The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1911-02-23
WINNIPEG, MANITOBA,
THE GREATEST WHEAT
MARKET ON THE CON.
TINENT
REMARKABLE YIELDS OF WHEAT
OATS, BARLEY AND FLAX IN
WESTERN CANADA LAST
YEAR.

nipeg ut the head OF the wheat re-
ceiving markets OF the continent. Fol-
lowing up this information 1t is found
that the yields throughout the PROV
inces Of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and
Alberta, as given the writer by agents
of the Canadian Government sta
toned in different parts of the States.
have been splendid A few of tho
instances are given:
Near Redvers, Sask. Jens Hortness
tbreshea about 90 acres Of wheat av'
eraging 30 bushels TO the acre. Near
Elphmstone. Sask., many Of the crops
of oats would run to nearly 100 bush
els to the acre. 4 Mr.. Muir had about
zoe acres of this grain and he estl'
mates the yield at about 60 bushels
per acre Wheat went 80 bushels to
the acre on the farm of Mr.. A. Loucks,
near Wymyard, Sask.. in the fall OF
1910. X. Erickson had p ard 7.
Solyason II. In the Dempster MIAMI
district last year, wheat went from
o. to 30 bushels per acre, Fifteen
acres on the Mackenzie & Mann farm
| today went forty.three bushels to the
acre In tho Wainwright and Battle.
river districts yields OF wheat aver
/ aged for the district 2G bushels TO the
/ acre NJ. b. Ness. OF the Tolield, Al.
/ berta. district, got 9S bushels and
| IS lbs OF oats TO the acre. while near
/ Moutrusc, over % bushels OF oats to
] 81 h.. Cd nv |
Notwithstanding the dry weather OF
/ June Further reports from the Ed
montou district give Frank McLay OF
the Horse Falls 100 bushels Of oats
to the acre. They weighed A. lbs. to
the buehel a 22.aCre field OF spring
wheat on Johnson Bros. farm near
AgriCola yielded 40Ia bushels to the
acre. Manitoba's record crop for 1910
was grown on Mcmillan Bros farm
near Westbourne who have total
crop of 10000 bushels, netting 100000
off 2.@00 acres G, w. buchanan OF
Plncher Creek. Alberta. had 259
bushels of No. l spring wheat to the
acre Mr.. A. Hatton of Macleod dis
trict had wheat which averaged Fl
bushels to the acre. b. +. Holden,
near Indian Head, Sask,. thrcshcd $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 "a bushels to tho 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 so bushels per acre,
with flax giving 10 to ii bushels per
acre.
W. c. CARMEL had a Yield Of AZ
bushels per acre from six acres OF
breaking. Neil Callahan, two miles
northwest of Stromc, had yield Of
q bushels Of wheat per acre. VIM.
Lindsay, two miles east OF StrOmc,
had 1.104 bushels of Regcncrated
Abundance oats from ten acres, 10.
scph Scheear, II miles south OF
Strome. had 1900 bushels Of wheat
and oats from $50 acres. Part Of the
oats yielded SO bushels to the acre.
and the wheat averaged about 40
bushels. Spohn Bros. four miles
southwest of Strome, had n 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
tAt n,
; 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 tho acre; John Curr!n, "a bush
els wheat to the acre; Sam Fletcher
a 20 bushels to the acre.
| At Craven, Sask, Albert Clark
Q thresbed from 60 acres OF stubble
4 1890 bushels; from 20 acres OF fal
= low 800 bushels of red fife wheat thai
/ weighed Go pounds to the bushel
q Charles Keith threshed 40 bushels tc
tho acre from 40 acres Albert Young
-, OF Stony Beach, southwest OF Lums
den. threshed 81 bushels per acre
:, from summer fallow, and Georg'
!, Young 5000 bushels from 120 acres o
- stubble and fallow, or an average o.
IS 1-2 bushels to the acre. Arch Nor
ton got $500 bushels Of red fife from
i60 acres. James Russell got 500
II bushels from stubble and late break
n Ing, an average of 1914 bushels.
II At Rosthern Jacob Frlesen had 2
Z bushels per acre from so acres oil
y new land and an average over hi
whole farm of 21Is bushels OF wheat
John Schultz threshed 400 bushel
from 100 acres, or A bushels to tn
0 acre. John Lepp had 81 bushels pc
q aero from 200 acres. A. b. Dirk ha
o AZ bushels per acre from 25 acres
D. Robert Roe of Grand Coulee threshe
10 bushels to the acre from 420 acres
Sedley, Sask.. Is still another dis
trIct that has cause to be proud c
IL the yields of both wheat and fla'
" ]. Cleveland got 80 bushels OF whoa
'r per acre on 100 acres and Is bushcl
- of fax on $40 acres. T. Dundai
IL southeast of Sedley, 40 bushels pc
acre on 80 acres; NJ. Il. Miller, 3