Fergus County Democrat

Basin, and especially in this vicinity, from being the largest in the history of the country. Not since the oldest settlers have been here have conditions been as favorable for bumper crops. Winter wheat is heading in most every section of the Basin and has never looked better. The cold spring kept the crops back. Then came the rains at just the right time to induce the budding grain to shoot rapidly from the ground. For the past few weeks we have had a fine mixture of rain and sunshine, which brought the crops along rapidly. The acreage of winter wheat, oats, flax and spring wheat is almost double that of 1910. The flax crop in the Basin this year will be a large one as the average is about five times as large as last season, and it has been predicted that many of the fields will yield from 20 to 28 bushels per acre. That the harvest of golden grain will be a bounteous one is almost an assured fact, and should make our ranchers rejoice that they are alive and living in the Judith Basin, the home of the big crops.