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MADISON COUNTY. 



Madison County Monitor: From the dry farmers who have reported their crop 

 yields so far this year it is evident that the grain crop at least will be up to stand- 

 ard. Fred Awe, who has a homestead about twenty-five miles northeast, threshed 

 30 bushels per acre of Russian red winter wheat on a field containing forty-five 

 acres. 



Twin Bridges Correspondence in Butte Miner: Farmers all through the valley 

 report that the harvest of grain is well under way and that the yield will be enor- 

 mous, as the grain is well filled and will weigh out heavily. The yield will run 

 from fifteen up to forty-iive bushels, with an average of about thirty bushels. 



MEAGHER COUNTY. 



Meagher Republican: Farmers all over this section for twenty miles state that 

 winter wheat and oats this season surpass any they have had for a number of years, 

 claiming an average of thirty-five and forty bushels per acre for wheat, and oats at 

 one hundred. 



Oats in a Judith Basin Field. 



Hedges Herald: One hundred acres of winter wheat four miles southwest of 

 this town average 47 bushels per acre. This yield was on the James Tovey ranch, 

 and was part of a three hundred acre field of turkey red that averaged 31 bushels 

 per acre. 



Hedgesville Correspondence Billings Gazette: Fifty-six bushels of oats to the 

 acre was the actual yield of a four acre patch on the Delano Antoine farm south- 

 west of this city. This yield was secured as a result of the third tillage to which 

 the land had been subjected, all Mr. Antoines farm being irrigated. 



Meagher Republican: An even five acres of Smith River valley land produced 

 575 bushels of oats. The oats went 115 bushels to the acre and were far above the 

 average standard weight, weighing forty pounds exactly to every bushel. 



—Montana has millions of acres of state land to sell on easy terms. 



