The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-03-03
WINNIPEG, MANITOBA,
THE GREATEST wheat
MARKET ON The CON-
TiNENT
REMARKABLE YIELDS OF WHEAT,
OATS, BARLEY AND FLAX IN
WESTERN CANADA LAST
YEAR.


WESTERN CANADA LAST
YEAR.
Figures recently issued show that
the wheat receipts at Winnipeg last
year were S8,269,330 bushels, as com.
pared with the Minneapolis receipts
Of 81, Ill, 40 bushels, this placing Win
nipeg at the head of the wheat re-
ceiving markets of the continent. Fol-
lowing up this information it is found
that the yields throughout the prov
inces Of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and
Alberta, as given the writer by agents
Of the Canadian Government sta
toned in different parts of the States,
have been splendid. A few of the
instances are given:
Near. Redvers, Sask.. Jens Hortness
threshed about SO acres of wheat, av-
eraging 20 bushels to the acre. Near
Elphmstone, Sask., many Of the crops
Of oats would run to nearly 100 BUSH
els to the acre. A Mr.. Muir had about
200 acres Of this grain and he esti-
mates the yield at about 60 bushels
Per acre. Wheat went IS bushels to
the acre on the farm Of Mr.. A. Loucks.
near Wymyard, Sask., in the fall of
1910. K. Erickson had 81 and P.
Solvason II. In the Dempster (Man.(
district last year, wheat went from
IS to 30 bushels per acre. Fifteen
acres on the Mackenzie & Mann farm
today went forty-three bushels to the
acre. In the Wainwright and Battle
river districts yields of wheat aver
aged for the district 26 bushels to the
acre. M. B. Ness, Of the Tofield, Al
berta, district, got SO bushels and
% lbs. of oats to the acre, while near
Montrose, over "a bushels of oats to
the acre was threshed by J. Leonie,
Notwithstanding the dry weather of
June. Further reports from the Ed
monitor district give Frank McLay of
the Horse Falls 100 bushels of oats
to the acre. They weighed IS lbs. to
the bushel. A 22-acre field of spring
wheat on Johnson Bros farm near
Agricola yielded 401z bushels to tho
acre. Manitoba's record crop for 1910
was grown on Mcmillan Bros farm
near Westbourne, who have a total
crop of 10000 bushels, netting $4,000
off 1900 acres. G. W. Buchanan of
Pincher Creek, Alberta, had 2511
bushels of No. I spring wheat to tho
acre. Mr.. A. Hatton of Macleod dis
trict had wheat which averaged 81
bushels to the acre. B. F. Holden,
near Indian Head, Sask, threshed $50
bushels of wheat from 20 acres.
On the Experimental Farm at In
dian Head, wheat has gone below 40
bushels, while several, such as the
Marquis and the Preston, have gone
as high as 81 bushels to the acre. At
Elstow, Sask., the quantity of wheat
to the acre ran, on the average, from
20 right up to 40 bushels per acre,
while oats in some cases yielded a
return of 70 to 80 bushels per acre,
with flax giving 13 to IA bushels per
acre.
w. c. Carnell had q yield Of AZ
bushels per acre from six acres of
breaking. Neil Callahan, two miles
northwest of Strome, had yield of
~ bushels of wheat per acre. VIM.
Lindsay, two miles east of Strome.
had 1,104 bushels of Regenerated
Abundance oats from ten acres. Jo-
seph Scheelar, II miles south of
Strome, had 10000 bushels Of wheat
and oats from 100 acres. Part Of the
oats yielded IS bushels to the acre,
and the wheat averaged about 40
bushels. Spohn Bros, four miles
southwest Of Strome, had a splendid
grain yield of excellent quality wheat,
grading No. 2. A. S. McCulloch, one
mile northwest of Strome, had some
wheat that went 40 bushels to the
acre. J. Blaser, few miles south
west of Strome, threshed 353 bushels
Of wheat from acres. Among the
good grain yields at Macklin. Alberta,
reported are: D. N. Tweedle, % BUSH
els to the acre; John Currin, "a BUSH
els wheat to the acre; Sam Fletcher,
20 bushels to the acre.
At Craven, Sask, Albert Clark
threshed from 60 acres of stubble
1890 bushels; from 20 acres of fall
low 900 bushels of red fife wheat that
weighed IS pounds to the bushel.
Charles Keith threshed 40 bushels to
he acre from 40 acres. Albert Young,
If Stony Beach, southwest Of Lums-
len, threshed 81 bushels per acre
from summer fallow, and George
Young 5000 bushels from 100 acres Of
,tubble and fallow, or an average Of
50 IL bushels to the acre. Arch Nor
ton got $500 bushels Of red fife from
l60 acres. James Russell got $500
bushels from stubble and late break
ing, an average Of 23h bushels.
At Rosthern Jacob Friesen had ~
bushels per acre from 80 acres on
new land and an average over his
whole farm of 211a bushels Of wheat.
John Schultz threshed 400 bushels
from 100 acres, or A bushels to the
acre. John Lepp had 81 bushels per
acre from 200 acres. A. B. Dirk had
~ bushels per acre from rs acres.
Robert Roe Of Grand Coulee threshed
IS bushels to the acre from APO acres.
Sedley, Sask., is still another dis
trict that has cause to be proud Of
the yields of both wheat and fax.
J. Cleveland got 80 bushels Of wheat
per acre on 100 acres and e bushels
Of fax on 40 acres. T. I>lndas,