Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1907 — WESTERN CANADA A WINNER. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN CANADA A WINNER.

- The Crop et IOOT Is an KieeßesV One—Manitoba; Saskatchewan and Alberta Farmer* Dolan Well. The interest that Western Canada has aroused for some years past is growing in Intensity. The conditions of the crop of 1907 are such that results can be spoken of with some degree of certainty. The yield of grain will be about 80,000,000 bushels and the price the farmers will* realize for It will be upwards of seventy million dollars. The oat crop was good in most places, and the crop of barley will be very remunerative. Those who know of the generally unsatisfactory conditions during the seeding, growing and ripening period in the United States during the past season will look with righteous distrust on any statement intended to give the Impression that Western Canada conditions were so much different. Generally, they were not, but the conditions of a highly recuperrffv? ‘-oil, long and continuous sunshine, ac*e conditions possessed by -Western Canada and not possessed by any other country on the continent. That is why it is possible to record today a fairly successful crop, when in most other places the opposite is the case. Th? yield in all grain is less than last year, but the higher prices obtained more than offset any falling off In the yield; Take for Instance the ‘Province of Saskatchewan, the wheat crop will be worth 121,135,000. Last year the same crop was 35 per cent larger and the quality better. The yield was worth $24,000,000. Oats and barley are very important factors In all three central provinces At Gladstone, Manitoba, returns from one farm were $27 per acre from the wheat land, $35 per acre from oats, and S3O per acre from barley. The yield of wheat at Dauphin, Manitoba, was 20 to 24 bushels to the acre, but not of a very good grade, but the yield of barley In that section was good and so was the quality and price. At Meadow Lea, Manitoba, 15 to 20 bushels to the acre were threshed, bringing a round dollar on the market. At Oak Lake, Manitoba, on some, fields where 21 bushels were expected, 12 and 15. was the result; others again where 20 was looked for gave 22 to 25. One special patch south of town on J.- M. MeFarlane’s farm went as high as 30 bushels to the acre. At Sheho, Saskatchewan, oats yielded from 60 to 65 bushels to the acre. Sam Wunder threshed 2,500 bushels frbm 40 acres. The sample is good and weighs well. At Lloydminster, Saskatchewan, W. Bibby threshed 97 bushels of oats to the acre, and two others were but little behind. Wheat here reached 35 bushels. At Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, from a quarter section all In crop, Alex. McKinnon of Ingleside threshed an average of 33 bushels No. 1 Northern. I. J. Grant had 190 acres, yielding 6,000 bushels of the same grade. These Illustrations taken from widely distant districts (and thousands of others could be produced) show that the year 1907 has not felt the serious effects from severe winter, late spring, or unfavorably conditions during the growing season that might have been anticipated. In order to learn more about this country write to the Canadian Government Agent, whose address ‘appears elsewhere, and get a copy of the new Last Best West, which he will be pleased to mail you free.