The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1916-03-03
THE EVIDENCE
IN The CASE
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 new country. where he would
have wider scope for his farming OPP
erations- II would not seem essential
to refer to Mr.. Lohmann. at this par
ucular time. as of German blood. but
Tor the fact that so many false state
ments have gone out as 10 fiji treat
ment of Germans In Canada
Writing from Willmont. Sask, un-
Ger date OF January 80, 1916. Mr. Lob
mann says:
We are perfectly satisfied in this
country. and doing we'll up here.
i bought half section of land and
TOOK up a homestead. my three sons
also took homesteads, two OF them
buying each 100 acres of land as well.
sold my homestead and and one OF
my sons own threshing outfit.
The crop this year was good: the
oats went so to 80 bushels per acre,
and wheat went 40 to so bushels and
the price is fair"
Sam Morrow. of Millet Alta. In
writing TO Mr.. J. NJ. MacLachlan. Ca
madam government agent at Water
town, S d., says: 81 am well pleased
with the country. The climate is bet
ter than | ever thought il could be-
so far north; ideal climate fer stock.
l have some colts and cattle that have
not been inside OF a stable in four
years. | consider this a fine country
Tor mixed farming. | know of farm
ers around here who had AZ bushels
or barley TO the acre and 80 bushels
OF oats TO the acre"
Jacob Goetz OF Piapot, Sask.. had 43
acres of wheat from which he got
l,2OO 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 so
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 Il. He concludes an
interested letter by saying: There
are schools In every district The
people here are most all hustlers and
are fast pushing to the front When
| first came up here on almost every
half section stood little 12x14 shack.
now almost everyone has real modern
houses and barns
Some Southern Alberta yields for
1915:
|. II. Hooker. so acres, $500 bushels
Marquis wheat No. 1. Ga pounds per
bushel
l. |. Lee. 40 acres. stubble. 1900
bushels: 40 acres summer fallow. 2.
$50 bushels.
Peter Brandon. 16i acres. 1861 bush
els Marquis wheat
r. Marandl. 1876 acres. C.92O bushels.
Ga pounds per bushel
|. McReynolds. 45 acres. l.675. stub
BILE.
ole Chrlstoferson. so acres. 2,64y
bushels
Arufhus Gavett. 1855 acres wheat. c.
542 bushels: 30 acres oats, 1000 bush
els
Robert Mathews. &c acres wheat.
9,Ol6 bushels, machine measure.
ID. Dunbar. 1870 acres wheat. 5.925
bushels
lngauld Hoppy. so acres wheat. p
500 bushels, all stubble.
Louis Kragt. 80 acres wheat. 1000
bushels.
w. J. Pate. &c acres wheat. $50
bushels.
w. Roeniche. $50 acres wheat. 5.337
bushels. so of this stubble.
]. c. McKinnon. so acres wheat. O.
SO bushels
Gordon swinehart. 80 acres wheat.
.140 bushels.
Albert Hanson. 50 acres wheat. 3.qCO
ushels
Elmer Hamm, 10 acres wheat. 5.l5s
ushels; 80 acres oats. $3.50 bushels.
John Larson, so acres wheat. 1000
ushels; 30 acres oats. 1000 bushels
John Hecklin. 81 acres. 1,4S4 bush
ls
VIM. Hecklin. 100 acres. 1876. stub
lie and breaking.
.. Salisbury. so acres Marquis
heat. 1000 bushels on breakiDg-Ad
erti sarnont