The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-07-01
pRoUGHTY CONDITION WEST OF
MAIN RANGE.
SNOW and LIGHT FROsTs
Mountainous Regions Receive Wintry
visit-Weather Trife Cool
for Growing Crops.

over much of the country west of the
main divide; to the east of this gen
eral rains fell on the 23rd and oath,
being unusually heavy in some of the
southern counties, says Section Di-
rector Young in his weekly crop bull
letin for the week ending June ~.
There was a heavy fall of SNOW on
the higher mountain ranges and from
one to three inches in some of the
valleys. The temperature was quite
favorable to crop growth till the 23rd
to 25th, when a cool change came,
| giving light frosts in the western
counties.
There are a few localities in the
west where the bench ranges are
drying up, but in the principal range
country to the east, feed, as a rule,
is good and in many places excellent.
Alfalfa haying is progressing favor
ably. Winter wheat is heading; mead
ows will be short in most western
| counties; oats and spring wheat made
fair growth; garden vegetables and
potatoes retarded by the cool weather,
and in some places injured by the
frost.
Told by Correspondents.
Following are extracts from CORE
s%pondents' reports from the different
countless,
Decentralization: First part
warm and dry, light rain and snow
latter part, heavy snow in the noun
tains; everything backward; it. will
be some time before alfalfa is ready
to cut. Dewey: Snow storm Thurs
day, hills were very dry.
Broadwater-Winston: A good
shower oath helped both grass and
grain; alfalfa is ready to cut and
a fine crop; potato crop will be late.
Canton: Dry and hot first part, good
shower oath; alfalfa being cut; the
dry weather has been unfavorable
for grain.
Carbon-Dean: Warm growing
weather till 23rd, heavy snow storm
oath, followed by frost, no damage
reported; hay and grain crops prom
Use we'll.
.Chouteau-Steele: Hay very short,
alfalfa less than half crop; crops very
backward. Whitlash: Dry week, rain
needed. Havre: All crops being irri'
gated, water plentiful; cutting first
crop of alfalfa; early grain heading;
range grass curing. Teton: Range dry
ing and grain is in need of rain; al.
bloom, peas ready for market. Hays:
Potatoes look well, very few bugs;
range good. Landusky: Stock in good
condition and gaining weight; range
needs rain. st. Pauls: All crops lool
we'll; alfalfa ready to cut.
Custer-Otter: Excellent growing
weather, good rain Goth; range better
than I ever saw it and heaviest crol
of hay on record; ranchmen cutting
extra fine crop of alfalfa. Midland
Thursday and Friday very warm
crops look fine.
tsergus-Elso: Another good weel
for haying, first alfalfa crop about al
cut; grain and vegetables look wei
J where irrigated, range needs moisture
New Year: First days very hot, dry
/. ing up grass on the benches, lat
| grain suffered also; early grain look
: well but needs rain.
:. Flathead-Montford: Very unfavol
able week, hot winds dried groun'
very fast; timothy o more than hal
crop; killing frost 22nd to oath, cut
) ting down potatoes and garden truck
!. Somers: Very dry; crop outlook wa
. never worse in lower lower vale,
and do not think we will get half crop
+ rain now would not do much good.
y Gallatin-Bozeman: Crops CROWN!
rapidly and look we'll; farmers irrigat
! ing, ram needed. Sexton: Some crop
will suffer from drought; fall whea
e heading; hay crop is likely to be light
er than usual; clover and alfalfa loo
!, fine.
Lewis and Clarke-Birdseye: N
8 rain; frost on 25th nipped some veg
I etables. Wolfcreek: Spring rye witt
: out irrigation will hardly pay to cut
alfalfa haying in progress. Fulton
No rain; grain and meadows sufferin
for moisture.
Madison-Spanish: Garden truck il
jured; tame hay fair, bunch gras
: stJee; irrigation in progress; fou
t infhes of SNOW on Gath. Pageville
. All irrigated crops made good pre-
gr ISIS; ranges very dry, feed scarce