30 



MONTANA 19U 



AVERAGE FARM VALUE PER ACRE OF HAY IN THE UNITED STATES AND IN 



MONTANA, 1903 TO 1912. 



YEAR— 



I 1903 I 1904 I 1905 | 1906 | 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 



I 



19i: 



$17.33 

 15.77 



Average of United States |n3.93|$l,'^.23i$13.11|n3.9.TlS16.SriK13.67|$15.07 S12.26 $16 10 



Average of Montana | 1S.32| 16.70| 12.32| 16.4fi| 16.151 16.70| 17.90| 12.50| 2o!oo 



Ten Year Average of the United States 14 55 



Ten Year Average of Montana \\\\ 16.28 



As before stated, these fig-nres, compiled from the gfovernment reports, 

 are exteremely conservative. They represent the naturally low average of 

 all conditions, and even then, as it will be noted, they aire much higher than 



the averages of the greatest grain producing states in the 

 The Land Gives Union. 

 Big Yields. High yields are usual rather than the exception where- 



ever proper treatment is accorded the land. As an illus- 

 tration of this,! there is printed herewith clippings from newspapers in everv 

 part of the State, recording some of the more interesting crop returns for 



Flax is a Big Money Crop in Montana. 



the year 1913. As will be seen, these reports are from practically every 

 county and they summarize a complete story of agricultura'l prosperity. 



BIG HORN COUNTY. 



Hardin Tribune: The first threshing report for 1913 in the vicinity of Hardin 

 comes from the farm of Lou Kennedy, five miles southwest of the town on the bench. 

 He has in 300 acres of winter wheat which he is harvesting with a combination 

 binder and thresher. The first 100 acres harvested made an average yield of 41 

 bushels and 10 i>ounds to the ajcre. There is no longer any question about the Big 

 Horn valley benchland being adapted to dry farming. The past four years have 

 demonstrated that one year with another the section surrounding Hardin will pro- 

 duce as good yield to the acre as the famed Gallatin valley and the Judith Basin. 



— The people have more than $82,000,000 deposited in Montana banks. 



