The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1917-04-20
URGE PLANTING
SPRING WHEAT
Shortage of Winter Wheat Crop
WIN Be Offset By
Spring Wheat
GOVERNMENT AID PROMISED FARMERS
Montana Counted on to Produce Large
Share to Prevent Possible Food
Fairine-GOvernmen
Bulletin Issued

The unpromising condition of the
winter wheat crop of the United
States, forecastins a materially de-
creased yield, makes it imperative
that the threatened wheat deficit be
made up if possible by the planting
of more spring wheat in the areas
where the chances for the production
Of successful crop are greatest. The
best opportunities for the production
Of spring wheat undoubtedly will be
found in the regions in which spring
wheat already is produced extensive
ly. Efforts should be concentrated in
those regions where the necessary ex-
perience and equipment are available.
Attempts to increase the acreage Of
spring wheat outside the present
spring wheat belt, on the other hand,
might prove less successful because
of lack of familiarity by farmers
with the crop, and especially because
of the difficulty of obtaining the use
of harvesting machinery and the add
ed likelihood Of the crop suffering for
a lack of labor at harvest time. A
concentration of large crop produc-
tion will make possible the more eff
cient utilization of labor whether the
laborer assemble individually or un-
der directing agency.
The bulk of the spring wheat of the
United States is grown in five states,
North Dakota, Minnesota, South Da-
kota, Washington and Montana. While
production is relatively small in the
remaining states, number of comnlu-
mites exist in each of these states in
which the growing of spring wheat is
we'll established. Such communities,
like those in the principal spring
wheat growing states, offer good
fields for the extension Of the spring
wheat acreage. In the following list
only the chief spring wheat produc-
ing sections of the country are men
toned as suggestive of the areas in
which the expansion of spring wheat
acreage should be most feasible if the
necessary land, labor and seed are
available. No attempt is made to list
the counties according to their rank in
spring wheat production in the coun-
try at large. The six states leading
in spring wheat production are named
in the order of their Importance, and
under each, the principal spring wheat
producing counties are listed in the
order of their Importance.
Seeding is already under way
throughout the greater portion of the
spring wheat belt, but in some of the
counties mentioned, as well as in many
other counties where spring wheat
growing is established, it should be
possible to increase appreciably the
area seeded to wheat during the next
few weeks. Where such increase would
interfere with the conduct of an
established industry such as dairying,
it would, of course, be inadvisable.
Sections of Maximum Spring Wheat
Production-Nerth Dakota
Counties: Bettineau, Cass, Barnes,
Cavalier, Grand Forks, McHenry,
Ramsey, Stutsman, Walsh, Ward,
Wells, Benson, Burke, Dickey, Griggs,
LIE Moure, Mclean, Morton, Nelson,
Pembina, Pierce, Ransom, Renville,
Richland, Steele, Towner, Trail, Bur-
leigh, Divide, Eddy, Emmons, Foster,
Hettinger, Logan, Mcintosh, Mercer,
Mountrail, Rolette, Sargent, Sheridan,
Sioux, Stark, Williams.
Minnesota
Counties: Ottertail, Polk, Clay,
kittson, Lacquiparle, Marshall, Rem
vile, Stearns, Wilkin, Bigstone, Blue
Earth, Norman, Sibley, Swift, Ira
verse, Faribault, Randiyohi, Meeker,
Pope, Redwood, Yellow Medicine,
Brown, Chippewa, Douglas, Lesueur,
Stevens, Waseca, Wright,
Grant, Nicollet, Becker, Carver, Free
born, Morrison, Rice, Steele, Todd.
South Dakota
Counties: Brown, Sphinx, Day, Rob-
erts, Clark, Codington, Grant, Mar
shall, Edmunds, Faulk, Hand, Hutch
nson, Kingsbury, Mcpherson, Beadle.
Charles Mix, Hamlin, Wolworth,
Brookings, Deuel., Hanson,
Miner, Potter, Aurora, Brule,
Dawson, Douglas.
Washington
Counties: Lincoln, Adams, Whit
man, Douglas, Grant, Walla Walla,
Franklin, Spokane, Benton, Klickitat,
Columbia, Garfield, Asotin, Yakima,
Okanogan.
Montana
Counties: Fergus, Gallatin, Cas-
cade, Dawson, Flathead, Valley, Mis-
soula, Yellowstone, Carbon, Teton,
Ravalli, Custer, Madison, Park, Rose
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