The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1908-03-12
WHAT WINTER WHEATS0 :.
FOR SOUTHERN AL atos'
Splendid Crops on the Forms.
ing Plains Of Canadian w..

That portion Of the country !.
tern Canada formerly recoe,,s
ranching country has deyelopas
one of the best winter wheat a.
In the continent. Yields ara
running from 80 to so busbel,
acre, and giving a return to tba
of from $25 to $50 per acre
lands are now selling at from N
$40 per acre, and pay wen y
figure. H. Howes of Magratb A.
Western Canada, had so acres :
In wheat, which averaged 4s M
to the acre; his yield of oats =
bushels. The value to him NJ.
of wheat was $500. ]. F. E..l
of the same place, says: ~
acres of wheat, 80 acres of os,s
four acres of barley. My averaes /,
of oats to the acre was 50 hr,sJ
wheat-winter-60 bushels and
fyfe, 80 bushels, and barley, 50 i,
els. The value to me per aero
wheat, $500; oats, 5000. ana
ley, $4,000" ]. F. Bradshaw -
grath, had 1,030 acres of wheat i.
that averaged 1914 bushels ia
acre, his oats, 80 bushels; barl..
bushels. He threshed $1,000 ~.
of wheat from $40 acres. He Ala
$50 tons of sugar beets from q
worth s5.6213 per ton. W. s. 81
of Lethbridge. says: Il came IA
bridge from Souris, North Daka,
April, 1907, having purchased
acres OF land in this district las
| had 12S acres of Alberta Red N
wheat which was put in on breaks,
the fall of 1906, which Welded i
bushels to the acre, for which h
ceived S71a cents per bushel, n
paid me $500 per acre. bad
acres "stubbled in" that Is N
in on the stubble, which yielda
bushels to the acre at S71a cent;
bushel, which paid me 1925 h
acre. | also had $50 acres of sid
volunteer crop, which it was intes
to prepare in the summer; but wba
was seen that it was a good lOoI
crop. it was allowed to go. From
we threshed Is bushels to the
which paid us at the rate Of \
cents per bushel or s13.12 per d
Our total crop yielded US 14,7i?
els of first-class wheat Taking n
a whole, l consider that | had a &
class crop all through; and, taking
to consideration the fact of part d
crop having been stumbled in
part strictly volunteer (which
never touched at all until the BID
was put into iD, | consider I'd
heavy crop. might say that
In North Dakota five years, ID
never grew as heavy a crop ID
that time. This is the 18th dss
November, and my teams are
ploughing, and, from the appear
OF the weather, will be for some
yet" r. w. Bradshaw of Mad
says: II had this year 400 aero
crop, viz: zoe acres of wheat and
acres in oats. My average yiea
oats to the acre was so bushels,
wheat, 2212 bushels. The value .
per acre for wheat was $500.
cats, $500. The highest prize
tanned by me this year or Offered
for my grain was for wheat 81
per bushel, and s1.05 per HUNDRED
oats. | also had 100 tons Of
worth $500 per ton. and will 50!
wheat was all volunteer this
Lots of wheat Is averaging from
GO bushels per acre on summer "a
and on new breaking. when the
ing was done early in the spa
Writing from Spring Coulee, All
W. l.. Thompson says: i had tns
5000 acres in crop. viz: 1000 ac'
wheat and 1000 acres of oats
average yield of oats to the acre
80 bushels and of wheat 80 pus
The value to me per acre ior
was $1,000 and for oats sl5Oo
Information regarding the On
mentioned, best way to reach
low rates, certificates. etc, cn
secured from any agent OF the y
an government, whose adyertis
appears elsewhere.-Ed)