Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-11-18
WESTERN CANADA
CONTINUES TO WIN
The 1915 Yield of Grain Keeps
Western Canada to the Front.

The great publicity that has been
given to the grain yields of the Prov
inces of Manitoba. Saskatchewan and
Alberta, the three provinces that COM
prise that portion of Western Canada
east of the British Columbia boundary,
has kept Canada to the front with
prominence that is merited.
| The grain crop of the three prov
inces has now been harvested, and suf
| ficient of 1t has been threshed so that
1t is no longer a matter of estimate as
to the returns. 1t is safe to say that
the entire yield of wheat will be up
wards of 275.0000O0 bushels. and the
average yield well over rs bushels per
acre. In proportion to the aggregate
this is perhaps the largest yield ever
known on the continent
| Most Of this wheat will grade No
northern, and better, and with pres
ent prices the condition of the farm
er is to be envied. Many individual
yields are reported, and verified, and
they are almost beyond belief, but
they go to show that under the care
full system of agriculture that pro-
duced these yields Western Canada
would have far exceeded 300,000,000
production of wheat in 1915 had the
system been universal.
| II was not I'm one or two districts
that big yields have been made known.
The reports come from all parts OF
the $4,000 square miles OF territory I'm
which the growing of wheat is car
| ried on.
Mr. Ermir Seller farmer south OF
Strassburg, Sask. has harvested 5,4G5
| bushels No. / hard wheat from 100
| acres.
Jas. A. Benner, near Daysland. Al
berta. says his wheat went over 40
bushels to the acre, with an all round
crop of 33 bushels to the acre.
]. n Wagner, near the same place.
also lays claim to over 40 bushels of
wheat per acre.
A Norwegian farmer, named s. A.
| Tofthagen, not far from Daysland.
| had 90 acres of wheat which gave a
yield of Al bushels to the acre.
Well, then, near GTeichen. Alberta.
| u. f. Epgle Of Humboldt, Iowa. owns
a quarter section of land. This land
was rented so that Mr.. Engie should
receive one-third Of the crop, and this
| gave him s612,65 his net rental for
the crop, and there was only 80 acres
| in crop.
| Scores of reports give yields fully
as large as those given above. A
| large field of spring wheat near Leth-
bridge averaged SO bushels, another So
| and third sc bushels per acre. On
| the Jail farm at Lethbridge Is acres
of Marquis wheat yielded SO bushels to
the acre and weighed CT pounds to the
bushel. A test lot of one acre Of Mar
/ auis wheat when threshed yielded 80
bushels and 80 acre field averaged
| so 1-3 bushels. This farm had 200
acres under crop to Marquis wheat
| and 1t Is expected the average from
the whole will exceed SO bushels.
In all portions of Saskatchewan and
| Manitoba. as we'll, remarkable yields
| are reported. many large fields show
ing averages of from 40 to IS bushels
| per acre.
| When the story of this years thresh
ing is completed some extraordinary
| yields will be heard Of. One farmer
| west of Unity. Saskatchewan. threshed
| 10000 bushels OF No. northern from
| 200 acres and such instances will not
be isolated.
Considerable of the wheat grown In
| Western Canada is finding its way to
the markets of the United States, not.
per bushel The miller in the United
States finds Western Canadian wheat
necessary for the blending OF the high
| class -four that is demanded by some
millers Already nearly hundred
thousand bushels of the 1915 crop has
found its way to the Minneapolis. Du
luth, St. Louis and other markets.
1t was not in wheat alone that there
were extraordinary yields. A farme,
living south of Wadena. Sask. har
vested 800 bushels of oats from ter
acres. S. A. Tofthagen Of Daysland
before referred to had oats which
yielded ITO bushels to the acre. while
those of j. n. Wagner went 80 bush
els to the acre.
As is pointed out by Toronto pa
per Canada's great good fortune and
splendid service as the Granary of the
Empire are revealed in the record
harvest from her rich fields of wheat
and other grains. THE foundation o.
its prosperity is solid and enduring
While mines may be exhausted ant
lumber may disappear through i'm
provident management. agriculture |:
perpetual source of wealth. increas
Ing from year to year by the stimuli:
of individual industry and personal in
,erest 4 wheat harvest of 33e.25o, oot
bushels frun $4,000 600 acres. an av
erage yield o. 20 bushels to the acre
The substantial nature of this growth
In production Is shown by the fac