The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1914-01-15
ALBERTA CROP YIELDS

At Macleod, Alta, weather condi-
dons were excellent all through the
season. Ninety per cent. of the wheat
up to Oct. LIST graded No. !, the only
No. being fall wheat. The yield
ranged from 20 to 40 bushels per acre,
with an average Of 49, Oats yielded
we'll, and barley about 60 bushels.
1nverary is a new district in Alber-
ia. Here wheat graded No. 2 and
some of it went so bushels to the acre,
oats going about Is bushels.
Lethbridge correspondent says: I'm
the Monarch district the yield on sum-
mer fallow is averaging thirty-tlve
bushels, large percentage No.
northern"
"All spring grains are yielding bet
ter than expected in the Milk river
district, south. A 300 acre field of
Marquis wheat gave 411a bushels.
Experimental farm results on grain
sown on irrigated land place Red Fife
wheat in the banner position, with a
yield of $40 bushels per acre. Oats
yielded 1872 bushels to the acre.
"John Turner of Lethbridge grew
barley that went 60 bushels to the
acre.
Red Fife averages in weight from
50 to GO pounds, and at Rosthern the
Marquis wheat will run as high as Ga
pounds to the bushel, while a sample
of Marquis wheat at Arcola weighed
no less than 68 pounds to the bushel.
This variety is grading No. hard"
Calgary, Alta. Oct. S.-The prob
lem Of handling Alberta's big grain
crop is becoming serious one, and
there is a congestion at many points
in southern Alberta. One thousand
cars could be used Immediately. The
G. P. R. prepared for a normal year,
while the yield of grain was every
where abnormal, with an increased
acreage of about % per cent.
Moose Jaw. Sask., returns show
some remarkable yields.
Bassano, Alta. Sept. Is, 13.-1ndi-
vidual record crops grown in Alberta
include 1900 acre field of spring wheat
grown near Bassano which went thir-
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ed sixty-six pounds to the bushel
Noble, Alta, Oct. /, 13.-All records
for the largest shipment of grain by
one farmer will be broken this year
It the estimate Of G. s. Noble of Noble,
Alberta, proves correct. Mr.. Noble
has notified the Canadian Pacific Rail.
way here that he will have 100000
bushels of grain, chiefly barley and
oats, ready for shipment very short
",
L. Anderson Smith, writing to a
friend in the Old Country. located at
Killam, Alberta, Says:
anyone taking up land will find Al
berta an ideal province. The soil is a
rich black loan, varying from 6 to II
inches IL depth. The land here in
this district is not wholly open prairie.
At intervals. sometimes closely, some
times widely scattered, there are
small plots of poplar and willows.
These generally grow round some
small depression in the land. and the
snow drifts here in the winter and
melts in the spring filling these
sloughs (province "slews") with soft
water. Nearly all these sloughs have
old buffalo tracks to them, for 1t was
from them that they always got their
water. The poplars are very useful
for building barns and hen-houses.
Wild grasses are plentiful, while tame
grasses, such as timothy, bronze and
western rye grass do remarkably well.
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