Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-10-06
FROM SASKATCHEWAN
Fulton County Man in Far North
west Writes Interesting Letter For
The Home Folks Observations and
Impressions in the Great North
west.


Impressions in the Great North
west. /
The following letter from Chas. H.
Schlegel who writes for Tribune read
ers from Simpson, Saskatchewan un-
der date of September 25th will be
found of real interest to the farmers
in this county:
Simpson, Saskatchewan, Sept. 25, '16.
will write a letter about the
Great Northwest which may interest
some OF your readers. l have been
here three weeks now, have seen them
finish harvesting. There was con-
siderable talk about the rust destroy
ing the spring wheat crop all over
the Spring Wheat country, which is
not altogether true. But IL this ter
ritory which is called the Lost Noun
tain Valley, the crops are good. The
crops around Simpson are as good
as in any place | have heard of III
Canada. But the rust has done an
enormous lot of damage to the spring
wheat crop. l was talking with an
automobile agent the other day, he
said he had quarter section of land
in North Dakota which he said went
about six, bushels to the acre and he
said he got letter from his brother
there who has lot of land and much
wheat out, that he thrashed one fore
noon and only got one tank load of
wheat. A tank holds from 125 to 140
b11c ho1o 70
1000 bushels in that time, and a very
poor quality at that, which will go for
feed. The proprietor of the. hotel
where I put up came from North
Dakota a few years ago; he told me
yesterday that he talked. with some
friends where he came from and they
told him that lots of the farmers had
to sell their oats and barley to pay
their threshing bill that the wheat
didn't pay expenses of threshing, now
l have heard of several such reports
so there must be some truth in it.
Simpson is 80 miles north of the
city Regina, which is in the incest
country | ever saw, except Fulton
county, but it is equal to Fulton coun-
ty; they most always have good crops
there. l came through there a little
over three weeks ago and was talk
ing with a number of farmers. they
were just finishing harvesting some
of them told me part of their crop
was a failure and the rest was not
worth cutting and threshing; they
were going to burn it. And I have
been told since that lots of it has
been burned, some whole quarter sec
of 1nf
being worth harvesting. Their wheat
generally goes 35 to 40 bushels to the
acre and they had very heavy straw
this year, good for that much to the
acre, but the heavier the straw the
worse the rust was and the low fiat
land was worse; they are threshing
there now and the reports are that
heavy straw is going from to 20
bushels to the acre and a very poor
quality, most of it goes for feed
When I came through Regina I went
to the Regina Grain Exchange and
they told me there that they look fo1
wheat to bring $500 a bushel before
another crop is raised, they tell me
that the rust started in the Dakotas
and worked north and when it got
fartherest north the crop was ad-
vanced so it didn't do much damage
When l came to Simpson September
End farmers were much discouraged
they thought rast had done much
damage to their crop; the binders anC
the men driving them were red with
the rust, but since they commenced
threshing farmers feed good 0ve1
their CROP, they have found out thai
their crop was advanced far enough
so that the rust didn't do so much
damage; it is turning out about agar
as much as they expected and {
good deal grading No. 1 Northern
which they didn't expect to get bu
a No. or 8. Wheat on breaking anC
summer following is going from 2!
to 80 bushels to the acre and OF
Spring plowing and stubbling is go
ing from Is to 25 bushels to the acre
and oats is going from so to 80 bush
els to the acre. Oats is 40 cents {
bushel; barley about 70 cents ant
wheat has been going up the las
week or two; they were paying Sill
per bushel for No. 1 Northern Sat
urday September %.
Farmers around Simpson dom
need to worry, if every thing they bu!
is very high in price and winter il
here and have to pay $3.50 for sof
coal and expect it to be higher,
heard of one farmer close here VIII
sold. his wheat from the machine O
40 acres and brought him over $1,000
Prospects are very good for whea
to keep on going up in price TO
awhile yet. They have been thresh
ing for two weeks now and abou
two weeks more of good weather vii
finish it. Farmers here will soon b
!; through with their work till mex
, Spring. A good deal of the grail
is hauled to town from the machin
the threshing machines are goini
J from daylight till after dark an
: farmers are hauling wheat from day
light till dark. There are four ele
, vators here and the fifth one goin
) up will soon be completed, then som
times farmers have to wait awhil
to unload. Farmers are burning thei
strawabout as fast as they get
/ threshed, one can see fires abou
, every evening. One evening l count
; ed twelve fires, that makes lots o
, light. Farmers will have a good ex
) cuse for not bedding their horses thu
winter, if one asked them why the
' don't bed their horses and stock be
. ing they got so much straw they wi
! say oh, my horses are not so bad OF
J for bedding, I burned all my stray
last Fall so haven't any for bedding
I that is one excuse they have got an
f laugh at US fellows in the East tina
we do chores all Winter, but | Woul
r think that their horses and cattle her
/ would appreciate good bed of thei
f nice straw when it is 40 below zerc
We didn't have frost here unit
September IA, but it has been coz
since I have been here and the las
G week or so it has been cold part c
+ the time. l expect to get my thresf
: ing done in about week then l wi
pull out for the Sunny South.
I Yours truly,
=. ;. ,CHAS. H. SCHLEGEL.
+ SEWING DONE-At 532 Mai