The Columbus journal., 1911-03-01
WINNIPEG, MANITOBA,
The GREATEST wheat
MARKET ON The CON-
TINENT
REMARKABLE YIELDS OF WHEAT,
OATS, BARLEY AND FLAX IN
WESTERN CANADA LAST
YEAR.

Figures recently issued show that
the wheat receipts at Winnipeg last
year were Ss.269, $50 bushels. as com
pared with the Minneapolis receipts
of S1,Ill,4 10 bushels, this placing Win
nipeg at the head of the wheat re.
ceiving markets of the continent. Fol
lowing up this information it 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 90 acres of wheat. av'
eraging 90 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 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 q and p,
Solvason II. In the Dempster MANI
district last year, wheat went from
% 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. NJ. B. Ness. of the Tofield, Al,
berta, district. got IS bushels and
28 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 McI-ay OF
the Horse Falls 100 bushels of oats
TO the acre. They weighed Al lbs. to
the bushel A 22-acre field Of spring
wheat on Johnson Bros farm near
Agricola yielded 40la 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 o.
Pincher Creek, Alberta. had 2oh
bushels of No. l spring wheat to the
acre. Mr.. A. Hatton of Macleod dis.
trict had wheat which averaged 81
bushels to the acre. B. F. Holden
near Indian Head, Sask, threshed $50
bushels of wheat from 90 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
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 flax giving Is to IA bushels per
acre.
W. c. Carnell had 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.
had l.1G4 bushels of Regenerated
Abundance oats from ten acres Jo-
seph Scheslar, IL miles south of
Strome. had 1900 bushels Of wheat
and oats from $50 acres. Part of the
oats yielded 50 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. >. A. s. NcCulloch, one
mile northwest of Strome. had some
wheat that went 40 bushels to the
west Of Strome, threshed 353 bushels
Of wheat from Z acres. Among the
good grain yields ut Macklin, Alberta.
reported are: ID. y. Tweedle, 90 bush
els 10 the acre; john Currin, "a bush
els wheat 10 the acre; Sam Fletcher,
20 bushels 10 the acre.
At Craven, Sask. Albert Clark
threShed from 90 acres of Stubbie
1880 bushels; from 20 acres of fall
low 800 bushels o. red fife wheat that
weighed 65 pounds 10 the bushel.
Charles Keith threshed 40 bushels TO
the acre from 40 acres. Albert Young.
OF Stony Beach, southwest of Lums-
den. threshed % bushels per acre
from summer fallow. and George
Young 5000 bushels from $50 acres Of
stubble and fallow. or an average of
IS IL bushels TO the acre. Arch Nor
ton got $500 bushels of red fife from
160 acres. James Russell got $500
bushels from stubble and late break
ing, an average of c3l. bushels.
I At RoSthern Jacob Friesen had %
bushels per acre from so acres on
new land and an average over his
whole farm OF 211a 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
~ bushels per acre from % acres.
Robert Roe OF Grand Coulee threShed
A. bushels to the acre from 400 acres.
Sedley, Sask., is Still another dis
trict that has cause 10 be proud Of
the yields OF both wheat and flax
J. Cleveland got 80 bushels of wheat
per acre on 100 acres and IS bushels
Of fax on 140 acres. T. Dundas,
southeast of Sedley. 40 bushels per
acre on so acres; N. E. Miller, "a
bushels per acre on 40 acres of stub
bic. and So bushels per acre on $50
acres fallow; w. A. Day had 30 bush
els per acre on 200 acres of stubble.