The Helena independent., 1894-07-19

horsoa aud sheep may feed and grow fat.
In eastern aiAtes thiohly settled. oysry no .
OF atoaud that will q 0dnoe ysReiation ~
nny Kind IA uaed for the production Of
crops and pat PennaylvnniA produces
three. quarters of q million more cattle than
Montana, Indiana No many NJ the huyH' ono
state, Ohio almost TIE number OF the lioO-
oler state while illinois produced y coo, 600,
aRainut l,OI2OOO In hontenal Nilsson et'
cells Illinois, and Iowa, ESSENTIALLY a farm
lna atato, IN second In tha Has, having I, ,uOO,s
600 cattle within hsf borders, Several Of
The southern atates make equally hno show
Ina IN tho matter OF cattle.
In The prssactiou OF sheep Montana 10
relatively nearer tho 'front.' though In this
respect Ohi0,-h farming Htato, ~ barely
SECOND 10 Texas, and has nearly twice 40
many sheep as We have In Montana, Mlchi-
Ran has moro than Montana, while New
York, Pennsylvania. Indiana, Illinois. Mis-
Bouri, Wisconsin, end hVntuoky ApprOIi-
mate half the nombor OF sheep ia this
atht0.
The hog industry haa soarcsly aa got beon
represented In this state the number To-
tn ned at the last assessment teing less
than 10000. And yet hOga eau be TAiaed
easily and prontAbly In Montana. The
great farming AtAtoa are the great pfodne-
era OF hoRa Iowa heads the liat with u. 900,
600. Missouri following with A0J0, 900, then
comes Illinois With 800 OO0. kanaea, Ohio,
Indiana aud Nebraska with over 1000, 0OO
each, and Kentucky and Tennessee with
nearly 20000O0 each. Illinois has on her
faIma lave stock, exclusive OF horses. worth
/ ll0,000,000.
In the farming states tho care OF few
head OF stock does NOS interfere with this
ling OF seed ot the gathering OF orope.
but the farmer RfudRlnRJ gives up oven
| ono acre OF land 10 hia stock. In Montana
this would moi bs noeessart. Every good
farming valley II hsnkod Dy green toOt.
hills where sheep and cattle may feed, and
the land Ia 80 plentiful that pastursgs for
hoga will not deprive him OF op room.
As long % tho world stands the people will
| eat meat. and so long will there he n
ma kst for cattle and sheep and hogs, they
| are the secret OF the Gneooaa OF tAe thrifly
| farmer aud the source of hia wealth; thsY
can bo raised In Montana cheaper than In
the EASTERN states, and good farming land
oan DO bought cheap.
Az 20 vegetables OF tho hneat quality,
size aud yield per acre Montana acknowl-
odges no superior. The superb Montana
potatoes, big, mealy, IN ore 20 the acre than
10 found elsewhere, already ~ known ia
] fame. single cabbnRes have weighed al
| high as 10 ty-two pounds. All varieties ol
to nips and beets attain enormous size; MOI
| is this undue Development at the expense
| OF quality and nAvoi; bot 10 the contrary.
| they are OF superior excellence for table
use In the Yellowstone valley also are
produced melons, squsshsa. tomatoes. pea
nuts. All other such crops that require q
| high Temperature during the season oi
| growth and maturity. he same things
can be mesGurably woll grown In the val
| leya OF tho Jefferson and the Ruby that lie,
at tho least. 1000 feet higher than the Yell
lowstono valleS proper.
In tho Ruby valley, In the vioinity oil
| Bherilh they have been more succ asaful
| than elsewhere up to date in maturing
| grapes though thoy are doing nearly a.
| we'll In the Missouri Wiley, In the vicinity
OF Canyon Ferry. which while IL Ia at lsast
| 100 miles to ths north, 10 ], 200 feet lower.
| This test Ia o severe ono, involving not, as
| might have bsen expected. tbs simple no
| ton of the rays of the sun du ING tho day
| time but also a higher temperature at night
than 10 commonly experienced In the stato.
| Small fruits succeed remarkably we'll In oil
| &c eotions OF the state.
| Currants are moro prolific thAn in any
| other section of the union. and whereas. In
| eastern states, they sbell from the bunch IL
not gathered from the bush hs aoon no ripe,
| here they Or. on the bushes, remaining
| oftentimss until fiosts or the birds pick
them. lu this condition they compare
/ quite fAvorably with the ordinary dried
| currant OF commerce, Goosebcrries grown
! here o nowhere exoolled, aud the same IL
| true of raspbe rleH.
| Strawberries are nowhere more at home
than in Montana. Railway surveyo solaini
| 20 have found in tho Flathoad country wild
| at awberriss that were ns largo IA wa!nuts
tho ordinary Wild eastern fruit being the
sizs of the garden pea. The writer ha'