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heaviest in the history of the country, many fields running 90 bushels per acre. I^ast 

 year, according to returns made by threshing outfits, Broadwater Coimty produced 

 160,000 bushels of winter wheat and 128,000 bushels of spring wheat. This year the 

 yield of both varieties is conservatively placed at 400,000 bushels. 



Broadwater Opinion: Walter Montrey has just finished threshing 900 bushels 

 of fine turkey red wheat which average 36 bushels to the acre. Had the heavy 

 rains not lodged part of it, his crop would have been 40 bushels. 



CARBON COUNTY. 

 Red Lodge Picket: T. M. Denton, who was in the city last Monday from his 

 dry land ranch in the Butcher Creek country, told the Picket that from a little less 

 than an acre of winter wheat he threshed 59 bushels of the prettiest and plumpest 

 wheat ever grown in the State. His homestead, recently patented, is on Dry Valley 

 creek, not many miles west of Red Lodge, and the most of the wheat was grown 

 whollv without irrigation or soil stirring or even rolling. 



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Gardun Truck Groics in the Non-Irrigated Districts. 



Billings Gazette: J. A. Black of Fromberg was in the city yesterday to make 

 final proof on his homestead in the Clark's Fork valley. He took up a homestead 

 when there were many acres open for filing, and has one of the most valuable 

 ranches to be found in Carbon county. He has sent six sugar beets to the State Fair 

 that weighed just one ounce of 90 pounds. Four of them filled a bushel measure. 



Carbon County Journal: Threshers have just begun work on an 80 acre crop 

 of flax from Sam Tuttle a few miles west of this city. As near as can be estimated 

 it was yielding about 20 bushels to the acre. The threshers began on the poorest 

 end, so final results may be even above that figure. 



Albert Ruckman completed threshing on his big ranch near Luther last week, 

 and told a Journal representative a few of his results. From a 50 acre crop of 

 oats he threshed 3,300 bushels, a yield of 66 bushels to the acres. This was without 

 irrigation. Mr. Ruckman's wheat ranged from 25 to 40 bushels of the first quality. 

 His total crop was 6,700 bushels. 



— Montana is growing faster than any state in the union. 



