Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1911-03-10
WINNIPEG, MANITOBA,
THE GREATEST WHEAT
MARKET ON THE CON-
TINENT
REMARKABLE YIELDS OF WHEAT,
OATS, BARLEY AND FLAX IN
WESTERN CANADA LAST
YEAR.

year were 88,269, $3.50 bushels, as COM
pared with the Minneapolis receipts
of 81, Ill, 410 bushels. this placing Win
nipeg at the head of the wheat re-
ceiving markets Of the continent Fol-
lowing up this information 1t 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 29 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 so bushels
per acre. Wheat went .35 bushels to
the acre on the farm Of Mr.. A. Loucks,
near Wymyard. sask-. in the fail of
1910. K. Erickson had q and p.
Solyason II. In the Dempster MANI
district last year, wheat went from
25 to 80 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 rs 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 ]. 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 As lbs. to
the bushel. A 22-acre field of spring
wheat ON Johnson Bros farm near
Agricola yielded 401k bushels to the
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
of 1900 acres. @. w. Buchanan Of
Pincher Creek, Alberta, had 25h
bushels of No. spring wheat to the
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
26 right up to 40 bushels per acre.
while oats in some cases yielded a
return of 20 to so bushels per acre,
with fax giving Is to IA bushels per
acre.
w. c.. Carnell had yield of AZ
bushels per acre from six acres OF
breaking. Neil Callahan, two miles
northwest of Strome, had yield OF
AZ 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, IL miles south OF
strome, had $4,000 bushels OF wheat
and oats from $50 acres. Part of the
oats yielded IS bushels to the acre
and the wheat averaged about AZ
bushels. Spohn Bros, four miles
southwest of Strome, had a splendid
grain yield of excellent quality wheat
grading No. 2. A. S. McCulloch. ons
mile northwest OF Strome. had some
wheat that went 40 bushels to the
acre. J. 3laser. a few miles south
west Of Strome. threshed 1853 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 Clarl
threshed from so acres of stubbl<
1890 bushels; from 20 acres Of fal
low 900 bushels of red fife wheat thai
weighed IS pounds to the bushel
Charles Keith threshed 40 bushels I,
the acre from 40 acres. Albert Young
of Stony Beach, southwest of Lums
den, threshed 81 bushels per acre
from summer fallow, and Georg'
Young 5000 bushels from $50 acres o
stubble and fallow. or an average o
IS IL bushels 30 the acre. Arch Nor
ton got $500 bushels of red fife from
100 acres. James Russell got 8,7o'
bushels from stubble and late break
ing. an average of 1914 bushels.
At Rosthern Jacob Friesen had q
bushels. per acre from so acres OF
new land and an average over hi
whole farm of 21h bushels Of wheat
John Schultz threshed 400 bushes
from 100 acres, or A bushels to thu
acre. John Lepp had 81 bushels pc
acre from 200 acres. A. B. Dirk ha'
AZ bushels per acre from rs acres
Robert Roe of Grand Coulee threshe'
Is bushels to the acre from 40 acres
Sedley, sask., is still another dis
trict that has cause to be proud o
the Yields of both wheat and max
J. Cleveland got 80 bushels Of whea
per acre on 100 acres and is bushel
OF fax on 140 acres. T. Dundas
southeast OF Sedley. 40 bushels pc
acre on 30 acres; M. e. Miller. 3
bushels per acre on ITO acres Of stub
BILE, and IS bushels per acre on 20
acres failow; w. A. Day had 50 bush
els per acre on 200 acres Of stubble
and IS bushels on ESQ acres Of failow
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