The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-03-10
EXCELLENT GRAIN
FIELDS IN WESTERN
CANADA
YIELDS OF WHEAT AS HIGH As
So BUSHELS PER ACRE.

YIELDS OF WHEAT AS HIGH As
So BUSHELS PER ACRE.
Now that we have entered upon tho
making Of a new year. it Is natural
to look bach over tbs past one, for
been done. Th3 business man and
the farmer have taken stock, and
both, if they are keen In business de-
tail and interest, know exactly their
financial position. The farmer OF
Western Canada is generally bust
ness man, and in his stock-taking he
will have found that he has had q
successful year. On looking over a
nuIlber of reports sent from various
quarters, the writer finds that In spite
OF the visitation of drouth in small
portion of Alberta, Saskatchewan and
Manitoba, many farmers are able to
report splendid crops. And these re-
ports come from different sections,
covering an area of about $4,000
square miles. AS, for instance, at
Laird, Saskatchewan, the crop returns
showed that J. B. Peters had 1880
bushels from 800 acres, or nearly 40
bushels to the acre. In the Blaine
Lake district the fields ranged from
Is to so bushels per acre, Ben Crews
having 1,150 bushels from "a acres;
Edmond Trotter 1900 bushels off 30
acres, while fields of 80 bushels were
common. On poorly cultivated fields
but Is bushels were reported.
In Foam Lake (Sask.) district 100
bushels of oats to the acre were Sc
cured by Angus Robertson, D. McRae
and c. II. Hart, while the average
was IS. In wheat 80 bushels to the
acre were quite common on the newer
land, but off Is acres of land cult
waited for the past three years George
E. Wood secured 495 bushels. Mr..
James Traynor, near Regina (sask.)
is still on the shady side of thirty
He had $4,000 bushels of grain last
year, half Of which was wheat. Its
market value was $4,000. He says
he is we'll satisfied
Arthur Somers of Strathclair
threshed 100 acres, averaging Is bush.
els to the acre. Thomas Foreman, of
Milestone, threshed 1000 bushels of
wheat, and 5000 bushels of flax of
500 acres Of land. w. Weatherstone,
OF Strathclair, threshed 5000 bushels
of oats from 96 acres. John Con-
zilla, of Gillies, about twenty-five miles
west Of Rosthern, Sask., had 1870 BUSH
sa1c
zllla's general average of crop was
over 40 bushels to the acre. Ben
Cruise, neighbor, averaged As bush
els to the acre from % acres. w. A.
Rose, Of the Walderheim district,
threshed 5000 bushels Of wheat from
240 acres, an average of rs bushels,
100 acres was on summer fallow and
averaged 33 bushels. He had also an
average Of GO bushels of oats to the
acre on 50-acre field. VIM. Lehman,
who has farm close to Rosthern.
had an average of q bushels to tho
acre on 60 acres of summer fallow.
Mr.. Midshy, of Rapid City (Man.)
threshed 1000 bushels of oats from
Z acres.
The yield of the different varieties
Of wheat per acre at the Experimental
Farm, Brandon, was: Red Fife, %
bushels: White Fife, "a bushels; Pres
ton, 90 bushels; early Red Fife, q
bushels.
The crops at the c. p r. demonstra-
ton farms at Strathmore (Alberta)
proved up to expectations, the Swedish
variety oats yielding 40 bushels to
the acre. At the farm two roWed bar
ley went 4Sh bushels to the acre.
Yields Of from so bushels to 100 BUSH
>els of oats to the acre were quite
common in tho Sturgeon River Settle
ment near Edmonton (Alberta). But
last year was uncommonly good and
the hundred mark was passed. VIM.
Craig had a yield of oats from meas
ured plot, which gave 107 bushels and
20 lbs. per acre.
Albert Tcskey, Of Odds (Alberta)
threshed 10O-acre field which yielded
1Ol bushels of oats per acre, and Jo-
seph Mccartney had a large field
equally good At Cupar (Sask.) oats
threshed 80 bushels to the acre. On
the Traquairs farm at Cupar, five
acre plot Of Marquis wheat yielded Sd
bushels to the acre, while Laurence
Barknel had 81 bushels of Red Fife to
the acre. At Wordsworth, Reeder
Bros wheat averaged 1914 bushels to
the acre, and w. McNlillan's 80. Will
liam Kraft of Alix (Alberta) threshed
1,042 bushels of winter wheat off 1874
acres, or about SO bushels to the acre
John I.aycroft of Dinton, near High
River, Alberta, had over LOO BUSH
els of spring wheat from so acres.
e. F. Knipe, near Lloydminster,
Saskatchewan, had 800 bushels of
wheat from 20 acres. W. Metcalf had
over 81 bushels to the acre, while S,