Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 292, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1913 — CANRDA WINS AGAIN [ARTICLE]

CANRDA WINS AGAIN

This Time at the International Soil Products in Oklahoma. Last year and the year before, and the year before that, the farm products of Western Canada carried off first premiums, championships and honours, together with medals and diplomas, feats that were likely to give a swelled head to any other people than those who had so much more behind. At Columbus, Ohio, and then again at Columbia,, North Carolina, a farmer of Saskatchewan carried oft the highest prize for oats, and in another year, will become the possessor of the >1,500 Colorado Trophy; another fanner made two successful exhibits of wheat at the biggest shows in the United States; another farmer of Manitoba won championships and sweepstake at the live stock show in Chicago, and this year expects to duplicate his successes of last year. Thbße winnings are the more creditable as none of the cattle were ever fed any corn, but raised and fattened on nature grasses and small grains. At the Dry Farming Congress held at Lethbridge in 1912, Alberta and Saskatchewan, farmers carried oft the principal prizes competing with the world. The most recent winnings of Canada have been made at Tulsa, Oklahoma, where seven of the eigh-•-teen sweepstakes rewards at the International Soil Products Exposition were taken by Canada in competition with eleven states. The chief prize, a thrashing machine, valued at $1,200 for the best bushel of hard wheat, went to Peter Gerlack of Allan, Saskatchewan. Montana took four of the sweepstakes, Oklahoma four, and Nebraska two. Russia sent one delegate, Spain had two, Belgium three, China four, Canada fifty, Mexico five, Norway one, Brazil three. In the district In which the wheat was grown that won this prize, there were thousands of acres this year that would have done as well.. Mr. Gerlack Is to be congratulated as well as the Province of Saskatchewan, and Western Canada as a whole, for the great success that has been achieved In both grain and cattle. —Advertisement