Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1911-02-09
EXCELLENT GRAIN
FIELDS IN WESTERN.
CANADA
YIELDS OF WHEAT AS HIGH As
50 BUSHELS PER ACRE.

50 BUSHELS PER ACRE.
Now that we have entered upon the
making of new year, 1t is natural
to look back over the past one. for
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 a
successful year. On looking over a
number OF reports sent from various
quarters, the writer finds that in spite
of the visitation Of drouth in 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 $50 acres, or nearly 40
bushels to the acre In the Blaine
Lake district the fields ranged from
IL to so bushels per acre, Ben Crews
having 1850 bushels from "a acres !;
Edmond Trotter 1900 bushels OF 80
acres while fields of 80 bushels were
common On poorly cultivated fields
h,,t 1y,ch o1S
In Foam Lake (Sask.) district 100
bushels OF oats to the acre were Sc
cured by Angus Robertson. d McRae
and c. H. Hart. while the average
was S.. In wheat 30 bushels to the
acre We're quite common on the newer
land, but off 10 acres OF land cult
waited for the past three years George
E. Wood secured 495 bushels MIR
James Traynor, near Regina lSask.)
is still on the shady side of thirty.
He mad $4,000 bushels of grain last
year half of which was wheat Its
market value was $4,000 He says
he is we'll satisfied
Arthur Somers of Strathclair
threshed loo acres, averaging % bush
els to the acre Thomas Foreman, OF
Milestone, threshed 1l.000 bushels OF
wheat, and 5000 bushels OF flax of,
500 acres of land. w Weatherstone,
of Strathclair. threshed 5000 bushels
of oats from Sc acres John Con
zilla. Of Gillies. about twenty-fiv miles
vest of Rosthern, Sask.. had $50 bush
els from 3 acres of wheat Mr. Con
.illa's general average of crop was
over 40 bushels to the acre Ben
Cruise. a neighbor. averaged 45 bush
els to the acre from % acres. W. A.
Rose. of the Waderheim district.
threshed 5000 bushels of wheat from
240 acres, an average Of % bushels.
100 acres was on summer fallow and
averaged 33 bushels He had also an
average Of 60 bushels of oats TO the
acre on a 50-acre field. VIM. Lehman,
who has farm close 10 Rosthern.
had an average of % bushels TO the
acre on 60 acres of summer fallow.
MIR. Midsky. of Rapid City tMan.)
threshed 1000 bushels OF oats from
acres.
The yield of the different varieties
Of wheat per acre at the Experimental
Farm. Brandon was: Red Fife. IS
bushels; White Fife 81 bushels; Pres
ton. 30 bushels: early Red Fife. 9.
bushels
The crops at the c. P. r. demonstra-
ton farms at Strathmore sAlberta)
proved up to expectations. the Swedish
variety oats yielding 10 bushels to
the acre. At the farm two rowed bar
ley went 4s1s bushels TO the acre.
Yields OF from 80 bushels TO 100 bush
els of oats to the acre were quite
common in the Sturgeon River Settle.
ment near Edmonton Alberta,. But
last year was uncommonly good and
the hundred mark was passed VIM.
Craig had yield of oats from meas-
ured plot. which gave 10. bushels and
90 lbs. per acre
Albert Teskey, of Odds fAlbertal
threshed l00-acre field which Welded
lol bushels of oats per acre, and Jo-
seph Mccartney had a large field
equally good. At Cupar ,Sask) oats
the Traquairs farm at Cupar. five.
acre plot of Marquis wheat yielded "A
bushels to the acre while Laurence
Barknel had s.. bushels of Red Fife to
the acre. At Wordsworth, Reeder
Bros. ~hea, averaged 33l. bushels 10
the acre. and W. McMillan's 80 viii.
liam Kraft of Alix Aleerta) threshed
l,o42 bushels of winter wheat OF 1879
acres, or about SO bushels to the acre
John Laycroft Of Dinton. near High
River. Alberta. had over 100 bush
els of spring wheat from so acres.
f F knipe. near Iloydmins.er.
Saskatchewan. had 500 bushels Of
wheat from 20 acres. W. Me,calf 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 %
bushels of wheat 10 the acre. John
Kennedy, east of the Horse Mills
district near Edmonton, from 40
acres OF spring wheat got l.7s.. bush.
els. or A bushels to the acre
] E Vanderburgh. near Dayslow.
Alberta. threshed four thousand bush.
els of wheat from l2o acres Mr.
y Arcy. near there, threshed ten thou.
sand and tiftyeight bushels machine
measurel of wheat from five hundred
acres. and out OF this only sixty acres
was new land
Al Fleming. sask.. A Winters
wheat averaged 80 bushels 10 the aero
and several others repor, heavy
Yields Mr. Winters crop was no, on
s 4 cf. f.,ll