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MONTANA FARM BEVIEW 

 FLAX BY COUNTIES— 1922. 



STATE TOTAL. 



127.000 



7.0 



889,000 



CORN 



Com has made the most rapid proportional increase of all the important crops. 

 With 1,600 acres in 1900, the following 22 years brought an expansion of the state's corn 

 acreage up to 219,000 acres in 1922, and this remarkable growth will continue for at 

 least another year. The factors causing this expansion are many, and include among 

 others: the increasing demand for homegrown livestock feed and recognition of the 

 importance in rotation of inter-tilled crops — both requirements arising out of the trend 

 toward diversification, and both met by corn ; the demonstration by the Experiment 

 Station that wheat on well-tilled corn ground yields practically as much as after summer 

 fallow; the success with which certain varieties have been acclimated, so that they 

 mature under Montana conditions; and the popularity of corn as a feed for all stock in 

 many forms, as grain, silage, and roughage. 



Most of the corn is raised in the eastern one-third of the state, but it is rapidly 

 assuming an important position in nearly all sections east of the mountains. Very 

 little is grown in districts with altitudes of more than 3,500 feet, although in the milder 

 climate west of the Divide its success has been demonstrated, and its acreage is extend- 

 ing (here. 



