Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-02-14
EXCELLENT GRAIN
FIELDS In WESTERN
CANADA
YIELDS OF WHEAT AS HIGH AS
81 BUSHELS PER ACRE.


making of a new year, 1t is natural
to look back over the past one, for
the purpose of ascertaining what has
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 bust
ness man, and In his stock-taking he
will have found that he has bad
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 small
portion of Alberta, Saskatchewan and
Manitoba, many farmers are able to
repo=: 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 ]. 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 1850 bushels from "a acres;
Edmond Trotter 1000 bushels off 30
acres, while fields of 80 bushels were
common. On poorly cultivated fields
but Is 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. H. Hart, while the average
was IS. In wheat 80 bushels to the
acre we're quite common on the newer
land, but off Is acres of land cult
waited for the past three years George
E. Wood secured 495 bushels. Mr.
James Traynor, near Regina (Sask)
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 well satisfied.
Arthur Somers OF Strathclair
threshed 100 acres, averaging 25 bush
els to the acre. Thomas Foreman, of
Milestone, threshed 1900 bushels of
wheat, and 5000 bushels of flax off
600 acres of land. w. Weatherstone,
of oats from 90 acres. John Con
zilla, of GiI!ies, 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, a neighbor, averaged 40 bush
els to the acre from % acres. w. A.
i
threshed 5000 bushels of wheat from
$40 acres, an average of % bushels,
100 acres was on summer fallow and
averaged 33 bushels. He had also an
average of 60 bushels Of oats to the
acre on a 50-acre field. VIM. Lehman,
who has a farm close to Rosthern,
had an average Of 81 bushels to the
acre on 60 acres of summer fallow.
Mr. Midsly, 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, 2S
bushels; White Fife, "a bushels; Pres
ton, 30 bushels; early Red Fife, q
bushels
The crops at the c. r. r. demonstra.
ton farms at Strathmore (AlbeTta)
proved up to expectations, the Swedish
variety oats yielding ITO bushels tc
the acre. AT the farm two rowed bar
ley went 49, bushels to the acre
Yields of from so bushels to 100 bush
els of oats to the acre were quite
n,
ment near Edmonton (Alberta). Blu
last year was uncommonly good anC
the hundred mark was passed. VIM
Craig had yield of oats from a meas
ured plot, which gave 107 bushels and
20 lbs per acre.
Albert Tesl1ey, of Odds alberta
threshed 10C-acre field which yielded
101 bushels of oats per acre. and 10
seph Mccartney had large field
equally good AT Cupar (Sask.a oats
threshed 80 bushels to the acre. On
the Traquairs farm at Cupar, FIVE
acre plot of Marquis wheat yielded 81
bushels to the acre, while Laurence
Barknel had 81 bushels of Red Fife tc
the acre. AT Wordsworth. ReedeI
Bros wheat averaged 1914 bushels tc
the acre, and w. McMillan's 50. vii
liam Kraft Of Alix (Alberta) threshed
1,042 bushels of winter wheat OF l9%
acres, or about SO bushels to the acre
John Laycroft of Dinton, near Higf
River, Alberta. had over 1,10e bush
els of spring wheat from so acres.
E. F. Knipe. near Lloydminster
Saskatchewan. had 500 bushels o.
wheat from 20 acres. w. Metcah hat
over 81 bushels to the acre, while
Henderson, who was hailed badly
had an average return of 80 bushels o.
wheat to the acre.
McWhirter- Bros and John McBain
of Redvers, Saskatchewan. had 2;
bushels of wheat TO the acre. Johr
Kennedy. east of the Horse Mills
district near Edmonton. from AZ
acres of spring wheat got 1,767 bush
els, or IA bushels 10 the acre
j. j. Vanderburgh, near Dayslow
Alberta. threshed four thousand bush
els of wheat from 10 acres. Mr.
Darcy near there. threshed ten thou
sand and fifty-eight bushels (machint
measure4 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 heavy
yields Mr. Winters crop was not on
summer fallowT. but on piece OF land
broken in 1884, and said to be thesirst
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