The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1924-11-21
mon TANA'S 1924
CORN PRODUCTION
SETS NEW RECORD
10,54S,O00 BUSHELS is OUTPUT
THIS YEAR, STATES REPORT
OF FEDERAL STATISTICIAN
Other Grains Show like Advances in
Production and Quality is Best.
Potatoes and Apples Alone Fall
Below the Average. Hay is Good.

Although little more than a
third of Montana's corn crop this
year was harvested as matured
grain, including the equivalent of
that amount that was used for
| silage, cut for feeding, grazed
or hogged off, total production of
the crop on this years expanded ac-
reage is placed at 1O,548, 900 BUSH
els by the November report of the
! Montana cooperative crop report
| ing service.
This production exceeds that o.
1928 (9,049,000 bushels) the report
points out and although a much
larger proportion of the 1923 crop
matured, the present crop, on its
large increase now holds the state :
record for greatest total production
Incidentally the report notes that
corn average in the state has grown
from fifty thousand acres in 1914 to
more than a half a million acres in
1924.
Flax production this year. accord
ing to the report is 2,245,000 bush
els the largest since 1915 and will
bring an increased cash return to
the farmers in the eastern and north
eastern counties of Montana where
the bulk of the crop is grown. Po-
tato production, on the other hand,
is reported smaller than any recent
year since 1919, but due to the short
er state crop, local prices paid to the
growers are better than a year ago.
Details of the report follow:
COrn-November 1 preliminary
estimate of corn production in Mon
tana, based on the July estimate of
acreage planted and average yield
per acre, is placed at 10,548,000
bushels. This estimate includes in
addition to actual yields of grain
corn, the equivalents of corn used for
silage, cut for feeding, grazed or
hogged off, and compares with the
total production of 9,49O,00O bush
els in 1923. However, only about a
third of the 1924 crop was matured
grain compared with 23 per cent of
the 1928 crop, the large bulk of the
present crop having been utilized for
grazing and hogging in To-
,alities where it failed to mature
ahead of the September frosts. The |
average yield per acre in 1924 was
1870 bushels compared with $50 |
bushels in 1928 and 24.3 bushels in
1922, but the acreage on the other
land in 1924 was 55 per cent larg-
,r than in 1923. Corn acreage in
he state during the last ten years
las grown from $4,000 acres in 1914
o more than half million acres in
-924, the crop being largely grown
or farm feed.
Flax-On an acreage of 258,000
cres and an average acre yield of
n bushels, flaxseed production in
1ontana this year is placed by the
November preliminary estimate at
,245, 900 bushels compared with
$4,000 bushels in 1923 grown on
ess than half of the 1924 acreage,
nd with slightly lower acre yield.
rowing conditions during the past
eason in the important producing
rea were quite favorable. Quality
the crop is high, being rated at
3 per cent compared with 80 per
emit for the 1928 crop. This years
ig flax crop will bring an increased
ash return in northeastern and east |
entral Montana where the bulk of |
lie crop is grown.
POtatoes-November 1 prelimin- |
ry estimate shows further cut from
arlier forecasts and as now placed
$4,000 bushels, compares with
100000 bushels for the 1923 crop H
nd 4,455,000 bushels for the 1914
923 average annual production. The n
ED per acre placed at 87.5 bush
s compares with 10 bushels in
}23 and is the smallest acre yield