The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-08-19

ing satisfactorily; hay crop fairly
good. S~pringbrook: Everything dried
up; potato crop will be light; corn dry
ing up without setting ears; vegeta-
bles doing fairly we'll; springs low and
water holes mostly dry, and stock has
trouble getting enough water.
Fergus-Eso: Drought condition
unchanged; threatening several days
but no rain;, sheepmen hard pressed
to find water. for their flocks; all
stock suffering more or less for want
Of water; grain all ripe but rather
light crop; most of apples blown off
by high wind. Utica: No rain this
month; weather hot; range now brown
but stock doing we'll; grain ripening
fast. ~
Flathead-Big Fork: Very light
rain 9Th and 18th; lightning set the
forest on fire in several places; very
dry and warm; winter wheat is ripen-
ing; apple crop is reported good.
Gallatin-Bozeman: The week has
been hot and stormy; haying is about
over; harvesting and threshing of win
ter wheat is in progress; crops look
we'll and are very good; grass is
drying up fast. Reese Greek: Light
shower cooled the air on the 18th,
and outlook good for fair crop of grain.
Lewis and Clarke-Birdseye: Week
dry and very warm, everything burn
ing up; a great deal of oats has been
shocked, some a fair CROP and some
poor. M
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Some crops
of grain r very good, others poor;
quite a heavy cloudburst Wednesday,
doing considerable damage to crops
and bitches; range very dry. Norris:
The drought and grasshoppers have
about destroyed range in this section;
continues dry and hot; stock doing
we'll considering condition of range;
hay crop short. Spanish: Weather
warm; range getting dry; timothy
and other hay being cut; rain and hail
on 10th. Pageville: Very, hot with
a heavy rain and hail storm on the
10th; the first crop of alfalfa all up
and ranchers are cutting wild hay;
grain is all headed, and some fields
are being cut, the crop is very light.
Missoula-Plains: Good weather for
threshing; one field of winter wheat
yielded 80 bushels per acre; straw
berry season over; the apple crop
prospects are improving; forest fires
are doing some damage; Clark creek
is about dry in some places, Lynch
creek holding out better. Baird: For
est fires raging and thousands of trees
being destroyed; hay crop harvested;
very hot, temperature 100 degrees i'll
the shade; all crops not constantly
irrigated dried to a crisp. Eddy: Very
warm week; heavy fruit crop, apples
a big yield. Missoula: Hot, dry
weather is injuring the fields of newly
seeded grass and other meadows; ha--
vesting in progress, grain very short.
Park-Muir: Fall wheat being har-
vested and is a good crop; spring crop
ripening rapidly.
Powell-Ovando: Haying nearly
finished, there being no rain the hay
was put up in prime condition; the
yield is much better than looked for,
will be about normal; rye and wheat
harvest in progress; oats nearly ripe.
Ravalli-Rosemont: Still hot and
dry; no change in the general sit
uation; ranchers are stacking wheat
and rye, preparatory to threshing,
which will begin soon. ..M
Sweet Grass-Howie: Weather
warm; two light showers during the
week; the cutting of second crop Of
alfalfa about to commence, the crop
will be rather light.
MISUNDERSTANDING: Dry and hot
the past week; wheat all cut, oats
being harvested; second crop of al
falfa all up; grasshoppers very thick
in places; farmers all irrigating.
Valley-Hot dry winds all week;
macaroni wheat ripened without irri-
cation. Poplar: Very dry; two prairie
fires this week.
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