Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-03-04
WINNIPEG, MANITOBA,
THE GREATEST WHEAT
MARKET ON THE CON-
TINENT
REMARKABLE YIELDS OF WHEAT,
OATS, BARLEY AND FLAX IN
WESTERN CANADA LAST
YEAR.

year were IS, 26s, $50 bushels, as COM
pared with the Minneapolis receipts
of 81, III. 40 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
fnces 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 so 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 So bushels to
the acre on the farm of Mr.. A Loucks,
near Wymyard, Sask., in the fall of
1910. K. Erickson had 81 and P.
Solvason II. In the Dempster 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
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 50 bushels and
% 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 McLay of
the Horse Falls 100 bushels of oats
to the acre. They weighed As lbs. to
the bushel. A 22-acre field of spring
wheat on Johnson Bros farm near
Agricola yielded 40k bushels to the
acre. Manitoba's record crop for 1910
was grown on Mcmillan Bros farm
near Westbourne, who have total
crop of 10000 bushels. netting $4,000
of 2200 acres. G. w. Buchanan of
Pincher Creek, Alberta, had % u
bushels of No. 1 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 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 "a bushels to the acre. At
E1stow, 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 20 to 80 bushels per acre,
with fax giving 13 to Ia bushels per
acre.
W. c. Carnen had a yield of AZ
-
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 $4,000 bushels of wheat
and oats from 1870 acres. Part of the
oats yielded IS 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 $50 bushels
of wheat from acres Among the
| good grain yields at Macklin, Alberta,
reported are: D. N. Tweedle, % 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 Clark
threshed from so acres of stubble
| 1880 bushels; from 20 acres of fall
low 900 bushels of red fife wheat that
weighed IS pounds to the bushel.
| Charles Keith threshed 40 bushels to
! the acre from 40 acres. Albert Young,
| of Stony Beach, southwest of Lums-
| den, threshed So bushels per acre
/ from summer fallow, and George
Young 5000 bushels from $50 acres of
| stubble and fallow, or an average of
| 80 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 231s bushels
At Rosthern Jacob Friesen had 81
| bushels per acre from 80 acres on
new land and an average over his
| whole farm of 211z bushels of wheat
| John Schultz threshed 400 bushels
from 100 acres, or A bushels to the
| acre John Lepp had 81 bushels per
| AZ bushels per acre from 25 acres
| Robert Roe of Grand Coulee threshed
As bushels to the acre from 420 acres.
SedIey, Sask, is still another dis
| trict that has cause to be proud of