The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1924-11-20

Potatoes and Apples Alone Fal
Below the Average. Hay is Good
Although little more than
third of Montana's corn crop this
year was harvested as matured
grain, including the equivalent of
that amount that was used for
sflage, cut for feeding, grazed
OF hogged off, total production of
the crop on this years expanded ac-
reage Is placed at 10,54s, 900 BUSH
els by the November report of the
Montana cooperative crop report
ing service.
This production exceeds that of
1928 (9,049.000 bushelsl the report
points out and although much
larger proportion of the 1923 crop
matured, the present crop, on its
large increase now holds the states
record for greatest total production.
incidentally the report notes that
corn ayreage 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, 600 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,
il reported smaller than any recent
year since 1919. but due to the short
err state crop, local prices paid to the
growers are better than a year ago
Details of the report follow:
Corn--November / 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
logged off, and compares with the
total production of 9,490,000 BUSH
oils In 1928. However, only about
third of the 1924 crop was matured
grain compared with 23 per cent OF
the 1923 crop, the large bulk of the
present crop having been utilized for
feeding, grazing and hogging In To-
calities where 1t failed to mature
ahead Of the September frosts. The
average yield per acre In 1924 was
1870 bushels compared with 26.0I
bushels In 1923 and 24.3 bushels in
1922, but the acreage on the other
hand In 1924 was SIS per cent larg-
or than in 1929. Corn acreage In
the state during the last ten years
has grown from $4,000 acres in 1914
TO more than half q million acres in
1924, the crop being largely grown
for farm feed
Fiax--On an acreage of 25S,000I
acres and an average acre yield of
ST. bushels, flaxseed production in
Montana this year is placed by the
November preliminary estimate at
2.24b,000 bushels compared with |
$4,000 bushels in 1923 grown on |
less than half of the 1924 acreage. |
and with a slightly lower acre yield. |
Growing conditions during the past
season in the important producing
area were quite favorable. Quality |
of the crop is high, being rated at
% per cent compared with 80 per
cent for the 1929 crop. This years
big flax crop will bring an increased |
cash return In northeastern and east
central Montana where the bulk of |
the crop Is grown.
P0tatoes---Novembe prelimin-
airy estimate shows further cut from
earlier forecasts and as now placed |
at 3,237,00 bushels, compares with |
3,sbO,000 bushels for the 1929 crop
and 4,455, 900 bushels for the 1914 |
1873 average annual production. The
yield per acre placed at 87.5 bush
els compares with 10 bushels in
1898 and is the smallest acre yield
since 1919. Factors which reduced
the yields were less damaging to the |
quality which Is placed at 81 per
cent for the 1924 crop as compared
with IS per cent for last years out
put. The shorter state crop this yeai
has resulted In better prices to the
growers than last year.
Sugar Beets --- Harvest of the
states crop of sugar beets proceeded
under favorable weather conditions
and was completed earlier than last
Year when heavy rains at harvest in
terfered. Condition of the crop at
harvest was generally good.
Hay Quaiity-The quality of Mon
tana's hay crop this year. while dam
aged In some sections by dry weather
and hoppers, ranges generally above
average for the state as whole. The
estimated quality Of varieties Is as
follows: Alfalfa 90 per cent; clover
81 per cent. timothy IS per cent. ali
tame hay 30 per cent and all wild
hay SO per cent