The Bozeman weekly chronicle., 1888-02-01
CLIMATE AND FARMING.
Facts that FiattePy Montana to some
Degree. l.

der the sum in the precious metals, the
| productive in all the cereals and vegeta'
| BILE Yields as any portion of the United
| States. there are other riches that make
| Montana favored lani indeed. Of the
the ninety.tive millions of acres Of land
| in Northern Montana, there are suppos
| cd TO he about thirty millions ofacrcs that
are cultivable, and judging from the
one hundred Thousand acres that are
now worked as farm lands, the conclusion
| will warrant the assertion that when the
whole thirty millions of acres are put
under the llow, Montana will produce
more farm products and sustain n greater
population than any other equal number
of acres to be found elsewhere.
The proof is, that the average Weld of
wheat in Montana is twice as much 10
the acre as that produced by Pennsylv
ania or Ohio, and the argument will hold
good in barley, oats and vegetables AS
u whole State cannut he farmers, and
| consumers are as necessary for the profit
and encouragement of agriculture rs the
tillers of the soil, it may be stated that
the mining, milling and refining the
precious metals in Montana will ever
employ a greater population than will be
engaged in farming throughout the Ter
ritory. 1t follows, therefore, that consum'
ers will be convenient to every farming
district, and that home market in Mon
tana will ever be found for the consnmp-
ton of the vast Weld that may be cx-
pected from the farm lands embraced
within her limits.
Farming, therefore, in Montana, will
ever be profitable; because the yield in
bushels and pounds is greater than in
most of the old States, and second, be-
cause the home market (Which is the
best of all markets. will demand all of
the surplus for consumption at the mines
and in the large cities and towns that
must grow up throughout the Territory
because of the richness of the mines
and the tents of thousands of people
dependent upon them. Twenty five bus
hels of wheat to the acre, which is the
average of Montana, as obtained from
official sources, should attract farmers
f,om al, noints of ,he Union anv especi.
be worked with less labor than elsewhere
on5 oro mora c.rtoin of reyular Yields
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