The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1911-03-30
WINNIPEG, MANITOBA,
THE GREATEST WHEAT
MARKET ON THE CON-
TlNENT
REMARKABLE YIELDS OF WHEAT,
OATS, BARLEY AND FLAX IN
WESTERN CANADA LAST
YEAR.

year were 90, lbS,oou Dusutls, as CoUn-
pared with the Minneapolis receipts
Of S1.1t1,4i0 bushels, this placing Win
nipeg at the head of the wheat re-
ceiv!ng markets Of the continent. Fol-
lowing up this information II Is found
that the yields throughout the prov
lnces 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., Jons Hortness
threshed about 90 acres OF wheat. av-
eraging 20 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 SO bushels to
the acre on the farm of MIR. A. Loucks,
neal Wymyard, Sask., in the fall of
1910. X. Erickson had % and +.
Solvason II. In the Dompster MANI
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 ave
aged for the district &c bushels to the
acre. NJ. b. Ness, of the Toneld, Al
berta. district, got 9s bushels and
rs lbs. OF oats to the acre. while near
Montrose, over "a bushels of oats to
tho acre was threshed by ]. Leonle,
Notwithstanding the dry weather of
June. Further reports from the Ed
monitor district give Frank McLay Of
the Horse Falls 100 bushels of oats
to the acre. They weighed 20 lbs. to
the bushel. A 22-acre field Of spring
wheat on Johnson Bros farm near
Agricola yielded 40h 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
off 1900 acres. G. w. Buchanan of
Pincher Creek. Alberta. had 25h
bushels OF No. 1 spring wheat to tho
acre. Mr.. A. Hatton of Macleod dis
trlct had wheat which averaged n
bushels to the acre. d. +. Holden,
near 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 GA bushels to the acre. At
Elstow, Sask.. the quantity of wheat
to the acre ran, on the average. from
2G right up to 40 bushels per acre.
while oats in some cases yielded a
return OF 70 to so bushels per acre,
with fax giving 10 to Ia bushels per
acre.
w. c. Carnell had a yield OF AZ
bushels per acre from six acres OF
breaking. Neil Callahan. two miles
northwest Of Strome, had a yield OF
AZ 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
oats yielded SO bushels to the acre,
and the wheat averaged about 40
bushels. Spohn Bros, four miles
southwest If Strome, had a splendid
/, grain yield of excellent quality wheat,
grading No. 2. A. s. McCulloch, one
, mile northwest of Strome, had some
wheat that went 40 bushels to the
acre. J. Blaser, a few miles south
west OF Strome, threshed 1853 bushels
. OF wheat from 7 acres. Among the
/. good grain yields at Macklin, Alberta
|, reported are: ID. N. Tweedle, 20 bush
, els to the acre; John Currin, "a bush
els wheat to the acre; Sam Fletcher
, 20 bushels to the acre.
At Craven, Sask, Albert Clarl
: threshed from so acres of stubhi,
1880 bushels; from 20 acres Of fal
I low 900 bushels Of red fife wheat tina
e weighed Go pounds to the bushel
. Charles Keith threshed 40 bushels L
g the acre from 40 acres. Albert Young
e of Stony Beach. southwest OF Lums
den, threshed So bushels per acr,
from summer fallow, and Georg'
[ Young 5000 bushels from 1870 acres o
stubble and fallow, or an average o
+ 3S 1-2 bushels TO the acre. Arch MOI
t ton got 5000 bushels OF red fife iron
100 acres. James Russell got $40
bushels from stubble and late break
ing, an average of 1914 bushels.
At Rosthern Jacob Friesen had 2
bushels per acre from so acres Of
: new land and an average over hi
whole farm OF 211A bushels of wheat
John Schultz threshed 4,400 bushel
from 100 acres, or A bushels to tn
If acre. John Lepp had 81 bushels pc
acre from 200 acres. A. B. Dirk haI
4, AZ bushels per acre from 20 acres
If Robert Roe OF Grand Coulee threshe'
45 bushels to the acre from 42O acres
II sedley, sask., is still another dis
n trict that has cause TO be proud o
n the yields Of both wheat AID fla