Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-02-24
REMARkABL.E YIELDS OF WHEAT,
OATS, BARLEY AND FLAX IN
WESTERN CANADA LAST
YEAR.

ElphmStOne, SaSk., many or 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. X. Erickson had 81 and p.
Solvasons17. 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 Tof1eld. 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 j. 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 40h bushels to the
acre. Manitoba's record crop for 1910
was grown on Mcmillan Bros farm
near Westbourne, who have q total
crop of 10000 bushels. netting $4,000
off 1900 acres. G.. w. Buchanan of
Pincher Creek. Alberta, had 25h
bushels Of No. 1 spring wheat to the
~oz M, A yJo%t0r IF Macleod dio.
trict had wheat which averaged 81
bushels to the acre. B. F. Holden,
near Indian Head, Sask., threshed $50
bushels of wheat from 20
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 q
return of 10 to 80 bushels e acre.
with flax giving 13 to Ia bushels per
acre.
w. c. 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 1,1O4 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 100 acres. Part of the
oats yielded 85 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 1853 bushels
OF wheat from 7 acres. Among the
good grain yields at Macklin, Alberta,
reported ire: 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 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.
Charles Keith threshed 40 bushels to
the acre from 40 acres. Albert Young,
of Stony Beach, southwest of Lums-
der, threshed SO bushels per acre
from summer fallow. and George
Young 5000 bushels from 100 acres of
stubble and fallow, or an average OF
3S 1-2 bushels to the acre. Arch Nor
ton got $500 bushels of red fife from
100 acres. James Russell got 8,700
bushels from stubble and late break
ing, an average Of 23h bushels.
At Rosthern Jacob Friesen had q
bushels per acre from 80 acres on
new land and an average over his
whole farm of 211a bushels of wheat.
John Schultz threshed 4,40O 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 rs acres.
Robert Roe of Grand Coulee threshed
As bushels to the acre from 40 acres.
Sedley. Sask., is still another dis
trict that has to be proud OF
the yleIUS OIL UOLu WucdL dHu AaA-
j. Cleveland got 80 bushels Of wheat
per acre on 100 acres and Is bushels
Of flax on 140 acres. T. Dundas,
southeast of Sedley, 40 bushels per
acre on 80 acres; NJ. E. Miller. "a
bushels per acre on ITO acres of stub
BILE, and 35 bushels per acre on ESQ
acres faIlow; w. A. Day had 30 bush
els per acre on 200 acres Of stubble,
and 35 bushels on $50 acres of fallow;
j.. o. Scott had 80 bushels Of wheat
per acre on 200 acres. and 18 bush
els of flax per acre on 300 acres;
James Bullick averaged 20 bushels of
wheat; a. Allen 30 bushels; Jos. Run
ions, 40: Alex Ferguson, 3S; w. R.
Thompson. 50, all on large, acreages.
The flax crop of J.. Cleveland il rather
a wonder. as his land has yielded him
$50 per acre in two years with one
p1oughing. 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. 631h bushels of Preston wheat
10 the acre. Hector w. Swanston. >
farmer near welwyn, sask., had $50
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