The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1908-09-03
There are good scientific

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of producing better crops ;han our
own western and central states, but
best of all are the proofs of 1t in act
| ual results. This year, for Instance,
as high as one hundred bushels of
oats to the acre will be gathered in
Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta,
! and some wheat will so AS HIGH AS
| FIFTY BUSHELS TO THE ACRE,
though of course this is an unusual
yield
Last spring it vas widely advertised
| in American papers that Alberta's win
! ter wheat crop was a 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 Albertas
| 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 yield of at least
forty-five instead of thirty-fve 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 Stats
| teal matter for book use, 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. Kali
tenbrunner, whose postoffice address
| is Regina, Saskatchewan.
"A few years ago." he says, Il took
! up a 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 a 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
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.
| 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.
PEELED to say that Western Canada
crops cannot be checked, even by I'm.
usual conditions"
An itemized account shows a single
years earnings of this settler and his
F.,r1~-vc.
$500 bushels of wheat at 90 cents
a bushel. .................S2,2 o0
5000 bushels of oats at 90 cents
a bushel. ...-............. 4,'lO
Total ................. , WV
1t 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
matte conditions in Manitoba, Sas-
katchewan and Alberta are particular
! ly favorable to the production of oats,
and this grain, like the wheat, runs .
, 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 adj
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 l made my first trip through
the Canadian West a 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 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 10 build himself 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
ers who strive for a meager existence,
| il is absolutely true. l am an Ameri-
can, as patriotic, 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 land of greater hope"
where the farmer is king, and where