Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1914 — CANADA WINNING CHAMPIONSHIPS IN AGRICULTURE [ARTICLE]

CANADA WINNING CHAMPIONSHIPS IN AGRICULTURE

Jhe Latest Is Winning Championship for Oats a Third . Time. '* —— > ■ ■ Recently was published the fact of remarkable winnings by Canadian farmers In several events during the past three or four years. The latest la that of Messrs. i. C. Hill & Sons of Lloydminster, Saskatchewan, who won In a hard contest for the oat championship over Montana. At the National Corn Exposition at Dallas during February, Montana oats were awarded the championship for the United States. Walting for the winner of this to be announced was a peck of oats belonging to the Car nadian growers above mentioned, and alongside of these was a like quantity belonging to a Minnesota grower, who was barred from the regular competition because he was at one time the winner of the trophy—the prise. The three entries were side by side on the judge’s bench. It would not be possible to bring together three more likely samples. Montana and Saskatchewan entries were of equal weight—so pounds to the bushel. The Minnesota sample was some three pounds lighter. The award was unanimous in favor of the Saskatchewan oats. A remarkable feature and one greatly to the credit of the Canadian product was that the oats, grown in 1913, were grown and shown by those who had competed during the past two years, winning on each occasion. This, the third winning, gave them for the third time the world's championship and full possession of the splendid $1,500 silver trophy contributed by the state of Colorado. The oats which have thus given to Western Canada another splendid advertising card, were grown 300 miles north of the International boundary line, proving that In this latitude, all the smaller grains can be grown with greater perfection and with more abundant yield than further south. In all this country are to be found farmers who produce oats running from 42 to 48 pounds to the bushel, and with yields of from 60 to 100 bushels per acre. Wheat also does well, grades high, and yields from 30 to 40 bushels per acre. The same may be said es any portion of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, famed over the world not only as a country where championship grains are grown, but where cattle and horses are raised that also carry off championships and where wild grasses are abundant yielders, cultivated hay and alfalfa are grown, thus giving plenty of feed, and with a good climate, sufficient shelter and plenty of water, bring about results such as western Canada has been able to record. Thousands of farmers from the United States who havetheir homes in Canada bear ample testimony to the benefits they have derived from farming in western Canada. —Advertisement.