The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1911-02-23
WINNIPEG, MANITOBA,
The GREATEST WHEAT
MARKET ON THE con-
HNEM
REMARKABLE YIELDS or WHEAT,
OATS, BARLEY And FLAX IN
WESTERN CANADA LAST
YEAR.

year were s88, 269, $3.50 bushels, as com.
pared with the Minneapolis receipts
Of 81.l11,41o bushels, this placing Win.
nipeg at the head OF the wheat re-
ceiying markets of the continent. Fol-
lowing mp this information it is found
that the yields throughout the prov
tnces OF Manitoba, Saskatchewan and
Alberta, AZ 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 Redyers. Sask., Jens Hortness
threshad about 80 acres Of wheat, av-
eraging 20 bushels to the acre. Near
E~lphmstone. Sask., many of. the crops
Of oats would run to nearly 100 bush
els to the acre. ANT. Muir had about
200 acres of this grain and he esti-
mates the yield at about so bushels
per acre. Wheat went s. bushels to
the acre on the farm Of Mr.. A. Loucks,
near Wymyard, Sask.. in the fall Of
1910. Z. Erickson had 81 and p.
Boiyason II. In the Dempster MANI
district last year, wheat went from
rs to 80 bushels per acre. Fifteen
acres on the Mackenzie & Mann farm
today went ,forty-three bushels to the
acre. In the Wainwright and Battle
river districts yields Of wheat yer
aged for the district &c bushels to the
acre. N. B. Ness, of the Tofeld, Al
berta, district, got SO bushels and
% lbs. Of oats to the acre, while near
Montrose, over "a bushels of oats to
the acre vas 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 45 lbs. to
the bushel. A 22-acre field of spring
wheat on Johnson Bros farm near
Agricola yielded 401A bushels to the
acr Manitoba's record crop for 1910
was grown on MCMILLAN Bros; farm
near Westbourne, who have a total
crop Of 10000 bushels. netting $4,000
OFF 1900 acres. G.. w. Buchanan Of
Pincher Creek. Alberta, had 25h
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. r. 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 81 bushels to the acre. At
Elstow, Sask., the quantity Of wheat
to the acre ram, on the average, from
rs right up to 80 bushels per acre,
while oats in some cases yielded q
return of 70 to so bushels per acre,
with fax giving 10 to IA bushels per
acre.
W. G. Carnell had a yield of AZ
bushels per acre from six acres Of
breaking. Neil Callahan, two miles
northwest Of strome, had a yield Of
r. 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, II miles south of
Strome, had 10000 bushels of wheat
and oats from $50 acres. Part OF the
oats yielded 85 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. Q. A. S. McCulloch, one
mile northwest Of Strome, had some
.,,ao+ 4ha4 want Az h,1Shn1c m Tho
acre. j.. Blaser, q few miles south
west of Strome, threshed 1853 bushels
Of wheat from 7 acres. Among the
good grain yields at Macklin, Alberta,
reported are: D. N. Tweedle, % bush.
els to the acre; John Curtin, "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 thai
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 81 bushels per acre
from summer fallow, and George
Young 5000 bushels from 100 acres O.
stubble and fallow, or an average o.
3S IL bushels to the acre. Arch Nor
ton got $500 bushels of red fife from
l60 acres. James Russell got 8,70t
bushels from stubble and late break
ing, an average Of 23k bushels.
At Rosthern Jacob Friesen had q
bushels per acre from 80 acres O,
new land and an average over hi
whole farm of 21h bushels Of wheat
John Schultz threshed 4,400 bushels
from 100 acres, or "A bushels to th'
acre. John Lepp had 81 bushels pc
acre from 200 acres. A. B. Dirk hat
AZ bushels per acre from 25 acres
Robert Roe of Grand Coulee thTeshe'
as bushels to the acre from 420 acres
Sedley, Sask., is still another dis
trict that has cause to be proud o
the yields Of both wheat and faz
]. Cleveland got 80 bushels of whea
per acre IN 100 acres and 1S bushel