The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1915-12-09
WESTERN CANADA
CONTINUES TO WIN
The 1915 Yield OF Grain Keeps
Western Canada to the Front.

prise that portion OF Western Canada
east OF the British Columbia boundary,
has kept Canada to the front with a
prominence that is mcrited.
The grain crop OF the three prov
inces has now been harvested. and sui.
flcient OF II has been threshed SO that
II Is no longer a matter of estimate as
10 the returns. 1t is safe to say that
the entire yield OF wheat will be up.
wards OF 275. 700. 900 bushels. and the
average yield well over 20 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.
or 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 n 800. OOO, 900
production OF wheat In 1915 had the
system been universal.
IL was not In one or two districts
that big yields have beer made known.
The reports come from all parts OF
the $4,000 square miles OF territory in
which the growing OF wheat In car.
ried en-.
Mr.. Elmir Seller. n farmer south of
S~trassburg. Sask.. has harvested 5,465
bushels No. l hard wheat from 100
acres.
Jas. A. Benner. near Daysland. Al.
berta. lays his wheat went over 30
bushels to the acre.. with an all round
crop OF 80 bushels to the acre.
j. 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 20 acres OF wheat which gave a
yield OF ~ bushels to the acre.
Well, then. near Gleichen. Alberta.
ID. II. Engle of Humboldt. Iowa, owns
a quarter section OF land. This land
was rented so that Mr.. Engle should
receive one-third Of the crop. and this
gave him s6I265. HIS net rental for
the crop. and there was only so acres
In crop.
Scores OF reports give yields fully
as large az those given above. A
large field OF spring wheat neal Leth.
bridge averaged 60 bushels, another 50
and a third Sc bushels per acre. On
the jail farm at Lethbridge 25 acres
OF Marquis wheat yielded 90 bushels To
the acre and weighed g. pounds to the
bushel. A test lot of one acre OF Mar.
quis wheat when threshed yielded 80
bushels and a so acre field averaged
60 l'3 bushels. This farm had 900
acres under crop TO Marquis wheat
and II Is expected the average from
the whole will exceed 50 bushels.
In all portions OF Saskatchewan and
Manitoba, as we'll. remarkable yields
are reported. many large fields show.
ing averages OF from 40 to 90 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
I've isolated.
Considerable OF the wheat grown in
Western Canada Is finding It's way TO
the markets OF the United States, not.
w~ithstanding 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 is demanded by some
millors. Already near n hundred
thousand bushels OF the 1915 crop has
found It's way to the Minneapolis. Du.
Iuth. st. Louis and other markets.
II ~9s 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. T%ofthagen OF Daysland
before referred TO had oats which
yielded 40 bushels TO the acre. while
those OF J. n. Wagner vent 80 bush.
els TO the acre.
As Is pointed out by a Toronto pa.
per Canada's great good fortune and
splendid service as the Granary of the
Empire are revealed in the record
harvest from her rich fields OF wheat
and other grains. 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
n perpetual source or wealth, increas.
ing from year TO year by the stimulus
OF individual industry and personal in
terest. A wheat harvest Of 1886, $50. 900
bushels from 49, 900 acres, an av.
erage yield OF 90 bushels TO the acre.
The substantial nature OF this growth
in production Is shown by the fact
that the harvest returns are ~ per
cent greater than the average for the
past Ave years.
The same satisfactory and highly
important success has been attained
in other grain crops. The aggregate
yield OF oats rs 4s1. O35. 500 bushels
from the II. 1896. 900 acres under crop.