The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1916-01-13
WESTERN CANADAS
WONDERFUL YIELD
Wheat Yields Reports Extraor.
dinarily Heavy.

When n hears OF individual wheat
fields OF ~thirty.ive 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 Ave hundred square
miles Ia area. OF upwards OF fifty and
some as high as sixty.hve 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
a trip through tho provinces OF Mani.
toba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, 10
ascertain first hand their truthfulness.
II was remarkable to discover that
Dame Rumor was no rumorer after all,
that modesty was her mantle. that
all that lid 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 thsm. But
such there were. and not in one IN.
stance. but In several. not in one o.
cality but scattered in places hun.
dreds OF miles apart. Leaving these
out altogether. there were large areas
In wh."f the average was over fifty
bushels per acre. which in all com.
mon sense ought TO satisfy most ,eo.
pie. One hundred and thirty thresh.
ers In Alberta have made their re-
turns to the local government as re
CURED by an act OF the Legislature,
and the average OF the wheat threshed
was tfty.three bushels to the acre. SO
immense was the yield that ,ficial
verificatlon was required before giving
II out to the public. Sitting n the
smoking compartment OF n day coach.
where on passing through a farming
community, there may be gathered the
gossipy yarns OF the neighborhood,
one hears also a lot of news. Just
now. the sole topic IL that OF the
crops. A man with more or Tess Of
q hirsute appendage. smock, clothes
and hands giving the appearance of
one working In the field. was asked
Warner. Alberta. Taking out his pipe, |
lighting It and then crossing his knees,
holding his chin In his hands. pos
sessing an air OF supreme content.
ment. and with an intelligent face. he
looked the man who could give some
Information. And he was Just the
man. He was a thresher ard OH his
way to MIX River TO secure some
more help. lie was requisitiOned for
Information. Yes. a good season,
I've made a lot OF money. As for
yields. let's see." and her he began
to string them of. Peterson had SO
bushels OF wheat per acre on his five
hundred acre farm: from $50 acres
Roland got G5 bushels per acre; Blu
gler had one hundred and ten ncres
that went 60 bushels: Carr had 65
bushels per acre OF an eight hundred
acre field" And he gave others fun
ming from 50 TO &c bushels per acre.
All these people lived east OF War.
ner. Alberta. Looking out OF the win.
dow and seeing immense fields, still
covered with stocks he was asked
why they were not threshed, he re-
piled that there we're not enough
rigs" in the district, and that they
would not get through before Christ
MAJ.
An American writing OF O trip he
made through Western Canada says:
II went as far west as Saskatoon.
back to Regina. .doose Jaw. and down
on the 500 line, and | must say that
I never saw such crops. Or ever heard
or anything TO compare with II in
any country on earth. The country
IL over the hill. and certainly the farm.
ers have a lot to be thankful for.
There are very few OF them that
have done their work and done Il
properly but what have their debts
paid and have bank accounts left"
And he only travelled tho skirt Of
the country. The same story could
be written OF any part OF any OF
three Provinces. -Advertieement
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