Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1911-02-10
EXCELLENT GRAIN
FIELDS In WESTERN
CANADA
YIELDS or WHEAT As HIGH As
54 BUSHELS PER ACRE.

Now that we have entered upon the
| making of a new year. 1t is natural
| to look back over the past one. for
! the purpose of ascertaining what has
been done. The business man and
| the farmer have taken stock. and
both, IL they are keen In business de-
tail and interest, know exactly their
| financial position. The farmer of
Western Canada is generally bust
ness man, and in his stock-taking he
will have found that he has had a
successful year. On looking over a
number of reports sent from various
quarters, the writer finds that In spite
of the visitation of drouth In 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 ]. 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 10 bushels were reported
In Foam Lake (Sask.) district 100
bushels of oats to the acre were Sc
cured by Angus Robertson. D. McRae
| and c. H. Hart, while the average
was So. In wheat 80 bushels to the
acre were quite common on the newer
land, but off 10 acres of land Guilt
waited for the past three years George
E. 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 It's
market value was $4,000. He says
he is well satisfied.
Arthur Somers of Strathclair
threshed 100 acres, averaging 25 bush
els to the acre. Thomas Foreman, of
Milestone. threshed II, 900 bushels OF
wheat, and 5000 bushels of fax of
600 acres of land. w. Weatherstone,
of Strathclair, threshed 5000 bushels
OF oats from SO acres. John Con
zilla, of Gillies, about twenty-five miles
west of Rosthern, Sask., had 1870 bush
els from acres of wheat. Mr.. Con
zilla's general average of crop was
over 40 bushels to the acre Ben
Cruise. neighbor. averaged 40 bush
els to the acre from % acres. w. A.
Rose, of the Walderheim district,
threshed $1,000 bushels of wheat from
240 acres, an average of rs bushels,
100 acres was on summer fallow and
averaged 33 bushels. He had also an
average of 50 bushels of oats to the
acre on 50-acre field. VIM. Lehman,
who has a farm close to Rosthern,
had an average OF 81 bushels to the
acre on SO acres of summer fallow
Mr.. Midsky, of Rapid City MANI
threshed 1000 bushels of oats 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 c. 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 481s bushels to the acre
Yields OF from so bushels to 100 bush
els of oats &c 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 yield of oats from meas
ured plot, which gave lot bushels and
20 lbs. per acre.
Albert Teskey, of Odds (Alberta)
threshed 100-acre field which yielded
101 bushels of oats per acre, and Jo-
seph Mccartney had large field
equally good. At Cupar (Sask.l oats
threshed 80 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 1914 bushels to
the acre. and w. McMillan's 80. Will
liam Kraft of Alix (Alberta) threshed
1.042 bushels of winter wheat off 19A
acres, or about SO bushels to the acre.
John Laycroft of Dinton. near High
River. Alberta, had over 1.100 bush
els of spring wheat from so acres.
E. F. Knipe. near Lloydminster,
Saskatchewan, had 500 bushels of
wheat from 20 acres. w Metcalf had
over 81 bushels to the acre, while s.
Henderson. who was hailed badly.
had an average return of 80 bushels OF
wheat to the acre.