The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1908-09-05
Canada. There are good scientific

best Of all are the proofs OF It in act
ual results. This year for instance,
as high as one hundred bushels OF
oats to the acre will be gathered in
Manitoba, Saskatche van, and Alberta,
and some wheat Will go AS HIGH AS
FIFTY BUSHELS TO THE ACRE,
though Of course this IS an unusual
yield.
Last spring 1t was widely advertised
In American papers that Alberta's win
ter wheat crop was failure. In fact.
this is Alberta's banner year in grain
production, as it is Saskatchewan's
and Manitoba's, and from figures al
ready in it is estimated that Alberta's
wheat will yield on an average Of THIR.
TY-FIVE BUSHELS TO THE ACRE.
In many parts of the province returns
will show a yield of as high as FIFTY
bushels to the acre and it IS freely
predicted by many that when the of.
fetal figures are in a yield of at least
forty-fiye instead of thirty.fiye bushels
to the acre will be shown.
At the time Of my last journey
through the Canadian West, when my
purpose was largely to secure statis-
teal matter for book use. I solicited
letters from American settlers in all
parts Of the three provinces, and most
of these make most interesting read
ing. The letter was written by A. kal.
tenbrunner, whose postofiice address
Is Regina, Saskatchewan.
"A few years ago" he says, Il 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 % bushels to the
acre. Every bushel Of it was No L.
That means the best wheat that can
be raised on earth-worth 80 cents a
bushel at the nearest elevators. We
also threshed 5000 bushels OF first
class oats out Of 100 acres. Eighty
acres was fall blowing AND YIELDED
NINETY BUSHELS TO THE ACRE.
W. bot 20 ''uNS 'iNol' 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, | feel com
PEELED to say that Western Canada
crops cannot be checked, even by un.
usual conditions"
An itemzed account shows a single
years earnings of this settler and his
son to be as follows:
$500 bushels Of wheat at 80 cents
a DuShel. ....,...,............ s. -oO
5000 bushels of oats at So cents
bushcl.............,.,..... 4I'O
Total ........,,......,. 900
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 worries
greatest wheat growing regions. cats
are running the former grain a close
race for supremacy The soil and eli.
matte 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
homestcads 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.
II wheat goes to siNty-two pounds TO
the bushel In fact. SO heavy is
Canadian grain OF all kinds, and cspe-
cially the wheat, that throughout the
west one viii see cars with great
p'acards upon them which read
This car is not 10 be filled 20 ca
racity with Alberta wheat
When I made my first trip through
Che Canadian West "a few years ago
found thousands of settlers living in
rude shacks. tent shelters and homes