The Arvada enterprise. (Arvada, Colo.) 1908-1970, 1915-12-16
WESTERN CANADA'S
WONDERFUL YIELD
Wheat Yields Reports Extraor.
dinari|y Heavy.

When one hears of individual wheat
yields OF thirty-tive to forty bushels
per acre, there is considerable mere
dulity, but when yields. in whole town
ships extending into districts covering
three and four and five hundred square
miles in area. of upwards of fifty and
some as high rs siXty.iive bushels per
acre are reported, one is led to put
his ear to the ground to listen for fur
Their rumblings. The writer having
heard of these wonderful yields made
a trip through the provinces of Mani
toba. Saskatchewan and Alberta, TO
ascertain first hand their truthfulncss
1t was remarkable to discover that
Dame Rumor was no rumorer after all,
that modcsty was her mantle, That
all that had been said of these yields
was true, and that yields of over sew
enty bushels per acre were told or
These were so high that the truthful
ness of the story was doubtful and
very little was said OF them. But
such there were, and not in one In
stance, but in several, not in one 10.
cality but scattered in places hun
dreds of miles apart. Leaving these
out altogether, there were large areas
in which the average was over hity
bushels per acre, which in all COM
mon sense ought to satisfy most poo'
pie One hundred and thirty thresh'
ers In Alberta have made their re-
turns to the local government as re-
l., . l,n I .
and tho average of the wheat threshcd
was fifty-thrce bushels to the acre. so
immense was the yield that oiiicial
veriiication was required before giving
1t out to the public. Sitting In the
smoking compartment of day coach,
where on passing through farming
community, there may be gathered the
gossipy yarns of the neighborhood.
one hears also n lot of news. Just
now, the sole topic Is that OF the
crops. A man with more or less or
a hirsute appendage. smock, clothes
and hands giving the appearance OF
one working in the field, was asked
as to the crops. He had got on Mt
Warner, Alberta. Taking out his pipe,
lighting 1t and then crossing his knees.
holding his chin In his hands. pos
sessing an air Of supreme content
ment. and with an intelligent face. he
looked the man who could give some
information. And he was Just tho
man. He was a thresher and on his
way to Milk River to secure some
more help. He was rcGuisitioned for
information Yes, n good season.
I've made lot OF money. AS Tor
yields. let's see," and then he began
to string them on Peterson had 63
bushels of wheat per acre on his i've
hundred acre farm; from $50 acres
Roland got G5 bushels per acre: Bu-
sler had ono hundred and ten acres
that went GO bushels; Carr had 6h
bushels per acre OFF an eight hundred
acre field" And he gave others run
ming from IS to &C bushels per acre.
All these people lived east OF War
ner, Alberta. Looking out OF the win
dow and seeing immense fields, still
covered with stocks he was asked
why they were not thrcshcd, he re-
piled that there were not enough
rigs" in the district, and that they
would not get through before Christ
mas.
An American writing Of trip he
made through Western Canada says:
81 went as far west az Saskatoon.
back to Regina, Moose Jaw. and down
on the 500 line. and | must say that
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