Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1911-03-02
WESTERN CANADA
COUNTING ITS GOLD
THE GRAIN CROP OF 1910 WAS A
GOOD PAYING ONE.

GOOD PAYING ONE.
Crop conditions throughout the west
OF Canada were not ideal. but iiotti~;!!t.A..=
standing there were excellent crops.
Reports come from different parts to
the agents of the Canadian govern
ment, whose literature tells a good
part Of the story, that the crops in
most places were splendid.
At Castor, Alta, F. Galloway's cat
crop threshed IS bushels to the acre.
machine measure, and "A bushels by
weight. Alex Robertson Of Delisle.
Alta, had 20 bushels to the acre on
! S75 acres. w. & II. Clark, II BUSH
els to the acre on II acres. Sheldon
Ramsey. 20 bushels on $50 acres.
j. Lane threshed $500 bushels of 200
acres: ]. Hamilton. $500 bushels off
264 acres. Mrs. Headley had an av-
erage Of 25 bushels per acre on 100
acres. Chambers Bros. got 1920
bushels off $50 acres.
Fertile Valley district, G. Rollo, had
an average OF 25 bushels to the acre
on total crop Of 10000 bushels. E.
Brown of Pincher Creek had a yield
Of 80 bushels on his winter wheat;
w. Walker, Miss Walker and John
Goberts all had an average yield of
25 bushels; Mr.. Fitzpatrick. %. and
Mr.. Freebairn, 20. Charles Nelson
Of Bon Accord, Alberta. had thrcshed
his crop of 5000 bushels of grain.
n,hoat 10 Nd 1>or
acres Of old ground
VIM. Logan of Bon Accord is re-
ported to have threshed 400 bushels
of wheat from acres OF new break
ing. His oats 1t is said yielding over
100 bushels to the acre. Robert Mar
tin Of Belbeck. Sask., from 100 acres
got 3.74G bushels Of wheat Geo. A.
Campbell of Caron. Sask.. from 1870
acres summer fallow got 40 bushels
per acre. and from SO acres stubble
got "A bushels per acre. Ono Of the
farmers Of Colonsay threshed out So
bushels of wheat per acre from $50
acres summer fallow. and another SO
bushels per acre. James Glen Of
Drinkwater. Sask. had 361s bushels
per acre; 40 acres summer fallow,
81 bushels per acre; 40 acres stubble,
q bushels per acre; total, $3.50
bushels off 200 acres. Abe Winters
of Fleming has SO bushels of wheat
per acre. At Goyan, Benjamin Arm
strong had SO bushels to the acre.
John Glumlin. "a bushels. Charles
Latta, 80 bushels. j. K. Taylor, So
bushels. w. Small, 1000 bushels on
80 acres. ]. F. Moore. $500 bushels
on 215 acres. j. MacLean, 1900 BUSH
els on G3 acres. w. Hopwood, 1850
bushels on GO acres. w. Gray, $50
bushels on 80 acres. w. Curtin. $50
bushels on 80 acres. John Meyers,
Jr.. of Grand Coulee, reports 34A
bushels to the acre. P P. Epp of
Langham. Sask., has 35 1-3 bushels per
acre. ]. j. Thiessen. 81 bushels per
acre. Chris Dear. 25 bushels per
acre from 80 acres. VIM. Thiessen.
1S1a bushels from 100 acres. P. P.
Schultz, 1S bushels per acre from 100
acres. Robt. H. Virgins of Manor.
Sask., had SO bushels wheat and Is
bushels of oats per acre. Fred Cobb,
80 bushels Of wheat and Is bushels of
oats per acre. Jack Robinson, 90
bushels Of wheat per acre. VIM Kin
del OF Milestone. Sasll. had 3S bush
els of wheat per acre. R. j. Moore,
40 bushels of wheat per acre. Martin
Roddy. SO bushels OF wheat per acre.
j. d. Sifton of Moose Jaw had 81
bushels wheat per scre; oats. 50 bush
els per acre; flax, IL bushels to the
acre. John l.. Smith of New Warren
had 50 bushels of wheat per acre. At
Regina II. w. Laird had 50 bushels
TO the acre; w. II. Duncan, wheat, %
bushels to the acre, flax, 1G bushels;
e. M. Bell, wheat, 50 bushels to the
acre. oats. 70 bushels; o. Il. Rothwell.
% bushels to the acre; j. McKinnis,
wheat. % bushels summer fallow; 20
bushels stubble; oats, 80 bushels; J.
S. Mooney, 81 bushels of wheat; so
bushels oats on stubble. At Tessies.
VIM. Nesbitt had AZ bushels wheat TO
the acre. Sep. Latrace, "a bushels.
Thos. Miller, 81 bushels. These were
all on summer fallow. Major Bros
stubble went Id. At Tuxford, Sask.,
G. b. Dunning had 81 bushels James
Balm. Al bushels summer fallow At
Yellow Grass, VIM. Robson. off one
half section, had As bushels wheat to
the acre, and 81 bushels oil another
averaged 81 bushels to the acre. Geo.
Steer, off twenty-acre field, threshed
half. M. A. Wilkinson. off 100 acres.
OF bushels wheat to the acre. His
whole crop averaged over 40. Jas.
A. r. Cameron's half section averaged
over 36 bushels to the acre. d. Nc
Nevan, who has two farms, averaged
about 40 bushels. W. A. Cooper got
AZ bushels to the acre off II acres;
his whole crop went about 40. John
Murray 30 per acre. Of $50 acres.
Hockey Bros. IS per acre of half
section. w. Ransom. 35 per acre of
the Cathcert farm. N. Dunno, 80 to
the nora rr,n4 49,