The Nevada County picayune., 1908-09-03
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Fouueihs better crops than our own western and central states hut pest of all are the proofs of it in act uai results. This year, for instance as high as one hundred bu shels of oats to the acre will he pa,berea l., Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta anu some wheat will go AS HIGH AS FIFTY BUSHELS TO THE ACRE though of course this is an unusual yield.
 Last spring it was widely advertised Ill american papers that Alberta's win. ter wheat crop was a failure. In fact 'hls IS Alberta's banner year in grain production, as it is Saskatchewan's anu Manltoba's, and from figures al. ready in it is estimated that Alhert.,, wheat will yield on an average of THIR. If-flNE BUSHELS TO THE ACRE Ill many parts of the province returns VIII snow a yield of as high as FIFTY pusheis to the acre and it is freely predicted by many that when the of. nclal figures are in yield of at least iorty-f1ye instead of thirty-five bushels 10 the acre will be shown.
 At the time of my last tourney through the Canadian West, when my purpose was largely to secure statis- ,icai matter for book use, I solicited letters from American settlers in all parts or the three provinces, and most or these make most interesting read ing The letter was written by A. Kal- tenbrunner, whose postoffice address IS Regina, Saskatchewan.
 "A few years ago." he says, q took up homestead for myself and also one for my son. The half section which we own is between Rouleau and DrinkWater, adjoining the Moosejaw creek, and is low, level and heavy land. Last year we put in 100 acres of wheat which went 9 bushels to the acre. Every bushel of it was No. r. That means the best wheat that can be raised on earth-worth go cents a bushel at the nearest elevators. We also threShed 5000 bushels of first class oats out of 160 acres. Eighty acres was fall blowing AND YIELDED NINETY BUSHELS TO THE ACRE. We got 5 cents a bushel clear All our grain was cut in the last week of the month of August We will make more money out of our crops this year than last. For myself, l feel com pelled to say that Western Canada crops cannot be checked even by un. usual conditions"
 An itemized account shows a single years earnings of this settler and his
 70 1s f~11owc.
 2,500 bushels of wheat at 90 cents
 a hushel. ................... S2,25O 5000 bushels of oats at 5 cents
 a bushel. .=................ 4,710
 It will be seen by the above that this mans oat crop was worth twice as much as his wheat crop. While the provinces of western Canada will for all time to come be the worlds greatest wheat growing regions, oats are running the former grain a close race for supremacy. The soil and eli matic conditions in Manitoba. Sas. katchewan and Alberta are particular ly favorable to the production of oats. and this grain, like the wheat, runs a far greater crop to the acre than in even the best grain producing states of the union. Ninety bushels to the acre is not an unusual yield, whole homesteads frequently running this average And this is not the only ad- vantage Western Canada oats have over those of the United States, for in weight they run between forty and fifty pounds to the bushel, while No. l wheat goes to siXty-two pounds to the bushel. In fact. so heavy is Canadian grain of all kinds, and espe- cially the wheat. that throughout the west one will see cars with great placards upon them, which read:
 This car is not to be filled to ca- pacity with Alberta wheat"
 When I made my first trip through the Canadian West few years ago found thousands of settlers living in rude shacks, tent shelters and homes of logs and clay Today one will find these old "homes" scattered from Manitoba to the Rockies, but they are no longer used by human tenants. Modern homes have taken their place for it has come to be a common say ing in these great grain regions that, "The first year a settler is in the land he earns a living; the second he has money enough to build himself a mod ern home and barns; the third he IS independent" And as extreme as this statement may seem to those hun dreds of thousands of American farm CTS who strive for meager existence. it is absolutely true. l am an Ameri- can, as patriotic, I believe, as most of our people-but even at that l cannot but wish that these people, whose lives are such an endless and unhappy grind, might know of the new life that is awaiting them in this last great west-this Hand of greater hope" where the farmer is king, and where tho wealth All rests in his hands. As