Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-02-10

ALBERTA PRAIRIE GRASS

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or out in the omen awaiting purchasers.
notice that the cattle are feeding out
OF doors The grass is gray. II is cur
ed on the stalk, and the animals are
fat although there Is some snow ON the
ground
,.,,e.,,,,r~ c,x,nA CLIMATE
THE WESTERN V''N AhA -
am surprised at the climate Of this
nort ~ Canada. IL Is as mild as that
nf our central states for the greater
n,,rt M the winter The coolest part
~ canada is farther eastward. About
WinnIueg the thermometer frequently
falls 10 40 below zero. and the coon skin
coat is m evidence from NosT ',a,a, i hv
the warm winds which blow over the
Rockies. IL is heated by the Japanese
current TO such an extent that 1t keeps
British Columbia and Washington
green the year round and takes the
edge off the cold OF Edmonton and Cali
gary. Edmonton Is I'm latitude 81. II Is
several hundred miles south OF st.
Petersburg and In what the Euro
leans think the heart of the temperate
zone
Indeed the bulk of progressive Europe
lies north of the Forty-ninth parallel,
which forms our northern boundary
All the British Isles Holland, Belgium,
Scandinavia. large part OF France,
two-thrds OF Germany, and about
three-fourths of European Russia are
north OF that parallel. st. Petersburg
for instance, is hundreds of miles north
Of Winnipeg, which IL In the latitude
Of Paris. Berlin Is also far higher up
Oh the globe. Western Europe is kept
warm by the gulf stream. Similar IN
huences warm Edmonton, but they
come from the Japanese current, and
are moderated considerably By the wide
stretch OF mountains which they must
cross before they reach here.
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This whole state Of Alberta Is COM
rarttiyely temperate. The climate OF
calgary is much like that OF Denver,
and an along the foothills OF the ROCK !,
adapted to mixed farming. IL pro-
duces enormous crops of oats, barley
| and timothy and both winter and
spring WAaat Within 40 miles from
here they are growing oats as tall as a
man with timothy quite as high
had myself photographed today be-
tween sheaves of cats and timothy with
little bundle OF winter wheat leaning
against my chest. The wheat almost
ticlkled my chin, and the oats and tim
othy were az high as my head. Tho
people claim that the oats produced
here viii run from rs to 100 bushels per
acre and about 40 pounds to the bushe
Winter wheat Is said to produce 40
bushels per acre. and the yields Of bar
ley are large The farmers are now
raising barley for hogs, They claim
that barley-fed hogs are better than
corn-fed hogs, and say that they will
be soon supplying Canada with pork.
At present much Of the hog products
come from the United states, there be-
inc a tariff of . cents a pound against
our pork. These Western Canadians
do no, understand pork hacking. and
most of the Edmonton stores are now
supplied by our beef trust
a NEW CANADIAN STATE
Alberta is brand new state Il was
last Septenber hui II now has a gov
ernor OF Its own and has members in
tho canadian parlianenf Tho nrovince
has am area of 2j8 900 SQUARE miles II
beeins Win Nonten. ana ,ins north
I
western bound1rv t. along the limo ~
tho Rocky mouniains and an the past
n IL bounded nv saskatchewan The
proviuce Is about 4O0 milas MD n, The
center and II Is $40 miles long
Tho southern mart Of AIhepta is do.
voted IA ranchinr The co,intyv thars
IL drv prnws rich grasses horsss ana
cattie Ntans, 40 ~ 800, 800, ~ ~
owned nv Americans Who havs winter
,.ssidorcss 40 Moltai,o u. - 81
gary. Tho central MARI Of tho nrov.
ince is given nm to mIxsd "a rn,lns II
ts 1aryeiv settlnd along tbo Iinns 20 ,hs
railroads. and The whoIe ~ thts nav,
has heen onened 70 bomes,eaAino The
northern nart is said 70 ha good but so
far The only settlements are along the
peacs river ana thSse are raw an1 "a
between. They chiefly consist OF Hud.
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