The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1915-11-18
WESTERN CANADA
CONTINUES TO WIN
The 1915 Yield of Grain Keeps
Western Canada to the Front.

Tho great publicity that has bee
given Ia the grain yields OF the Pro,
ineea OF Manitoba, Saskatchewan an,
Alberta, the three provinces that con
prise thAt portion OF Western Canad.
east of the British Columbia boundary
has kept Canadn TO Che front with
prominence that }s merited,
The grain crop of the three prov
inees has now been harvested, and SUI
fleieat Of II has been thTeshed so tina
II is no longer n matter OF estimate nj
to the returns, IL is safe to say thal
the entire Yield of wheat will be up
wards of a5h.o0o, 900 bushels, and The
average yield Well over % bushels pei
acre. In proportion TO the aggregate
this ia perhaps the largest yield ever
known o. the continent.
Most of this wheat viii grade No. /
northern, and better, md with pres.
n prices the condition OF tho farm.
or is TO be envied. Many Individual
yields are reported. and verified, and
they are almost beyond belief, but
they SO to show that under the care
ful system of agriculture that pro.
dueed these ylelas Western Canada
would have far exceeded a 800, 000, 900
production of wheat in 1915 had the
system been universal.
1t was not in IA or two districts
that big yields nave been made known,
h reports come from all parts of
the $1,000 square miles OF territory in
which the growing of wheat is car
ried on.
Mr.. Elmir Seller, a farmer south OF
S~trassburg, Sask, has harvested 5.465
bushels No. / hard wheat from 160
acres.
JAS. A. Benner, near Daysland. Al
berta, says his wheat went over 80
bushels to the acre, with an all round
crop OF SO 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.
~fofthagen. not far from Daysland,
had 20 acres OF wheat which gave a
yield OF Az bushels to the acre.
Well, then. near Gleichen, Alberta,
ID. I'll. Engle of Humboldt, Iowa, owns
q quarter section OF land. This land
was rented SO that Mr.. langie should
receive one-third of the crop, and this
gave him $612.65, his net rental for
the crop, and there vas only so 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 Shird Sc bushels per acre. On
the Jail farm at Lethbridge Is 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.
tuis wheat when threshed yielded 80
bushels and a so acre field averaged
20 lis bushels. This farm had 200
acres under crop to Marquis wheat
u It is expected the average from
the whole will exceed so bushels.
In all portions or Saskatchewan and
Manitoba, as well, remarkable yields
are reported, many large fields show
ms averages of from 40 to SIS bushels
per acre.
When the story of this years thresh-
is completed some extraordinary
yields viii be heard OF. One farmer
west OF Unity. Saskatchewan, threshed
10000 bushels OF No. / northern from
zoo acres and such instances will not
be isolated.
Considerable OF the wheat grown in
Western Canada is finding it's way to
markets OF the United States. not.
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 -four that rs demanded by some
Already nearly d hundred
thousand bushels on tie 1915 crop has
fotisssa Sts nay 10 tbs Minneapolis. Du.
~ IDsaS ard other markets..
n "a aDs III WAeat alone shat there
we're sy yg a farmer
lssss sosssA Az s@sa@s Gagg., lar.
R $40 Asaas M @ass fgoas Ten
sssAa gaa os layssand
GsfeFe Eatassaa NJ Lad 9ass which
welded ae bpsasls to aere, while
sasse qf Wagner wap 30 bgsh-
10 ns aaae
As ae iioanssl ssN ~ h yEEDscato pa
peg Canada agy#K2 5000 Goabupe and
EspleTild saFviee ss the Aagansry 81 taaa
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