The Green Forest tribune., 1911-02-24
WINNIPEG, MANITOBA, THE GREATEST WHEAT MARKET ON THE CON- TINENT
REMARKABLE YIELDS OF WHEAT, OATS, BARLEY AND FLAX IN WESTERN CANADA LAST
 YEAR.

Figures recently Issued snow that the wheat receipts at Winnipeg last year were 88,269, ,330 bushels, as com pared with the Minneapolis receipts of 81 III 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 1 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 50 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 MT. Muir had about l 200 acres of this grain and he esti- | mates the yield at about 60 bushels per acre. Wheat went 35 bushels to the acre on the farm of Mr. A. Loucks, near Wymyard, Sask., in the fall of | 1910. K. Erickson had 27 and P. Solvason IT. In the Dempster (Man) district last year, wheat went from 23 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 Tofeld Al 1 berta, district, got 98 bushels and 2S lbs. of oats to the acre, while near Montrose, over 94 bushels of oats to the acre was threshed by J. Leonie, notwithstanding the dry weather of June. Further reports from the Ed monton district give Frank McLay of i the Horse Falls 100 bushels of oats to the acre. They weighed 45 lbs. to the bushel. A 22-acre field of spring wheat on Johnson Bros farm near Agricola yielded 4012 bushels to the acre. Manitoba's record crop for 1910 was grown on McMillan Bros farm near Westbourne, who have total crop of 10000 bushels, netting $40,000 l off 2,200 acres. G. w. Buchanan of l Pincher Creek, Alberta, had 251a bushels of No. 1 spring wheat to the acre. Mr. A. Hatton of Macleod dis trict had wheat which averaged 21 bushels to the acre. B. F. Holden, near Indian Head, Sask., threshed $50 bushels of wheat from 20 acres.
 On the Experimental Farm at h. dian Head, wheat has gone below 40 bushels, while several, such as the Marquis and the Preston, have gone as high as 54 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 70 to so bushels per acre, with flax giving 13 to II bushels per acre.
 w. C. Carnell had a yield of 42 bushels per acre from six acres of breaking Neil Callahan, two miles northwest of Strome, had yield of 42 bushels of wheat per acre. Wm. Lindsay, two miles east of Strome, had 1,104 bushels of Regenerated Abundance oats from ten acres. Jo- | Strome, had 12,000 bushels of wheat and oats from 1S0 acres. Part of the oats yielded S5 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, a 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, 22 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 fal- low 900 bushels of red fife wheat that weighed 65 pounds to the bushel. l Charles Keith threshed 40 bushels to the acre from 40 acres. Albert Young, of Stony Beach, southwest of Lums- den, threshed 52 bushels per acre from summer fallow, and George Young 5000 bushels from 130 acres of stubble and, fallow, or an average of 3S 1-2 bushels to the acre Arch Mor- ton got 5,600 bushels of red fife from 160 acres. James Russell got S,700 bushels from stubble and late break ing, an average of 231a bushels.
 At Rosthern Jacob Friesen had 27 bushels per acre from so acres on new land and an average over his whole farm of 211a bushels of wheat. John Schultz threshed 4,400 bushels | from 100 acres, or A bushels to the acre. John Lepp had 37 bushels per acre from 200 acres. A. B. Dirk had AZ bushels per acre from 25 acres. Robert Roe of Grand Coulee threshed 45 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 flax J. Cleveland got 30 bushels of wheat per acre on 100 acres and IS bushels of flax on 40 acres. T. Dundas, southeast of Sedley, 40 bushels per acre on 30 acres; M. E. Miller, 34 bushels per acre on ITO acres of stub ble, and 35 bushels per acre on 250 acres fallow; w. A. Day had 32 bush els per acre on 200 acres of stubble, and 35 bushels on 250 acres of fallow; J. O. Scott had 30 bushels of wheat per acre on 200 acres, and IS bush els of flax per acre on 300 acres;