38 MONTANA 19U 



MISSOULA COUNTY. 



Ronan Pioneer: P'rom ten acres of potato ground John Vallee cut and harvested 

 800 bushels of oats, 80 bushels to the acre, weighing 123 pounds to the sack, free 

 from foul seed. 



Ronan Pioneer: A party of Rouan gentlemen, composed of A. J. Brewer, I. M. 

 Brandgord, W. S. ilollingsworth and A. M. Sterling, made a trip to St. Ignatius and 

 visited among other places the ranch of J. M. Doyle, east of the Mission, where they 

 saw as fine a field of wheat as they ever saw before in their lives. They estimated 

 that the yield will be fully fifty bushels per acre. Mr. Doyle is one of the good 

 farmers of the valley and this yield demonstrates just what can be done by good 

 farming. 



MUSSELSHELL COUNTY. 



Roundup Record : Threshing is now beginning in earnest and the records whicli 

 are coming in of the yields make us all swell with pride. Emil Zimmerman has 

 just finished threshing one 80 acre field which averaged 42 bushels of wheat to the 

 acre. One hundred acres of the Arding field has been threshed and the yield so far 

 averages over thirty bushels. Frank Wiggins reports a yield of something like thirty- 

 live bushels to the acre of wheat and sixty bushels per acre of oats. Comparing 

 these yields with the yields which they consider a large crop in Kansas and other 

 central states makes us wonder why they don't all come to the Treasure State where 

 an adequate return for labor is given. 



PARK COUNTY. 



Shields Valley Record: Thomas AUphin is another of the scores of ranchers of 

 the upper valley who is not complaining as to the results of his wheat crop; 135 

 acres with an average yield of 45 bushels to the acre is his record for the season; 

 53 bushels of barley to the acre was threshed out of the Metzger ranch northwest 

 of Wilsall last week. 



Livingston Enterprise: J. .1. Troutman, an Oregon valley rancher south of 

 Elton, has a field of oats which for number of kernels in tlie head will probably 

 establish a record for Montana. In the presence of three witnesses Charles Francis, 

 one of Park county's most eminent rancliers, counted the kernels on two heads, and 

 one contained 168 kernels and the other 172. 



Livingston Post: Here is another record for the famous Shields River valley — 

 the most wonderful yield of oats per acre grown in the world. Six miles east of 

 Wilsall is the 490 acre farm owned by Judge James F. O'Connor of Livingston, and 

 worked by George and William Killorn; 129 acres were planted in oats by the 

 Killorn brothers and with threshing nearly finished the yield reached the startling 

 figure of 15.500 bushels; 40 acres of this land was first threshed and it averaged 80 

 bushels to the acre, but In threshing the remaining 89 acres the yield was heavy 

 enough to bring up the general average for the amount in cultivation to 120 1-6 

 bushels per acre. The oats went 44 pounds per bushel by measure, but since only 

 32 pounds are required to make a bushel, the result is other startling figures. On 

 the basis of 30 pounds per bushel the total yield on the 129 acres is 21,312 bushels, 

 an average of 165 bushels per acre. 



POWELL COUNTY. 



Silver State: The Deer Lodge grain elevator is now receiving grain, the first 

 load having been delivered Wednesday morning by Senator C. H. Williams, of the 

 Mullen ranch. The grain delivered by Senator Williams was turkey red winter 

 wheat and was graded as No. 1 by W. J. Marsh, the superintendent of the elevator. 

 The wheat delivered by Senator Williams was pronounced to be of No. 1 grade 

 and that it would make the very best of flour. Growing of wheat for milling 

 purposes is a new experiment in the Deer Lodge valley, but it is apparent from the 

 result of Mr. Williams' trial that the very best quality of flour wheat can be success- 

 fully and profitably grown. 



The yield per acre is as great in this valley as anywhere in Montana, which 

 has a general average of 40 bushels to the acre as compared with 15 of Minnesota 

 and the Dakotas. 



RAVALLI COUNTY. 



Northwest Tribune: Seven cents apiece is a pretty good price for spuds, but 

 Bitter Root potatoes brought that money on a market in Cleveland, Ohio, a few 

 days ago. The potatoes were shipped to Cleveland from Stevensville by James M. 

 Dunkel for the Ridgeway Ranches, of which he is the resident manager. The car- 

 load of potatoes were shipped in crates which held about 60 pounds of potatoes. 

 Each spud was wrapped in paper and they were all sorted, all potatoes in a crate 

 being of equal size. Mr. Dunkel took particular care to see that they were marketed 

 'n a first class manner. On their arrival in Cleveland the shipment was refused 



— Montana is the third largest state in the union. 



