The Forrest City times., 1911-02-24
WINNIPEG, MANITOBA, THE GREATEST WHEAT MARKET ON THE CON- TINENT
REMARKABLE YIELDS OF WHEAT, OATS. BARLEY AND FLAX IN WESTERN CANADA LAST
 YEAR.

the wheat receipts at Winnipeg last year were s8.26S. .330 bushels, as com pared with the Minneapolis receipts q sILII.4I5 bushels, this placing Win riDeg a. the head Of the wheat re ceiFing markets Of the continent Fol- loving ID thIs information II is found that the yields throughout the prov f1ces O. Manitoba. Saskatchewan and Alberta, as g.Fen the writer by agents Of the Canadian Government sta toned in different parts Of the States. have been splendid. 4 few Of the instances are giTen:
 Near RezFeFs. Saska Jens Ecrtaess tkreshed about 59 acres O. wheat. az eraging 2 bushels to tae acre. Near Etphustone. Sask.. many Of the crops of oats would run 10 nearly 100 bush els 70 the acre 4 Mr. Muir had about 2o6 acres of this grain and be esti- mates tLe yield at about @ bushels per acre. Wheat went 35 bushels to the acre on the farm Of Mr. A Loucks, near WymyaEd. Sask.. in the fall Of 1910 F. Erickson had 27 and P Solv2son r. h the Dempster tMan.j district last year, wheat went from = 10 90 bushels per acre. Fifteen acres CT the Mackenzie ( Mann farm today went forty-three bushels to the acre. h the Wainwright and Battle river districts yields of wheat aver aged for the district 2s bushels 10 the acre M B Ness, of the Tofeld, AL berta, district. got 8 bushels and 28 lbs. Of oats 10 the acre. while near Montrose. oYer 94 bushels of oats 10 the acre Eas threshed by J. Leonie notwithstanding the dry weather Of June. Further reports from the Ed monton district give Frank McLay Of the Horse Falls 100 bushels Of oats to the acre. They weighed 45 lbs to the bushel 4 22-acTe field Of spring wheat CT Johnson Bros farm near Agricola yielded 401z bushels to the acre. Nanitoba's record crop for 1910 was grown on McNillan Bros farm near Westbourne. who have total crop of 10000 bushels. netting s40 Goo of 2.200 acres. C. " Buchanan Of Pincher Creek, Alberta. had 251z bushels Of No. 1 spring wheat to the acre. Mr. 4. Hatton Of Macleod dis trict had wheat which averaged 21 bushels 10 the acre B. F Holden. near Indian Head. Sask.. threshed $50 bushels Of wheat from % acres.
 On the Experimental Farm at h. dian Head, wheat has gone below 40 bushels, while several, such as the Marquis and the Preston. have gone as high as Ii bushels 10 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 a return Of 70 to 80 bushels per acre. with flax giving B to Ii bushels per acre.
 W c. Carnell had yield of 42 bushels per acre from six acres of breaking Neil Callahan. two miles northwest Of Strome. had a yield of 42 bushels of wheat per acre. Vim. Lindsay, two miles east of Strome, had 1.104 bushels Of Regenerated Abundance oats from ten acres Jo-
 
 Strome. had I2.000 bushels of wheat and oats from 1S0 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. MeCulloch. 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 353 bushels of wheat from : acres Among the good grain yields at Macklin, Alberta, reported are. D. N. Tweedle, p bush- els to the acre; John Currin, q bush els wheat to the acre; Sam Fletcher, 20 bushels to the acre
 At Craven. Sask, Albert Clark threshed from 50 acres of stubble l,Ss0 bushels; from 20 acres of fal- low 300 bushels of red fife wheat that weighed Co 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 g bushels per acre from summer fallow. and George Young 5000 bushels from 130 acres of stubble and fallow, or an average of 3s l-2 bushels to the acre Arch Nor ton got $500 bushels of red fife from 16o acres. James Russell got 8.700 bashsFs from stubhle and late break ing, an average of 231a bushels
 At Rosthern Jacob Friesen had 27 bushels per acre from so acres on new land and an average over his whole farm of 2ll5 bushels of wheat John Schultz threshed 4.400 bushels from 100 acres. or 4 bushels to the acre. John Lepp had 37 bushels per acre from 200 acres. A B. Dirk had 42 bushels per acre from 25 acres. Robert Roe of Grand Coulee threshed 45 bushels to the acre from APO acres.
 Sedley, Sask.. is still another dis trict that has cause to be proud of the yields of both wheat and flax.