Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1910 — 'QUANTITY QUALITY AND TRICE' [ARTICLE]

'QUANTITY QUALITY AND TRICE'

wv. * i : ■ i/V 'jw' The Three EHrnIUU That Are Giving We*tern Canada Greater Impulse than Ever Tbia Year. The reports from the grain fields of Central Canada (which comprises the provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta) are to hand. The year 1909 has not only kept pace wjth previous years in proving that this portion of the continent is capable of producing a splendid yield of all the smaller grains, but it has thoroughly outstripped previous seasons. There is quantity, quality and price, and from all ■ parts of an area of about 320,000 square miles there comes the strong refrain of contentment and satisfaction. In the distribution of the conditions causing it no district has been overlooked. Various estimates of the total yield of wheat for the country have been made, but it Is not the vast total that influences the general reader so much as what has tyeen done individually. The grand total —say 130,000,000 bushels —may have its effect on the grain prices of the world; it may be interesting to know that In the world’s markets the wheat crop of Canada has suddenly broken upon the trading boards, and with the Argentine, and with Russia and India is now a factor in the making of prices. If so to-day, what will be its effect five or ten years from now, when, instead of there being seven million acres under crop, with a total yield of 125,000,000 or 130,000,000 bushels, there will be from 17,000,000 to 30,000,000 acres in wheat with a yield of from 325,000,000 to 600,000,000 bushels. When it is considered that the largest yield in the United States but slightly exceeded 700,000,000 bushels, the greatness of these figures may be understood. Well, such is a safe forecast, for Canada has the land and It has the soil. Even today the Province of Saskatchewan, one of the three great wheat growing r provinces of Canada, with 400,000 acres under wheat, produces nearly 90,000,000 bushels, or upwards of onetenth of the greatest yield of the United States. And Saskatchewan is yet only In the beginning of its development. As Lord Grey recently pointed out in speaking on this very atrbject, this year’s crop does not represent one-tenth of the soil equally fertile that is yet to be brought under the plough. Individually, reports are to hand of yields of twenty-five, thirty and thirtyfive bushels to the acre. Scores of yields are reported of forty and some as high as sixty bushels. The farmer, who takes care of his soil, who gets his seed-bed ready early, Is certain of a splendid crop. The news of the magnificent crop yield throughout the Canadian West will be pleasing to the friends of the thousands of Americans who are residents in that country and who are vastly Instrumental in the assistance they are rendering tp let the world know its capabilities.