The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1922-02-09
TREASURE STATE FARM AND LIVESTOCK
WINTER WHEAT DON MONTANA
I'm EXCELLENT CONDITION

Winter wheat in Montana is in excellent condition and there is from
Is inches to four feet of moisture in the ground TO insure the spring
wheat. while better farming will help produce a big crop which has
promise OF a good market
This is the statement given by the January buletn.of the North
western Grain Dealers association just issued to members by Secretary
J. Watkins, which follows:
1--WE have within the past week received reports from practically
every county in the state in answer to Our inquiries IS to the condition
of the winter wheat and with only one exception those reports are very
favorable. From many sections the reports show that conditions have
not been as satisfactory. Tor many years. ihere Ia been an absence
of warm weather and winds to dry the surface OF the ground causing
winter wheat states In large areas OF the state the ground has been
covered with a blanket of snow all winter and IS so covered at this
writing.
"Replies to our inquiries regarding prospective acreage of spring
wheat to be sown lead us to believe there will be a decided increase over
a depth OF Is inches to four feet there will surely be some encourage,
|ment to plant. With that condition prevailing In the spring there will
be a strong incentive to plant literally.
"Our inquiries have also developed the fact that a better and more
intelligent system of farming prevails than heretofore and that a sur
.prising acreage of good summer following was done last year. There
IS in our opinion no doubt about obtaining results even III a dry year
if proper system of summer following is done. We have on our desk
county between the Marias and Teton rivers stating that he threshed
last fall q bushels per acre of No. l spring wheat from a field of 40
acres and Is bushels per acre of No. winter wheatfrom a field OF %
@since our bulletin of December &c. a very substantial reduction in
freight rates has been made effective, making a difference of from
three and onehalf to five cents per bushei to eastern terminals on
wheat. Good hay is plentiful and feed grains are not high in price
There has been a substantial. reduction in the price of farm machinery
all Of which is conducive to a lower cost of production and carries a
promise of better returns to the producer.
Another incentive for planting literally of wheat is that the old
world must for a year or two look largely to the United States for
wheat. The present condition of the winter wheat crop in the southwest
is left on the farm. We therefore fee. justified in urging the planting
of as large an acreage of spring wheat as can be properly prepared.
The more bushels the farmer raises in normal times the more dollars
he gets, and we are approaching normal times.
"The successful farmer is always the one who diversihes. Don't
We know one farmer living 10 miles northeast of Great Falls who pas
tured eight cows all last summer on five acres of yellow blossom sweet
clover grown on dry bench land; mi
demonstrated that corn can be grown successfully in Montana, but if
by chance the corn should not mature, you will have grown a large
amount of forage, also conserve the moisture and prepare the land for
a grain crop the following year.