The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1907-07-26
CROP CONDITIONS IN
WESTERN CANADA
1 a,eness OF Spring Overcome BY tx
eerens Growing Summer Season


Once more the farmers OF Western
Canada rest at ease and gro" Iioh
while they slumber. Their season OF
anxiety is over. For time II looked
as though a backward season was iog
once ecing 10 prevent the western
country from maintaining It's preemi'
pent posltion as leader OF the gram
growing countries OF the world. The
unusual lateness OF the spring coupled
with the rapid advance In the price oi
food.stuffs gave the pessimists some
reason for their gloomy forebodings'
and among even the optimistic west
orners imbued as they usually are
with q spirit OF buoyancy and nope
there commenced 20 glimmer rear
that nerhaps this year their sanguine
cancellations were not TO De re"li]eu'
ON May day when large proporuoh
~ wheat had usually been sown thefe
was this year very little seeding zone,
Finally however, winter when haa
carried so late In the lap OF spring IN
ali narts OF the Continent Vanisheu
before the vertical rays OF the sun
and the hurry and hustle OF spring
work commenced on the western pi"''
ries -.
nv the goth OF May $50 OF the
snr,ng wheat was sown and the ran
Whoa, in the districts devoted TO us
o,,,,ivation was covering the helds
!. nth a mantle OF green. Wheat SOW
i ing finished on May 80 and by june
n ~ the coarser grains were also IN
+, ,ho Ground The heavy snowfall dur
y ing the winter left the ground IN eNce''
n. lent shape when once seeding opera
n lions commenced and from the time
10 weather conditions permitted the com
:, ,oarcement OF work until planting was
O. comnleted. the farmers were pus,
=. o,ass The area in wheat Is no
IA much larger than last year. but oats
:. harley and fax are much in excess Q
~ mas, records. the farmers deeming
wiser on account of the lateness
ed the season TO put in heavier propo'
~ ton of the coarser grains. From u
=. -,ost reliable reports 10 hand IL al
-. rears that the acreage as compare
,,,th 1905 will show an increase OF i
a. oats 1917 in barley and 1870
nd fax. p,.o- Va
tor Claresholm and other win'
7, wheat centers. If the present "eas"
conditions continue. the winter "ne
- viii he in head by the middle OF Ju
The backward weather in the ea'
mart Of May allowed the newly So
Grain 10 get a firm root in the groul
and now with an abundance OF mo-
ure and warm weather the grown
remarkable. All danger OF Inv
70 from droughts is practically over
1-ho the green crop covers the srounu
- tanning the moisture required ioi
ii's growth and preventing the TOO "a
'iou evanoration which might otherV
50 take place.
lueu crons in Western Canada matur
ea'n ono hundred DAYS OF good weat
TWO and as the weather conditions .
Kies' haan ideal since seeding. and
way snripg wheat now from IA TO ls Inc
any above the ground, full average
is confidently expected.
II addition TO the cheering
meets OF this year Hiciu eNN
-. are TO be congratulated on the
''S"' that they still have in their posses
five million bushels of wheat rom
years crop which they are no"
q ~ posing OF at high prices.
4 'ne The splendid yield OF so.oo
l.n = bushels Of wheat raised in lsV'
l' up tho three provinces of Manitoba
katchewan and Alberta. togetner
5 anu the almost certain assurance tha'
essNe year will see considerable Incl
wa IS as in the past. calling the
, worry tIon of the world of the Last
west" and thousands from the I
FORCES states and the agricultural dis
her as 81 Europe are each month sec
win free grant lands or purchasing
cen the in the land which has proved
"a peeh neerless among the grain gr
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