The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1905-07-27

tell tale of advancement more elo'
quentiy than can be given in words:
1898. 1901
Acres under wheat .... 327,5so s69.IjO
Bushels wheat ,........5. 75o,65O 17,25e,35o
acres under oats ..... 1l5,2I5 5O,6so
Bushels i cats .....".a' $50 ESQ 1920 $40
h hg,fs anGsr barley 49, 9 3s go
The average yields for those six years
were as follows:
Bushels
Wheat. per acre NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 1902
D,ats, per acre ..................... o225
barley, per acre NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 24.S5
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.
Wnsat .-........'.......... 221u'ooo
CdtS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS iUb,pp
Darcy ......... observation-disclosures. 3tcp.UoO
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 necessitie, Of the in.
coming population for seed and other
annual product. Placing the price Of
wheat at 80 cents, oats ut 40, and bar
ley at 80, which are very conservative
figures, the value of the crop of 1904 was
S1S,S2J,616. 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., 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 intlu-
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 its 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 "round up" or enumeration in the
spring. There are at least l50,000.0OO
acres of free grazing lands in this wide
country, an area six times rs great as
the combined areas of all the Western
States.
Dairying.
Many of the ranchers take mp farm
ing with the cattle industry and Incl
dentaly dairyns 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 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 $50 as 3-year-olds, and are
fcd the year through on the native prli-
re. the doubter can readily understand
there are fortunes in ranching and dairy
ing.
There is class Of the community who
imagine tho country must be subjected
to much inconvenience if not priyaton,
because of lack of fuel. Because the
country is prairie they conclude there
must be a complete absence of fuel. The
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