Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-07-31
tell a tale of advancement NOR. clio.

tell tale of advancement more clio.
quently than can be given in words:
1898 1904.
Bushels wheat ........ 5,75O,65o 1880, ss0
Acres under oats ...... 1925 $50, $50
Bushels oats .......... g, 250, 800 1920, $40
4cres under barley Il go . Ok 42'S s90
The average yields for those six years
were as follows:
Bushels
Wheat, per acre ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1902
oats, per acre NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. SZ.ao
barley, per acre .................... Z4'oo
This does not include the great grain
growing province of Manitoba.
As there is at least % per cent more
land under crop this year (Q905) on ac-
count Of the favorable spring for seed
ing, than there was last year, the crops
will doubtless reach these figures:
Bushels.
Wheat ..................... 2z'300'0o0000
oats ~ zoo
barley :. O,OOO,OOV
1t must be borne in mind that wheat
is the only grain exported easterly to any
great extent, the local demand in Brit
ish Columbia the necessities Of the in
coming population for seed and other
wise consumes a large portion of the
annual product. Placing the price of
wheat at so cents, oats at 40, and bar
ley at 50, which are very conservative
figures, the value of the crop Of 1904 was
$18,8 ,676 This would give each farm
er established in the work well on to
$1,000 for his years work. To this
must be added the receipts from the
sale of live stock, hay, dairy products,
roots, vegetables, etc., we'll on to half
as much more.
From a condition of nature, the two
provinces, though lying side by side and
extending from the 10th to the Goth
parallel, have different climatic infu-
ences, and as a result are different IN
their producing capabilities from econ
omic points of view. Alberta lying next
the Rocky mountains, but more especial
ly in it's southern district, is affected by
the Chinook" or warm winds from the
Pacific ocean. AS a result it has dryer
summer weather than it's sister province,
and is not so much in favor as a grain
growing country but is without question
the most favorable ranching country on
the globe. Large tracts are leased at
a mere nominal figure, and the herds
live out the whole winter through and
are invariably in excellent condition in
the Ground up" or enumeration in the
spring. There are at least 150,000,000
acres of free grazing lands in this wide
country, an area six times as great as
the combined areas Of all the Western
States.
Dairying.
Many of the ranchers take up farm
ing with the cattle industry and Incl
dentally dairying as well. The latter
promises yet, profitable as the other
branches of agricultural industry may
be, to become a leader in farming wealth.
There is a system of dairying esta blish-
ed in the country under government con-
troll, supervision and management that
relieves the farmers of much expense
and anxiety. Instead of being compelled
to build structures for the care of milk
and it's products, they simply turn their
milk over to the dairymen, who call for
it once a day, receive advances once a
month on the butter and cheese and at
the close of the season, or when the
years product is sold, balance up the
accounts.
As cattle double every third year, are
worth about $50 as 3-year-olds, and are
fed the year through on the native prai-
RE, the doubter can readily understand
there are fortunes in ranching and dairy
ing.
There is a class of the community who
imagine the country must be subjected
to much Inconvenience if not privation,
because of lack of fuel Because the
country is prairie they conclude there
must be complete absence of fuel. The
man who takes a trip over the country
is, however, soon relieved from all anx-
iety on this score, as he finds all of the
rivers, many of the lakes and ponds
fringed with timber and often large
bluffs Of fair sized timber in patches in
the open prairie, to say nothing of small
forests in many districts of the entire