Farming 



How the Fertility of Montana's Soil 

 Has Been Amply Demonstrated — 

 Only Intelligent Effort Is Needed 

 to Make This State First in Wheat 

 and Flax and First in Beef and 

 Dairy Products, 



By PROF. THOMAS SHAW, 

 Agricultural Expert for the Great 

 Northern Railway. 



Until recently it was the common opinion that ^lontana could not be 

 farmed without the aid of irrigating waters. This view was encouraged by 

 ranchmen, whose flocks and herds fed upon the open range upon pastures 



that were free. It was to the personal interest of these men 

 View to claim that crops could not be grow^i with success on the 



of the benchlands of Montana. These men claimed that they had 



Ranchman. tried to grow cereal crops and they had failed. They were 



honest in their statements. They had tried and failed, but they 

 had failed because the crops they had tried to grow were not grown on the 

 principles which alone can lead to the successful production of crops in a 

 country in which the normal rainfall is low. These men were honest in 

 their statements, but they did not know". They had not become acquainted 

 with the principles that underlie successful dry-land farming. They had 

 honestly tried to groAv crops, but they had failed because they did not know 

 how to grow them. And because they had failed, in their haste they con- 

 cluded that crops in paying quantities could not be successfully grown. 

 What are the facts regarding the possible production of ^Montana? As 



— There's room for you in Montana. 



