Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1915-11-26
WESTERN CANADA
CONTINUES TO WIN
The 1915 Yield Of Grain Keeps
Western Canada to the Front.

inces OF Manitoba. Saskatchewan and
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
II is no longer a matter OF estimate as
to the returns. II is safe TO say that
the entire yield OF wheat will be up
wards of 275.O00,00O bushels, and the
average yield we'll 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.
northern, and better. and with pres
ent prices the condition of the farm
'er Is to he envied. Many individual
yields are reported. and verified. and
they are almost beyond belief, but
they 20 to show that under. the care
full system of agriculture that pro
duced these yields Western Canada
would have far exceeded 0O,000.0OO
production OF wheat in 1915 had the
system been universal.
II was not in one or two districts
that big yields have heen 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 16O
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.
J. N. Warmer, near the same place,
also lays claim to over 10 bushels OF
wheat per acre.
A Norwegian farmer, named S. A.
Tofthagen. not far from Daysland.
had 23 acres of wheat which gave a
yield OF ~ bushels to the acre.
Well, then. near Gleichen. Alberta.
ID. II. Engle OF Humboldt. Iowa, owns
q quarter section of land. This land
waa rented SO that Mr.. Engle should
receive one-third OF the crop. and this
gnve him $6f2e5. his net rental for
the crop. and there was only so acres
IN crop.
Scores OF reports give yields fully
M large az those given ahove. A
large field OF spring wheat near Leth-
bridge averaged 80 bushels. another SO
and a third Sc bushels per acre. On
the JAN farm at Lethbridge 25 acres
OF Marquis wheat yielded so bushels to
the acre and weighed g. pounds to the
bushel. A test lot OF one acre Of Mar.
duis wheat whom threshed yielded 80
bushols and 4 80 acre field averaged
80 10 bushels. This farm had 20u
acres under crop to Marquis wheat
and Il ie expected the average from
the whole VIII exceed so bushels.
Tn all portions Of Saskatchewan and
Manitoba. m wen. remarkable yields
are reported. many large fields show.
ing averages of from 30 to 55 bushels
per acre.
When the story of this years thresh'
ing In completed some extraordinary
yields will be heard Of One farmeI
west of Unity, Saskatchewan. threshed
10000 bushels Of No. northern from
200 acres and such instances Will moi
be isolated.
Considerable of the wheat grown IN
Western Canada is finding its way to
the markets of the United States. not
wfthrtanding the duty of ten cents
por bushel The miller in the United
Staten finds Western Canadian wheat
necessary for the blending of the high
class -four that is demanded by some
millers. Already near n hundred
thousand bushels of the 1915 crop ha.
found its way to the Minneapolis. Du
iuth. st. Louis and other markets.
II was not in wheat alone that there
we're extraordinary yields. A farmer
living south OF wadena. Sash.. har
vested 900 bushels of oats from tar
acres. 8. A. Tofthsgen OF Daysiant
before referred to had oats which
yielded 40 bushels to the acre, Will,
those Of ]. N. Wagner went 90 bush
els a. the acre.
As 10 pointed out by a Toronto pa
per Canada's great good fortune anC
splendid service as the Granary of tn,
Empire are revealed I'm the recor,
harvest from her rich fields OF whea
and other grains "The foundation O
IT'S prosperity is solid and enduring
While mines may be exhausted an,
lumber may disappear through i'm
provident management, agriculture
n perpetual source uf wealth, increas
ing from year to year by the stimuli
OF individual industry and personal II
terest. A wheat harvest Of 1896 $4,000
Bushels from 100000 acres, an av
erage yield OF 20 bushels to the acre
The substantial nature of this growt
In production Is shown by the fac
that the harvest returns are ~ pc
cent greater than the average for tn
past flvs years.
The same satisfactory and highl
important success has been attaine
in other grain crops. The aggregat
Yield OF oats IL 4St, ,035, 500 bushel
from the 11,365,00O acres under crol
or tails yield 305. $500 bushels ar
from the three Prairie Province
These provinces also contribute 304
100000 bushels Of wheat. The ba
ley harvest is 5O.seS, 900 bushels frol
1.509.3s0 acres, an average yield I
33.T bushels per acre."
The impression one gets in goin
through Alberta, Saskatchewan an
Manitoba" said traveller from n
East, "is that all the horses and team
and all thc thrrshing machines e
gagged mako no impression on u
crops, and tbat II will take six month
10 thresh the gram out; but tv
weeks ago the Canadian Pacific RAJ
way we're having a daily shipment
100 cars Of wheat from the thr'
provinces, ard q week agn they hf
got up b. g.100 cars - day. And b
sides thig there is the Canadian Mort
srn rs.lway aud the Grahd Trunk z
Cinc, SO an enormous quantity mu