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MONTANA FARM REVIEW 



Table YI. 



WINTER WHEAT BY COUNTIES— 1923 and 1924. 



District and County: Acreage 



NORTHWESTERN— 



Flathead 13,00 



Lake 8,000 



Sanders 3,000 



NORTH CENTRAL— 



Blaine 4,000 



Chouteau 86.000 



Hill 4,000 



Pondera 2,000 



Teton 9,000 



NORTHEASTERN— 



Sheridan 2,000 



WEST CENTRAI^— 



Granite 1,000 



Missoula 15,000 



PoweU 1,000 



Ravalli 2,000 



CENTRAL— 



Broadwater 2,000 



Cascade 37,000 



Fergus 129,000 



Golden Valley 20,000 



Jefferson 4,000 



Judith Basin 56,000 



Lewis and Clark 3,000 



Meagher 2,000 



Musselshell 13,000 



Wheatland 4,000 



EAST CENTRAL— 



Dawson 1,000 



Garfield 4,000 



McCone 2,000 



Prairie 2,000 



Wibaux 5,000 



SOUTHWESTERN— 



Beaverhead 2,000 



Madison 6,000 



SOUTH CENTRAL— 



Carbon 5,000 



Gallatin 43,000 



Park 7,000 



Stillwater 39,000 



Sweet Grass 7,000 



Yellowstone 35,000 



SOUTHEASTERN— 



Big Horn 27,000 



Carter 2,000 



Custer 1,000 



Fallon 6,000 



Powder River 1,000 



Rosebud 4,000 



Treasure 5,000 



STATE TOTALS 624,000 



12.0 



24,000 



2,000 



17.0 



Flax. 



Flax as a cash crop assumed considerable importance in 1924 when its farm 

 value increased to $5,191,000 from $1,741,000 in 1923. Greatly increased acreage 

 and a slightly larger acre yield than in 1923 more than doubled the production for 

 1924. Flax is grown chiefly in the eastern and northeastern counties, although the 

 past season brought a considerable spread in the distribution of this crop. Much of 

 the crop is still grown on new breaking, although the practice of using flax on old 

 ground in rotation systems is followed to some extent. 



