MAKING HOMES 



The J. J. Hill cup for the best individual display of potatoes was 

 awarded to Pat Carney, of ^^'aterloo. r^Fadison county, Montana. 



At the Minneapolis Land Show of 1912, a [Momtana 

 When Men- exhibit won the laro;cst prize ever offered for five bushels of 

 tana Took wheat. This was a $5,000 traction engine, and the competition 

 Every Prize covered the entire American Northwest. Nash & Bridgeman 

 in Sight. of Clyde Park, Park county, ]\Iontana, easily won this big 



prize, while the second, third and fourth places in the same 

 competition were taken by Montana exhibitors. 



The scores of the ten Icadinc: contestants were as follows: 



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Grain Ranch in the Timbered Country. 



Nash & Bridgeman, Clyde Park, Montana 92.1 



Peter Deboer, Conrad, Montana 84.23 



J. F. Kane, Conrad, Montana 81.05 



Dick Heun, Conrad, Montana 80.08 



J. V. Skarvoid, Christine, N. D 79.53 



K. F. Ebner, Cando, N. D 79.03 



J. W. McNamara, Amanda, N. D 75.52 



Fred Pietz, Mott, N. D 73.00 



Frank Anderson, Heffner, Ore 72.61 



Josephine Connolly, Power, Montana G7.8 



Out of the twelve sweepstakes offered at the Dry Farming Congress 

 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1913, ^Montana won four. The significance of this 

 ^"ictory can be appreciated more full}- when it is understood that these 



— TJiere is no place in Montana for the loafer. 



