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MONTANA FARM REVIEW 



Production Shifts 1924. 



Larger crops of spring wheat, winter wheat, barley, rye, flax, tame hay, and 

 beans were secured in 1924 compared with 1923. In the case of spring wheat and 

 rye the larger production came from an acreage smaller than in 1923. In other 

 cases acreage increases were largely responsible. Corn, oats, potatoes, wild hay and 

 apples gave smaller production than in 1923, although this reduction was relatively 

 unimportant except in the case of apples, which as a result of a heavy June freeze 

 in the important Bitter Root valley, suffered a 42 per cent cut in the total crop. 

 Corn production in spite of a greatly increased acreage, fell somewhat below the 1923 

 crop when final yields were tabulated, the past season having been one of the most 

 unfavorable for corn in the state history of the crop. Wild hay, although yielding 

 highly in the eastern half of the state, was a failure in many sections of the western 

 half as a result of dry weather, especially in the southwestern counties. 



Production of crops in 1924 compared with their five year average out-turns 

 was also higher in most cases, as the following table shows: 



1924 Out-turn as 



Percentage of 



CROP: 1923 Crop. 



Spring Wheat 109 



Winter Wheat 103 



Corn 97 



Oats 89 



Barley 116 



Rye 102 



Flaxseed 260 



Potatoes 82 



Tame Hay 104 



Wild Hay 99 



Beans 154 



Apples 58 



1924 Out-turn as 



Percentage of 



CROP: 5 -Year Average. 



Spring Wheat 110 



Winter Wheat 94 



Com 152 



Oats Ill 



Barley 148 



Rye 99 



Flaxseed 215 



Potatoes 74 



Tame Hay 110 



Wild Hay 101 



Apples 72 



Statistics of acreage and production of Montana's principal crops will be found 

 in table IV. 



Acre Yields in 1924. 



Average acre yields of both spring and winter wheat, rye, flaxseed and beans 

 were larger in 1924 than in 1923 and smaller in the case of corn, oats, barley, 

 potatoes, tame hay and wild hay. Differences in all cases with the exception of 

 potatoes were moderate as between the two years, both seasons being better than 

 the 5-year average. 



YIELDS PER ACRE. 



•Yields per acre for hay in tons; other crops in units of bushels. 



