FOREWORD 



Volume 3 of the Montana Farm Review is a current review of the 

 1924 season of agriculture in Montana with such comparative data as will 

 afford as nearly as possible a complete picture of agriculture in the 

 state as it finds itself at the close of 1924. 



Statistics of production and farm value of crops and livestock con- 

 tained herein are compiled by the Montana Cooperative Crop Reporting 

 Service, which is a unit of the Division of Crop and Livestock Estimates, 

 of the U. S. Bureau of Agricultural Economics, cooperating with the 

 Montana State Department of Agriculture and with the Extension Service 

 of the Montana State College. 



The estimates of crop acreage and production are those of the 

 division of the United States Department of Agriculture, crops for 1924 

 and livestock for January 1, 1925, being subject to revision, and those 

 for preceding years being revisions for those years. 



County figures are those prepared under direction of the federal 

 statistician both from information collected through more than three 

 thousand voluntary reporters to the federal service and from informa- 

 tion compiled from the annual state farm census. 



The tables showing relative farm income from crops and livestock 

 in 1924, are compiled by the Montana State Department of Agriculture, 

 based on the federal estimates of production and farm value, and must 

 be interpreted in a relative sense, to show the approximate difference 

 between these returns in both years, rather than to be actual measure of 

 the returns in either year, which is not the point sought. 



CHESTER C. DAVIS, JAY G. DIAMOND, 



Commissioner of Agriculture. Agricultural Statistician. 



