Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-02-10
EXCELLENT GRAIN
FIELDS IN WESTERN
CANADA
YIELDS OF WHEAT AS HIGH AS
81 BUSHELS PER ACRE.

81 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, II 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. 3. Peters had 1880
bushels from 800 acres, or nearly 40
bushels TO the acre. In the Blaine
Lake district the fields ranged from
Is to so bushels per acre, Ben Crews
having 1850 bushels from "a acres:
Edmond Trotter 1900 bushels off 30
acres, while fields of 80 bushels We're
common. On poorly cultivated fields
but Is bushels were reported.
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 IS. In wheat 30 bushels to the
acre were quite common on the newer
land, but off IL acres Of land Guilt
waited for the past three years George
E. Wood secured 1875 bushels. Mr..
James Traynor, near Regina tSask.)
| 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 $4,000. He says
he is we'll satisfied.
Arthur Somers of Strathclair
threshed 100 acres. averaging % bush
els to the acre. Thomas Foreman. of
Milestone, threshed 11,000 bushels OF
wheat, and 5000 bushels Of fax off
600 acres of land. w. Weatherstone,
of Strathclair, threshed 5000 bushels
of oats from Sc acres. John Con
zilla, of Gillies. about twenty-five miles
| west of Rosthern, Sask., had 1870 bush
els from 3 acres Of wheat. Mr.. Con
zilla's general average Of crop was
over 40 bushels to the acre. Ben
Cruise, a neighbor, averaged As bush
els to the acre from % acres. w. A.
Rose, of the Walderheim district,
threshed 5000 bushels OF wheat from
24O acres, an average of 25 bushels,
100 acres was on summer fallow and
averaged 33 bushels. He had also an
average of SO bushels Of oats to the
acre on a 50-acre field. VIM. Lehman.
who has farm close to Rosthern,
had an average of ~ bushels to the
acre on 81 acres of summer fallow.
Mr.. Midsky. 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. "a bushels: Pres
ton. 80 bushels; early Red Fife, q
bushels.
The crops at the C. P. r. demonstra-
ton farms at Strathmore (Alberta)
proved up to expectations, the Swedish
variety oats yielding 40 bushels to
the acre. At the farm two rowed bar
ley went 1917 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). But
/ last year was uncommonly good and
the hundred mark was passed. VIM.
Craig had yield of oats from a meav-
ured plot, which gave LOT bushels and
| 20 lbs. per acre.
Albert Teskey. of Odds (Alberta)
threshed 10O-acre field which yielded
1O1 bushels Of oats per- acre. and Jo-
seph Mccartney had a large field
equally good. At Cupar (Sasl1.) oats
threshed 80 bushels to the acre. On
the Traquairs farm at Cupar. a five
acre plot of Marquis wheat yielded 81
bushels to the acre, while Laurence
Barknel had 81 bushels of Red Fife to
the acre. At Wordsworth, Reeder
Bros wheat averaged 1874 bushels to
the acre, and w. McMillan's 80. Will
liam Kraft of Alix (Alberta) threshed
1.042 bushels OF winter wheat off 1917
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.
E. f. Knipe. near Lloydminster.
Saskatchewan. had 800 bushels Of
wheat from 20 acres. w. Metcah had
over 81 bushels to the acre. while s.
Henderson. who was hailed badly.