Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1911-02-09
EXCELLENT GRAIN
FIELDS IN WESTERN
CANADA
YIELDS OF WHEAT AS HIGH AS
50 BUSHELS PER ACRE.

been done. The business man and
the farmer have taken stock, and
both, if they are keen in business de
! tail and interest, know exactly their
financial position. The farmer OF
Western Canada is generally a bust
1 ness man, and in his stock-taklng he
will have found that he has had a
successful year. On looking over a
number OF reports sent from various
quarters, the writer finds that in spite
OF The visitation OF drouth in a snall
! portion of Alberta, Saskatchewan and
| Manitoba, many farmers are able to
report splendid crops. And these re-.
ports come from different sections
/ covering an area OF about 10000
| square miles. AS, for instance. at
| Laird, Saskatchewan, the crop returns
showed THAT j. Is. Peters had l2,800
| bushels from 320 acres, or ne2"ly 40
| bushels to the acre. In the Blaine
! Lake district the fields ranged from
| 10 to 30 bushels per acre, Ben Crews
having 1,150 bushels from "a acres;
Edmond Trotter 1900 bushels off 80
acres, while fields OF 80 bushels We're
common. On poorly cultivated fields
but 10 bushels we're reported.
In Foam Lake (Sask.) district 100
bushels OF oats to the acre We're Sc
cured by Angus Robertson, d. McRae
and G. H. Hart, while the average
was 50. In wheat 80 bushels to the
acre were quite common on the newer
land. but off Is acres oil land cult
waited for the past three years George
e. Wood secured 495 bushels. Mr..
James Traynor, near Regina (ssasll.)
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 we'll satisfied
Arthur somers of Strathclair
threshed 100 acres, averaging % bush
els to the acre. Thomas Foreman, of
Milestone, threshed IL, 900 bushels of
wheat, and 1000 bushels OF flax off
500 acres of land. w Weatherstone,
of Strathclair, threshed 5000 bushels
of oats from Sc acres. John Con.
.illa, OF Gillies, about twenty five miles
west OF Rosthern, Sask., had $50 bush.
els from 3 acres OF wheat. Mr. Con.
zilla's general average of crop was
over 40 bushels to the acre. Ben
Cruise. Il ncghbor, averaged 40 bush
els to the acre from % acres W. A.
Rose. of the Walderheim district,
threslcd 5000 bushels of wheat from
$40 acres, an average of % bushels,
100 acres was on summer fallov and
averaged SO bushels. He had also an
average OF 90 bushels OF oats to the
acre ON Il 50-acre field. VIM Lehman,
who has a farm close to Rosthern.
had an average of 81 bushels to the
acre OF 90 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 4SAs 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 was uncommonly good and
the hundred mark was passed. VIM
Craig had yield of oats from meas.
ured plot, which gave 107 bushels and
20 lbs per acre.
Albert Tesley, of Olds (Alberta)
threshed 100-acre field which yielded
lO1 bushels of oats per acre, and .]o-
sepl. Mccartney had large field
equally good. AT Cupar (Sask.) oats
threshed so bushels TO the acre. On
the Traquairs farm at Cupar, d five,
acre plot OF Marquis wheat yielded "a
bushels TO the acre, while Laurence
Barlnel had 81 bushels of Red Fife 70
the acre. AT Wordsworth, Reeder
Bros wheat averaged 334 bushels to
the acre, and W. McMillan's 80. Viii.
liam lNratYt OF Alix (AlbertaD threshed
l,O42 bushels OF winter wheat Off 1924
acres, or about 53 bushels to the acre.
John i.aycroft OF Dinton. near High
River. Alberta, had over LOO bush.
els OF spring wheat from so acres.
e. F. Knipe, near Lloydminster,
Saskatchewan, had 800 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 80 bushels OF
wheat to the acre.
McWhirter Bros. and John McBain
of Redvers, Saskatchewan. had %
bushels of wheat to the acre. John
Kennedy, east of the Horse Mills
district near Edmonton, from 4(
acres nf spring wheat got 1,767 bush
els, or IA bushels to the acre.
j. e. Vanderburgh, near Dayslow
Alberta, threshed four thousand bush
els of wheat from 100 acres. Mr.
Darcy, near there, threshed ten thou
sand and tifty-eight bushels (machine
measure) OF wheat from five hundred
acres, and out of this only sixty acres
was new land.
At Fleming, Sask.. A Winters
wheat averaged 80 bushels to the acre
| and several others report heav,
| yields. Mr. Winters crop was not OF
summer fallow. but on a piece of lane
| broken in 1882 and said to be the frs
| broken in the Fleming district.