The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-09-04
AMONG OUR NEIGHBORS.
A Grist Of Items Gathered From Our
Northern Montana Exchanges.

d8vre IrOmOCer 1Oe O6t0 lot Tue
opening OF the next term OF court OF
Hill county is September II, with
Judge Frank N. Utter presiding.
There are quite Q number Of criminal
cases and the docket Is filled with civil
cases awaiting trial.
Carter Herald: S. E. Crow's field Of
100 acres of wheat averaged % bushels.
Some OF the field was not plowed, but
merely put in on the stubble and was
not as good as the balance which had
been plowed. It ia estimate that the
wheat on the we'll worked ground went
40 bushels per acre.
Cascade Courier: What is thought
OF our country as q crop producer
was shown again this. week when Ben.
jamin Rumney received an offer OF $40
an acre, standing crop for lao acres
of fax. Mr.. Rumuey hasn't yet made
deal but is awaiting developments.
GlasgowNews: A severe electrical
storm, accompanied by wind, rain
and hail, passed over this locality
Wednesday evening. Complete re-
ports have not been received from the
north bench, but it is claimed that a
q heavy strip of hail visited that Sec
ton and practically hailed out the
farmers in it's path.
bingham Review: O. P. Rambo
left a sample of his corn at the Re-
view Office for exhibition purposes,
which is the cussedest specimen Of
corn we aver saw. There are Ia good
ears, all of which grew from one grain
of seed. Apparently there is nc stalk
to 1t, and the ears started growing
just as soon as the corn came up. He
has lots more like this sample.
Havre Democrat: Messrs. Brown &
Harroun, who have finished threshing
the oats and barley on the String
fellow ranch two miles east OF town
report an avearge yield OF oats OF 10<
bushels per acre, and of barley 81
bushels. A few acres OF the ranci
slightly more favored than the bal
ance, went 1875 bushels of oats to the
acre.
Box Elder Press: Cowan & Sol
last week shipped 100 bushels OF thei'
winter rye to the state experimental
stations at Harlem, Glasgow, ant
Froid, Mont. The experts secured tn
state looking for grain to be used q
seed at these experimental farms ant
said that this was the best that the,
had seen which only goes to prov
that right here we have an unequale
farming section.
Chinook Opinion: Louis W. Hill
chairman of the board of director
OF the Great Northern railway vii
donate to the Blaine county fair
$50 silver trophy cupto be q awarded fo
the best individual agricultural e,
hibit at the 1912 county fair at Chinool
He will also furnish fifty fret and fit
second prize ribbons to be distribute
among the agricultural products q
the Fair management may thin
best.
Big Sandy Mountsineer: Wint'
q wheat In the newly developed countl
adjacent to Big Sandy is more ths
r satisfactory to the farmers who p,
e in their crops last fall, many OF the
e feeling that they we're simply exper
menting, and yields OF from fifteen
thirty.eight bushels to the acre ha
e been reported since threshing. Mr.
Herman Evers reports q yield
thirty-eight bushels to the acre
j. dry land, which is q record break
for this locality. William Ryder =
ports twenty-five bushels to the &C
and A. Rand all twenty.eight.