Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-02-16

square miles. AS, for instance, at
Laird, Saskatchewan. the crop returns
showed that j. B. 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 80
acres, while fields Of 80 bushels were
common. On poorly cultivated fields
but l5 bushels we're reported.
In Foam Lake (Sask.) district 100
bushels of oats TO the acre were Sc
,ured by Angus Robertson, d. McRae
Ind c. H. Hart, while the average
was IS. In wheat 80 bushels to the
acre were quite common on the newer
land, but off 10 acres of land cult
tated for the past three years George
d. Wood secured 495 bushels. Mr..
James Traynor, near Regina (Sask.)
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 $25, 900. He says
lie is we'll satisfied.
Arthur Somers of S%trathclair
shreshed 100 acres, averaging % bush
els to the acre. Thomas Foreman, Of
Milestone. threshed II, 900 bushels of
wheat, and 5000 bushels Of flax off
100 acres of land. w. Weatherstone,
IF Strathclair, threshed 5000 bushels
bf oats from So acres. John Con
.illa, Of Giilies, about twenty-five miles
west of Rosthern, Sask., had 1870 BUSH
oils from 3 acres of wheat. Mr.. Con-
tilla's general average OF crop was
bver 40 bushels to the acre. Ben
Cruise, a n%eighbor. 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 SO bushels. He had also an
average of 50 bushels of oats to the
acre on a 50-acre field. VIM. Lehman,
cho has a farm close to Rosthern,
had an average of q bushels to the
ncre on 60 acres of summer fallow.
Mr.. Midsky. Of Rapid City (Man.)
threshed 1000 bushels Of pats 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, 81
bushels.
The crops at the G. P. R. demonstra-
ton farms at Strathmore (Alberta)
proved up to expectations, the Swedish
variety oats yielding ITO 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 a yield of oats from a meas
ured plot, which gave 107 bushels and
20 lbs. per acre.
Albert Teskey, Of Odds (Alberta)
threshed a 100-acre field which yielded
l01 bushels Of oats per acre, and Jo-
seph Mccartney had a large field
equally good. At Cupar (sask.) oats
threshed 80 bushels to the acre. On
the Traquairs farm at Cupar, a i've
acre plot Of Marquis wheat yielded 81
bushels to the acre. while Laurence
Barknel had 81 Bushels Of Red Fife to
tho acre. At Wordsworth. Reeder
Bros wheat averaged 33N bushels to
the acre. and w. McMillan's 80. VIII.
liam Kraft Of Alix (Alberta) threshed
l.042 bushels Of winter wheat OF 19k
acres. or about So bushels to the acre.
John L&ycroft OF Dinton. near High
River. Alberta. had over 100 bush.
els Of spring wheat from so acres.
3. r. Knipe. nea Lloydminster.
Saskatchewan. had 800 bushels OF
wheat from 90 acres. w. Metcalf had
over 81 bushels to the acre. while 8.
Henderson. who was halted badly,
had an average return Of g bushels Of
wheat to the acre.
NcWhirter Bros. and John McBain..
of Redvers. Saskatchewan. had Is
Nushels OF wheat to the acre. John
Kennedy. east Of the Horse lrills
district q Edmonton. from 20
acres Of spring wheat got 1,7e7 bpsh-
cls. OF ~ bushels: to the acre.
y. r. yalderburSh. hear Daya3oM.