Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1907-08-01
CROP CONDITIONS IN
WESTERN CANADA
Latsness C. Spring Overcome BY Ex
esIIsnt Growing Summer Season.


once more the farmers OF Western
Canada rest at ease and grow rich
whiie they slumber. Their season Of
anxiety is over. For q time Il looked
as though backward season was for
once going to prevent the western
country from maintaining It's preemi.
nent position as leader Of the grain
growing countries OF the world. The
unusual lateness OF the spring coupled
with tho rapid advance in the price OF
food-stuffs gave tho pesslmlsts some
reason for their gloomy forebodings,
and among even the optimistic West
erners imbued as they usually arc
with a spirit of buoyancy and hope.
there commenced to glimmer fear
that perhaps this year their sanguine
expectations we're not 10 be realized.
On May day when a large proportion
OF wheat had usually been sown there
was this year very little seeding done.
Finally. however, winter which had
tarried 30 late in the lap OF spring in
all parts Of the Continent vanished
before the vertical rays OF the sun.
and the hurry and hustle OF spring
work commenced on the western prai.
ries.
BY the goth Of May $50 of the
spring wheat was sown and the fall
wheat In the districts devoted TO Its
cultivation was covering the fields
with a mantle Of green. Wheat SOW
ing finished on May 30 and by June
10 the coarser grains were also in
the ground. The heavy snowfall dur.
ing the winter left tho ground In excel
lent shape when once seeding opera
tons commenced aud from the time
weather conditions permitted the com.
mencement Of work until planting was
completed, the farmers were q busy
class. The area in wheat is not
much larger than last year. but oats,
barley and fax are much IN excess Of
past records, the farmers deeming Il
wiser on account Of the lateness OF
the season to put Ia heavier proper
ton OF the coarser grains. From the
most reliable reports to hand It sp-
pears that the acreage as compared
with 1906 viii show an increase of 1875
in oats. 1879 in barley and 1875 in
FAX.
/ Around Akotoks, High River, Nan.
ton, Claresholm aud other winter
wheat centers. II the present weather
conditions continue. the winter wheat
win be in head by the middle OF July.
The backward weather in the early
part Of May allowed the newly sown
grain to get q firm root In the ground
and now with an abundance OF moist
ure and warm weather the growth ia
remarkable. All danger OF injury
from droughts ia practically over az
the green crop covers the ground re-
tanning the moisture required for ia
growth ana provonting the too rapid
evaporation which might otherwise
take place.
Crops IN Western Canada mature IN
one hundred days OF good weather
and as the weather conditions have
been ideal since seeding, and with
spring wheat now from IL 70 Is inches
above tho ground, full average croT
Is confidently expected.
In addition to tho cheering pros
pects OF this years yield the farmers
are to be congratulated on the fact
that they still have in their possession
1--WE million bushels Of wheat from last
years crop which they are now dis
posing OF at high prices.
The splendid yield Of 10000, 0Ol
bushels OF wheat raised In 1906 n
the three provinces OF Manitoba, Sas
katchewan and Alberta, together will
the almost certain assurance that thil
year win see a considerable increase
is. as in the past. calling. the attain
ton Of the world OF the Last Bes
West" and thousands from the Unitas
States and the agricultural districts
Of Europe are each month securing
tree grant lands or purchasing farm
In the land which has proved itsel
peerless among the grain growing
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