Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-11-19

| Manitoba" said traveller from tue
Fast els that all the horses and teams
and all the threshing macnlnes GU
gagged make no impression on tn0
crons. and that it will take six montnS"
to thresh the grain out; out WV
wealxs ago the Canadian PACING rail-
wav were having a daily shipment "a
| 700 cars of wheat from the threo
| provinces, and a week ago they hao
| got ND to 2.l0O cars a day. And De-
sides this there is the Canadian Nortn-
ern railway and the Grand IrunA
cific. so an enormous quantity muSs
be being shipped out of the provinces.
The Weather farmers are building
large granaries on their farms WHO
, there is a great Improvement III lne'
storage facilities provided by the gov
eminent"
II is therefore no wonder that the
greatest interest was shown Dy moss
who attended the Soil Products GA-
position held at Denver a short Time
ago. when it was demonstrated that IL
was not only in quantity that western
Canada still occupied the primary POI
sition. 1t was there that WESTERN
Canada again proved its supremacy.
In wheat, it was early conceded lna'
Canada would be winner. ana this'
was easily the case, not only ala IL VIII
the big prize, but it carried on the
sweepstakes What, however TO those
who were representing Canada at thls>
exposition, was of greater value propa'
bly,, was winning first and second prlze'
for alfalfa. The exhibits were beauti-
full and pronounced by old alfaiIa
growers to be the best they had ever
seen. First, second and third cuttings
of this years growth were shown,
At this same exposition, there were"
shown some excellent samples OF fod-
der corn, grown in the Swift Current
district
Topping the range cattle market in
Chicago short time ago is another OF
the feats accomplished by Western
Canada this year.
On Wednesday October Is, Clay.
Robinson and company sold at Chi
cago for E. H. Maunsell, Macleod, AL
berta, consignment of cattle. II head
of which, averaging 1920 pounds
brought $500 per hundredweight, top
ping the range cattle market for the
week to date. The same firm also
sold for Mr.. Maunsell 206 head. aver
aging 1,240 pounds, at $3.50, 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 condi-
ton, and great credit to Mr.. Maun-
sell. 1t speaks we'll for our Canadian
cattle raisers that they can produce
stock good enough to top the Chicago
market against strong competition.
there being over 1000 range cattle ON
sale that day.
1t is one thing to produce crops
such as are referred to, and another
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 laterals,
feeders which enter into remote parts
of the farming districts, and give to
the farmer immediate access to the
worlds grain markets. The elevator
capacity of the country is something
enormous, and if the figures can be-
digested, the full extent of the grain
producing powers of Western Canada
may be realized. The total elevator
capacity is about 17OOOO,OOO bushels.
or nearly one-half of the entire wheat
production of the Dominion in 1915.
OF this large storage facilities the
country elevators number $500. with
capacity of 100000 bushels.-Ad.
vertisement.