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"I ha\e the followinc: stock : 



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Horses, head 2: 



IMules. head 5 



Cattle, head 53 



Hiogs. head 117 



Angora Goats, head 152 



Chickens 500 



"I have found farming- very pleasant and profitable. I get good prices 

 and have lost no stock by disease. I just got my check today from a local 

 butcher for $870.40 for 40 head of hogs which averaged 240 pounds. I got 

 8 cents, live weight. I pastured them during the summer and finished them 

 off on wheait. I weighed the hogs when I commenced feeding and weighed 

 them wdien I sold them, on my own scales. I also weighed the feed, and I 

 found that I made a trifle more than $1.00 per bushel on my wheat by 

 feeding it. 



"I find that a slump ranch is a poor man's best investment if he wants 

 a farm. You can buy the land at a low figure and every acre you clear up 

 is the same as payment on an improved farm, only that you are not 



paying interest on a big investment. 

 The Poor "My stump land furnishes me lots of pasture for my stock 



Man's Best while I am clearing it up. Timothy, blue grass and clover 

 Investment, scattered over the ashes where I have burned the brush comes 



up and makes a rich ]:)asture. Most any poor man can start in 

 with a small investment on a stump ranch and in ten or twelve years have 

 a valuable and profitable home." 



W'vth the development of the agricultural resources of the State, there 

 are springing up all over ^Montana allied and kindred industries which serve 

 not only to give life and vigor to the many small towns now in the process 

 of making, but also to increase the profit which comes to the farmer. On 

 practicalh' every siding in eastern ]\.rontana there is now an elevator, many 

 of even the smaller towns boast of twO or three. In numerous places 

 throughout the State flour mills are being constructed, and Montana flour 

 is alreadv achieving a world-wide reputation. 



The manufacture of numerous alfalfa products is already an accom- 

 plished fact and this industry displays a permanence and indication of growth 



that is indeed gratifying. The enormous JMontana yields 

 By-Products of potatoes have led to thorough study of methods of 

 Being Taken extending the importance of the potato industry and dur- 

 Care of. ing the past year steps have been taken toward the 



building and operation of potato flake factories in various 

 parts of the State. 



AA'ithin recent years the growing of flax has developed into an import- 

 ant industry. It is estimated that this year not less than 7,000.000 bushels of 

 flaxseed were produced in this State. Heretofore the straw of the flax has 



— Montana has 65,000,000,000 feet of standing, inerchantable timber. 



