The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-09-18
Worlds New Bread Basket

claims to have raised one crop that made
| % bushels per acre
More astonishing still is tho claim of
The past year (190S) has been Tes ssona
tn n,y saesr aesive, with good crops and no frost
Alberta has done we'll, and good records
are the rule. We have had unheard of
Elelcs or crops here this past year. wheat
III and p'aSes ace going eS bushels TO the acre
30 bushels TO the acre. Oats. barley and
potatoes were also very good and gave
excellent returns
Happy German.
Today ] met a jolly. red headed Ger
man from near Edmonton who had had
equally wonderful experiences In person
language and behavior he was exactly
the sort or beaming, ridiculous caricature
merely by acting natural He said that
ne was a good farmer, and I learned from
otn9r % sources that he told the truth
ago already" he said, IT hing 6ree
carloads from South Dakota. and I lose
dWeIte horses by swamp fever. by Cott.
fonr hundred dollars My woman she
made dWelve hundred toIiars last year
f't ohickens gu,'er MOSS she have dree hundred
by Cott. but have not had one bad fail
ure in all my, years. I have a section
and and half and dwenty tousand toliars
red Hans Mueller for money, by Colt
4 part Of his success he attributed to
being close TO a lake that kept on the
this year that was Ave feet high and 70
have cut sixty tons" from twelve
acres"
WAS Bad Year.
This year the crops in Sunny South
erm alberta are almost total failure.
Winds. The wheat and oats crops in the
southern portion OF the other two prov
lnces are very short. Professors at the
inat IN tnat province there would be only
nan a crop. Northern and central Sas-
katche"an and Alberta more for
tunate The crops about Edmonton are
the best ! have ever seen There will he
no record yields this year. Increased
acreage viii partly neutralize decreased
wan, for example. will come near It's
nigh water mark OF last year-9O 0OO, 900
bus bashGls' Sa The total yield Of the three
cced 100000 900 bushels.
As usually happens in similar cases
Sanadlans have gone crazy over one
slnia, when the settlers planted the
streets OF jamestown With tobacco and
sent to Europe for food, and IL is so
now In the south where too many plant
ers make" nothing but cotton and buy
corn. In many places UP here garden
vegetables. especially potatoes, turnps
anuy. but few farmers Will take the
trouble 20 grow them properly or even
at all Next 10 wheat, oats Is the most
Important crop. though considerable bar
ley and fax is also grown. Corn makes
but a pitiable showing. In Alberta espe-
e!aily stock raising attains important
The past week attended an agricul-
tural exhibition or fair at Edmonton. II
was a ,creditable affair: with exhibiting
everything from tombstones TO trac-
tlon engines--horse races, fat girls. and
the usual trimmings" The people came
in crowds for hundreds OF miles, for II
Of II. ''-' ''-,'' '''' ''''9
Just now august 2s) harvesting Is
proceeding throughout the whole region.
1t is almost finished in the south; 1t is
only beginning in the north
Misconception About Harvesting.
The methods used are practically the
same as in the states; in fact. most of
the agricultural machinery is OF Ameri
can manufacture. On some great farms
the plowlug and reaping is done by steam
or gasoline power, The most advanced
outfit consists OF a traction engine that
draws not only binders that reap the
grain. but a gang plow that turns under
the stubble for new crop. Certain IL
that most of the harvesting is done by
steam or motor power but in more than
thousand mile journey ] have seen few
such outfits. They are unworkable on
an outlay for the average farmer, Even
on great farms their success from the
standpoint Of economy is questioned.
The ordinary Canadian farmer depends
wholly upon the common self binder
drawn by horse power Sometimes two
or more will he seen In the same field.
The wheat is shocked much as In the
states. but no caps" or 'hudders' are
used When ,hreshing time comes. some
farmers thresh from the shock: others
stack their wheat beforehand-just as In
the states. The most successful farmers
grow wheat one year. oats the next and
then summer fallGw q. e.. work the land
without a CROP the third. Others fool
ishiy SOW wheat year in and year out,
Some even SOW the wheat on the stubble
without blowing. but this Is 4 shiftless
method Those who employed IL this
year have little wheat.
Getting the raw prairie into cultiva-
tion ls more OF n task than might be
Imagined In order 10 obtain good re-