Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 195, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1911 — WRITES OF BIG CROPS RAISED IN ALBERTA. [ARTICLE]

WRITES OF BIG CROPS RAISED IN ALBERTA.

Mrs. L. M. hues Interestingly Tells Of Agricultural Accomplishments . I" the Northland. Langdon, Alta., Can., Aug. 13, 1211. Editor Republican: 1 am sending under separate cover a sample of the grain being raised on the three-thousand acre farm of my brother-in-law, F. M, Lewis. Out of eleven hundred fifty acres of wheat he expects to harvest forty-five thousand bushels, and from seven hundred fifty acres of oats he expects thirty thousand bushels. As soon as the spring seeding 1b completed they start plowing the sod and summer fallow for the following crop. The sample is from a ten hundred forty acre 23157" My sister, Amanda, is engrossed in her poultry business and for eggs receives twenty-five cents per dozen in the lowest markets and runß as high as Beventy cents. The Canadian Pacific railroad runs in less than a quarter of a mile from the large farm house. It is quite a sight to see such stretches of grain. The country is gently rolling and the eye travels over a ten-mile radius before reaching the horizon. Here and there a low cloud of dark smoke denote* a steam traction engine turning the sod of plowing the stubble. The gasoline engine is being rapidly perfected, and introduced. To see a string of plows trailing after a huge iron monster, leaving a forty-foot strip lh its wakerwe ean not help but wonder at the advance there has been. Although the Rockies are nearly a hundred miles away from here, we can plainly see the snow caps, as the atmosphere is so clear. The sunsets are the grandest I have ever had the fortune to behold, and the lakes are so clear they are truly the skies’ mirrors. I have enjoyed my visit exceedingly and have received great benefit for my asthmatic trouble. My niece, Ellen Paris, is here and likes the country so w'ell that she expects to stay a year with her brother. We both join in sending our best wishes to our Rensselaer friends. Very Bincerely, MRS. L. M. IMES.