The Forrest City times., 1908-09-04

! SN2 western and tent-a. s'ates. put ex>s cf zai a-e the n4eofs ef t in act tas -cses$ Ih.s year. tor instance. sS -tk4 SS cae hundred bushels of szz< = :Aa acre will be gathered in Ma ssaasa Saskatchewan, and Alberta. a-4 s2azc wheat will go AS HIGE AS 1zETN EJ SHELLS TO THE ACRE, sseura et course this is an unusual y.e,d
 Last spring it was widely advertised n American papers that Albertas win ter wheat crop was a failure. In fact. this is Alberia's banner year in grain production, as 1t is Saskatehewan's and Manitoba's, and from figures al- ready in it is estimated that Alherta's wheat will yield on an average ef TtIIR- TYFfEE BUSHELS TO THE ACRE. In many parts of the province returns will shoY yield of IS high as FIFTY bushels D the acre and it is freely predicted y many that when the of iicial figures are in yield Of at least forty five instead of thirty-fve bushels 10 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 rom 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 postoflice address is Regina, Saskatchewan.
 "A few years ago. he says, q 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 loo acres of wheat which went D bushels 10 the acre. Every bushel of it was Nc. r. That means the best wheat that can be raised on earth-worth 50 cents bushel at the nearest elevators We also threshed 5000 bushels of first elaas oats out of 160 acres. Eighty. acres Was fall blowing AND YIELDED NINETY BUSHELS TO THE ACRE. We got 53 cents a bushel clear. All our grain was cut in the last week of the month of August. We will make iaore money out of OUT 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 year earnings of this settler and his 2,500 bushels Of wheat at 90 cents
 Dushel. v ,200 5000 bushels Of oats at 53 cents
 
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 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. matie conditions in Manitoba. Sas. katchewan and Alberta are particular. ly favorable 10 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 bu.hel while No. wheat goes to sixty-two pounds to the bushel. In fact, so heavy Is Canadian grain of all kinds. and espe- dally 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 I found thousands of settlers living in rude shaeks, tent shelters and homes of logs and clay. Today one will find these old homes" scattered from Manitoba 10 the Rockies, but they are no longer used by human tenants. Modern homes have taken their place for il has come to be a common say ing in these great grain regions that. he first year a settler is in the land he earns living; the second he has money Q. Jugh 10 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, 1t Is absolutely true. l am an Ameri. can. as patriotic, l believe as most of our people-but even at that I cannot but wish that these people, whose lives are such an endless and unhappy grind, might know of the new life that l IS awaiting them in this last great West-this land of greater hope" where the farmer is king, and where the wealth all rests in hjs hands. As one American farmer said to me. 'It lS bOvi n