The Penn's Grove record., 1915-12-17
WESTERN CANADES
WONDERFUL YIELD
Wheat Yields Reports Extra I
dinariIy Heavy.

When one hears of individual Wneat
yields of t~hirty-fve to forty bushels
per acre. there is considerable 1ncre'
dulity, but when yields, in whole
ships extending into districts covering
three and four and five hundred square
miles in area. of upwards of fifty and
some as high as sixty-tiVe bushels per
acre are reported, n 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 ard Alberta, 10
ascertain first hand their truthfuiness.
It was remarkable tc discover that
Dame Rumor was no rumorer after all,
that modesty was her Mantle thaI
all that had beer said of these yields
was true, and that yields OF over sew
enty bushels per acre were told OF.
These were so high that the truthrul-
ness of the story was doubtful anu
very little was said OF them. but
such there were, and not in n IN
stance. but in several, not in one To-
cality but scattered in places hun
dreds of miles apart. Leaving these
out altogether, there were large areas
In which the average was over nIty
bushels per acre, which in all COLL
mon sense ought to satisfy peo-
pie. One hundred and thirty thresn-
ers in Alberta have made their re-
turns to the local government as re-
uuired by an act of the Legislature,
and the average of the wheat threshed.
was ffty-three bushels to the acre. -
immense was the yield that ofnW
y%erification was required before givfA
It out to the public. Sitting in the
smoking compartment of a day coach,
where on passing through a farmlng
community, there may be gathered the
gossipy yarns of the "neighborhood'
one hears also a lot of news. just
now. the sole topic is that of the
crops. A man with more or less OF
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 at
Warner. Alberta. Taking out his pipe,
lighting it and then crossing his knees.
holding his chin in his hands, pos
sessing an air of supreme content
ment. and with an intelligent face, ne
looked the mar who could give some
information. And he was just the
man. He was a thresher and on MS
way to Milk River to secure some
more help. He was requisit1oned tor
information. Yes, a good season.
I've made a lot of money. AS for
yields, let's see," and then he began
to string them off. Peterson a %
bushels of wheat per acre on his nve
hundred acre farm; from $50 acres
Roland got IS bushels per acre; Bu-
gler had one hundred and ten acres
that went SO bushels; Carr a Do
bushels per acre off an eight hundr
acre field" And he gave others run
ming from So to &c bushels per acre.
All these people lived east of War
ner, Alberta. Looking out of the win
dow and seeing immense helds, still
covered with stocks he was asked
why they were not threshed, he re-
piled that there were not enough
rigs" in the district, and that they
would not get through before ChT1st-
mas. -
An American writing OF a trip he
made through Western Canada says:
81 went as far west as Saskatoon,
back to Regina, Moose Jaw, and Town
on the 500 line, and l must say that
l never saw such crops, or ever heard
of anything to compare with 1t in
any country on earth. The country
is over the hill, and certainly the farm
ers have a lot to be thankful for.
There are very few of them that
have lone their work and done it
properly but what have their debts
paid and have bank accounts left"
And he only travelled the skirt of
the country. The same story could
be written of any part OF any OF
three Observation-Disclosures.