The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1911-02-09
EACELLENT GRAIN
IN WESTERN
CANADA
YIELDS OF WHEAT AS HIGH AS
81 BUSHELS PER ACRE.

been done. Inc DuSluSSS HAL aLn
the farmer have taken stock, and
both, II they are keen in business DC
tail and interest, know exactly
financial position. The farmer OF
Western Canada is generally a bust.
ness man, and in his s~toCk-taklng he
will have found that he has had q
successful year. On looking over a
number OF reports sont from various
quarters, the writer finds that in spite
Of the visitation OF dTouth in a small
portion Of Alberta, Saskatchewan and
Manitoba, many farmers are able to
report splendid crops And these re-
ports como from different sections,
covering an area of about $4,000
square miles. AS, for instance, at
Laird, Saskatchewan, the crop returns
showed that J. 3. Peters had 1880
bushels from 800 acres, or nearly 40
bushels to the acre. In the Blaine
Lake district the fields ranged from
- to so bushels per acre, Ben Crews
having 1850 bushels from "a acres;
Edmond Trotter 1900 bushels off 80
acres, while fields OF so bushels we're
common. On poorly cultivated fields
but Is bushels we're reported.
In Foam Lake (Sask.) district 100
bushels OF oats to the acre were Sc
cured by Angus Robertson, d. McRae
and c. II. Hart. while the average
was So. 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 (Sask.)
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 S%trathclair
threshed 100 acres, averaging % bush
els to the acre. Thomas Foreman, OF
Milestone, threshed IL, 900 bushels OF
wheat, and 5000 bushels OF flax off
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 $50 bush
els from 8 acres OF wheat. Mr.. Con.
Zilla's general average OF crop was
I'VE 40 bushels to the acre. Ben
Cruise, q neighbor. averaged A bush
els to the acre from 23 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 tho
acre on a 50-acre field. VIM. Lehman,
who has a farm close to Rosthern,
had an average of 81 bushels to the
acre on 60 acres Of summer fallow.
Mr.. Midsky, Of Rapid City (Man.)
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 1917 bushels to the acre.
Yields Of from 80 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 vas uncommonly good and
the hundred mark vas 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 Odds (Alberta)
threshed a 100-acre field which yielded
101 bushels OF oats per acre, and Jo-
seph Mccartney had q 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 "a
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 1871
acres, or about SO bushels to the acre.
John Laycroft OF Dinton. near High
2iver, Alberta, had over LOO bush
els of spring wheat from so acres.
f. 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 30 bushels Of
wheat to the acre.
McWhirter Bros. and John McBain,
of Redvers, Saskatchewan, had 25
bushels Of wheat to tie acre. John.
Kennedy. east Of the Horse Mills
district near Edmonton. from 40
acres of spring wheat got 1.767 BUSH
els, or A bushels to the acre.
]. E. vanderburgh. near Dayslow,
Alberta, threshed four thousand bush.
els Of wheat from 100 acres. Mr..
Darcy. near there, threshed ten thou
sand and ffty-eight bushels (machine
measure) Of wheat from five hundred
acres, and out Of this only sixty acres
was new land.