Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1915-11-20
WESTERN CANADA
CONTINUES TO WIN
The 1915 Yield of Grain Keeps
Western Canada to the Front.


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 sur
hcient Of it has been threshed so that
It Is no longer matter of estimate as
TO the returns. It is safe to say that
the entire yield of wheat will be up
wards Of 275.000.000 bushels, and the
average yield well over 25 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. 1
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 300.000,0OO
production of wheat in 1915 had the
system been universal.
1t was not in 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 in
which the growing of wheat is car
ried on.
Mr.. Elmir Seller, a farmer south Of
Strassburg, Sask., has harvested 5,465
bushels No. l 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 SO bushels to the acre.
j. 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 80 acres of wheat which gave a
yield of AZ bushels to the acre.
Well, then, near Gleichen, Alberta,
D. H. Engle of Humboldt, Iowa, owns
a quarter section of land This land
was rented so that Mr.. Engle should
receive one-third of the crop, and this
gave him $61265, his net rental for
the crop. and there was only so acres
in crop.
Scores of reports give yields fully
as large as those given above
large field of spring wheat near Leth.
bridge averaged SO bushels. another So
and a third Sc bushels per acre. On
the Jail farm at Lethbridge 25 acres
of Marquis wheat yielded 60 bushels to
the acre and weighed 81 pounds to the
bushel. A test lot Of one acre OF Mar
quis wheat when threshed yielded SO
bushels and a 80 acre field averaged
so 1-S bushels This farm had 200
acres under crop to Marquis wheat
and it 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 So 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
withstanding the duty of ten cents
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 a hundred
thousand bushels of the 1915 crop has
found its way to the Minneapolis. Du-
luth. St. Louis and other markets
It was not in wheat alone that there
were extraordinary yields. A farmer
living south of Wadena, Sask.. har-
vested 900 bushels of oats from ten
acres. S. A. Tofthagen of Daysland
before referred to had oats which
Welded no bushels to the acre. while
those of ]. N. Wagner went 80 bush
els to the acre.
AS is pointed out by Toronto pa
per Canadas great good fortune and
splendid service as the Granary Of the
Empire are revealed in the iecord
harvest from her rich fields OF wheat
and other grains The foundation OF
its prosperity is solid and enduring.
While mines may be exhausted and
lumber may disappear through i'm
provident management, agriculture is
a perpetual source of wealth, increas-
ing from year to year by the stimulus
OF individual industry and personal in
terest. A wheat LArvest of 336, 250. 600
bushels from 1S,000.000 acres. an av-
erage yield Of &c bushels TO the acre.
The substantial nature Of this growth
in production is shown by the fact
that the harvest returns are p per
cent greater than the average for the
past FIVE years.
The same satisfactory and highly
important success has been attained
in other grain crops. The aggregate
WELD of oats is 4Sl .035, 500 bushels
from, the 1l.365.00O acres under crop.