New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-11-07

Pear Valley. so that | can speak from personal
KNOWLEDGE of what saw in those.
he average Weld of wheat IN Montana Is ~ ,ras,
twenty-five bushels to an acre. Other wileIs hilNe
placed II at from thirty 10 forty bushels, ara III -.
bushels ~ ly no means an uncommon crop pu'
taking The whole country t'g thor ouD, II lne
farmer ca depend upon mt Oh more than tW'n v
FIVE This l. ten bushels OF GO ner cent more man
What is considered good crop IN the great gram
States Ot the Mississippi VALLEY. The wheat oil hui-
tana is also of y excellent quality. An ana sis
of samples of Montana wheat 20 AIDE at ne Arli'u'.
tural Department IL Wa hington shows Is per cent
more nltrogenous or fes-proiuciue maize tran
Minuesoia wheat a ii that bulk for bulk { weighed
about per cent more | have bel re me q
sample of spring wheat e" tie or y oi lS'S, rdiseu
bv Mr. Reeves IN the Puckly Pear Valley. that
averages ~ weigh siNty-iour pounds I" measuled
bushcl. Some Ot the crops oi Whrat that nave nee'
RI sed IN Montana have been almost iaphl"ns.
Forty. htty ana even sixty bus els 10 IN acre are
not uncommon crops. Several years ago the state
Far Association offered premium for the best acre
I OF wheat raised that season. AM the award was
who had 1902 measured bushels on single acre.
The committee who made the award were lroml-
nent ctizci If Montana. and one Of them has i"'d
me that the same year farmer M the Galatln Val
lev raised equally large average crop on forty
acre lot. but he could not show that he had more
than 1O2 bushels on any single acre, the comliltee
decided that he WAS not entited Ia the premium.
have seen. VI August TINS year, many fields OF
wheat, both standing ana IN the shock III thc coul-
try around Helena and have not seen one that APP
prared Ia have less than thirty bushels 10 an acre.
In many fie Ids the shocks of gram stood almost as
thick the sheaves IN the heldS III tue MISSISSIPPI
Valley. ~,
o as and barley grow as well wheat. The av-
craze yield of oats 10 the acre Is CONSIDERABLY
urea cr tnan thar OF wheat, aud the weight per
bushel l. much above the tandarc. MT. reeves
gave me "a sample OF oats from his farm when ne
said would average to weigh forty-six pounds to a
bushel. General BriSlIn SAYS that Mr. burton
raised field of oats which averaged 1Ol bushels 10
an acre. ami field of barley on wnich there were
113 bushels to an acre. ~ a.,
Inis Is the bright side OF the picture On tne
OF her hand shou d not be- forgotten that con-
sIderab portion of the grain crop IN ccrtain po-
tious of Montana is frequently destroyed bv grass
hopp.r> and that there reason 10 fear that Tor
some years come and nth he agricultural pop
ulation of tine Territory becomes much eater ihan
now these insect pests Will make the business OF
embarrassing here somewhat hazardous. mat the
scourge of lOcusts has not been AS serious as u
mlRAt have been. nor a. destructive as u Wouid
naturally have been expected To be, Is shown by
the prosperous ccndiiIOn of all tine farmers
who have been established Tor a lew yeats.
Those in the neighborhoOd OF the military
p0sfs especialy have grown rich with wonderful
rapi,lIty General BIsbin told me that the Govern
iuemt has Uaid as much $4,000 To one farmer IN {,
single year grain and ~ raised 10y himself, aud
thai the income of farmer III Tue ne ghborhoOd Oh
Fort EIs from the portion of bis crops Hold 10 the
mfeu States Is frequently as much as S3.OOO Torn
has not been very successfully cultivated III Mon
taHa except III the warmer regions west ol tbe man
| range of the Rocky Mountains. he LAY cut IN the
Territory is wild. and COSTS the farmer who cuts II
from IL 30 to - ton.
The .oIl # Montana seems to be especially fitted
for The pToucuOu Of large crops of garden vcgeta-
bl.s The b.st market garden ever saw, If album
dauf Weld II "a criterion, Is that OF Mr. DoIrng Oh
in the Prick Y Fear Valley. lie sold 1000 worth
ol straw berries. and his root crops. snch ao tdrils
onions, beet>. pnTsupS, etc., seemed literally 10 MI
lie ground. lie expected to taNe ten tons O onions
rom small latch ct grOuuu, ana would receive
CENTS "a pouu, Tor them IN Helena. lie following
table cOmplrd by General BrlsDln shows wat !he
product Of the gardens cultivated by troops al Fort
! Ems was IA 1877: