Carrizozo outlook. [volume] (Carrizozo, N.M.) 1910-1945, 1916-03-03
THE EVIDENCE
IN THE CASE
Results Following Settlement
Show That Conditions In West
ern Canada Are Highly
Satisfactory.

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have wider scope for his farming OPP
erations. II would not seem essential
TO refer TO Mr.. Lohmann, at this par
ticular time, as OF German blood. but
for the fact that so many false state
mants have gone out as TO III treat
ment OF Germans In Canada.
Writing from Willmont, SasL., I'm.
der date Of January 80, 1916. Mr.. Lob
mann says:
I'VE are perfectly satisfied In this
country, and doing we'll up here.
II bought q half section OF land and
took up n homestead, my three sons
also took homesteads, two OF them
buying each 100 acres Of land as well.
sold my homestead, and | and n Of
my sons own a threshlng outfit.
"The crop this year was good; the
oats went so to 90 bushels per acre,
and wheat went 40 to so bushels and
the price Is fair"
Sam Morrow. OF Mlllet, Alta, in
writing TO Mr.. j. M. MacLachlan. Ca
madam government agent at Water.
town, s. d., says: 81 am well pleased
with the country. The climate II bet.
tor than ! ever thought II could be
so far north; ideal climate for stock.
! have some colts and cattle that have
not been inside OF a stable In four
years. | consider this a fine coCntry
for mixed farming. I know OF farm
ers around here who had AZ bushels
OF barley to the acre and IS bushels
OF oats to the acre"
Jacob Goetz OF Piapot, Sask., had 40
acres OF wheat from which he got
1900 bushels, and got an average OF
90 bushels OF oats TO the acre.
Golden Prairie, Sask., is a district
largely settled by South Dakotans.
Horace Blake IL one OF those. He
says; "The crops OF 1915 were i'm.
mense."
Wheat In his locality went from 40
TO 90 bushels per acre; oats about so
bushels on an average. One hundred
bushels OF potatoes were grown on a
quarter OF an acre OF land twelve pO-
tatoes weighed 30 pounds. His horses
run out all winter, and come I'm fat.
lie raised excellent corn, and fat
tened hogs on II. He concludes an
interesting letter by saying: There
are schools In every district. The
people here are most all hustlers and
are fast pushing TO tho front. When
| first came up here on almost every
half section stood a little 12x14 shack,
now almost everyone has real modern
houses and barns"
Some Southern Alberta yields for
1916:
/. II, Hooker, So acres, 3,s2O bushels
Marquis wheat No. 1, Ga pounds per
bushel.
J.. l.. Lee, 40 acres. stubble. 1900
bushels; 40 acres summer fallow, g.
$50 bushels.
Petor Brandon, 1914 acres, 1851 bush.
els Marquis wheat.
II. Marandi, 1856 acres, G,92O bushels.
Ga pounds per bushel.
/. McReynolds. As acres, 1878. stub.
BILE.
Ole Christoferson, so acres. 2,647
bushels.
Arufhus Gavett, 1856 acres wheat, g.
642 bushels; 80 acres oats, 1000 bush
els.
Robert Mathews, 40 acres wheat,
2,0l6 bushels, machine measure.
ID. Dunbar, 1870 acres wheat, 1926
lushels.
Ingauld Hoppy. so. acres wheat, O..
500 bushels. all stubble.
Louis Kragt, so acres wheat, 1900
bushels.
w. J. Pate, go acres wheat, $50
bushels.
w, Roeniche, 1850 acres wheat, 5,337
bushels. so OF this stubble.
j. c. McKinnon, 80 acres wheat, q,
536 bushels.
Gordon %swinehart. 30 acres wheat,
LAO bushels.
Albert Hanson, So acres wheat, 3,76O
bushels.
Elmer Hamm, no acres wheat, 5,i5s
bushels; 90 acres oats, $3.50 bushels.
John Larson, so acres wheat, 5000
bushels; 30 acres oats, 1000 bushels.
John Hecklln, 81 acres. 1854 bush
els.
VIM. Heoklln. 100 acres. 1876, stub.
BILE and breaking.
o. Salisbury. 80 acres Marquis
wheat, 1000 bushels on breaking .-Ad.
vertiscment.