Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1905-07-28
tell tale of advancement more elo-

zen taie or advancement more elo-
quentiy than can be given in words:
1898 1904
Acres under wheat -. 3e7 $50 $50. $50
Bushels wheat ........ .5,150,650 1920. $50
Acres under oats 1l5,275 560,6SO
Bushels cats $1,000. 3, 250,3 6o 1s,25o,640
RG Gsfs sn 6srle barley ss5o $50
The average yields for those six years
We're as follows:
Bushels.
Wheat, per acre NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 1902
oats, per acre Observation-Disclosures. 81. %
Barley, Per acre .................... PASS
This does not include the great grain
growing province of Manitoba.
As there is at least % per cent more
land under crop this year (Q9O5) on ac-
count of the favorable spring for seed
ing. than there was last year, the crops
viii doubtless reach these figures:
Bushels.
nHedC ''.''..' Observation-Disclosures. 22.5o0,0 900
oats "a OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 24,ooo,ooo
o"iIcS .'.''..''- ................ 3,Ot0,OOO
1t must be borne in mind that wheat
is the only grain exported easterly to any
great extent, the local demand in Brit
ISL 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 60 cents, oats at 40, and bar
ley at 80, which are very conservative
figures the value of the crop of 1904 was
S1S,S25,6I6. This would give each farm
er established in the work we'll 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 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 its southern district, is affected by
the Chinook" or warm winds from the
Pacific ocean. AS 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
the ''round up or enumeration in the
spring. There are at least 150,OOO0 900
acres of free grazing lands in this wide
country, an area six times as great as
the combined areas of all the Western
States.
Dairyins.
Many of the ranchers take up farm
ing with the cattle industry and Incl
dentally dairying as we'll. The latter
promises yet, profitable as the other
branches of agricultural industry may
be, to become leader in farming wealth.
There is a system of dairying establish
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 its 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 $35 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