Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1915-11-19

Manitoba" said a Traveller tro,,
East, is that all the horses and 10
and all the threshing macbin 'Vana
gagged make no impression en-
crops. and that it win take siv VI VI lAs
to thresh the grain out. h.. u'as
weeks ago the Canadian pacis. Two
way were having a daily sbinn. tst
LOO cars of wheat from tho
provinces, and a week ago H. 'ulss
got up to 2,1OO cars a day Az lad
sides this there is the Canadian NJ.
ern railway and the Grand Trnn %i's
cific, so an enormous quantitv
be being shipped out of the nror;- LUZ
The Weather farmers are hnnS,
large granaries on their farms m4a
there is a great Improvement il u'
storage facilities provided by tbo ~. ~
eminent" SU'
1t is therefore no wonder tbot =.
greatest interest was shown bv ~. ~
who attended the Soil Prodncts 4S "
position held at Denver a. short .s
ago, when it was demonstrated ths' '
was not only in quantity that Wa.ts,
Canada still occupied the primary ~
sition, 1t was there that We.,a'.
Canada again proved its suprom.aa
In wheat, it was early conceded tSs
Canada would be winner and th'
was easily the case, not only did !, ~,S
the big prize, but it carried of n.
sweepstakes. What, however To tbo,.
who were representing Canada at MI,
exposition, was of greater value Drob,
bly,, was winning first and second Ori,.
for alfalfa. The exhibits were beaui
full and pronounced by old aIfalt,
growers to be the best they had eva,
seen. First, second and third cutting,
of this years growth were shown
At this same exposition, there wpr
shown some excellent samples Of fd.
der corn, grown in the Swift Curreu,
district.
Topping the range cattle market IN
Chicago short time ago is another N
the feats accomplished by Western
Canada this year.
On Wednesday, October IS, Clsy
Robinson and company sold at Chi
cago for E. H. MaunseIl, Macleod. Az
berta, a consignment of cattle, II head
of which, averaging 1,42O pounds
brought $3.50 per hundredweight, tOp
ping the range cattle market for hs
week to date The same firm also
sold for Mr.. Maunsell 206 head, aver
aging 1,240 pounds, at $8.55, without
throwout. These were all grass cat
tie. They were purchased by Armour
and company. Clay, Robinson and
company describe the cattle as Of
very nice quality, in excellent cOndE
ton, and great credit to Mr.. Maun
sell. 1t speaks we'll for our Canadian
cattle raisers that they can prOduG
stock good enough to top the Chicago
market against strong competition
there being over 1000 range cattle Oh
sale that day.
It is one thing to produce crops
such as are referred to, and anOthG
to get them to market. The facilities
of Western Canada are excellent The
railway companies, of which there are
three, the Canadian Pacific, the Cana
dian Northern and the Grand Trunk
Pacific, have the mark of efficiency
stamped upon all their work. Besides
the main trunk lines of these systems
which extend from ocean to ocean
there are branch lines and lateaS
feeders which enter into remote pSTA
of the farming districts, and give %
the farmer immediate access to tls
worlds grain markets. The elevator
capacity of the country is something
enormous, and if the figures can
digested, the full extent of the gram
producing powers of Western CansaS
may be realized. The total eleVsla
capacity is about 17O,OOO,OOO OusnsA
or nearly one-half of the entire Vlea
production of the Dominion IN Hl4
OF this large storage facilities Ia'
country elevators number 2,SUO WIN
a capacity of 95,O00,OOO bushelS'-@
vertisement.