Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-06-27
1929 INCOME FROM MONTANA
AGRICULTURE WILL BREAK
ALL PREVIOUS RECORDS
MONTANA farm prodution for the
year 1929 will amount to Sl60 ,000,-

MONTANA farm prodution for the
year 1929 will amount to $l60 ,000,-
200. a gain OF more than $1,000. 900
over 1923, estimates r. Ct. Linebarger
OF Havre, president of the Montana
Press association, who has just COM
pleted a 3,500-mile tour of the news
paper offices in Montana, gathering in
formation.
Il have lived in Montana 25 years"
Mr.. Linebarger said, and never have
l seer better prospects for agricultural
prosperity, despite a lower price for
wheat.
THE situation is a remarkable one.
The rainfall up to June l had not
been up TO normal and things didn't
look so good, but due to summer fallow
farming, the absence of hot winds and
the fact that when rain fell it came
at exactly the right time, the present.
day prospects for a bumper crop have
never been equaled in my quarter of
a century residence in the eastern part
of this state.
The farmers will crop 5000, 900
acres this year, as compared with
1890, 900 last year, as compared with
the minds of some, is looked upon as
a diminishing industry, but there are
$4,000 wheat growers in Montana and
IS, 1000 growers of beef cattle. Not such
a difference between the two as one
might think.
Sugar Beets Good
Everything is looking up. The sugar
beet industry is in excellent shape.
At Chinook there are 5000 acres of
beets to be harvested this year. There
is more summer falloW land in that
district than ever before and the beet
crop next year will be very much
higher.
The horse is fast disappearing from
the farm and the tractor is coming in
rapidly. In 1927 dealers sold 1907 and
in 1928 5,215 tractors. This didn't sup
ply the demand. In 1929 tractors sold
will be about midway between these
two amounts.
The livestock outlet is all that the
growers could wish for. Landing is
better than anywhere else in the ma
ton. There is an IS per cen calf crop,
a remarkable showing. Hogs are look
ing up. That is, in a business sense.
The estimate is of a 60 per cent in
crease in the hog crop"
Dairy Industry Better
Mr.. Linebarger consulted a card file
OF statistics and continued:
THE dairy industry leaders predict
q az PNi SCAlC III tlllo JCdlt DO
compared with 1923. This increase APP
plies to cream, cheese and butter. We
will have an output of 20, 000, 900 pounds
of butter this year.
1.-The poultry business is showing
prospects Of a heavy crop this year,
with heavy shipments out of the state.
mot only have l talked with farm
erS, stock growers, poultry men and
dairy operators, but / have interviewed
bankers, fur growers and school teach
ers as well.
Bank Situation
Bankers state that the deposits are
larger than last year; that the banks
have borrowed less money from the
Federal Reserve banks than in past
years.
Business men in all parts Of the
state say that business is about the
same as this time last year, but, taking
into consideration the seasonal differ
ence between this spring and last, this
means an actual gain"
The president Of the press associa-
ton was particularly enthusiastic over
the roads leading to Canada and those
leading to the east. There was not a
single graded road in the entire dis
trict.
After travelling over the same ter
ritory last week, l am able to report
that the total of ungraded roads dc
not amount to more than 100 miles.
Everywhere new, privately owned
and well-furnished tourist camps are
springing up and making good rev.
enueS. There are more gasoline sta
tons than last year and, what is more
remarkable, they report almost with
out exception, a 80 l-3 per cent increase
in gas sales"
They Were Pikers
Compared with present day fur pro-