MAKING HOMES 



Charles Cross, another Luther farmer, secured a yield of better than 75 bushels 

 of oats to the acre on his dry land farm, and his barley yielded 41 bushels. Draper 

 Brothers, with their private threshing outfit, completed threshing all their small 

 grain before the storm broke; a tract of 80 acres of turkey red yielding an average 

 of 36% bushels of splendid hard wheat. 



CASCADE COUNTY. 



Belt Valley Times: In the country north of Belt reports are very cheerful, 

 many farmers reporting a yield far in excess of expectations, yields of 35 to 40 

 bushels of wheat to the acre not being uncommon. Oats and spring wheat yields 

 are good, and in some instances have been reported exceptional. On the whole the 

 crops of this section may be said to be good and far in excess of the average yield 

 of less favored states. 



Great Falls Leader: The man who has doubts as to the future of Montana in 

 the world of prosperity has only to strike straight away from Great Falls in any 

 direction for as many miles as he may elect and view the foundations of greatness, 

 builded in the greatest farming country under the dome of heaven. In no country 

 under the sun can such agricultural showing be noted, and as yet only a few acres, 

 as compared with the whole, have been touched by the plow. Take every other 

 resource away from Montana, and her farming country alone would, with develop- 

 ment, place her first in the galaxy of states. And Great Falls lies tributary to 

 enough of it to build the greatest city in the northwest — not to mention her other 

 innumerable resources. 



CHOUTEAU COUNTY. 



Chouteau County Independent: One of the largest flax yields so far reported 

 is that of Frank Jestrab, who finished threshing his flax and other grain crops this 

 week. Mr. Jestrab threshed 20 bushels to the acre. Incidentally Mr. Jestrab demon- 

 strated the benefit of summer fallowing, as the land on which the flax was grown 

 was broken in the spring of 1912. 



Bear Paw Mountaineer: J. B. Pierce threshed 80 acres of winter wheat Friday 

 that made an average of 22 bushels to the acre. Fifty acres of this was this year's 

 breaking, which was not so good, bvit the average was raised by the remaining 

 30 acres, which yielded something like 40 bushels to the acre. 



CUSTER COUNTY. 



Miles City Independent: H. D. Lytle returned from his ranch Thursday night 

 and said that he had just shipped the fourth car of grain that he had raised on his 

 ranch in the Moon Creek country this summer. He shipped two cars of wheat, one 

 of rye and the last one was of flax, and he will have a car of mixed grain to ship. 

 He has been most successful in raising hogs and has 125 of this class of livestock, 

 to which he will feed the corn he has raised also on the ranch and of which there 

 is 1,000 bushels. The corn raised this summer has already hardened sufficiently to 

 be fed. Mr. Lytle is convinced that this is a natural "hog and hominy" country. 



Terry Tribune: Notwithstanding the heavy hail storms which visited the 

 section south of Terry the past summer, the elevators of Terry are receiving more 

 grain than ever before. At each place there is a steady stream of wagons arriving 

 that is taxing the energy of the elevator agents to properly care for them. From 

 north of the river more grain is coming to Terry than ever before, and jdelds are 

 reported as excellent, especially on flax. 



DAWSON COUNTY. 



Glendive Correspondence Billings Gazette: Threshing is already well under 

 way in this county, and yields of grain reported are very satisfactory, though not 

 as large as last year's reports. Some pieces of flax that have been threshed have 

 run as high as 22 bushels, a comparatively wonderful yield, but Dawson County 

 holds the palm of the Northwest for immense yields in flax. Wheat is running 

 about 30 bushels to the acre; barley from 25 to 30 bushels, and oats from 35 to 40 

 bushels per acre. 



Glendive Independent: Halvor Bjornson, the Union stage driver, when in the 

 city this week, reported that I. N. Hill, one of the bonanza farmers of Union, had 

 threshed out 140 acres of flax which went over 3,000 bushels. This is one of the 

 largest yields of which the Independent has had knowledge the present year, and 

 is only another sample of the productivity of Dawson county's soil. 



DEER LODGE COUNTY. 



Anaconda Standard: Hugh Daly, manager of the big Gregson Springs farm and 

 of the springs hotel and resort, was in the city yesterday. He is one of the most 

 enthusiastic farmers in the Deer Lodge valley and is taking great pride in the big 

 undertaking of making the biggest farm in the state on the tract of land surround- 



— Montana doesn't want speculators or land grabbers; it wants citizens. 



