The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-13

to the acre. Last year he had 1000 bushels Of
wheat and 1000 bushels of oats on 255 acres.
George I. Cox, who lived at Ponoka. Alberta,
moved into western Canada from South Dako-
ia in 1899. He took his first crop in 1900, and
has had good crops every year since including
oats, barley, fax, winter and spring wheat,
winter and spring rye, potatoes, beets. turnips,
and all kinds of garden truck. 1--WE are grow
ing he said, larger crops here on land that
is selling from 81 to SIS per than can be
grown in Iowa or Minnesota on land that is
selling from $50 to 500 an acre. Cattle,
horses, hogs and sheep do well here. There is
plenty, of good, native grass, and we can grow
timothy, bronze and clover Mr.. Cox now
owns over 1.2o0 acres Of land
The Case of Frank Cherry.
About twenty years ago Frank Cherry moved
to Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. from Grand
Rapids s,-o Mich: A year after his arrival he
was $11o in debt Now he owns 32O acres of
land, eighty head of cattle, seven horses, to-
gether with farmhouse, stables, barns and
granary, all free of debt. He says that his
acre since he started. The lowest was seven
teen and half bushels, the largest forty
three bushels. The smallest crop of oats in his
experience was forty-six bushels in 1904. The
largest oat crop in Mr.. CoXs experience was
In 1900 when he took eighty bushels to the
acre. .. .a.-
James Hourie, another farmer living near
Prince Albert, who has lived there since 1885,
says that for twenty years his wheat fields
have averaged twenty eight bushels to the acre,
his largest crop being forty-two bushels. Last
year the crop averaged thirty bushels to the
acre. Mr.. Hourie owns $40 of land.
seventy head of cattle, and twelve horses,
house that cost him over 50 600, besides large
cattle stable, horse stables machine shed, and
granary, to say nothing of a $4,000 threshing
outfit. all paid for. and property in the city of
Prince Albert. "
Out in ARlberta there thousands of we'll
satisfied prosperous farmers who came from
! the United States. One of them is Thomas
Fuqua, who resides sixteen miles east of High
| River. Alberta. In 1901 Mr.. Fuaua sold out
| his land in Dodge county, Nebraska, for S72
an acre for forty acres and $50 acre for
| twelve acres of pasture land He purchased q
quarter section of land High River for
1918 an acre. 1t was raw, unimproved land.
Great Success in Winter Wheat
Mr.. Fuqua had great success raising winter
| wheat. The first year he took 40 bushels of
winter wheat off of thirty-five acres The next
year he took 800 acres more and put in ninety
| five acres of winter wheat fifty acres of oats,
| and forty acres of barley. He harvested ESQ
bushels of wheat and 1000 bushels of oats. In
| 1903 he built large house and two large barns.
| and put in 16O acres of winter wheat, from
which he harvested 400 bushels. 81 con-
| sidered 1t great stroke of good luck says
| Mr.. Fuqua, "to be able to sell land for $72 an
acre and buy equally as good land for s3.75.''
| Turning now to Manitoba, take the case Of
| William Buchannon, of Dauphin, who moved into
| that district from North Dakota In 1894 He
! purchased quarter section for 5000, and by
1897 he had the whole Of it under cultivation.
| The first three crops averaged him thirty bushels
to the acre. In 1897 he took ffty-fve bushels
to the off of sxteen-acre field. Mr..
Buchannon was so sure that he had discovered
a good thing that he turned his profits back into
land as fast possible. He now has four
farms. valued at $4,000, practically clear Of
incumbrance. In 1897 Mr.. Buchannon's crops
were struck by hail, but even then he had an
average Of fifteen bushels to the acre. Last
year his wheat crop yielded twenty eight bushels
to he
seventeen good horses, twenty head Of cattle,
and all the machinery necessary for working
his farm.
These instances Of successes have been taken
at random from the whole of the agricultural
country of western Canada. They easily
be matched in southwestern Manitoba and
southeastern Assiniboia, in the Regina and
Moose Jaw districts, in central Assiniboia,
along the 500 line in the same district. at various
points along the Prince Albert line. and in all
parts OF Alberta. Theodore NJ. Knappen.