Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1931-07-30
PASTURES, FORAGE
CROPS IMPROVE IN
INVEST TERRITORY
General Feed Conditions are
Better Than q Week
Ago

Fairly heavy rains in eastern
Montana and northwestern North
Dakota, where drOuth conditions
in the territory had been the worst
in a great many years, have i'm
proved pastures and forage crops
to the extent that plans for early
shipment Of livestock have been
modified, the Farmers Union
Terminal association says in its
weekly crop review.
ut now appears as. though farm
ers are going to obtain sufficient feed
to carry their livestock over until
next summer, according to a report
from Sanish, N. d." the review says,
"Millet, corn and oats sown in July
are progressing rapidly. The rains
have been fairly general in the Will
liston to Minot area. In Montana there
were rains in Blaine, Cascade, Gust
er, Dawson, Flathead, Hill, Phillips
Pondera, Prairie, Roosevelt, Sheridan,
Teton, Valley and Wibaux counties.
The water shortage which threat
ened to compel the early shipment OF
livestock have been greatly relieved.
1.-THE moisture in the drouth area,
however, came too late to materially
help the grain crops and the yields in
the drouth territory will be the small
est in many years. Relief work still
is being carried on and will be nec-
essary for the coming winter.
There r some sections OF Mon
tana, however, such as around Great
Falls where yields will be fair. 1t is
estimated that both winter and spring
wheat will yield around Is bushels an
acre in the Great Falls district.
Renewal Of the heat wave in late
July and g~rasshopper damage has
cut the grain prospects in eastern
North Dakota and western Minnesota.
The outlook remains good in Grand
Forks, Pembina, Trail and Walsh
counties in North Dakota, but grains
have gone backward in Nelson, Cav
alier and Ramsey counties.
The harvesting of barley has been
under way a few days around Crook
ston. Wheat and oats cutting is just
being started. Grasshoppers have done
lamage as great IS so percent in some
folk county and other northwestern
Minnesota fields, but generally larg-
err yields are anticipated.
P~rovt~tion Of grains in Southern
and SOU, eastern North Dakota will
be much !. raller than had been indi-
Gated ten aa,s ago, when indications
were that Their, would be a bumper
crop. Reports from Kuhn, Forbes and
Forman and points along the South
Dakota border tell of heavy damage
from extreme heat. AS a rule yields
in the eastern third Of North Dakota
will be larger than a year ago, but
much less than had been expected.
Grasshoppers are causing consider
able damage.
1.-THE flax crop has been reduced as
a result of heat and drouth. Forum
ately, however, the Northwest is the
only part Of the country which raises
flax and prices have advanced about
80 cents a bushel, so that farm in
come will not be reduced so seriously
as with wheat, where small yields
have not influenced prices, due to the
big production in the Southwest and
the heavy surplus stocks in the coun-
try.
,"Around Bismarck and in south
western North Dakota, heat has DAM
aged and much is being cut for feed.
Grains have headed out short and
wheat is not well filled.
Except for scattered sections, the
outlook remains favorable throughout
Minnesota. Corn has made a rapid
growth and some firing has been re-
ported. The outlook is not so bright
as it was a week ago and rains are
needed in all districts, but with SUI
fnient moisture there still remain
prospects for the biggest corn pro-
duction that Minnesota and the Da-
kotas have ever had"