Resources of Montana . Flour Mill at Jordan in Garfield County. An Unirrigated Montana Potato Field in 1919 Potatoes a Banner Crop. Montana has probably received more widespread advertising on its potato thanon any other crop. Its great big baked potato, used by one of the transcontinentalrailroads in its dining cars, called attention to the excellence of its tubers. Montanapotatoes usually command a premium on the eastern markets because they are goodeaters and fine keepers. Furthermore, the average yield of tubers in Montana is farabove the average of the United States. Because the crop is s
Resources of Montana . Flour Mill at Jordan in Garfield County. An Unirrigated Montana Potato Field in 1919 Potatoes a Banner Crop. Montana has probably received more widespread advertising on its potato thanon any other crop. Its great big baked potato, used by one of the transcontinentalrailroads in its dining cars, called attention to the excellence of its tubers. Montanapotatoes usually command a premium on the eastern markets because they are goodeaters and fine keepers. Furthermore, the average yield of tubers in Montana is farabove the average of the United States. Because the crop is so well suited to Mon-tana conditions and is grown without the use of fertilizers, a number of the districtsin the state—the Bitter Root, the Flathead, Jefferson, Lewis and Clark and Madisoncounties—are specializing in it and increasing their acreage each year. The acreage,production and value of the potato crop in Montana since 1901 are as follows: Year Acre Bu- Per Acre Production Value 1900 4,781 134 640,654 $ 339,547 1901 1902 11,521 153 1,762,713 881,
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