Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-02-15
EXCELLENT GRAIN
FIELDS IN WESTERN
CANADA
YIELDS OF WHEAT AS HIGH AS
81 BUSHELS PER ACRE.

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| the purpose of ascertaining what has
been done. The 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
| successful year. On looking over
number Of reports sent from various
quarters, the writer finds that in spite
of the visitation of drouth in a 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 1850 bushels from "a acres;
Edmond Trotter 1900 bushels off 80
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 G. H. 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 Guilt
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. It's
market value was $4,000. He says
| he IS well satisfied.
| Arthur Somers of Strathclair
| threshad 100 acres, averaging % bush
els to the acre. Thomas Foreman, of
| Milestone, threshed 1000 bushels of
wheat, and 5000 bushels of fax off
| 800 acres of land. w. Weatherstone,
of Strathclair, threshed 5000 bushels
| of oats from SO acres. John Con
zilla, of Gillies, about twenty-five miles
west Of Rosthern, Sask., had $50 bush
els from acres Of wheat. Mr.. Con
zilla'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 25 bushels,
| 100 acres was on summer fallow and
averaged 33 bushels. He had also an
average OF 50 bushels Of oats to the
acre on a 50-acre field. VIM. Lehman,
who has a farm close to Rosthern,
had an average of q bushels to the
acre on SO acres of summer fallow.
| Mr. Midsky, 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, 80 bushels; early Red Fife, 27
! bushels.
The crops at the C. P R. demonstra-
ton farms at Strathmore (Alberta)
proved up to expectations, the Swedish
variety oats yielding ITO bushels to
| the acre At the farm two rowed bar
! ley went 48h bushels to the acre.
Yields of from SO bushels to 100 bush
els of oats to the acre were quite
common in the Sturgeon River Settle
ment near Edmonton (AIberta). 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 Teskey, of Olds (Alberta)
threshed 100-acre field which yielded
1O1 bushels of oats per acre, and Jo-
seph Mccartney had a large field
equally good At Cupar (Sask.l oats
threshed so bushels to the acre. On
the Traquairs farm at Cupar, five
acre plot of Marquis wheat yielded "a
bushels to the acre, while Laurence
Barknel had 81 bushels of Red Fife to
the acre. At Wordsworth, Reeder
Bros wheat averaged 33A bushels to
the acre. and w. McMillan's 80. VIII
liam Kraft of Alix (Alberta) threshed
| 1,042 bushels of winter wheat off 1914
acres, or about SO bushels to the acre.
John Laycroft 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.
Henderson, who was hailed badly,
had an average return of 80 bushels of
wheat to the acre.
McWhirter Bros. and John McBain,
of Redvers, Saskatchewan, had 20
bushels of wheat to the acre. John
Kennedy, east of the Horse Mills
| district near Edmonton, from 40
acres of spring wheat got 1857 bush
els, or A bushels to the acre.
J. E. Vanderburgh, near Dayslow,
| Alberta, threshed four thousand bush
els of wheat from 120 acres. Mr..
Darcy, near there, threshed ten thou
sand and fifty-eight bushels (machine
measure) of wheat from five hundred
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