Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1911-02-09
.,<<<EIlEgsT GRAIN
FIELDS IN WESTERN
CANADA
YIELDS OF WHEAT AS HIGH AS
81 BUSHELS PER ACRE.

the purpose of ascertaining what has
| been done. The business man and
the farmer have taken stock, and
both. il they are keen in business de-
tail and interest, know exactly their
financial position. The farmer OF
| Western Canada is generally busl-
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 Il small
| portion OF Alberta, Saskatchewan ana
| Manitoba, many farmers are able to
report splendid crops And these re-
ports come from different sections.
covering an area OF about 25,0UO
square miles. As, for instance, at
Laird. Saskatchewan, the crop returns
showed that J. B. Peters had 1880
bushels from $50 acres, or nearly 40
| bushels to the acre. In the Blaine
Lake district the fields ranged from
10 to 30 bushels per acre, Ben Cows
having 1.l50 bushels from "a acres;
). Edmond Irotter 1900 bushels off 80
acres, while fields of 80 bushels were
common. On poorly cultivated fields
| but IS bushels we're reported,
| In Foam Lake (Sask.) district 100
bushels OF oats to the acre were Sc
cured by Angus Robertson, d. McRae
and G. 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 tho 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 s25. 900. He says
he is well satisfied.
Arthur Somers OF Strathclair
threshed 100 acres, averaging % bush
els to the acre. Thomas Foreman. of
Milestone. threshed 1900 bushels of
wheat, and 5000 bushels OF flax off
600 acres of land. w. Weatherstone
CT Strathclair, threshed 5000 bushels
of oats from 96 acres. John Con
zilla, Of Gil!ies, about twenty-five miles
west OF Rosthern. Sask., had 1870 bush
els from acres of wheat. Mr.. Con
zilla's general average of crop was
over 40 bushels to the acre. Ben
Cruise, a neighbor, averaged 80 bush
els to the acre from 90 acres. w. A.
Rose. OF the Walderheim district.
threshed 5000 bushels of wheat from
SHn of Ok cGo1
100 acres was on summer fallow and
averaged 33 bushels. He had also an
average OF SO bushels OF oats 10 the
acre on a 50-acre field VIM Lehman,
who has a farm close to Rosthern,
had an average of 81 bushels to the
acre on Go acres OF summer fallow.
Mr. Midslly, 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. 81 bushels; Pres
ton, 80 bushels; early Red Fife, 81
bushels.
The crops at the C. P. r. demonstra
I
proved UP to expectations. the Swedish
variety oats yielding Ito bushels. to
the acre, AT the farm two rowed bar
ley went 49, 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 (Alberta). Bu
1act 1ync 1u pr
the hundred mark was passed. VIM
Craig had yield of oats from a meas
ured plot, which gave 107 bushels ant
20 lbs. per acre.
Albert Teskey, of Odds (Alberta
, threshed 100-acre field which yielded
101 bushels Of oats per acre, and Jo
seph Mccartney had 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 81
bushels to the acre, while Laurence
Barknel had 81 bushels of Red Fife tc
the acre. At Wordsworth, Reede,
Bros wheat averaged 1914 bushels tc
the acre. and w. McNIillan's 80. Viii
liam Kraft Of Alix (Alberta) threshet
1,042 bushels of winter wheat off 1917
/. acres. or about SO bushels to the acre
John Laycroft Of Dinton, near Higl
: 2iver, Alberta, had over LOO bush
els Of spring wheat from SO acres.
e. F. Kntpe, near Lloydminster
Saskatchewan, had 500 bushels o.
wheat from 20 acres. w. Metcalf haG
. over II bushels to the acre, while s
! Henderson. who was hailed badly
had an average return Of 80 bushels O.
wheat to the acre.
: McWhirter Bros. and John McBain
> OF Redvers. Saskatchewan. had 2!
bushels Of wheat to tie acre. Johr
Kennedy. east Of the Horse Mill
district near Edmonton. from 4,
acres Of spring wheat got 1,767 bush
els. or A bushels to the acre.
J. e. vanderburgh. near Dayslow
Alberta. threshed four thousand bush