Rocky Ford enterprise., 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 Effingham, Ill. He
thought he would better his condition
in new country, where he would
have wider scope for his farming op-
erat1ons. 1t would not seeLl essential
to refer to Mr.. Lohmann, at this par
ticular time. as of German blood, hut
for the fact that SO many false state
ments have gone out as to i'll treat
ment of Germans in Canada.
Writing from Willmont, Sask., un-
der date of January 30. 1916, Mr.. Lob
mann says:
I'VE are perfectly satisfied in this
country. and doing well up here.
81 bought a half section Of land and
took up 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 80 to 30 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 tho country. The climate is bet
ter than I ever thought 1t could be
SO far ncrth; 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. I 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
90 bushels of oats to the acre.
Golden Prairie, Sask.. is a district
largely settled by South Dakotans.
| Horace Blake ia one Of those. He
| says: "The crops of 1916 were i'm
| mepsc."
Wheat in his locality went from 40
to 55 bushels per acre; onts about so
bushels on an average. One hundred
bushels of potatoes were grown on n
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 II. He concludes an
interesting letter by saying: "There
are schools in every district. The
/ people here arc most all hustlers and
are fast pushing to the front. When
| I first came up here on almost every
half section stood a little 12x1i shack,
now almost everyone has real modern
houses and barns"
Some Southern Alberta yields for
1915:
/. II. Hooker, SO acres. $3.50 bushels
Marquis wheat No. 1. Ga pounds per
bushel.
I. ]. Lee. 40 acres, stubble, 1900
! bushels; 40 acres summer fallow. q.
$50 bushels.
Peter Brandon. 1914 acres. 1861 bush
els Marquis wheat.
r. Marandi, 1876 acres, 6,920 bushels.
ca pounds per busheI
I. McReynolds. 45 acres, 1,G75. stub
BILE.
bushels.
Arufhus Gayett, 155 acres wheat, c.
| 642 bushels: 30 acres oats. 1000 bush.
| els.
Robert Mathews, 46 acres wheat,
2,0l6 bushels. machine measure.
d. Dunbar. 100 acres wheat, 5,925
bushels.
Ingauld Hoppy. so acres wheat. g.
500 bushels. all stubble.
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.
J. c. McKinnon. 30 acres wheat. g.
536 bushels.
Gordon Swinehart, 80 acres wheat,
LAO bushels.
Albert Hanson, S5 acres wheat. $3.50
bushels.
Elmer Hamni, 10 acres wheat, 5.15S
bushels; 90 acres oats, $3.50 bushels
John Larson, so acres wheat, 5000
bushels; 80 acres oats. 1000 bushels
John Hecklin. 81 acres, 1.4Si bush
els.
VIM. Hecklin, 100 acres, 1876. stub
BILE and breaking.
o. Salisbury, so acres Marquis
wheat, 1,6Oo bushels on breaking.-Ad-
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