36 MONTANA 19U 



GALLATIN COUNTY. 



Bozeman Correspondence to Butte Miner: Seventeen thousand acres are planted 

 to peas in this county, the crop going to eastern seed houses under contract. The 

 price averages $1.70 a bushel on the track, and the growers estimate a gross retiu'u 

 of over $1,000,000.00 from this one crop. 



Helena Independent: Robert Collins, a West Flathead rancher, has threshed 

 what is believed to be a banner yield of oats on non-irrigated land in the Gallatin 

 Valley. Of two tracts, one gives an average yield of 70 ])ushels per acre, and the 

 other 80 bushels per acre. They were threshed by Arch Martin. 



Bozeman Courier: In the great dry land wheat belt north of Belgrade the wheat 

 is threshing out 30 to 40 bushels to the acre, with most of the yields running about 

 35 bushels. One yield of barley has been reported one mile from Manhattan where 

 Dennis Cascade harvested GO bushels to the acre of six-row barley on his field. 

 The seed pea returns that have been received have ranged from 20 to 30 bushels 

 to the acre, and indications are that the average yield will be hetween 20 and 27 

 bushels. About Salesville the wheat crop is good. Hogan H. Dawes threshed out 37 

 bushels to the acre on his 40 acre field. In the Belgrade neighborhood, A. M. 

 Martin on a 250 acre field of wheat threshed out 40 bushels to the acre. W. H. Cox 

 in the same neighborhood threshed out about 7,000 bushels on 200 acres, or 35 

 bushels to the acre. 



Three Forks Correspondence to the Butte Miner: B. W. McKay, who farms 

 on the bench south of Three Forks, had in 400 acres of turkey red wheat which in 

 many parts yielded as high as 30 bushels to the acre. Frank Conrow on 50 acres 

 secured 33 bushels to the acre. E. H. Dean on the same acreage reported the same 

 yield. Many thousand hushels of wheat are coming into the elevators here daily, 

 all from land that has been under cultivation but three or four years. The wheat 

 averages about 64 pounds to the measured bushel in weight. 



Bozeman Courier: A phenomenal yield of barley is that of Seymour Kent of 

 Cottonwood, south of Salesville, on a small acreage. Five acres yielded 494 bushels, 

 or 98 4-5 bushels per acre. The soil is of marked fertility in that section. 



HILL COUNTY. 



Havre Correspondence to Kalispell Times: Rev. Leonard J. Christler. bishop of 

 all outdoors and farmer, now lays claim to having the banner wheat yield in this 

 vicinity. He has just finished the threshing of his winter wheat cut from 49 acres, 

 which turned out a yield of 2,004 hushels, almost 41 bushels per acre. Mr. Christler 

 has always been a strong and enthusiastic booster of Montana, and his faith in the 

 Treasure State as an agricultural possibility has received some very visible proof. 



Galata Journal: The best crops seem to be south of town this year. Douglas 

 Parker reports his winter wheat as going 19 bushels to the acre and a piece of 

 spring wheat averaged 30 bushels to the acre. Ivan Doolittle's winter wheat went 

 24 bushels to the acre. 



Chester Signal: That we can raise corn is fully demonstrated by the yield on 

 the farm of A. J. Layton, about eight miles south of town, who has just husked his 

 crop and found that it went well 40 bushels to the acre. The variety was the 

 yellow dent. 



LINCOLN COUNTY. 



Eureka Journal: If any of the colonization men who visited the valley the past 

 month come through with the goods there will be something doing. We believe in 

 our county, and know that if a colony comes here it cannot help but make good. 



Lil)by Correspondence Spokesman-Review: More stump land is being cleared in 

 the Kootenai valley and its tributaries in Lincoln county this year than in any 

 previous season and more people are living on the land than ever before. Most 

 of the settlers blow out the stumps with dynamite, but a few use stump pullers and 

 some burn them out by the char-pitting process. Hundreds of persons are living 

 on these forest lands in Lincoln county, where only a few years ago there was only 

 an occasional settler. 



LEWIS AND CLARK COUNTY. 



Helena Independent: Dope sheets of skeptics on the dry farm proposition have 

 been upset as a result of a remarkable yield of wheat on an 80-acre field owned by 

 Lewis Penwell on the Spokane benches. Without a drop of water except that which 

 fell from the clouds, one SO acre field yielded 25 ^^ bushels to the acre. Mr. Penwell 

 sowed a 300 acre field to turkey red wheat, which is now being threshed. He 

 surveyed one 80, measured the grain after threshing and found that it netted 25^^ 

 bushels. 



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