The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-01-04
WESTERN CANADA
A WINNER
THE CROP OF 1907 Is AN EXCEL.
LENT ONE.
Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta
Farmers Doing Well.

The interest that Western Canada
has aroused for some years past Is
growing in intensity. The conditions
of the crop of 1907 are such that re-
suits can be spoken Of with some de-
gree of certainty. The yield OF grain
will be about S0,000.0 900 bushels and
the price the farmers will realize for
It will be upwards of seventy million
dollars. The oat crop was good In
most places, and the crop Of barley
will be very remunerative. Those VINO
know of the generally unsatisfactory
conditions during the seeding, grow
ing and ripening period in the United
States during the past season, VIII
look with righteous distrust on any
statement intended to give the impress
sion that Western Canada conditions
were so much different. Generally,
they we're not, but the conditions OF
a highly recuperative soil, long and
continuous sunshine, are conditions
uossessed by Western Canada and not
possessed by any other country on the
Continent. This is why it is possible
to record today a fairly successful
crop, when in most other places the
opposite is the case. The yield IN all
grains is less than last year, but the
higher prices obtained more than on
set any falling of in the yield. Take
for instance the Province OF Sas
katchewan the wheat crop Will be
worth $21,135.000. Last year the
same crop was 35 per cent. larger and
the quality better. The yield was
worth $4,000, 900. Oats and barley are
very important factors in all three
central Provinces. At Gladstone, Man
itoba, returns from one farm were $2'
per acre from the wheat land, $35 pei
acre from oats, and $50 per acre from
barley. The yield of wheat at Dauphin
Manitoba, was 20 to "a bushels to thu
acre but not of a very good grade
but the yield Of barley in that section
was good and so was the quality ant
price. At Meadow Lea, Manitoba, Il
to 20 bushels to the acre wer'
thrashed, bringing round dollar OF
the market. At Oak Lake. Manitoba
on some fields where Fl bushels wer
expected, twelve and fifteen was tn
result: others again where twenty wa
looked for gave twenty-five to twenty
five. One special patch south of tow
on ]. M. McFarlane's farm went a
high as thirty bushels to the acre. A
Sheho, Saskatchewan, oats yielde
from go to 65 bushels to the acre. Sar
Wunder threshed $500 bushels fror
forty acres. The sample is good an
weighs we'll. At Lloydminster, Sa
katchewan, w. Bibby threshed
bushels of oats to the acre, and tw
others were but little behind. Whes
here reached 35 bushels. At Portae
la Prairie, Manitoba, from quartz
|. section all in crop, Alex. McKinnon
Ingleside threshed an average OF
bushels No. Northern. I. ]. Graz
had 100 acres, yielding 5000 bushe
of the same grade. These illustration
, taken from widely distant distric'
land thousands of others could
produced) show that the year 1907 hs
not felt the serious effects from sever
winter, late spring, or unfavorab
: conditions during the growing seasc
, that might have been anticipated.
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