Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1914 — CORN CAN BE GROWN ON CANADIAN PRAIRIES [ARTICLE]

CORN CAN BE GROWN ON CANADIAN PRAIRIES

Manitoba is now commencing to produce considerable corn, chiefly for feeding purposes. In some cases, where the crop can be matured into the dough stage, silos could be used and would be a profitable investment. According to the Farm and Ranch Review,** correspondent visited a field of corn in southern Manitoba on September 28. The corn then was untouched by frost and It stood on an average eight and nine feet in height The com had developed into the dough stage, and the crop would easily exceed 20 tons to the acre. At many experimental farms, the same favorable showing of the com crop has manifested, itself. At the Brandon experimental farm this year several varieties, all very good yielders, matured Into good silo com. Considering the success with which corn can be produced, and the advantages to be gained by so producing It, should not it receive the serious attention of the western agriculturist? Com is successfully grown in the northern part of Minnesota in similar soil and under the same climatic condition, and there does not appear to be any reason why like results should not be secured in western Canada. It is the opinion of many American fanners of experience that the com belt is extending northward. The prairie provinces must gradually, take up with mixed farming. More stock on the farms must be raised, and in consequence farming must to some extent be diverted from grain growing to other necessary crops. If crops suitable for wintering cattle and espb-, dally dairy stock are to tie grower why should not corn be one of these crops? In Ontario and in the United States we find it forms the main bulky food for wintering beef and dairy cattle. They would not be without this profitable plant In fact, sincosite introduction almost twice as much stock can be retained on the same amount of land, besides considering its great value for keeping the land clean. Some may say that many crops that can be grown in Ontario and the States cannot be grown here, but not so with com, even now we find scattered fields of com in Alberta and Saskatchewan. —Advertisement