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part of his bean crop for seed for his own ranch and he says he will have the bean 

 ranch of Stillwater county next year. 



SWEETGRASS COUNTY. 



Big Timber Pioneer: Billy McMahon, who hauls the freight between this city 

 and the Melville stores, says that wheat harvesting is now on in that county. He 

 also reports a bet between James Duffy, of American Fork, and Charley Langston, 

 who has started cutting 120 acres of wheat on the divide between Fish creek and 

 Melville. Mr. Duffy's bet is that the Langston crop will average 60 bushels to the 

 acre. Mr. McMahon thinks the crop will thresh at least 50 bushels to the acre. 



TETON COUNTY. 



Cut Bank Tribune: A fine yield of winter wheat was threshed on the ranch 

 of Carrie Green last week. Her ranch is northeast of Headlight about two miles. 

 A field of 30 acres yielded an average of 29 bushels per acre. It is claimed that 

 if the wheat had not been cut too green it would have yielded at least 35 bushels. 

 As it was the grain was badly threshed and the yield less than it would have been 

 had it been cut at the proper time. But 29 bushels of winter wheat is a good yield. 



Choteau Acantha: The Border Bench country is entitled to all the honors for 

 big yields in Teton county this year. Reports of good crops come in frequently 

 from this section, one of the latest being Mr. Sullivan, who threshed his crop last 

 week, the yield' being as follows: Spring wheat, 35 bushels to the acre; winter 

 wheat, 29 bushels to the acre; oats, 55 bushels to the acre. Other parts of the same 

 locality have been practically as good, and in fact a poor crop on this bench is the 

 exception rather than the rule this year. 



Harvesting Near Kremlin in 1913. 



Conrad Observer: What is probably the record yield in this section for crop 

 on non-irrigated land is reported by Nick Miller, who lives just west of Conrad. Mr. 

 Miller completed his threshing the first of the week and his entire crop made the 

 following averages: Flax, 21 bushels per acre; spring wheat, 28 bushels per acre; 

 barley, 51 bushels per acre. Wliat Mr. Miller raised should have been equaled by a 

 big majority of the farmers of the community had they had their ground as well 

 prepared and gotten their seeding done at the proper time. 



Valierian: While there have been many large yields of grain reiJorted from 

 this valley, we wish to make special mention of that on the Mountain Meadow ranch. 

 Mr. Kingsbury, who is the owner of this large, beautiful tract of land, which com- 

 prises 6,000 acres, reports the following yields: From 100 acres of winter wheat 

 the yield was 34 bushels per acre; oat crop of 40 acres yielding 60 bushels to the 

 acre. Ninety per cent of these 6,000 acres is subject to irrigation. However, the 

 acreage given to the wheat and oat crop this year was non-irrigated. 



VALLEY COUNTY. 



Valley County News: The report of threshing in this county is almost com- 

 pleted and the farmers generally are well satisfied with the season's crops. Those 

 who farmed well report from 15 to 20 bushels of wheat, 25 to 75 bushels of oats, 

 and other crops in proportion. One report comes from one who is recognized as 

 one of the good farmers, reporting a yield of about seven bushels of alfalfa seed to 

 the acre. 



— The best ivheat grown in America came from Montana. 



