River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-11-20
ANOTHER GOOD YEAR
IN WESTERN CANADA
MANITOBA, SASKATCHEWAN AND
ALBERTA HAVE SPLENDID
CROPS.

The results OF the threshing
throughout Western Canada shows
more wonderful yield than usual of
wheat, oats, barley and flax, all of
which was harvested and threshed in
perfect order. Not only was the av.
erage yield excellent over the entire
country, but the quality was of the
highest standard. Without going into
figures, it is sufficient to say that
wheat graded almost universally very
near the top. Reports are to hand
showing yields of wheat from many
fields which averaged forty bushels
per acre, and weighing 65 pounds to
the measured bushel. Oats were very
heavy, running from fifty to one hun
dred and fifteen bushels to the acre.
Barley also was a very heavy yielder
and kept up the reputation of Western
Canada as producer of that cereal.
In many parts of the country the yield
of fax exceeded the earlier expecta-
lions, but in other parts, there was
some loss on account of winds blow
ing off the boil. Hundreds of farm
erS who have only been in the country
three or four years, with but little
means when they arrived, will, out OF
the crop of this year, clean up all their
indebtedness, and be able to put some
thing aside for further improvements
on their farms and homes which are
now freed of incumbrance. The writ
er has just heard. of the experience
of a man in the Battleford district
that is worth repeating. He went to
the district seven or eight years ago,
with no money, worked for time, got
team of horses, did some freighting
and homesteaded a quarter section of
land. He now owns $50 acres of land,
clear of all membranes, and has
wheat, oats, barley and hay, as well
as a good number of horses, cattle and
hogs, feeding rough grain to the stock.
He is a firm believer in mixed farming.
The fifty dollars that he first earned
in the country has now increased to
$4,000. He has never had a crop
failure. Instances of this kind could
DO repeated over and over again.
There is a Dane, named Key, east
of Saskatoon, whose oats this year
went ITO bushels to the acre, and his
wheat 40 bushels. He has paid off
the mortgage on his farm, and now
contemplates a trip to Denmark, to
visit his old home. He has no more
| cares or worries, but is anxious to
have more of his people settle in that
part. 1t is not only the farmer with
limited means and small area of land
who is doing WELL and has done won
derfully in Western Canada this year,
but the man with means, the man who
is able to conduct successful farming
on a large scale and many opportuni-
ties offer for such in Western Canada,
also has increased his bank account
handsomely. A farmer in Southern
Alberta raised $4,000 bushels of grain
in 1913, and made almost a fortune
out of it. In Saskatchewan and in
| Manitoba is to be heard the same
story Of what has been done by the
farmer working a large area, which
he is able to do successfully, by the
use Of improved farm machinery, en-
abling him to cut hundreds of acres
day, and pillow the land Immediately
with large traction outfits. No better
recommendation could be given the
country than the fact that during the
past year, upwards of 100000 settlers
arrived in Canada. the greater num-
Der of whom went to the farm. There
are still many thousands of home
steads still available, capable of pro-
ducing such crops and maintaining
such herds as has made rich men out
of the thousands whose experiences
could be reproduced were it neces-
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