

 1926 and 420,00 acres in 1924, which was 

 the peak of the upward trend in com acre- 

 age that set in strongly after the close of 

 the war. 



Acre yields in 1928 also fell below those of 1927 but averaged better than 

 any other preceding season back to 1923. August frost damage cut yields of late 

 com in central and northeastern Montana reducing what otherwise promised 

 to be as good a crop as in 1927. 



Quality of the 1928 crop was below 1927 and average. Reporters' estimates 

 for 1928 gave 49 per cent of the crop of grain com as being of merchantable 

 quality compared with 51 per cent of the 1927 crop and the 10-year average of 

 66 per cent. 



The bulk of the corn acreage in Montana is usually cut for forage, grazed 



or hogged off, the percentage utilized in this manner being reported as 62.0 per 



cent in 1927 with 4.0 per cent being cut for silage and 34.0 per cent cut for grain. 



Utilization of corn acreage in Montana since 1923 is shown in the following 



table : 



UTILIZATION OF CORN IN MONTANA 



(Based on averages supplied by Crop Reporters for their localities) 



For Forage, Cut 



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