Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1906 — Western Canada’s Marvelous Crop Returns. [ARTICLE]

Western Canada’s Marvelous Crop Returns.

The Increase in the crop returns of the Canadian West, in the past seven years, has approached the marvelous, and there is no reason to believe that a corresponding increase will not result for many years to come. The Increase has been particularly noticeable in what was formerly known as the Northwest Territories, hut which, on Sept. 3, 1905, became the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan. From the official returns we find the following results in the acreage sown to onts and barley, in the years mentioned, and a more favorable showing cannot be pointed to in any other country during a like period. Wheat. Oats. Barley. 1893 307,580 105,077 17,082 1899.. 303,523 134,938 14,270 1900 412,804 175,439 17,044 1901 504,097 ‘ 229,439 24,702 1902.. .. .025,758 810,367 36,445 1003 1904 965,549 523,634 98,154 The yield has been uniformly good every year except 1900, when there appears to have been a slump all along the line. This, however, was more than compensated for in the following year, when the bumper crop In wheat, oats and barley put the returns of all previous years completely in the shade, and gave an Impetus to settlement In the West which has prevailed- to the present, as the following table by bushels will show:. " •

Wheat.' — Oats. Barley. 1898.. 5,542,478 8,040,307 449,512 1899.. 6,915,623 4,686,036 337,521 1900.. 4,028,294 4,226,152 353,21 G 1901.. 12,808,447 11,113,066 795,100 1902.. 13,956,850 10,661,295 970,417 1903.. 16,029,149 14,179,706 1,842,824 1904.. 16,875,537 16,332,551 2,205,434 It will be seen that the number of aerea sown to wheat, oats and barley in IS9B was 429,749, and that this had increased in 1904 to 1,587,337. The total crop in the cereals mentioned was 9,033,297 bushels in 1898, and in 1904 it had grown to the magnificent total of 35,413,522. In the year just closed the “forward movement’’ in the agriculture of the West has been the wonder and envy of the world. New sections of the country have been placed under tribute to the plow’ and harrow’, and the grain area has been largely increased. This is particularly the case whore it has been demonstrated that “Alberta Red” winter wheat may be successfully grow’n, and along the lines of the new railways towards the center of tho country, wdiere mixed farming prevails. The future of the Canadian West is assured, and for years to Come it is bound to be the land of promise to the agriculturist of every nation ami of every clime, and the land of opportunlty to every settler within Its bounds. Fullest Information can be secured from any Canadian Government Agent.

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