The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-11-23
WESTERN CANADA
CONTINUES TO WIN
The 1915 Yield of Grain Keeps
Western Canada to the Front.

Alberta, the three provinces that com
| 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-
hCient of it has been threshed so that
it is no longer a matter of estimate as
to the returns. 1t is safe to say that
wards OF 275,000,000 bushels, and the
average yield we'll 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
ful system of agriculture that pro-
duced these yields Western Canada
would have far exceeded 300,0OO,OOO
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, farmer south OF
Strassburg. Sask., has harvested 5,465
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 % acres of wheat which gave
yield of At bushels to the acre.
Well, then, near Gleichen, Alberta,
D. H. Engle of Humboldt, Iowa, owns
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 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 50 bushels, another SO
and a third Sc bushels per acre. On
the Jail farm at Lethbridge rs acres
of Marquis wheat yielded so bushels to
the acre and weighed 67 pounds to the
bushel. A test lot of one acre Of Mar
quis wheat when threshed yielded SO
bushels and 80 acre field averaged
so 1-3 bushels. This farm had zoo
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 well, remarkable yields
are reported, many large fields show
ing averages of from 40 to 55 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 flour that is demanded by some
millers. Already nearly hundred
thousand bushels of the 1915 crop has
found it's 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 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 Canadas great good fortune and
splendid service as the Granary of the
Empire are ICFSdl0u III ILN ASNNA0
harvest from her rich fields of wheat
and other grains. 1.-THE foundation OF
it's 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 harvest of 336, 250,00G
bushels from 100000 acres, an av-
erage Weld of 26 bushels to the acre.
The substantial nature of this growth
in production is shown by the fact
that the harvest returns are u 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 481,035,500 bushels
from the 11,365,00O acres under crop.
OF this yield 305680,000 bushels are
from the three Prairie Provinces.
These provinces also contribute 304,-
100000 bushels of wheat. The bar
lev harvest is 50,868,000 bushels from
1909 $50 acres, an average yield of
1877 bushels per acre."
The impression one gets in going
through Alberta, Saskatchewan and