Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1911 — EXCELLENT GRAIN FIELDS IN WESTERN CANADA [ARTICLE]

EXCELLENT GRAIN FIELDS IN WESTERN CANADA

YIELDS OF WHEAT AS HIGH AS 64 BUSHELS PER ACRE. How that we have entered upon the making of a new year, it is natural to look back over the pant one, for the purpose of ascertaining what jias been done. The business man and the farmer have taken stock, and both, if they are keen in business detail and interest, know exactly their financial position. The farmer of Western Canada is generally a business man, and in his stock-taking he will have found that he has had' m successful year. On looking over a number of reports sent from various quarters, the writer finds that in spite of the visitation of drouth in a small portion of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, many farmers are able to report splendid crops. And these reports come from different sections, covering an area of about 25,000 square miles. Ab, for instance, at Laird, Saskatchewan, the crop returns showed that J. B. Peters had 12,800 bushels from 320 acres, or nearly 40 bushels to the acre. In the Blaine Lake, district the fields ranged from 15 to 50 bushels per acre, Ben Crews having 1,150 bushel 3 from 24 acres; Edmond Trottfer 1,200 bushels off 30 acres, while fields of 30 bushels were common. On poorly cultivated fields but 15 bushels were reported. In Foam Lake (Sask.) district 100 bushels of oats to the acre were secured by Angus Robertson, D. Mcßae and C. H. Hart, while the average was 85. In wheat 30 bushels to the \acre were qjjite common on the newer land, but off 15 acres of land cultivated for the past three years George E. Wood secured 495 bushels. Mr. James Traynor, near Regina (Sask.) is still, on the shady side of thirty. He had 60,000 bushels of grain last year, half of which was wheat. Its market value was $25,000. He says he is well satisfied. Arthur Somers of Strathclair threshed 100 acres, averaging 25 bushels to the acre. Thomas Foreman, of Milestone, threshed 11,000 bushels of wheat, and 3,000 bushels of flax off 600 acres of land. W. Weatherstone, of Strathclair, threshed 6,000 bushels of oats from 96 acres. John Gonzilla, of Gillies, about twenty-five miles west of Rosthern, Sask., had 180 bushels from 3 acres of wheat. Mr. Gonzilla’s general average of crop was over 40 bushels to the here. Ben Cruise, a neighbor, averaged 45 bushels to the aerb from 23 acres. W. A. Rose, of the . Walderheim district, threshed 6,000 bushel? of wheat from 240 acres, an average of 25 bushels, 100 acres was on summer fallow and averaged 33 bushels. He had also an average of 60 bushels of oats to the acre' on a 60-acre field. Wm. Lehman, who has a farm close to Rosthern, had an average of 27 bushels to the acre on 60 acres of summer fallow. Mr. Midsky, of Rapid City (Man.) threshed 1,000 bushels of oats from 7 acres. - - —•— The yield of the different varieties of wheat per acre at the Experimental Farm, Brandon, was: Red Fife, 28" bushels; White Fife, 34 bushels; Preston, 32 bushels; early Red Fife, 27 bushels.

The crops at the C. P. R. demonstration farms at Strathmore (Alberta) proved up to expectations, the Swedish variety oats yielding 110 bushels to the acre. At the farm two rowed barley went 48 14 bushels to the acre. Yields of from 50 bushels to 100 bushels of oats to the acre were quite common in the Sturgeon River Settlement near Edmonton (Alberta). But laßt year was uncommonly good and the hundred mark was passed. Wm. Craig had a yield of oats from a measured plot, which gave 107 bushels and 20 lbs. per acre. Albert Teskey, of Olds (Alberta) threshed a 100-acre field which yielded 101 bushels of oats per acre, and Joseph McCartney had a large field equally good. At Cupar (Sask.) oats threshed 80 bushels to the acre. On the Traquairs farm at Cupar, a fiveacre plot of Marquis wheat yielded 54 bußhels to the acre, while Laurence Barknel had 37 bushels of Red Fife to the acre. At Wordsworth, Reeder Bros.’ wheat averaged 33 Vi bushels to the acre, and W. McMillan’s 32. William Krafft of Alix (Alberta) threshed 1,042 bushels of winter wheat off 19% acres, or about 53 bushels to the acre. John Laycroft of Dinton, near High River, Alberta, had over 1,100 bushels of spring v?heat from 50 acres. E. F. Knipe, near Lloydmlnster, Saskatchewan, had 800 bushels of wheat from 20 acres. W. Metcalf had over 31 bushels to the acre, while 8. Henderson, who was hailed badly, had an average return of 32 bushels of wheat to the acre. McWhirter Bros, and John Mcßain. of Redvere, Saskatchewan, had 25 bushels of wheat to the acre. John Kennedy, east of the Horae Mills district near Edmonton, from 40 acres of spring wheat got 1,767 bushels. or 44 bushels to the acre. J,. E. Vanderburgh, near Dayalow, Alberta, threshed four thousand bushels of wheat from 120 acres. Mr. D’Arcy, near there, threshed ten thousand and fifty-eight bushels (machine measure) of wheat from five hundred acrea. and out of this only sixty acrea was new land. At Fleming, Saak., A Winter's wheat averaged 39 bushels to the acre and several others report heavy yields. Mr. Winter’s crop was not on summer fallow, but on a piece of land broken in 1882 and said to be the first broken in the Fleming district. The agent of the Canadian gorenr

ment will lie pleased to give Information regarding the various district* t» Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, where free homesteads of 160 acres are available.