Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1910 — GERMANY AND CANADIAH WHEAT. [ARTICLE]

GERMANY AND CANADIAH WHEAT.

Lo » k » «• tho CuHlu Wat for Her Supply. A dispatch from Winnipeg, Manitoba, dated March 18, 1810, says that Germany is “anxious to secure a share of Canadian wheat to supply her imports of that cereal.” The recent adjustment of the trade relations with Germany has made It possible to carry on a Canadian-German trade with much fewer restrictions than in the past, and considerable development of trade between the two countries Is now certain. The great men of the United States are alive to the wheat situation in this country now, and there is consequently the deepest interest in every feature that will tend to increase and conserve the wheat supply; With its present 650,000,000 bushel production of wheat and all efforts to'increase it almost unavailing, and the rapidly growing consumption of its increasing population, there Is certainly the greatest reason fo{ the anxiety as to where the wheat is to come from that will feed the nation. The United States will be forced as Germany is to look to the wheatfields of Canada. One province alone raised last year one-eighth as much as the entire production of the United States, and but a twelfth of the wheat area has yet been touched. The Americans who have gone to Canada, are today reaping the benefit of the demand for Canadian wheat and they will con tinue to join in tjje benefits thus reached for a great many years. Splendid yields are reported from the farms of that country, and from land that the Government gives away in 160 acre blocks, and from other lands that have been purchased at from sl2 to sls an acre. John Munter, near Eye brow, Saskatchewan, a former resident of Minnesota, says: “Last fall got over 30 bushels of wheat to the acre and had 30 acres oi it; also 20 acres spring breaking on which I had flax of which I got almost 20 bushels per acre. Had 20 acres in oats and got 70 bushels per acre, and 500 bushels potatoes on one and threequarter acres, and can therefore safely say that' I had a fine crop and am well satisfied with my homestead.” He is considered but a small farmer, but he will be one of the big farmers, some of these days. There are many others, hundreds of others, whose yields were beyond this, and whose average under crop was vastly greater. The story of the experience of American farmers in the Canadian West is a long one. The time to go, would appear to be now, when splendid selections may be made, and where land can be purchased at prices that will be doubled in a couple of years.