Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-10-24
SUMMER titled
ACREAGE SHOWS
LARGEST YIELD
Results of Year Prove Worth
of Method; Association
Makes Report.

Summer titled areas in Montana this
fall show increases of over crons in
ssubbie or other ordinary farming
methods. according to the report of
the Montana Development association
to the Great Falls Commercial club.
Instances Of the benefits from sum-
mer tillage with the corresponding
yields on stubble seeding are quoted.
lhe survey, as announced by the
ASSOCIATION, covering nearly 100 tracts
OF land IN many parts of the state in
which summer tillage has been prac-
tlced. affords comparative figures on
results of spring and fall blowing,
stubble, discing and summer tillage.
Inc association views these as a
splendid vindication of it's campaign.
Some instances are shown where
the yield on summer titled land is
nearly three times the yield from adj
lacent tracts seeded after spring or
fall blowing or discing.
Results from NINE tillage on the
whole were uniform throughout the
state, yields as high as Al bushels to
the acre being noted from the Den
ton, Belt, Highwood and Hoosac com
munities.
Davis Experience
Results on the Elmer Davis farm in
Stlilawter county for which full re-
turns were received afford q basis of
comparison which is characteristic of
the entire survey. Davis seeded IS
acres. Twelve acres of spring plow-
ed land yielded II bushels Of wheat an
acre; six acres of fall plowed land
yIn1dn1 10 h,tShnlc on onra. az aaray
Of stubble yielded eight bushels an
acre; % acres of tillage showed an
average yield of 40 bushels an acre.
Earl Bower of Hoosac showed the
top yield of all who reported on sum-
mer titled land. From 100 acres he
gathered a wheat crop which averag-
ed 80 bushels to the acre. John
Lohr of the same place averaged 46
bushels to the acre from his 1G0 by
application Of summer tillage.
John Baumgarner of Fife on 240
acres seeded showed a yield of IS
bushels to the acre from stubble and
30 from summer titled land. His ex-
perience was typical of the many re-
ported.
The survey covered a wide terri
tory and in many instances recorded
striking comparisons of results aehiev-
ed by the same man on adjoining
tracts. affording precise, parallel con-
ditions of soil moisture and other
factors being alike.
From as far west as Poison. P. F.
Hern reported Yields of 10 bushels to
the acre on fall plowed land and AZ
bushels to the acre on that which he
had summer titled. A. Stoutenberg
of Hysham garnered 16 bushels to the
acre from land which had been disced
as compared with 33 bushels to the
mere from summer titled land. T. A.
Norton of Red Lodge reported yields
Of il bushels to the acre from stub
Bile and % bushels TO the acre from
summer titled land.
Results Are Uniform
In no instance does the survey show
crop yields from spring or fall plowed,
stubble or disced land which equals
the lowest yields reported from sum
mer titled land. Yields rs low as
eight bushels to the acre were report
ed from seeded stubble land.
Average yield for so tracts selected
at random in various sections of the
state ranging from 20 TO 1000 acres
of summer titled land was 35 bushels
to the acre.
Average yield on IS tracts. spring
plowed, fall plowed, stubble or disced
land, selected at random in all sec
tons of the state. was II IL bushels
to the acre.
The Montana Development associa-
ton will follow the summer tillage
during 1923 and will compile
statistics on results obtained on some
400 farms Of the state. The statis-
ties so arrived at will be valuable az a
truthful exposition of Montana's abil-
ity to produce. Increased demand for
Montana lands will result, the asso-
chiffon believes.