ACREAGE CHANGES IN 1927 



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Increases in acreage of most Montana 

 crops were noted in 1927. The exceptions 

 were corn, oats, seed and canning peas, 

 alfalfa seed, and sugar beets. Crop fail- 

 ure was much smaller than usual. 



Total acreage in all principal crops was 

 increased nearly 12 per cent in 1927 over 

 1926. The highest relative increase was 

 in wild hay, which increased 120 per cent 

 over the small acreage cut in 1926. Flax 

 acreage was 49 per cent greater than 

 last year, and beans show an acreage 28 

 per cent larger than 1926. Acreage de- 

 voted to all grains increased a little less 

 than five per cent over 1926, the increase 

 for all wheat being over seven per cent. 



Acreage of grains cut for hay was 

 only about 50 per cent of the acreage cut 

 last year, due to better stands of grain 

 and the good yields of other tame and 

 wild grasses. 



Acreage of crop failure in 1927 amounted to only a little more than 25 per 

 cent of the previous year. Surveys in 1927 also indicated about 49 per cent in- 

 crease in summer fallow acreage over 1926. 



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ACREAGE CHANGES 1927 



1924 

 Acres 



TOTAL LAND AREA 93,582,840 



Land in Farms 32,735,723 



Pasture Land 22,714,811 



Improved pasture land 4,144,050 



Wild 17,249,146 



Woodland 1,311,615 



Other Land 1,546,688 



Total Crop Land 8,650,000 



Total Acres in Crops 6,595,000 



Grain Crops Total 4,526,000 



Corn 420,000 



All Wheat 3,163,000 



Winter Wheat 620,000 



Spring Wheat 2,543,000 



Durum Wheat * 39,000 



Oats 550,000 



Barley 104,000 



Rye 80,000 



Other Crops Total 320,000 



Beans 25,000 



Seed Peas 24,000 



Flax Seed 246,000 



Clover Seed 3,000 



Alfalfa Seed 19,000 



All Hay and Forage 1,879,000 



Timothy 100,000 



All Clover _ 51,000 



Timothy and Clover Mixed 157,000 



Alfalfa Hay 598,000 



Grain cut for hay 190,000 



All Other Tame Hay 110,000 



Wild Hay (Cut) 673,000 



Potatoes 34,000 



Other Vegetables 5,000 



Sugar Beets 31,000 



Canning Peas 1,900 



Crop Failure 308,000 



Idle and Fallow Land 1,750,000 



Fruit Crops (acres) 8,000 



Apple Trees (number) 712,000 



Plums 19,000 



Durum wheat included in Spring Wheat. 



1925 

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1926 

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1927 

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