The Keota news., 1915-12-17
WESTERN CANAOA'S
WONDERFUL YIELD
Wheat Yields Reports Extraor-
dinari|y Heavy.

When one hears of individual wheat
yields of thirty.tive to forty bushels
per acre, there is considerable incre-
dulity, but when yields. in whole town.
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-five bushels per
acre are reported. one Is led to put
his ear to the ground to listen for fur
ther rumblings. The writer having
heard of these wonderful yields made
q trip through the provinces Of Mani
toba. Saskatchewan and Alberta. to
ascertain first hand their truthfulness.
1t was remarkable to discover that
Dame Rumor was no rumorer after all.
that modesty was her mantle. that
all that had been 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 truthful.
ness of the story was doubtful and
very little was said Of them. But
such there were, and not in one In
stance, but in several. not in one 10.
cality but scattered In places hun
dreds of miles apart. Leaving these
out altogether, there were large areas
in which the average was over nifty
bushels per acre, which in all COM
mon sense ought to satisfy most peo-
ple. One hundred and thirty thresli'
ora IN Alberta have made their re-.
turns to the local government as re-
nuired by an act of the Legislature.
and the average OF the wheat threshed
was fifty.three bushels TO the acre. so
immense was the yield that ohictal
yerification was required before giving
Il out to the public. Sitting In the
smoking compartment OF day COACH
where on passing through farming
community. there may be gathered ths
sossipy yarns Of the neighoorhood'
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 o!
one working In the field. was asKe''
as to the crops. He had got Oh al
warner. Alberta. Taking out his pipe
lighting It and then crossing his knees
holding his chin in his hands, pos
sessinR an air of supreme content
ment and with an intelligent face, lie
looked the man who could give some
information. And he was Just inc
man He was a thresher and on MS
way to Milk River to secure some
more help. He was reqnisitioned to'
information. "Yes, good seaso"
I've made a lot Of money. AS to'
Yields. let's see." and then he oeeai n
to string them off. peterson haa o'
bushels of wheat per acre Oh MS NV
hundred acre farm: from $50 acre'
Roland got IS bushels per acre; -"
pler had one hundred and ten acre.
that went 63 bushels: Carr had I'll
bushels per acre of an eight hundred
acre field" And he gave others run
ming from So to G6 bushels per acre
All these people lived east OF war
nor Alberta. Looking out of the win
dow and seeing immense fields. st'l
covered with stocks he was asket
why they were not threshed, he re
plied that there were not enousf
rigs, in the district. and that the!
would not get through before Christ
mas.
An American writing of trip h'
made through Western Canada says
81 went as far west as Saskatoon
back. to Regina. Moose Jaw. and dowl
~, tho Soo line. and I must cay tina