Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-08-01
tell q tale Of advancement more slo- |
quently than can be given in words:

tell q tale of advancement more slo-
quently than can be given in words:
Acres under wheat 49,. S27,580 860.I so
Bushels wheat ........ .5,75O;650 1920. $50
Acres under oats ...... 1925 56U680
Bushels oats, ..:.......3,25o,S60 1920, SO
B BUSES sn Ssrlt barley $3.50 $50 2s5o
The average yields for those six years
were as follows:
Bushels.
Wheat, per acre NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 1902
Oats, per acre OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. go
barley, per acre ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. 24S5
This does not include the great grain
growing province of Manitoba.
As there is at least 25 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
will doubtless reach these figures:
Bushels.
wheat sss......s........... ZZ,0UU,UOV
oats NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. $4,000, OO0
Darcy ..................... 0,VVVVuW
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 large portion of the
annual product. Placing the price of
wheat at 60 cents, oats at 40, and bar
ley at so, which are very conservative
figures, the value of the crop Of 1904 was
SIS, 825,676. This would give each farm
err 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., well 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 inf1u-
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
mere nominal figure, and the herds
live out the whole winter through and
are invariably in excellent condition in
the 'round up" or enumeration in the
spring. There are at least 15O,0OO,OOO
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 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 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 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. Ike
man who takes 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