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fine horses predominate, and at the annual state fair the very best of these 

 animals are shown. In the several cattle divisions, Short- 

 Animals horns, Herefords, Aberdeen-Angus and Galloways are most 

 That Are prominent, while Jerseys, Holsteins, Guernseys, Ayshires and 

 Autocrats in Brown-Swiss are very popular as dairy types. Of the five 

 Their Class, million sheep in the state the choice lies betw'een Oxford 

 Downs, Hampshires, Ramboillet and Shropshires as repre- 

 sented at the state fair. The predominating types of swine are Poland 

 China, Berkshire, Duroc-Jerseys, Hampshires and Chester-Wfhites. The 

 farms in Montana are becoming too valuable for poor live stock and each 

 year finds a w^onderful increase of the best herds in the country. Live 

 stock creates diversified farming and brings about better profits to the 

 farmer and, better still, preserves the fertility of the soil. 





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Fergus County's WIS Exhibit at Montana State Fair, Winning First Prize on Display and 



Arrangement. 



Every year there is imported into ?^Iontana millions of dozens of eggs 

 and enormous shipments of poultry; to the man who has his eye on Mon- 

 tana and knows a little something about poultry and will come to the 

 Treasure State's double-producing acres he may know the field for poultry 

 raising is very lucrative. Last year the poultry entries at the State Fair 

 showed an increase of 56% over 191 2. Tliere were 1,277 entries in 1913 in 

 this particular departm.ent. which is considerably more than at most of the 

 northwestern fairs. Plymouth Rocks, Wyandot tes, Rhode Island Reds. 



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