The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-10-31

before the present rush of wheat TO the
market abates. The conversion of the
crop into money may be said to be pro-
ceeding In a most satisfactory way and
there is no doubt that millions of dollars
Will have gone into the pockets of the
farmers by the time navigation on the
lakes closes. Even then only a small
proportion of the wheat will have come
out. Experience has shown that the rail-
ways do not carry very much OF the
wheat to the Lake Superior ports before
the freeze-up comes, and the proper
ton will probably be smaller han usual
this year on account of the lateness Of
the thrashing season.
o the whole the prospect is a most
cheerful one, the likelihood being that
the satisfactory returns for the past few
days will be greatly exceeded in the COM
ing six or seven weeks. The fact that
wheat of any kind is bound to bring a re-
munerative price this season is the COM
forting feature of the situation and there
is no occasion for concern over the pos
sibility of the general quality of the
grain being below hat of previous years.
The high standard of the wheat raised
in the west in 1905-1906 was undoubtedly
q great advertisement for the country
and it would nave been we'll If that ex-
cellent record could ave been continued,
but 1t Is not reasonable to expect that 80
per cent of the wheat will be of contract
grade every year as it was in the years
mentioned. If rs per cent. or even so
per cent. of this seasons yield be up
to the contract standard there will be
from for congratulation. The west viii
reap a large return of its investment OK
money, time and labor this year as 1T did
in any preceding season, and by so do
ing it will have done it's whole duty to
those who have placed faith in It's fertil-
ity and resourcefulness. The breathing
spell If 1t comes will enable the transport
tation companies and other elements in
the trade of the country to catch up with
some of their obligations and the i'm
provements effected by that means will
more than offset any inconvenience which
will result from a relatively smaller
production. The general commercial out
look is bright enough and only depressing
factors are due to the position of a few
communities widely separated in which
there is a small return from the crop.
1T Is true the season has not been
so favorable as other seasons but this
condition is widespread. The corn crop
in the states of the union, where 1t Ia
the premier crop of the farmers is SUBJ
ject to frost. Frost has undoubtedly mate
rally reduced the total yield in places
this year, but after every allowance has
been made for this and other causes the
fact remains that the total grain in AL
Derta Will De the largest IN history,
While in the other provinces the yield will
not fall far short Of other years.
1.-THE following extract from the Ed
monitor Bulletin fairly describes the situ-
| alton in Northern Alberta and Saskatche-
wan:
Cutting is practically completed, stack
ing Is in progress in some places, thresh-
ing will m at once. A few late
fields which were sown for green feed
are being cut this week. The grain is all
in stock and everywhere the glow of au-
tumn mingles with the glow of harvest.
A great number of the oat fields show tho
typical yellow of well ripened grain. The
| majority, however, are too pale a yell
low to indicate full development and per-
| feet %ripening. Some late oats will be fed
in the straw which Is held by good cattle
feeders to be the best way to feed oats.
In no year in the history of the spring
wheat industry has there been a better
growth and production OF plant and IL
the crop Of 1907 had been favored with
more propitious condition during Septem-
Der all previous records Of wheat produce
ton In this country would hav been
eclipsed. On the farm known ~ the Mac
leod farm ~ miles northeast of the city
on the Fort Saskatchewan trail, samples
OF Red Fyfs were taken that were uni
formly plump and lard n Of excellent
color. This neld should run = hushsh =
the acre.