Charlevoix county herald., 1911-03-11
excellent GRAIN
FIELDS IN WESTERN
CANADA
YIELDS OF WHEAT AS HIGH AS
81 BUSHELS PER ACRE.

| u IOOh DdCh over tue past one, iOI
the purpose OF ascertaining what has
been done. The business man and
the farmer have taken stock, and
both, il they are keen in business de-
tail and interest, know exactly their
financial position. The farmer of
Western Canada is generally busi-
ness man, and in his stock-taking he
will have found that he has had
successful year. On looking over
number of reports sent from various
| quarters, the writer finds that in spite
of the visitation OF drouth in small
| 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 $4,000
| square miles. AS, for instance, at
Laird, Saskatchewan, the crop returns
showed that j. B. Peters had 1880
bushels from 800 acres, or nearly 40
bushels to the acre. In the Blaine
Lake district the fields ranged from
10 to so bushels per acre, Ben Crews
| having 1,l50 bushels from "a acres;
Edmond Trotter 1000 bushels off 30
acres, while fields of 80 bushels were
common. On poorly cultivated fields
but ID bushels were 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 50. In wheat 80 bushels to the
acre were quite common on the newer
land. but off 10 acres Of land cult
waited for the past three years George
Z. Wood secured 495 bushels. Mr..
James Traynor. near Regina (Sask.)
is still on the shady side of thirty.
lie had $4,000 bushels Of grain last
year. half OF which was wheat. It's
market value was $4,000. He says
lie is well satisfied.
Arthur Somers of Strathclair
threshed 100 acres, averaging % bush
els to the acre. Thomas Foreman, of
Milestone, threshed II 900 bushels of
wheat, and 5000 bushels of flax off
500 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 acres of wheat. Mr. Con
Zilla's general average of crop was
over 40 bushels TO the acre. Ben
Cruise. a neighbor. averaged A. bush
els to the acre from % 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 SO bushels. lie had also an
average OF CO bushels Of oats to the
acre on 50-acre field. VIM Lehman,
who has a farm close TO Rosthern,
had an average of q bushels to the
acre on 60 acres OF summer fallow.
Mr.. Midsky. of Rapid City Man)
threshed 1000 bushels of oats from
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, SO 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 10 bushels to
the acre. At the farm two rowed bar
ley went 4S1a 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 yield of oats from a meas
ured plot, which gave 107 bushels and
90 lbs. per acre.
Albert Teskey, of Odds (Alberta)
threshed 10O-acre field which yielded
1O1 bushels Of oats per acre, and Jo-
seph Mccartney had large field
equally good. At Cupar (Sask) oats
threshed 80 bushels to the acre. On
the Traquairs farm at Cupar, a five
acre plot of Marquis wheat yielded 81
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
l,042 bushels of winter wheat off 19A
acres, or about SO bushels to the acre.
John Laycroft of Dinton, near High
River, Alberta, had over LOO bush
els of spring wheat from 80 acres.
Z. +. 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 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 40
acres of spring wheat got 1877 bush
els. or Al bushels 10 the acre.
]. z. Vanderburgh. near Dayslow,
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