The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-03-04

Results Following Settlement
Show That Conditions in West
ern Canada Are Highly
Satisfactory.

Until a few years ago Mr.. Henry
Lohmann lived at bingham, Ill. He
thought he would better his condition
In a new country, where he would
have wider scope for his farming OPP
erations. 1t 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
ments have gone out as to i'll treat
ment of Germans in Canada.
Writing from WiIlmont, Sask., un-,
der date of January 80, 1916, Mr.. Lob
mann says:
I'VE are perfectly satisfied in this
country, and doing well up here.
Il bought half section of land and
took up homestead, my three sons
also took homesteads, two of them
buying each $50 acres of land as well.
sold my homestead, and I and one of
my sons own a threshing outfit.
The crop this year was good; the
oats went 80 to 80 bushels per acre,
and wheat went 40 to so bushels and
the price is fair"
Jun -AOA4OnJ VI 41lllClJ Alta III
writing to Mr.. ]. NJ MacLachlan, Ca
madam government agent at Water
town, S. D., says: Il am well pleased
with the country. The climate is bet
ter than l ever thought it 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 country
for mixed farming. l know of farm
ers around here who had AZ bushels
of barley to the acre and SO bushels
of oats to the acre"
Jacob Goetz of Piapot, Sask., had 43
acres Of wheat from which he got
1900 bushels, and got an average of
SO bushels of oats to the acre.
Golden Prairie, Sask., is a district
largely settled by South Dakotans
Horace Blake is one OF those. He
says: The crops of 1915 were i'm
mense."
Wheat in his locality went from 40
to SO bushels per acre; oats about 80
bushels on an average. One hundred
bushels of potatoes were grown on a
quarter of an acre of land; twelve po-
tatoes weighed 80 pounds His horses
run out all winter, and come in fat,
He raised excellent corn, and fat
tened hogs on it. 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 the front. When
l 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
1915:
1. H. Hooker, 50 acres, $500 bushels
Marquis wheat No. 1. 81 pounds per
bushel.
I. 1. Lee, 40 acres, stubbIe, 1900
bushels; 40 acres summer fallow, 3
$50 bushels.
Peter Brandon, 164 acres, 1851 BUSH
els Marquis wheat.
R. Marandi, 1875 acres, $500 bushels,
ga pounds per bushel.
l. McReynolds. As acres, 1875, stub
ble
Ole Christoferson, so acres. 2.647
bushels.
Arufhus. Gavett, 155 acres wheat, g.
642 bushels; 80 acres oats, 1000 bush
els.
Robert Mathews, 46 acres wheat,
2,O16 bushels, machine measure
D. Dunbar. $50 acres wheat, 1926
bushels
lngauld Hoppy, so acres wheat, g.
500 bushels. all stubbie.
Louis Kragt. so acres wheat. 1000
bushels.
W. J. Pate, 26 acres wheat. $50
bushels.
w. Roeniche, $50 acres wheat. 5,337
bushels, so of this stubble.
]. c. McKinnon, so acres wheat, g..
5S6 bushels.
Gordon Swinehart. 80 acres wheat,
LAO bushels.
Albert Hanson. IS acres wheat. $3.50
bushels.
Elmer Hamm, ITO acres wheat, 5, 15S
bushels; 80 acres oats. $3.50 bushels.
John Larson, so acres wheat, 5000
bushels; 80 acres oats. 1000 bushels
John Hecklin. 81 acres, 1,4S4 bush.
els
VIM. Hecklin, 100 acres. 1876, stub
BILE and breaking.
o. Salisbury, so acres Marquis
wheat. 1900 bushels on breaking.-Ad
vertisement
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