The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-13

il. Western Canada, as has been truly said,
was made by her record crops in 1901. The
result was shown early this year in the
train loads of homeseekerS and investors
who spread over the country, spying out
the land, and seldom leaving without
either purchasing or demonstrating. Can
the remarkable performance of 1901 be
repeated by the country in 1922 was
the question then asked. The latest re-
turns to hand and the estimates Of con-
scrvative, experienced men, show that 1t
has been more than repeated. 1t has
been eclipsed.
Manitoba, with 2,O3994O acres devoted
to raising wheat, will this year give a
yield Of about 54,000,000 bushels of that
cereal. This estimate is made by an Of
fetal from the latest returns, and is con-
sidered conservative. The average yield
per acre he puts at twenty seven bushels,
or an increase of two bushels an acre over
the yield of 1901. The September 1902
crop bulletin issued by the government of
the Northwest Territories, which includes
Assiniboia, Saskatchewan and Alberta,
states that, with a wheat area of 5S5,576
acres the yield of that cereal this year
will be 14,e49,5o0 bushels. The yield of
oats will amount to 10, 725, 500 bushels ana
of barley S44, 900 bushels.
How 1902 Exceis.
The remarkable success that crowned
the efforts of Western Canada farmers
last year, and the influx OF new settlers,
resulted this year in largely Increased
acreage in both Manitoba and the terri
tories. The following official figures are
given for Manitoba: Increase in area I'M
der wheat, 2s105 acres; oats, IS, 100 acres;
barley, 1873, ISL acres: fax, 20,222 acres. In
the territories thewheat acreage increased
so, S79 acres; oats, 50,374 acres; and bar
ley, $500 acres.
With the increased acreage the people
Of Western Canada were confident that the
crops Of last year would be repeated. Few
thought, however, that they would be
eclipsed, and the figures just compiled on
the crop Of 1902 are a surprise even to
people who have lived in the country for
many years. The crops OF 1901 and 1902
and the resulting immigration, are to
mark an epoch in Canada's history.
Western Canada has awakened to find
the eyes of the world upon her The
crop this, year is the greatest proportionate
to acreage ever grown on unfertilized land
Average Of 81 Bushels.
The average yield of grain in Western
Canada has, with the exception of 1900
when the crop conditions were disappoint-
ing, always been high. Most Of the pro-
duction Of wheat in 1901 and 1902 came
from Manitoba, but the official returns
AioAiss LIE tSlIllO14SS just " 1itliu, SuoW
that the districts to the west, which are
now being settled by thousands of Ameri-
cans, are capable of the same results. The
| average yield Of wheat per acre In these
districts is given officially this year as q
little over twenty-five bushels This same
soil has to its credit for period Of ten
years an average yield Of 1892 bushels OF
wheat. Not since 1895 has theh yield OF
wheat in Manitoba created so much sur
prise as it has this year. In that year
the average was % bushels. Last year
| 1t was % and this year it will average %.
Reports Of astonishing yields in certain