The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-08-26

ripening too fast; heavy smoke over
country.
FLATHEAD - Kalispell: Warm,
dry and smoky; forest fires still burn
ing; farmers about through harvest
ing and %threshing commenced; some
of the best winter wheat yielding rs
bushels per acre, a great deal only six
to Is bushels; spring wheat and oats
run from 30 to 40 bushels.
GALLATIN-Bozeman: Still hot
and dry; haying is over and harvest
in progress, crop is good; plenty OF
water for irrigation; range is very
dry, but stock is in excellent condi-
ton. Reese Greek: Excellent weather
continues to help the harvesting OF
grain; second crop of alfalfa and clo-
e about ready for the mower; high
prices will help to make up for def
cheney in cereal crop; range feed very
dry and scarce.
JEFFERSON - Light showers on
18th, balance of week warm and dry,
good haying weather; some alfalfa
being cut the second time; grain being
harvested, a light crop; vegetables
marketed at good prices.
MADISON-Cameron: Hot and
dry; grain ripening fast, some fields
being cut; second crop of alfalfa will
be short on account of scarcity of wa.
ter to irrigate; straw short on grain,
but fairly we'll headed; potatoes a
short crop.
MISUNDERSTANDING: Very warm
days and cool nights; grain harvesting
progressing well, straw averages short
but a good return promised; wild hay
crop about 20 per cent better than
last year. Okla: Range dry and all
crops not irrigated drying up; second
crop of alfalfa good; potatoes promise
large yield; all stock doing WE'LL.
Two Dot: Range drying fast; hay
ing still in progress and grain being
cut.
Observation-Disclosures: No rain
for two months; haying over, fair
crop; grain being cut, fair yield; gar
dens excellent, potatoes not 80 good:
cattle in poor condition. Plains: Cut
ting and threshing spring grain; not
more than half a crop; fires destroy
ing timber and range grass. Eddy:
Potato crop will be light. Arlee: Hay
ing completed, good crop; grain cut
ting and stacking under way, good
crop indicated; apples in good condi-
ton. Clinton: Very dry; all vegeta-
ton suffering. Missoula: Threshing
commenced, yield very poor; hard
wheat 10 to II bushels per acre on
unirrigated land; apple crop good.
PARK-Muir: Range dry; har-
vesting making good progress. Bruf-
feys: Almost all grain ripe; range
very dry; hay crop good, cured very
fast.
POWELL-Ovando: Haying about
finished; grain harvest progressing;
range dried up and all grass dead;
plenty of water for stock.
ROSEBUD-Dry and hot; stock on
range suffering for water; grasshop-
pers numerous; hay nearly all up;
corn is a failure in most places.
SWEETGRASS = HOWE: Grain
harvest now going on and a good crop;
second crop of alfalfa also being cut,
light crop; Sweetgrass creek nearly
dry and irrigation almost stopped.
VALLEY-Hinsdale Continues dry
and hot; potatoes and large vegetables
in need of rain; hay scarce.
Wa.
ter is getting a on range, but feed
good yet; grain about all cut; third
crop of alfalfa promises large yield
and will soon be ready. Park City:
Range very dry and grass short;
t%hreshing commenced. Billings:
Threshing has begun, yields are good;
corn making excellent growth; fruit
and vegetables maturing FAST; late
grain turning.
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