The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-02-24
THE EVIDENCE
IN THE CASE
Results Following Settlement
Show That Conditions in West
ern Canada Are Highly
Satisfactory.

AbNSA w 1AA VA - 49,
thought he would better his condition
In a new country, where he would
have wider scope for his farming op
erations. 1t would not seem essentia
to refer to Mr.. Lohmann, at this par
ticular time, as of German blood, but
for the fact that SO many false state
ments nave gone out as to i'll treat
ment of Germans in Canada.
Writing from Wilimont, 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 a 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 a threshing outfit.
The crop this a 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: Il am well pleased
with the country. The climate is bet
ter than ] ever thought 1t could be
30 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. / know of farm
ers around here who had AZ bushels
OF barley to the acre and 55 bushels
OF oats to the acre"
Jacob Goetz OF Ptapot, Sask., had 43
acres OF wheat from which he got
1000 bushels, and got an average of
% 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 65 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-
iatoes weighed 80 pounds. His horses
run out all winter, and come in fat.
He raised excellent corn, and fat
tened hoga on 1T. He concludes an
Interesting letter by saying: There
are schools in every district. The
people here are most all hustlers and
IRE 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:
I. II. Hooker. SO acres, $500 bushels
Marquis wheat No. i. GA pounds per
busheL
/. /. Lee, 40 acres, stubbIe, 1900
bushels; 40 acres summer fallow, q
$40 bushels.
Peter Brandon, 1874 acres. 1851 bush
lie Marquis wheat.
r. Marandi, 1876 acres. $500 bushels,
81 pounds per bushel.
!. M~cReynolds, IS acres. 1875, stab
BE.
Ole christoferson. 50 acres. 2.s47
bushels
Aruf1us Gayett, 155 acres wheat, g.
s42 bushels: 80 acres Data. 1000 bush
eIs.
Robert Mathews, 40 acres wheat,
R,0ae bushels, machine
D Dunbar. $50 acres wheat, 5,925
Inssaeas.
Ingauid Hoppy. so acres wheat, O.
6e9 bushels, all stubbfe.
Louis Krsgt. 80 acres wheat, 1000
bushels.
n u Pate, 70 acres wheat, $50
bushels.
y. R~oenfcs1e, 80 acres wheat. 5,s37
busheas, 80 Of this stubble.
@ McKinrson, so acres wheat, O.
T2g bushels.
Gordon Gwinehart 80 acres wheat,
l,1s9 bushels.
Albert Hanson. SIS acres wheat, 3,76o
bushels.
Elmer Hannm. 10 acres: wheat, SIS
bushels; 80 acres oats, $3.50 bushels.
John Larson, so acres wheat, 5000
bushels; 30 acres oats, 1000 bushels.
John Hecklin. 81 acres. 1.484 bush
sIs
YIN. Hecklin, 100 acres, 1876. stub
BILE and breaking.
Salisbury, so acres MARQUIS
wheat, 500 bushels on breaking.-Ad-
y~ertisement.