The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1915-11-20
ALBERTA SECTION
GREAT PRODUCER
VAST CROPS HARVESTED IN CAN
ADIAN COUNTRY BUT CAN'T
HOyE-CARS SCARCE
G.. p. Mix Has Just Returned And Pre-
diets Alberta Will be Combined
Harvester Country in Future

my prediction is that the entire
Alberta section will be a combine
country within fifteen years." said G.
P. Mix, general manager of the Ida
no National Harvester company, on
his return yesterday from short bus
mess trip to the British possession
just over our northern boundary line.
In speaking of his trip Mr.. Mix said:
"A trip to Alberta is not only very
inexpensive, but 1T is well worth any
ones time who appreciates seeing one
of the coming great countries of the
world One is particularly impressed
with the magnitude of the grain rails
ing section. If you can draw on your
Imagination to the extent of thinking
of the great states of Washington and
Oregon as one vast level plain well
covered with creeks, rivers and lakes,
practically all adapted to the raising
of grain, then you will have some con-
ception of the bigness of the Alberta
country.
7 believe Alberta to be at the be-
gining of better times. 1t has suf-
fered as all new countries have. Eve
rybody raising wheat and cattle and
hogs higher than in Chicago. And
Alberta has its large farmers in the
full meaning Of the term. One man
east of Claresholm harvested this year
over 100000 bushels of wheat and
100000 bushels Of oats. This man
keeps full set of books on his farm
operations covering all crops, and has
made his land show a net profit OF
from IL to IL per cent, basing his
figures on a land valuation varying
from fifty to fifty-five dollars per acre.
The yields of wheat this year are al
most beyond belief One man sOwed
wheat on stubble, simple drilling 1t
it, and without discing or plowing he
had yield OF fifty-four bushels per
acre. Field after field averaged forty |
bushels per acre with some going !
higher than seventy Very little grain
is being sold at this time as the ware
houses are full to overflowing, there
being the same condition there that
exists in this country, great piles of
grain standing, on temporarily con-
structed platforms adjoining the
warehouses. 1t is difficult to get cars
to move this grain, the consequence
being that it is difficult to sell grain
not already hauled to the warehouses.
Prices, however are from six to eight
cents higher than in this country
THE weather there was as mild
generally speaking as we are having
no snow to speak of. In fact, DR.. w.
A. Adair, my travelling companion, be- ;
lieved he was in the banana belt un-
til we came to a river frozen SO solid
that it would hold team of horses. {
The doctor was of the opinion after :
seeing this sight that it was just pos !
sible they had had some chilly wealth
er But when we remembered that we
had had zero weather about the time
we had left Moscow We didn't hold
it against the country of our travels.
There was little indication of war
where we were. It was most forci-
oily brought to our attention by the ad-
Of merchants in the
newspapers, where the almost invar-
able rule was black faced display
ype announcing that five per cent OF .
he sales OF that particular day would q
,e devoted to the war fund. q
what l said about its becoming p
ombine country in fifteen years Is no
die statement. l believe it will with
n that time il not less. The climate 1e'
4 that country is moderating each Y
eason just as this climate in the Pa b,
ouse has moderated. and continuing 7
3 moderate means that 1t will newt "
ble change to the combine method OF bt
aving its grain. Give me two months 81