Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1911-03-03
WINNIPEG, MANITOBA,
THE GREATEST WHEAT
MARKET ON THE CON-
TINENT
REMARKABLE YIELDS OF WHEAT,
OATS, BARLEY AND FLAX IN
WESTERN CANADA LAST
YEAR.


the wheat receipts at Winnipeg last
year were sc, 1853, $50 bushels, as com.
pared with the Minneapolis receipts
of S1,111,410 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 80 acres Of wheat, av-
sraging 20 bushels to the acre. Near
Elphmstone, Sask., many Of the crops
Of bats 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 60 bushels
per acre. Wheat went 35 bushels to
the acre on the farm of Mr.. A. Loucks,
near Wymyard, Sask., in the fall of
1910. X. Erickson had n and P.
Solvason II. In the Dempster MAN.
district last year, wheat went from
25 to 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 26 bushels to the
acre. M. B. Ness, of the Tofeld, AL
berta, district, got SO bushels and
28 lbs. Of oats to the acre, while neal
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 distr!c. S:vs Frank McLay OF
the Horse Falls 100 bushels of oats
to the acre. They weighed As lbs. to
the bushel. A 22-acre field of spring
wheat on Johnson Bros farm near
Agricola yielded 4o1a bushels to the
acre. Manitoba's record crop for 1910
was grown on Mcmillan Bros farm
heal Westbourne, who have a total
crop of 10000 bushels. netting SAC, 600
off 1900 acres. G.. w. Buchanan OF
Pincher Creek, Alberta, had 25h
bushels of No. 1 spring wheat to the
acre. Mr.. A. Hatton of Macleod dis
trict mad wheat which averaged FL
bushels to the acre. b. F. Holden,
neal 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 81 bushels to the acre. AT
Elstow, Sask., the quantity of wheat
&c right up to 40 bushels per acre..
while oats in some eases yielded q
ceturn of 70 to 80 bushels per acre,
with fax giving Is to IA bushels per
acre.
W. c. Carneil had a yield OF AZ
bushels per acre from six acres OF
breaking. Neil Callahan, two miles
northwest of Strome, had a yield OF
" bushels Of wheat per acre. VIM.
Lindsay, two miles east Of Strome,
had 1,104 bushels of Regenerated
Abundance oats from ten acres. Jo-
seph Scheelar, IL miles south of
Strome, had 10000 bushels of wheat
and pats from $50 acres. Part Of the
bats 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. McCulioch, n
mile northwest of Strome, had some
wheat that went 40 bushels to the
acre. ]. Blaser, a few miles south
west of Strome, threshed 1853 bushels
Of wheat from Z acres. Among the
good grain yields at Macklin, Alberta,
reported are: d. N. Tweedle, 20 BUSH
els to the acre; John Curtin, "a bush
els wheat to the acre; Sam Fletcher,
90 bushels to the acre.
At Craven, Sask, Albert Clark
threshed from so acres OF stubble
1890 bushels; from 20 acres Of fal-
low 900 bushels of red fife wheat that
weighed Go pounds to the bushel.
LudIlSb hclIu LuISSACu Nv UuShSlo W
the acre from 40 acres. Albert Young,
Of Stony Beach, southwest Of Lums-
den, threshed 52 bushels per acre
from = summer fallow, and George
Young 5000 bushels from 100 acres Of
stubble and fallow, or an average of
3S IL bushels to the acre. Arch Nor
ton got $500 bushels of red fife from
I60 acres. James Russell got $500
bushels from stubble and late break
Ing, an average Of 1914 bushels.
At Rosthern Jacob Friesen had 81
bushels per acre from 80 acres on
new land and an average over his
whole farm of 21h bushels of wheat.
John Schultz threshed 4,400 bushels
from 100 acres. or A bushels to the
acre. John Lepp had 81 bushels per
acre from 200 acres. A. b. Dirk had
~ bushels per acre from rs acres.
Robert Roe of Grand Coulee threshed
Is bushels to the acre from 420 acres.
Sedley, Sask., is still another dis