The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1913-11-20
ANOTHER GOOD YEAR
IN WESTERN CANADA
MANITOBA, SASKATCHEWAN AND
ALBERTA HAVE SPLENDID
CROPS.

| The results of the threshipg
throughout Western Canada shows q
more wonderful yield than usual OF
wheat, oats, barley and fax, 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. 1t 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 Go 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 very heavy yielder
and kept up the reputation of Western
Canada as q producer of that cereal.
In many parts of the country the yield
OF max exceeded the earlier expecta.
lions, but in other parts, there was
some loss on account of winds blow
ing OF 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 q 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
ana homesteaded quarter section OF
land He now owns $50 acres of land,
clear or all membranes, and has
wheat, oats, barley and hay, as well
as 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
be repeated over and over again.
There is a Dane, named Key, east
or Saskatoon, whose oats this year
went 10 bushels to the acre, and his
wheat 40 bushels He has paid off
the mortgage on his farm, and now
contemplates q 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
mart II 60 AY1, e.
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 large scale and many opportuni.
ties offer for such in Western Canada,
also has Increased his bank account
farmer in Southern
Alberta raised 100000 bushels OF grain
In 1913, and made almost q fortune
out Of 1t. In Saskatchewan and IN
Manitoba Is to be heard the came
story OF what has been done by the
farmer working large area, which
be Is able to do successfully, by the
use OF improved farm machinery, en-.
lbling 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
,ast year, upwards of 100000 settlers
'rrived In Canada. the greater num-
Der OF whom went to the farm. There
ire still many thousands of home.
teads still available. capable of pro-
Iucing such crops and maintaining
UGH herds as has made rich men out
Il the thousands whose experiences
ould be reproduced were 1t neces.
ry.-Adver.isement