Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-08-20 | Page 16 | Great Wheat Crop

GREAT WHEAT CROP Montana Will Produce This Year Thirty M I on Bushe s of the Cerea Specia to The Tribune OGDEN Aug 19 Thirty million bush e s s the estimate p aced by Joseph Streng an Ogden wool buyer on the crop of wheat that wi 1 be harvested In Mon tana th s jear Mr Streng who repre sents E sman Brothers of Boston, Mass has returned to his home in th s city after a successfu wool bujlng campaign in the northern state He is enthusiastic o er the genera agricu tural cond tlons that pre a 1 in Mon ana. The woo dip of the s ate according to Mr treng was about 60 000 000 pounds He purchased about 6 000 000 pounds at the average price of 95 cents Some of th s 'woo was purchased for 19 cents but the best grades brought nearly o0 cents a pound The Oeden man as 1 ser s that he ne er before saw such f e ds of grain as are awaiting the har ester in Montana Dry farm wheat In I some sect ons has produced as h gh as fiftj bushe s per acre