I.AX, an important cash crop in eastern 

 and northeastern Montana, encountered an 

 unfavorable season in 1926 that at the out- 

 set tended to curtail acreage by reason of 

 dry soils and later damaged the crop by 

 dry weather in July. Acreage in 1926 was 

 reduced to 177,000 from 244,000 acres in 

 1925 and 246,000 acres in 1924. Production 

 in 1926 on a basis of 4.7 bushels yield per 

 acre, was 804,000 bushels compared with 

 1,098,000 bushels in 1925 and 2,140,000 

 bushels in 1924. 



(See pages 17 and 19 for flax acreage 

 and production during the past three 



\' ?*W-u-V:''f"l£T£rfe'it>^iB6 years.) 



FLAX BY COUNTIES FOR 1926 AND 

 1926 REVISED 



r^. . . . J Acre Produc- 



District and Acreage Yield tion 



Co""*^y (Bu.) (Bu.) 



NORTHWESTERN 



Lake 100 5.0 500 



NORTH CENTRAL 



Blaine 6,000 6.0 36,000 



Chouteau 100 5.0 500 



Glacier 100 5.0 500 



Hill 2,000 5.4 10,800 



Liberty 1.000 6.5 6,500 



Pondera 1,000 4.0 4,000 



Teton 100 5.0 500 



Toole 200 5.0 1,000 



NORTHEASTERN 



Daniels 25.000 4.5 112,500 



Phillips 4,000 4.5 18,000 



Roosevelt 15,000 4.0 60,000 



Sheridan 40,000 4.0 160,000 



Valley 16.000 4.5 72,000 



CENTRAL 



Cascade 200 4.0 800 



Fergus 1,000 2.0 2,000 



Golden Valley 200 4.0 800 



Judith Basin 100 5.0 500 



Meagher 200 3.0 600 



Musselshell 200 4.0 800 



Wheatland 100 4.0 400 



EAST CENTRAL 



Dawson 26,000 4.5 117,000 



Garfield 16,000 4.7 75,200 



McCone 24,000 4.0 96,000 



Prairie 10,000 4.0 40,000 



Richland 15,000 4.0 60,000 



Wibaux 11,000 v 6.0 66,000 



SOUTHWESTERN 



Madison 100 6.0 600 



SOUTH CENTRAL 



Carbon 100 6.0 600 



Stillwater _..» 200 5.5 1.100 



Sweet Grass 2,000 5.2 10,400 



Yellowstone - „ 1,000 5.0 5,000 



SOUTHEASTERN 



Big Horn 7,000 5.0 36.000 



Carter 4,000 5.3 21,200 



Custer 4,000 3.7 14,800 



Fallon ; 9,000 5.6 60,400 



Powder River 1,000 8.5 8,500 



Rosebud r... 1,000 7.6 7,500 



Treasure 



STATE TOTAL 244,000 4.5 1,098,000 



1925 



1926 (DEC. EST.) 



Acre Produc- 



Acreage Yield tion 



(Bu.) (Bu.) 



200 



5.0 



,000 



171,C 



4.7 



804.000 



