Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-07-25
CROP CONDITIONS IN
WESTERN CANADA
Lateness Of Spring Overcome by Elk
cellent Growing Summer Season.

Once more the farmers OF Western
Canada rest at ease and grow rich |
while they slumber. Their season of
anxiety is over. For time 1t looked
as though q backward season was foi |
once going to prevent the western
country from maintaining its preemi- !
nent position as leader OF the grain |
growing countries of the world. The
unusual lateness Of the spring coupled |
with the rapid advance in the price of
fcod-stuffs gave the pessimists some
reason for their gloomy forebodings,
and among even the optimistic West
orners imbued as they usually are
with a spirit OF buoyancy and nope,
there commenced to glimmer fear
that pcrhaps this year their sanguine
cancellations were not to be realized.
On May day when large proportion
Of wheat had usually been sown there
was this year very little seeding done.
Finally; however, winter which had
tarried so late In the lap OF spring in
all parts of the Continent vanished
before the vertical rays or 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 It's
cultivation was covering the fields
with a mantle Of green. Wheat SOW
ing finished on May 80 and by June
10 the coarser grains We're also in
the ground. The heavy snowfall dur
ing the winter left the ground in excel
lent shape when once seeding opera
tons commenced and from the time
weather conditions permitted the COM
mencement of work until planting was
completed, the farmers were a busy
class. The area in wheat is not
much larger than last year, but oats,
barley and fax are much in excess or
mast records. the farmers deeming IL
wiser on account of the lateness OF
the season to put in heavier proper
ton of the coarser grains. From the
/ most reliable reports TO hand 1t ap-
pears that the acreage as compared
! with 1906 will show an increase OF 1870
/ in oats, 1870 in barley and 1870 In
b. flax
j, Around Akotoks, High River, Nan
: ton, Claresholm and other winter
/ wheat centers, if the present weather
conditions continue, the winter wheat
t viii be in head by the middle OF July
I The backward weather in the early
I part of May allowed the newly sown
grain to get q firm root in the ground
e and now with an abundance OF moist
a ure and warm weather the growth is
u remarkable All danger of injury
from droughts is practically over a!
1 the green crop covers the ground re
!, tanning the moisture required for 1t!
, growth and preventing the too rapit
evaporation which might otherwise
n take place.
:, Crops in Western Canada mature II
; one hundred days of good weather
. AID as the weather conditions hav'
II been ideal since seeding, and wit
" spring wheat now from IA to Is inche
a. above the ground, full average GRO
Is confidently expected.
v. In addition TO the cheering pros
'e poets of this years yield the farmer
j. are to be congratulated on the fac
l. that they still have in their possessio
five million bushels of wheat from las
is years crop which they are now di'
PIT posing of at high prices.
AZ The splendid yield of 100000
&c bushels of wheat raised in 1906 !
the three provinces of Manitoba, Sa
- katchewan and Alberta, together wit
- the almost certain assurance that thi
m year will see a considerable increas
is. as in the past, calling the after
al ton of the world of the Last Be'
10 West" and thousands from the Unite
Ir- States and the agricultural district
S. Of Europe are each month securin
ID, free grant lands or purchasing farm
in the land which has proved itse
ne peerless among the grain GROWN
Sc countries of the world.
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