Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1911-02-23
WINNIPEG, MANITOBA,
THE GREATEST WHEAT
MARKET ON THE CON-
TlNENT
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,269,33O bushels, as com
pared with the Minneapolis receipts
Of Sl,1l1,410 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 III different parts Of the States,
have been splendid. A few of the
instances are given:
Near Redvers, Sask., Jens Hortness
threshcd about 80 acres of wheat, av-
eraging % 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 50 bushels to
the acre on the farm of Mr. A. Loucks.
y
1910. *. Erickson had q and p.
Solvason II. In the Dempster (Man.)
district last year, wheat went from
% to so 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 Totield, Al
berta, district, got 50 bushels and
rs lbs. of oats to the acre, while near
Monuose, 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 McLay of
the Horse Falls 100 bushels of oats
to the acre. They weighed 40 lbs. to
the bushel. A 22-acre field of spring
wheat on Johnson Bros farm near
Agricola yielded 40M 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 Zoo acres. G. w. Buchanan Of
Pincher Creek, Alberta, had 25Ls
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 30
bushels, while several, such as the
Marquis and the Preston, have gone
as high as sd bushels to the acre. At
Elstow, Sask., the quantity of wheat
to the acre ran, on the average, from
26 right up to 40 bushels per acre,
while oats in some cases yielded a
return OF 10 to so bushels per acre,
with flax giving 13 to IA bushels per
acre
W. G. CARMEL had a yield of az
bushels per acre from six acres of
breaking. Neil Callahan, two miles
northwest Of Strome, had Il yield Of
DO bushels OF wheat per acre VIM.
Z,
had 1,104 bushels of Regenerated
Abundance oats from ten acres. Jo-
seph Scheclar IL miles south Of
Strome, had 10000 bushels of wheat
and oats 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 of 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 acres Among the
good grain yields at MaclSlin, Alberta,
reported are: d. N. Tweedle, 90 bush
els to the acre; John Currin, "a bush
els wheat to the acre; Sam Fletcher,
&c bushels to the acre.
At Craven, Sask, Albert Clarl,
threshed from 60 acres OF stubble
1880 bushels; from 20 acres of fall
low 500 bushels of red fife wheat that
A&4SAtC % POUNDS 10 the DuSnal.
Charles Keith threshcd 40 bushels to
the acre from 40 acres Albert Young,
Of Stony Beach, southwest of Lums-
den, thfeshed 50 bushels per acre
from summer fallow, and George
Young 5000 bushels from 100 acres of
stubble and fallow, Or an average of
So IL bushels to the acre. Arch Nor
ton got $500 bushels of red fife from
100 acres. James Russell got $500
bushels from stubble and late break
ing, an average Of 1914 bushels.
At Rosthern Jacob Friesen had 81
bushels per acre from so acres on
new land and an average over his
whole farm OF " 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
AZ bushels@per acre from rs acres.
Robert Roe of GRAD Coulee threshed
45 bushels to the acre from 42O acres