The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-12
WHEAT, TWENTY-FIVE
BUSHELS AN ACRE
That Is the Way the Average
3 Yield Of the Cereal Looks in the
Great Western Canadian Fields
This Year.
BUMPER CROP PROMISED
ALL OVER THE COUNTRY
In Manitoba and the Territory
About Four Million Acres Have
Been Devoted to Wheat This
Year-View of Statisticians.

Year-View of Statisticians.
Of The Journal.
WEYBUFsN, Assiniboia, Aug. 1.-THE
magnificent wheat crop Of western Can
ada Is. now coming to the home stretch
Of what promises to be the greatest wheat
year that country has ever known. It is
possible and even probable that the yield
will be the largest per acre, considering
the extent of the acreage, that the west has
ever had. There are many enthusiasts who
believe that western Canada will this year
show straight average Of twenty-five
bushels to the acre. OF course, farming
is proverbially uncertain, and something
may yet happen to disappoint the great
expectations of this country but it Is diff
ficult to 1oresee what it can be. There
is little or no danger from rust, even in
that part Of Manitoba that suffered from
it last year. AS the crop is on an average
two weeks earlier than last year, there
seems to be practically no danger Of frost,
Spring wheat harvest will be general in
Manitoba and the territories about the
18th and should be over the first week in
September.
The Acreage and Yield.
1t is difficult to ascertain just how
much of an acreage has been devoted to
wheat this year. Confidence in the Off
cial figures of acreage has been greatly
shaken OF late, as it is generally believed
that those figures are somewhat too low.
It is probable that in Manitoba and the
territories there are about 100000 acres
devoted to wheat raising this year. No
body expects a lower average than twenty
bushels to the acre, so if the acreage es-
timated is right, crop of $4,000, 900 BUSH
els of splendid quality of hard spring
wheat Is now In sight If the average OF
twenty-five bushels to the acres which has
several times been attained in the past
on smaller acreage, should be realized,
western Canada will appear in the white
light of the commercial and agricultural
world with a wheat crop of 100, 200, 900
bushels. At the present good prices for
wheat a crop of 100, 100000 bushels, or Of
$4,000, 900, would mean that the whole Of
the great agricultural country between
Winnipeg and the mountains would be
irrigated, as it were, by flood of money.
A hundred million bushel crop would
probably mean s70,000,0O0 to the farmers
of the west. Other crops and the stock
would bring the money returns Of the
farming this year in western Canada well
up to 500, 900; and this for a region
whose total population does not exceed
100000. Here will be store of new
money coming into the country at the
rate Of more than 500 per capita fol-
every man, woman and child in the coun-
try. -,-
.4.. Timely "Bumper."
Such a crop comes at precisely the right
time to assure prosperous future for
western Canada for many years to come
Owing to the remarkable development OF
the country within the last few years
credits have necessarily been worked
very hard and everybody has been look
inc I'd IN fhie for liz
ing. With a good crop this year, Of the
| proportions indicated, the west will be
able to pay it's debts and prepare to con-
tinue vigorously the present era of expan.
sion and development regardless O.
whether crops are good or poor for thu
next two or three years. -..... ..
| Favored by Americans.
| One of the first regions in western Can
ada settled by Americans was natural,
the strip of territory along the 500 road
! from the international boundary t
Moose Jaw. It was so easy for settlers
| to move directly from the states into thi:
region, and land was so cheap that they
poured in in hordes.
| Three or four years ago the sky line
from the boundary to Moose Jaw wa:
unbroken. Today it is jagged with sill
houettes Of farm buildings. Where few
years ago there was nothing but thu
kSTdSSy pIdlIlc, IIlSIS Is IOudy OH olA41oS
continuous line Of cultivated fields\ many
miles deep. Many of these fields promise
this year to yield as high as forty-fv'
bushels Of wheat to the acre. What il
true of the country along the 500 line il
now true largely Of the whole southeast
ern Assiniboia, which will soon be a.
we'll populated as Manitoba, and is I'm
doubtedly blessed with fully as fertil
a soil and as good agricultural conditions
Good Crops Everywhere.
Your correspondent has just been on
trip through the entire Canadian West
and is able to assert that almost every
where the outlook is very promising
Southwestern, western and Northwestern
Manitoba will have a grand crop. In tn
new country along the Canadian North
ern's main line in Assiniboia and Sa S
katchewan and along the Prince Alber
branch of the Canadian Pacific, the sprin
wheat crop never looked so well at thi
time of the year. Everywhere the peopl
are happy and preparing themselves 70
the tremendous rush Of settlers from tn
states that Is expected to follow tn
bumper crop that now seems assured.
/ 49, -.r.s-- Winter Wheat.
Out in Alberta they cannot talk any
thing but winter wheat, and the revolu
ton already wrought in agriculture /
southern Alberta by the Introduction c
the red winter wheat of Kansas Is Ger
tainly remarkable. A few years ag
farmers generally scoffed at the idea {
raising winter wheat anywhere so ia
north as western Canada; but now indi
vidual experience running back twent
years and very general experience GOV
ering the last three years have prove
that southern Alberta, and probably mid
die Alberta as we'll, is a better winte
than spring wheat country.
It is impossible to ascertain accuratel
the winter wheat acreage for this yea
but it is probably somewhere around 40
900 acres. The winter wheat harvest hs
been on for some days, and will soon h
over, SO that that part of the bumpe
crop is assured. Winter wheat is expecte
to average thirty bushels to the acr
This yield on an acreage of 10000 give
100000 bushels of winter wheat in A
berta. Next year the acreage will prof.
ably be 100000, and spring wheat raisir
, be practically abandoned in that part
western Canada.
THEODORE M. KNAPPEN.