The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1911-03-16
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 a busi-
ness man, and In his stock-taktng he
will have found that he has had a
Baccessful 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 4
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 |
/ bughels from 320 acres, or nearly 40 /
bushels to the acre. In the Blaine
/ Lake district the fields ranged from
I 10 to so bushels per acre, Ben Crews
having 1.15O bushels from "a acres;
/ Edmond Trotter 1900 bushels OFF 30
acres, while fields Of 80 bushels were
common. On poorly cultivated fields
but 10 bushels We're reported.
In Foam Lake (Sask.) district 100
bushels of oats to the acre were Sc
cured By Angus Robertson, .. McRae
and G. II. Hart, while the average
was 50. I'm wheat 80 Bushels to tue
acre we're quite common ON the newer
\ land. but off IS acres of land culti-
i waited for the past three years George
u. Wood secured 495 bushels, Mr..
James Traynor, near Regina (S3ask.)
is still on the shady side oil thirty.
lie. had $4,000 bushels of grain last
year. half Of which was wheat. It's
market value was $4,000. He says
heis welg satisfied.
Arthur Somers of Stiatholair
threshed Te0 acres. averaging % bush"
els to, the acre. Thomas ForeTaHn, 9f
MiIestone. dhreshed IL 900 bushels of
wheat, and 5000 bushels of fax OF
600 acres OF land. w. Weatherstone,
of Strnthclair, threshed 5000 b1Shels'
of oats from 90 acres. John Son
] Ellld, OF hillltnt dbVhA NNNAAAf ~ y ---'A~~
west of Rosthern, Sask., had lS6 bush
els from acres of wheat. Mr.. Com
zilla's general average of crop was
over 40 bushels TO the acre. Ben
Cruise, q, neighbor, averaged 40 bash
els to thu acre from % acres. w A.
Rose. OF the Walderheim district,
threshed 5000 bushels of wheat from
' 240 acres, an average of 20 bushels,
100 acres was on summer fallow and
averaged 80 bushels. He had also' an
average Of 90 bushels Of oats to the
r acre OIL. 5O.acFo field. Wm. Lehman,
who has farm close to Rosthern
had an average OF q bushels to the
acre on. 50 acres Of summer fallow
Mr.. Nidsly, OF Rapid City tMan)
threshed 1000 bushels Of oats from
o acres.
a The yfsid OF tne different varietieI
l. OF wheat per ire at the Experimental
D Farm. RF1ndoa. was: Red Fife, p
3. bushels; White Fife, "a bushels; Pree
" tor 80 bushels; early Red Fife. 2
II bushels.
r The crops as the c. p. r. deInonstra
ton farms at Strathmore (Aiberta
~ ] DIONNh up W CADGNliAlbAAof AAAN -
variety oats yielding 110 bushels
In the acre. Al the farm two rCwed ha.
1t ley went 481a bushels to Che aur'
of Yields of from so bushels to 100 busl
OF els Of oats to the acre were quit
m common In the Sturgeon River Ssttl
an meRt near Edmonton (Alb2rta). Bl
last year was uncommonly good an
en- the hundred mark was passed WI
i'll Craig had a yield of oats from mea
ar ursd plot. which gave 107 bushels al
OF 2O,lbs per acre.
ay Albert Teskey, of Olds (Albert
ge tnreshed 100acre field which yield
re- lO1 bushels OF oats per acre. and
ng seph Mccartney had large Ne
be equally good. At CupRr (Sask) Oa
a threshed so bushels to the acre.
lch the Traquairs farm at Cupar, h'
I'm. acre plot of Marquis wheat yielded
ing bushels TO the acre, while Lauren
oat Bar1nel had 81 bushels of Red Fife
on the acre. At Wordsworth. Reed
sar. Bros wheat averaged 33h bAshels
'ith the acre. and w. McMillan's 50. "
ses liam Kraft of ALix (Albsrta) thresh
or f.042 bushels OF winter wheat off II
ita- acres, or about SO bushels 40 the &C
1 is John Laycroft of DLnton, near III
IN, River, Alberta, had over 1,lOO bu
All els OF spring wheat from so acres.
con- u. +. Knipe, near Lloydmins
ess' Saskatchewan, had 500 bushels
use, wheat from 20 acres. W. Metcalf
oi over 81 bushels TO -the acre, while
Henderson, who was hailed ba
: II had an average return of 80 bushels
al IN wheat to the acre.
lohu McWhirter Bros. and John Mob
l. 10 OF Redvers. Saskatchewan, had
bushels of wheat to the acre J
'u'u Kennedy. east Of the Horse n
but ulss'lN :, - I-.,,,, ,,.l,,ot yat 7s7 n
hout ",ies y, sp'ine "i.e"t 49,, e0S -, 49, =