Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-02-28
WINNIPEG, MANITOBA,
THE GREATEST WHEAT
MARKET ON THE CON-
TINENT
REMARKABLE YIELDS OF WHEAT,
OATS, BARLEY AND FLAX IN
WESTERN CANADA LAST
YEAR.

TONED IN Inherent parts OF the states,
have been splendid A few OF the
instances are given:
Near Redvers, Sask., Jens Hortness
threshed about 90 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 so 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 81 and p.
Solvason 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 26 bushels to the
acre. NJ. 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 401s bushels to the
acre. Manitobas record crop for 1910
was grown on Mcmillan Bros farm
near Westbourne, who have total
| crop of 10000 bushels, netting 1000
off 1900 acres. G. w. Buchanan of
Pincher Creek, Alberta, had 2512
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
! rs right up to 40 bushels per acre,
while oats in some cases yielded a
return of 20 to 80 bushels per acre,
with fax giving Is to IA bushels per
acre.
/ w. G. Carnell had a yield of AZ
bushels per acre from six acres of
breaking Neil Callahan, two miles
northwest of Strome, had a 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, II miles south of
Strome, had 10000 bushels of wheat
and oats from $50 acres. Part of the
oats yielded 50 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. ]. BIaser, 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,
90 bushels to the acre.
AT Craven, Sask, Albert Clark
1890 bushels; from 20 acres of fall
/ low 900 bushels of red fife wheat that
weighed 65 pounds to the bushel.
Charles Keith threshed 40 bushels to
the acre from 40 acres. Albert Young,
| of Stony Beach, southwest of Lums-
den, threshed So bushels per acre
from summer fallow, and George
| Young 5000 bushels from 100 acres OF
stubble and fallow, or an average of
| SO IL Bushels to the acre. Arch Nor
ton got $500 bushels OF red fife from
$50 acres. James Russell got $500
bushels from stubole and late break
ing, an average of 23h bushels.
At Rosthern Jacob Friesen had 27
bushels per acre from 80 acres on
new land and an average over his
whole farm of ri X bushels of wheat
John Schultz threshed 4,400 bushels
from 100 acres, or A bushels to the
acre John Lepp had 81 bushels per
acre from 200 acres. A. B. Dirk had
AZ bushels per acre from % acres.
Robert Roe of Grand Coulee threshed
40 bushels to the acre from 420 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 30 bushels of wheat
per acre on 100 acres and is bushels
of fax on 40 acres. 7. Dundas,
southeast of Sedley, 40 bushels per
acre on 80 acres; NJ e. Miller, "a
bushels per acre on 10 acres of stub
bic, and So bushels per acre on $50
acres fallow; w. A. Day had 80 bush
els per acre on 200 acres of stubble.
and 35 bushels on $50 acres Of fallow;
]. o. Scott had 30 bushels of wheat
per acre on 200 acres, and Is bush
els of fax per acre on 300 acres;
James Bullick averaged % bushels Of
wheat; A. Allen 80 bushels; Jos. Run
ions, 40; Alex Ferguson, 50; W. R.
Thompson, 50, all on large acreages.
The fax crop Of ]. Clevei-nd IS rather
a wonder, as his land has Welded aim
$50 per acre in two years with one
ploughing. Russell, Man, farmers
threshed 80 bushels Of wheat and so
TO so bushels of oats. A. D. Stem
house, near Melford. Sask-. had an
average yield on 1914 acres Of new
land, e31s bushels Of Preston wheat
to the acre. Hector W. Swanston,
farmer near Welwyn. Sask.. had $50
bushels of wheat from one quarter
section Of land. John Mclean. who
owns two sections, threshed 1850
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