Montana farmer-stockman. [volume], August 15, 1954, Image 1

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OLD TIMERS call it the best wheat crop in 30
years. Average yield in Montana's winter wheat
belt is running from 30 to 35 bushels per
with a few 40 bushel yields reported. Moisture
content at the beginning of the harvest was about
14 per cent, but as the good weather continued
most loads delivered to country elevators averaged
between 10 and 12 per cent. Protein is running
from 11 to 15 per cent, about 1 per cent higher
than last year. Average weight is between 58 and
62 pounds per bushel, with the bulk weighing
at 61 pounds.
Many wheat growers are rushing the harvest
through with the help of custom combine oper
ators. In the large picture above, four combines
bring in the bumper crop on the James Moriarty
farm, Chouteau County. R. H. and Bill Thurman,
Carnegie, Okla., owners of the combines, say the
Montana crop is the best they've seen this year.
Left, Willis Myers supervises the loading of a
gondola car at a Carter elevator. Four to five 1,500
bushel car-loads are being shipped out of Carter
every day. According to Myers, 2 million bushels
of wheat were received at the Carter elevators last
year. He estimates that that figure will be equaled
this year, even with the acreage cut-backs.
With the loan value of wheat somewhat above
the cash price on the open market, much of this
year's crop is being stored on the farm. Right,
Sharron Cline, granddaughter of O. E. Cline, Chou
teau County, romps in a pile of wheat being stored
in a converted machine shed. (MFS photo)
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