Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 289, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1915 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

NESS IN CUM IS GOOD Successful Crops and Big Yields Help the Railway. The remarkable fields that are reported of the wheat crop of Western Canada for 1915 bear out the estimate of an average yield over the three western provinces of upward of 25 bushels per acre. There is no portiofl of that great west of 24,000*" square miles in which the crop was not good and the yields abundant An American farmer who was induced to place under cultivation land that he had been holding for five years for speculative purposes and higher prices, says that he made the price of the land out of this year’s crop of oats. , No doubt, others, too, who took the advice of the Department of the Interior to cultivate the unoccupied land, have done as well. But the story of the great crop that Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta produced this year is best told in the language of the railways in the added cars that it has been necessary to place in commission, the extr* trains required to be run, ,the increased tonnage of the grain steamers. It is found that railway/ earnings continue to improve. The C. P. R. earnings for the second week of October showed an increase of $762,000 over last year, the total being only $310,000 below the gross earnings of the corresponding week of 1913, when the Western wheat crop made a new record for that date. The increase in C. P. R. earnings for the corresponding week of that year was only $351,000, or less than half of the increase reported this year. The grain movement in the West within the past two weeks has taxed the resources of the Canadian roads as never before, despite their increased facilities. The C. P. R. is handling 2,000 cars per day, a new record. The G. T. R. and the C. N. R. are also making new shipment records. The other day the W. Grant Morden, of the Canada Steamships Company, the largest freighter of the Canadian fleet on the Upper Lakes, brought down a cargo of 476,315 bushels, a 'new record for Canadian shipping. Records are “going by the board” in all directions this fall, due to Canada’s record crop. The largest Canadian wheat movement through the port of New York ever known is reported for the period up to October 15th, when since shipments of the new crop began in August, A,265,791 bushels have been reloaded for England, France and Italy. This is over half as much as was shipped of American wheat from the same port in the same period. And, be it remembered, Montreal, not New York, is the main export gateway for Canadian wheat. New York gats the overflow In competition with Montreal. —Advertisement.