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ing the springs, a tract that would well be designated as an empire. Already 500 

 acres of winter wheat are growing, and this spring there will be planted another 

 large area of cereals and vegetables. 



FERGUS COUNTY. 



Grass Range Review: G. A. Maddox, who is interested with his brother in a 

 ranch four miles southeast of Grass Range, reports the following remarkal)le yield 

 of wheat on 105 acres. This land was ploughed last year and sown to turkey' red 

 wheat in the fall of 1912. Mr. Maddox has just finished threshing. The average 

 yield, as shown by machine measure, on 22 acres, was 01 bushels to the acre. The 

 total yield from the 105 acres was 5,124 bushels, making an average of about 49 

 bushels to the acre. 



P'ergus County Argus: I. M. Hobeusack has harvested and sold 18,520 bushels 

 of turkey red wheat from 472 acres of land, an average of 3914 bushels per acre. 

 The land is Mr. Hobensack's home ranch, midway between Benchland and Utica. 

 The average yield has been exceeded repeatedly on smaller acreages, l)ut so far as 

 the Argus knows the yield is the record for anything more than 320 acres. 



Stanford World: As the threshing machines work their way through the fields 

 there are reports constantly coming in that will establish more firmly than ever 

 the Judith Basin as a superior agricultural region. Out at the Vincel Antonich ranch 

 near Coffee Creek station, a big field recently threshed gave the largest returns yet 

 reported, the average yield being 55 bushels per acre. On the Vinco farm near 

 the Antonich place the returns were 50 bushels per acre, and on numerous other 

 farms in that Immediate vicinity the yield very closely approximated these two 

 quotations. 



Stanford World: The weighing out at the elevator of winter wheat raised on 

 70 acres this year by J. S. Webber, immediately north of town, showed that the 

 field brought returns in the amount of exactly 40 bushels per acre. This is Mr. 

 Webber's first season as a farmer in the Judith Basin, and the splendid yield from 

 his field is evidence to him that he purchased not only wisely but well when he 

 became proprietor of his present holdings. 



Fergus County Argus: Fred T. Colver of Brooks has sold the wheat from IGO 

 acres, and so far as the Argus knows has made a record while doing it. The 100 

 acre field was virgin soil, first being ploughed in May, 1912. From this tract Mr. 

 Colver has just sold 0,400 bushels of wheat, his check from the elevator being 

 $4,178.00. This is an average yield of 40 4-5 bushels to the acre, and it brought 

 65^/4 cents per bushel. 



Beechland Herald: The weighing out at the Farmers' Elevator of wheat raised 

 on 37 acres by S. E. Alexander, whose ranch Is three miles south of town, showed 

 that the field broaight returns to the amount of 47 bushels to the acre. Mr. Alexander 

 had 170 acres in wheat this year, which averaged 42 bushels to the acre. This is 

 only one of the many yields that went better than 40 bushels around Benchland 

 this fall. 



FLATHEAD COUNTY. 



Kalispell Bee: One often hears the statement that tomatoes cannot be grown 

 in the Flathead valley, but this is disproved by A. Ward, of Rollins, who has a crop 

 which will yield about 300 bushels this year from a two-acre patch, and which are 

 ripening fast. Like every other business there is much in "knowing how" and on 

 this point he is evidently well posted, as he took all prizes at the county fair last 

 fall. The quality of the tomatoes which he produces is of the very finest, and there 

 is no doubt that if they were grown in sufficient quantities a good foreign market 

 could be worked up on the strength of this reputation. 



Whitefish Correspondence Helena Independent: A movement is on foot among 

 the owners of stump land in this vicinity to induce eastern people to come here and 

 settle. The land is being listed at attractive figures and data is being compiled to 

 show how the ground can be cleared off and cultivated at a profit. It is thought that 

 dairying will be the most profitable business here on account of the soil being 

 •especially adapted to growing hay and fodder. 



Whitefish Pilot: Oats will go 110 bushels to the acre. Such is the statement 

 made by men who are taken as atithorities on such matters. Luke Dillon has suc'n 

 a piece of oats on his ranch about five miles east of here, and while bumper crops 

 are such a common occurrence in P^lathead County as to attract little, if any, atten- 

 tion, the above mentioned yield is cited to show what can be raised on the average 

 In this section with but little effort. It is conceded that more gold can be raised 

 from crops in the Flathead than can be dug from the most fabulous gold fields of 

 Alaska or can be raised from crops in any other section. 



— Montina is the last of the great 'public land states. 



