Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-02-10

covering an area OF about $4,000
square miles. AS, for instance, At
Laird, Saskatchewan. She crop returns
showed that ]. b. Peters had 1880
bushels from 800 acres, or nearly 10
bushels to the acre. In tho Blaine
Lake district the fields ranged from
15 to SO bushels per acre, Ben Crews
having 1.150 bushels from "a acres;
Edmond Trotter LOO bushels On 80
acres. while fields 81 y bushels wore
common. On poorly cultivated fields
but Is bushels were reported.
In Foam Lake (Sask.) district 100
bushels Of oats to the acre we're Sc
cured by Angus Robertson, ID. NcRaD
and G. H. Hart, whNe the average
wa IS. In wheat 80 bushels to the
acre were quite common ON the ewe
land, but OIL IL acres Of knd cult
waited for the past three years George
e. Wood secured 1876 busBeh. Mi.
James Traynor, rear Regina (Sask.)
is still on the shady stde Of thirty.
year. half Of which waa wheat. tn
market value was @25.s0e. He says
his Is well satisfied.
Arthur SoEerS of StrathclaiF
threshed 100 acres. averaging Is bush
els to the acre. ThDmss Foreman, Of
Milestone, threshed l1,eO bushels Of
wheat, and 5000 busAelp 81 M OF
900 acres Of land. W Weatherstones
OF Strathclair, thresAad 5000 bushels
OF oats from IS acres. John Con
lila, Of Gillies. about twentys1ye milss
west OF Rosthern. Sash- had $50 busb
chs from 8 acres of wheat. III. Gah-
xilla's general average u crop was
over 70 bushels to o. acre. Bon
Cruise. q neighbor, averaged ~ bush
els to tho acre from q aCres " A.
threshed 5000 bushels 81 wheat from
240 acres, an average Of as bushels.
100 acres was on summer fallOw and
averaged 80 bushels. He had also IN
average Of so bushels Of oats % tho
acre on a 50-acre field. VIM. Lehn1an.
who has q farm chose to Rpsthern,
had an average Of a bushels to the
acre on 60 acres of SUMMER fallOw.
Mr.. Midsky, Of Rapid City tMan.)
threshed 1000 bushels or 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, ~
bushels.
The crops at the c. p. r. demonstra-
ton farms at Strathmore f(Alberta)
proved up to expectations, the Swedish
variety oats yielding no bushels to
the acre. At the farm two frowed bar
ley went 4Sh bushels to the acre.
Yields of from SO 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 was uncommonly good and
the hundred mark was passed. VIM.
Craig had a yield OF oats from q meas
ured plot, which gave 107 bushels and
20 lbs. per acre. as
Albert Teskey. Of Odds tAlberta)
threshed a 10O-acre field which yielded
1O1 bushels OF oats per acre. and Jo-
seph Mccartney had q large neld
equally good. At Cupar tSask-) oats
threshed so buahels to the acre. On
the Traquairs farm at Cupaf. : i've
acre plot Of Marquis wheat yielded 81
bushels to the acre. white Laurence
Barknel had 81 bushels Of Red sKife to
the acre. At Wordsworth, Reeder
Bros wheat averaged 33k bushels to
the acre, and w. McMinan's 80. VIII
liam Kraft Of AK tAlbertn) threshed
1,O42 bushels Of winter wheat on 19A
acres, or about s. bushels 10 the acre
John Laycroft Of Dinton, near High
River, Alberta, had Owe 1,IOo bush
els Of spring wheat fyom 30 acres.
p. +. Knipe, near LIoydmfnster.
Saskatchewan. had 800 bushels OF
wheat from 20 acres. W. Metca1f 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.
McWhirter Bros. and John MoBain.
of Redvers, Saskatchewan. had rs
bushels of wheat to the acre. John
Kennedy, east of the Horse Mills
district near Edmonton, from 40
acres of spring wheat got 1857 BUSH
els, or "A bushels to the acre.
J. E. va~nderburgh, near Dayslow.
Alberta, threshed four thousand bush
els Of wheat from 40 acres. Mr..
Darcy, near there, threshed ten thou
sand and fifty-eight bushels tmachine
measure) of wheat from five hundred
acres, and out Of this only sixty acres
was new land.
At Fleming, Sask., A Winter's
wheat averaged 80 bushels to the acre
and several others report heavy
yields. Mr.. Winters crop vas not on
L l.AE 1--A
broken In 1882 and said to be the first
broken in the Fleming district.
The agent Of the Canadian govern
ment will be pleased to give informa-
ton regarding the various districts in
Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta.
where free homesteads Of 100 acres
are available. tsa5H@ 9sG
When the millennium comes there
will be schools to which j%anitOrs and
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