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because some of the potatoes had sprouted. A member of the company at Ridgeway, 

 Pennsylvania, was communicated with and he went to Cleveland, where the matter 

 was settled and the spuds were taken. It was then that they went on the market 

 :here, as fancy spuds, and the largest of them, weighing nearly two pounds, were 

 sold at seven cents each. 



ROSEBUD COUNTY. 

 Hysham Echo: Yesterday afternoon Grant Edenfield finished threshing a 23- 

 acre field of turkey red winter wheal, which yielded 1.242 bushels, an average yield 

 of 54 bushels per acre per machine measure, and which is believed to be a world's 

 record for dry land wheat. The farm lies two miles east of Hysham and the ground 

 was sown last fall on last year's breaking, this being the first crop the land has 

 ever produced. The writer went out to Mr. Edenfield's farm today at noon to have 

 him verify the yield and he informed us that 54 bushels and four pounds per acre 

 were the correct figures. It is believed that the city scales, where the grain was 

 weighed a second time, will show an increase in weight over the separator weight. 



SHERIDAN COUNTY. 

 Poplar Standard: Last Saturday :Mrs. .1. F. Smith of Boxelder threshed 655 

 bushels of turkey red Kharkov winter wheat, testing GG pounds per bushel from a 

 15 acre field, making a yield of 43 2-3 bushels per acre. This is considered a 

 remarkable yield, the season being too dry and conditions very unfavorable during 

 the winter, all varieties of winter wheat needing a protection of snow. This wheat 



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A Rudijard, Hill County, Farm, Settled in 1911 



was not sown until the first of September last year. 



Poplar Standard: One of the best grain yields near Poplar this year was that 

 of ^luskrat, chief of the Indian police, a full blooded Indian who does not speak 

 English. He had 10 acres of oats that yielded 571 bushels by measure, and 8 acres 

 of spring wheat that yielded 194 bushels machine measure. His place is about eight 

 miles east of Poplar. 



Medicine Lake Wave: T. F. Bowman, whose farm adjoins town, raised 23 

 bushels of wheat and 35 bushels of barley per acre this season on fall plowing. 

 This is the largest yield of wheat we have heard of this season in this section. 



Fox Late Promoter: Ole T. Thorsen. a bench farmer a short distance southeast 

 of town, secured 22 bushels of wheat and 53 bushels of oats to the acre. 



STILLWATER COUNTY. 



Billings Gazette: The lake basin, in common with the other dry farm regions of 

 Montana is continuing to hold up its reputation for being the bread basket of the 

 nation. Threshing reports indicate that yields will not only be greater than had 

 been expected for this unprecedented year, but that they will exceed all previous, 

 records upon the continent. 



Absarokee Enterprise: Milton Everett, the Enterprise printer and dry land 

 f.'irraer, reports that the crops on his ranch are all harvested and stored away. He 

 raised 100 bushels of potatoes on a half acre and had field peas and navy beans each 

 m half-acre lots. Both produced fine crops and the pea crop was sold on the ground 

 to a neighbor, who will use it for feed. Milton himself intends to keep the greater 



— Anything that will grow went of the Ohio River will groiv in Montana. 



