The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1911-02-24
WINNIPEG, MANITOBA,
THE GREATEST wheat
MARKET ON THE CON.
TlNENT
REMARKABLE YIELDS OF WHEAT,
OATS, BARLEY AND FLAX IN
WESTERN CANADA LAST
YEAR.


the wheat receipts at Winnipeg last
year were ss,269. $3.50 bushels. as com.
pared with the Minneapolis receipts
Of SILL 10 bushels, this placing Win.
nipeg at 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 the
instances are given:
Near Redvers. Sask.. Jens Hortness
threshed about so acres of wheat, ay-
eraging % bushels to the acre. Near
Elphmstone, Sask., many of the crops
of oats would run to nearly 100 BUSH
els to the acre. A Mr.. Muir had about
200 acres Of this grain and he esti-
mates the yield at about so 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 81 and p.
Solyason IL. In the Dempster MANI
district last year, wheat went from
% 20 80 bushels per acre. Fifteen
acres on the Mackenzie & Mann farm
today went forty-three bushels to the
acre. In the Wainwright and Battle
river districts yields of wheat aver
aged for the district &c bushels to the
acre. NJ. b. Ness. Of the Tofield. Al
bSrta, district, got SO bushels and
2S lbs. of oats to the acre, while near
Montrose. over "a bushels OF oats to
the acre was threshed by J. Leonie.
Notwithstanding the dry weather OF
June. Further reports from the Ed
monitor district give Frank McLay OF
the Horse Falls 100 bushels of oats
to the acre. They weighed 45 lbs. to
the bushel. A 22-acre field of spring
wheat on Johnson Bros farm near
Agricola yielded iO1a bushels to the
acre. Manitoba's record crop for 1910
was grown on Mcmillan Bros farm
near Westbourne. who have a total
crop OF 10000 bushels. netting $4,000
OF 1900 acres. G. w. Buchanan OF
Pincher Creek. Alberta, had 25h
bushels of No. l spring wheat to the
acre. Mr.. A. Hatton of Macleod dis
trlct had wheat which averaged q
bushels to the acre. b. F. Holden,
near Indian Head, Sask, threshed $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 the acre. At
to the acre ran, on the average. from
&c right up to 40 bushels per acre.
while oats in some cases yielded a
return of 20 to so bushels per acre.
with fax giving Is to IA bushels per
acre.
w. C. Carnell had a yield OF AZ
bushels per acre from six acres OF
breaking. Neil Callahan, two miles
northwest of Strome. had a yield OF
i2 bushels of wheat per acre. VIM.
Lindsay, two miles east Of Strome.
had 1.l0f bushels of Regenerated
Abundance oats from ten acres. Jo-
seph Scheelar, IL miles south of
Strome. had 1900 bushels of wheat
and oats from $50 acres. Part OF the
oats yielded IS 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. McCulloch. 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: ID. n. Tweedle. % BUSH
els to the acre; John Currin. "a BUSH
els wheat to the acre; Sam Fletcher.
20 bushels to the acre.
At Craven. Sask, Albert Clark
from 60 acres OF stubble
l $50 bushels; from 20 acres of fal-
low 800 bushels of red fife wheat that
weighed Go 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 SO bushels per acre
from summer fallow, and George
Young 5000 bushels from 1870 acres of
stubble and fallow, or an average Of
80 l-2 bushels TO the acre. Arch Nor
ton got $500 bushels of red fife from
l60 acres. James Russell got $500
bushels from stubble and late break
Ing. an average of 23h bushels.
At Rosthern Jacob Friesen had %
bushels per acre from so acres on
new land and an average over his
whole farm of 2lh bushels Of wheat.
John Schultz threshed 400 bushels
from 100 acres. or A bushels to the
acre. John Lepp had 81 bushels per
acre from 200 acres. A. B. Dirk had
az bushels per acre from 90 acres.
Robert Roe Of Grand Coulee threshed
Is bushels to the acre from 40 acres.
Sedley. Sask.. Is still another dis
trict that has cause to be proud Of
the yields of both wheat and FAX.