The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1916-02-25
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. III. He
thought he would better his condition
in a 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
ticular time. as OF German blood. but
for the fact that so many false state
ments have gone out as 10 Ill treat
ment of Germans in Canada
Writing from willmont. Sask.. 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.
Il bought half section of land and
took up a homestead. my three sons
also took homesteads. two of them
buying each leo acres of land as well.
sold my homestead. and 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"
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
SO far north: ideal climate fer 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 So bushels
OF oats TO the acre"
Jacob Goetz OF Piapot. Sask.. had a
acres OF wheat from which he got
1,200 bushels. and got an average OF
SO bushels of oats TO the acre.
Golden Prairie Sask.. is district
largely settled by South Dakotans.
Horace Blake Is one OF those. He
says: The crops OF 1915 were Inn
mense."
Wheat In HIS locality went from 40
!
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 In fat
He raised excellent corn. and fat
tened hogs on IL. lie concludes an
interested letter by saying: There
are schools I'm every district The
people here are most all hustlers and
are fast pushing 20 the front. When
I first came up here on almost every
half section stood n little f2xi4 shack.
now almost everyone has real modern
houses and barns"
Some Southern Alberta yields for
1915:
|. II. Hooker. so acres. 3,s2O bushels
Marquis wheat No. l. ca pounds per
bushel.
|. I. Lee. 40 acres. stubble. 800
bushels; 30 acres summer fallow. q
$50 bushels.
Peter Brandon. lGi acres. 1861 bush.
els Marquis wheat.
II. Marandi l35 acres. 1920 bushels.
ca pounds per bushel.
l. McReynolds, 40 acres, 1878. stub
Bile
ole Christoferson. 30 acres, 2,G47
bushels
Arufhus Gavett. l55 acres wheat. g.
G42 bushels: 80 acres oats. 1000 bush
, els
I Robert Mathews. sc acres wheat
, 2,0iG bushels, machine measure.
: ID. Dunbar. 1870 acres wheat. SOS
bushels
Ingauld Hoppy. so acres wheat. 2.
500 bushels. all stubble.
! Louis Kragt. so acres wheat. 1000
D bushels.
, w. ]. Pate. &c acres wheat. 9st
{ bushels.
. w Roeniche. $50 acres wheat. 5.33'
, bushels, so OF this stubble.
, ]. c. McKinnon. 80 acres wheat. ?.
Z 63G bushels.
Gordon Swinehart. 80 acres wheat
D LAO bushels.
g Albert Hanson. IS acres wheat. 39G
J. bushels
e Elmer Hamm. 10 acres wheat. 5.i5
[ bushels; 80 acres oats, $3.50 bushels.
J. John Larson. so acres wheat. 300
q bushels; 80 acres oats. 1000 bushels.
John Hecklin. 81 acres. l.4S4 bush
els.
VIM. Hecklin, 100 acres. 1916. stub
Il Bile and breaking
J. o. Salisbury. so acres Marqui
e wheat. 1000 bushels on breaking.-A
e vertisement.