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BEAVERHEAD COUNTY. 



Dillon Tribune: Dr. F. M. Bimrose brought to this office yesterday some sam- 

 ples of his improved turkey red beardless wheat which he is just engaged in har- 

 vesting on his dry farm on the bench east of Dillon. The bead averaged in length 

 7% inches and the kernels are well filled. The doctor expects the wheat to thresh 

 between 40 and 50 bushels to the acre. 



Dillon Correspondence in the Anaconda Standard: Several of the dry farms on 

 the east bench have finished threshing and yields of grain have been more than 

 satisfactory. Winter wheat is averaging nearly 40 bushels per acre; spring rye 

 nearly 20 bushels and flax 16 V2 bushels. These averages are far above the usual 

 and even more than was predicted. 



Big Hole Basin News: Haying is on. Matt Christensen commenced last Friday, 

 beating E. N. Jones just a litttle. Some of the meadows are not quite ready, but 

 another week will hear the whir of the mower all over the Basin. The tonnage is 

 estimated at about 250. 



Bald Barley Grozving at the Soldiers' Home, Columbia Falls. 



BLAINE COUNTY. 

 Harlem News: Dr. W. M. Williams has just finished threshing a field of Grimm 

 alfalfa which produced better than $90 worth of seed to the acre, with a total 

 expense of $1.75 per acre. Taking into consideration that about three-fourths of the 

 alfalfa was badly lodged, producing not more than one bushel to the acre, the part 

 ■of the field not lodged averaged between seven and eight bushels per acre. 



BROADWATER COUNTY. 



Toston Index: E. A. Kimpton appears to have captured the blue ribbon for 

 oats grown this year. The statement given out comes direct and removes all doubt 

 -as to its truth. From 15 acres Mr. Kimpton threshed 1,905 bushels of oats, a yield 

 of 127 bushels per acre. His ranch is about eight miles west and south of Toston. 



F. W. Sherman threshed 11,200 bushels of winter wheat off 560 acres, a yield of 

 20 bushels per acre. He says he was pleased with the general results of dry farm- 

 ing, in which he has greater faith than ever. 



Townsend Correspondence to the Montana Daily Record: Unirrigated wheat is 

 running about 25 bushels per acre as against 21i/^ last year. Irrigated fields of 

 winter wheat run from 40 to 50 bushels per acre, and the oat crop will be the 



-Afi acre of land in Montana is worth more than an acre elsewhere. 



