Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-11-22
WESTERN CANADA A WINNER.
The Crop of 1907 Is an Excellent
One-Manitoba, Saskatchewan and
Alberta Farmers Doing Well.


0ne-Manitoba, Saskatchewan and
Alberta Farmers Doing Well.
The interest that Western Canada
has aroused for some years past is
growing in intensity. The conditions
Of the crop of 1907 are such that re-
suits can be spoken of with some de-
gree Of certainty. The yield of grain
viii be about SO,OOO,OOO bushels and the
price the farmers will realize for 1t
will be upwards of seventy million dol
lars. The oat crop was good in most
places, and the crop Of barley will be
very remunerative. Those who know
Of the generally unsatisfactory condi-
lions during the seeding, growing and
ripening period in the United States
during the past season will look with
righteous distrust on any statement in
tended to give the impression that
Western Canada conditions were so
much different. Generally, they were
not, but the conditions Of highly re-
Operative soil, long and continuous
sunshine, are conditions possessed by
Western Canada and not possessed by
any other country on the continent.
That is why it is possible to record to-
day a fairly successful crop, when in
most other places the opposite is the
case. The yield in all grain is less than
last year, but the higher prices OBJ
tanned more than offset any falling off
in the yield Take for instance the
Province of Saskatchewan, the wheat
crop will be worth $21 49,, 900. Last
year the same crop was 80 per cent
larger and the quality better. The yield
was worth $24O00,0O0. Oats and bar
ley are very important fictOrs in all
three central provinces. AT Gladstone,
Manitoba, returns from one farm were
$27 per acre from the wheat land, $50
per acre from oats, and $50 per acre
from barley. The yield of wheat at
Dauphin, Manitoba, was 20 to "a bush
els to the acre, but not Of a very good
grade, but the yield of barley in that
section was good and so was the quality
and price. At Meadow Lea, Manitoba,
10 to 20 bushels to the acre were
threshed bringing round dollar on
the market. At Oak Lake, Manitoba,
on some fields where 21 bushels were
expected, u and 10 was the result
others again where 20 was looked for
gave % to %. One special patch south
of town on J. NJ. McFarlane's farm
went as high as 80 bushels to the acre.
At Sheho, Saskatchewan, oats yielded
from GO to So bushels to the acre. Sam
Wunder threshed $500 bushels from 40
acres The sample is good and weighs
we'll. At LlOydminster saskatchewan,
W. Bibby threshed 81 bushels of oats
to the acre. and two others were but
little behind. Wheat here reached 80
bushels. At Portage la Prairie, Mani
toba, from quarter section all in crop,
Alex McKinnOn of Ingleside threshed
an average of 33 bushels No. 1 North
ern. l. J. Grant had 100 acres, yield
ing 5000 bushels of the same grade
These Illustrations taken from widely
distant districts (and thousands of 9TH
ers could be produced) show that the
year 1907 has not felt the serious eff
fects from severe winter, late spring,
or unfavorable conditions during the
growing season that might have been
anticipated. In order to learn more
about this country write to the Cana
dian Government Agent, whose address
appears elsewhere, and get a copy of
the new Last Best West, which he will
be pleased to mail you free.