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Show 1 MAKE MONEY I ON CUCUMBERS m l W Washington, Sept. 13. Tho success U ,k which farmers are achieving an the i Huntley lrigatlon project In Montana I was attested In a report pust received A j by, the United States reclamation scr-vU scr-vU i vice, which shows $125 an acre had i beep realized from raising cucumbers. S 'i 0Qe farmer who turns what cucum-jj cucum-jj bers ho and somo of his neighbors rl A raise into pickles, has orders from $ pS Montana townB for 31 carloads of etj S these appetizers. Tho cucumber p ; fields, besides being profitable In tf themeoh-es, afford, -work for sugar (gf 2 beet laborers when they are not em-'jt em-'jt 'k Ployed In tho beet fields. ' fg jt Seventeen now homestoad filings 0 ii. were made on the Huntley project f !r during tho last month, leaving 103 gjl farms, mostly forty-acro tracts, still 2$ available for settlers. l r1 i ho reports add that 3.G00 acres jl on tho Huntloy project wero planted jl to sugar beets this year and that the W ' crop, which Is now being harvested, pi "will be large. . Hea"y yleldB in small grains aro Jj : reported, but theso returns are not m ' yet sufficient to give actual figures. T |