The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1911-02-15
EXCELLENT GRAIN
FIELDS IN WESTERN
CANADA
YIELDS OF WHEAT As HIGH As
s. BUSHELS PER ACRE.

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 a busi:
ness man, and il his stock-taking he
will have found that he has had q
successful year. On looking over
number of reports sent from various
quarters, the writer finds that in spite
of the visitation OF drouth in a 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 ]. 3. Peters had 1880
bushels from $50 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 1.150 bushels from "a acres;
Edmond Trotter 1000 bushels OF so
acres, while fields Of 80 bushels were
common On poorly cultivated fields
but Is bushels were reported.
In Foam Lake (Sask.) district 100
bushels of oats to the acre were So
cured by Angus Robertson, D. McRae
and c. H. Hart, while the average
was s.. In wheat 80 bushels to the
acre were quite common on the newer
land, but off Is acres of land cult.
waited for the past three years George
E. Wood secured 495 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 well satisfied.
Arthur SomerS Of Strathclaif
threshed 100 acres, averaging % bush
els to the acre. Thomas Foreman, OF
Milestone. threshed 1000 bushels OF
wheat, and 5000 bushels of fax OF
600 acres of land. w. Weatherstone.
Of Strathclair, threshed 5000 bushels
Of oats from Sc acres. John Con-
lila. of Gillies, about twenty-five miles
west of Rosthern, Sask.. had $50 BUSH
sis from 3 acres of wheat. MIR. Con-
Lilla'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
240 acres, an average Of % bushels,
100 acres was on summer fallow and
averaged 80 bushels. He had also an
average of 60 bushels of oats to the
acre on a 50-acre field. VIM. Lehman.
who has q farm close to Rosthern.
had an average Of q bushels to the
acre on 60 acres of summer fallow.
Mr.. Midsky. Of Rapid City CMan.)
threshed 1000 bushels Of oats from
z acres.
The yield of the different varieties
81 wheat per acre at the Experimental
Farm, Brandon, was: Red Fife. %
bushels; White Fife. "a bushels; Pres
ton. SO bushels; early Red Fife. ~
bushels.
The crops at the C. P. r. demonstra-
don 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 49, 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 Olds (Alberta)
threshed 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 so 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 S3k bushels to
the acre, and w. McMillan's 80. Will
liam Kraft Of Alix (Alberta) threshed
1.042 bushels of winter wheat of 19x
acres, or about SO bushels to the acre.
John Laycroft Of Dinton, near High
River. Alberta, had over LOO BUSH
els of spring wheat from 80 acres.
E. F. Knipe, near Lloydminster.
Saskatchewan. had 500 bushels Of
wheat from 20 acres. W. Metcalf had
over 81 bushels to tho 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 Is
bushels Of wheat to the acre. John
Kennedy, east Of the Horse Mills
district near Edmonton, from 40
acres Of spring wheat got 1907 bush.
els. or A bushels to the acre.
]. E. Vanderburgh, near Dayslow,
Alberta, threshed four thousand bush.
els OF wheat from 120 acres. Mr..
Darcy. near there. threshed ten thou.
sand and fiftyeight bushels (machine
measure) of wheat from five hundred
acres, and out of this only sixty acres
was new land.
At Fleming. Sask.. A Winters
wheat averaged 80 bushels to the acre
and several others report heavy
yields. Mr.. Winters crop was not on
summer fallow. but on a piece of land