Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1902 — CANADIAN FARMERS HAPPY. [ARTICLE]

CANADIAN FARMERS HAPPY.

Their Grain Crop Is One of the Largest on Record. The year has been a very prosperous one for the farmers of Manitoba, as. indeed, it lias for all the agriculturists of

the Northwest. It is estimated that UO,000,000 bushels of wheat have been harvested by them for export and they have received $12,000,000 more this year than they realized in 1900. One farmer produced 18,000 bushels, of wheat, besides oats and barley, and another put in 13,000 bushels of wheat and 10,000 bushels of barley. So enormous is the quantity of produce which the railways are called upon to move that they are congested. Manitoba alone had a grain crop of 85,179,858 bushels.

The benefits to accrue from this unprecedented crop in western Canada will be felt all over the Dominion. The extra money which the farmers have received is being used for the payment of mortgages, the extension of barns and stables, the taking up of more land, and the introduction into the home circle of many accessories of refinement which have been wanting hitherto, and to-day the piano is the possession of nearly every well-to-do fanner's daughter.