Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-09-25
FARMERS Sell
WHEAT DESPITE
RISING PRICES
Ratio Of Stored Grain to Total
Hauled to Elevators
Grows Less.

n increasing tendency on the part
of farmers to sell their wheat instead
Of storing during the recent period OF
advancing prices is shown in survey
made this week by the Monarch Lum-
Der Co. at stations over the state where
its yards are located. In q similar
survey made the week before. the fig
ures showed that approximately one
third Of all wheat hauled to the eleyat-
ors had been stored and this week the
amount had been reduced to one-fOurth.
Considerable threshed wheat is still
held on the farms, owing to the rush
Of the threshing season, which has now
nearly reached the half way mark. In
some sections of the state threshing is
still in the early stages, while at others
it is approaching the end. The com
pany's report from Sidney, Richland
county, was that threshing there was
concluded. In the northeastern part of
the state, where the crops are extreme
" heavy, threshing is not so - adj
vanced as in other sections.
Survey Is Up to Wednesday.
The company's last survey ended on
Wednesday Of last week and showed an
aggregate of 2,25O,OOO bushels then
marketed at 80 of the stations where
Monarch yards ave operated. Tires
ing has not sufficiently advanced at
the other stations to indicate the trend
Of the yields. The total of wheat mar
keted at each of the stations up to
Wednesday was as follows:
Miles City. 5000 bushels; Terry,
600; Richey, 100. 900; Winnett, 1000 CO.
Denton, 100000; Wheat Basin, $4,000;
ponaIio 60 OOO. Rir Sandy 10000:
H Tihneis1; 5000: Wolf WI Point, 5000;
Poplar, 1900; Homestead. 131 900;
Antelope, 10000; Scobey. 5000; Con-
rad, $4,000; Waller. $4,000; Brady,
5000: Power. 1900; Cascade, $4,000:
Highwood, 10000; Geraldine, 100000:
Fairfield, $4,000; Sun River, 2O.264;
Pendroy, 10000; Simms. $1,000: bod
son, $4,000; Plentywood. 10000; Sid
ney, 25OOO; Brockton, 1000; Westby,
$4,000; Dooley, 10000; Chester. 10000
Bolt Yield Reported Big.
An average acre yield probably equal
to any other section Of the state is re-
ported from Belt by W. A. Brown,
cashier of the First National bank Of
Great Falls, who was through the Belt
country last week. From the head Of
Belt immense yields will be threshed.
Mr.. Brown stated, with numerous fields
returning up to 40 bushels an acre and
more.
Forty-five acres Of wheat on the
William Lander ranch, near Norbert
is reported to have yielded SO bushels
to the acre, and Victor Fisher, who
lives short distance farther west, has
reported yield of so bushels an acre
on 200 acres. Wheat on the J. B.
Long ranch, near Sand Coulee, is esti-
mated at more than 80 bushels to the
acre. At the William Junkermeier
ranch the yield on II acres was 400
bushels, an average of 40 bushels an
acre. Thirty seven bushels an acre was
threshed by Clarence Winston, and one
acre Of his field, previously planted
to garden, yielded IS bushels.
Snow Catches Some Crops.
In the section between Stockett and
the mountains and between Stockett
and Monarch a few of the crops were
caught by the snow before they were
cut and harvesting there is a slow
process because Of the knockeddown
grain. Throughout this section enor-
mons Yields ara exnected