Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 105, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1910 — WESTERN CANADA AS A GRAIN PRODUCES. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN CANADA AS A GRAIN PRODUCES.

ttarrwr law Sack Fla* Wheat Anywhere. Gust. Anderson, of Maidstone, Saskatchewan, was formerly of Minnesota, and r has 'been in Central Canada three Years. On January 16,1910, he writes: “Arriving fifteen miles from Mald■tone, I bought a couple of steers from • rancher, as my capital was not large, and with the two oxen I brought with me, I broke 25 acres which I put in crop in 1908, and had te clear some brush. I earned *45.00 by breaking fifteen acres for a neighbor and durI B S the summer I put up hay and hauled timber and put up bouses tor other settlers. Notwithstanding a heavy Croat on August 12th, I had 22% bushels of wheat per acre and 60 bushels of oats. Off 35 acres of wheat in 1909, I got 27 bushels of wheat .j?er acre and 1,300 bushels of oats eff 20 acres. I never saw such fine wheat anywhere. We have plenty of rain between May and August and after August seldom any but dry, warm days. Water can be had at from 20 te 40 feet, and plenty of grass for cattle.” The evidence of Mr. Anderson is given because It is encouraging to the man of small means who is desirous of bettering his condition. It shows what can be done, and there is really bnt small limit to the man with push and energy to become wealthy on Canadian lands. And the grain that he raises is good. A press dispatch says; The quality of the wheat continues to be the feature of the deliveries. In the total of 3,378 cars in the February inspections there were 2,847 of high grade stufT, a percentage of 84.28. For January the percentage was <2.21, and for the six months it was 88.6. This is an unusually high average, and it demonstrates beyond the shadow of a doubt that the farmers Tn this part of the Dominion still know how to grow first class wheat. ThS orop of 1908 was considered good enough, and its average of contract wheat was only 70 per cent. Good weather throughout the season was an important factor, of course, in insuring the high quality of the grain, and it is not likely that atmospheric influences of so favorable a character will be encountered for a long time to come. The best that can be expected ls that a fair average for a term of years will be maintained.