Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1914 — ALBERTA CROP YIELDS [ARTICLE]

ALBERTA CROP YIELDS

At MacLeod, Alta., weather conditions were excellent all through the season. Ninety per cent, of the wheat up to Oct. Ist graded No. 1, the only No. 2 being fall wheat. The yield ranged from 20 to 40 bushels per acre, .with an average of 28. Oats yielded ;well, and barley about 60 bushels. Invbrary is a new district in Alberta. Here wheat graded No. 2 and some of it went 50 bushels to the acre, oats going about 75 bushels. Lethbridge correspondent says: "In the Monarch district the yield on summer fallow is averaging thirty-five bushels, a large percentage No. 1 northern.” "All spring grains are yielding better than expected in the Milk river district, south. A 300 acre field of Marquis wheat gave 41 % bushels. "Experimental farm results on grain sown on irrigated land plaqe ‘Red Fife’ wheat in the banner position, with a yield of 59.40 bushels per acre. Oats yielded 132 bushels to the acre. "John Turner of Lethbridge grew . barley that went 60 bushels to the acre./ “Red Fife averages in weight from 60 to 68 pounds, and at Rosthern the Marquis wheat will run as high as 64 pounds to the bushel, while a sample of Marquis wheat gt Areola weighed no less than 68 pounds to the busheL This variety is grading No. 1 hard.” Calgary, Alta., Oct. B.—The problem of handling Alberta’s big grain crop is becoming a serious one, and there is a congestion at many points In southern Alberta. One thousand cars could be ÜBed Immediately. The C. P. R. prepared for/a normal year, while the yield of grain was everywhere abnormal, with an increased acreage of about 23 per cent. Moose Jaw, Sask., returns show some remarkable yields. Bassano, Alta., Sept. 25, 'lß.—lndividual record crops grown in Alberta Include 1,300 acre field of spring wheat grown near Bassano which went thir-ty-five bushels to the acre and weighed sixty-Bix pounds to the bushel Noble, Alta., Oct. 1, ’l3. —All records for the largest shipment of grain by one farmer will be broken this year if the estimate of C. S. Noble of Noble, Alberta, proves correct. Mr. Noble has notified the Canadian Pacific Railway here that he will have 350,000 bushels of grain, chiefly barley and oats, ready for shipment very shortly L. Anderson Smith, writing to a friend in the Old Country, located at Killam, Alberta, Sayß: "Anyone taking up land will find Alberta an ideal province. The soil is a rich black loam, varying from 6 to 12 inches in depth. The land here in this district is not wholly open prairie. At intervals, sometimes closely, sometimes widely scattered, therd are small plots of poplar and willows. These generally grow round some small depression in the land, and the snow drifts here in the winter and melts in the spring filling these sloughs (province "slews”) with soft water. Nearly all these sloughs have old bufralo tracks to them, for it was from them that they always got their ; water. The poplars are very useful for building barnß and hen-houses. Wild grasses are plentiful, while tame grasses, such as timothy, brome and western rye grass do remarkably well. •—Advertisement. \