Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1916-03-09
WESTERN CANADA
CONTINUES TO WIN
The 1915 Yield of Grain Keeps
Western Canada to the Front.

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Western Canada to the Front.
The great publicity that has been
given to the grain yields OF the PROV
tnces of Manitoba. Saskatchewan ard
Alberta, the three provinces that COM
prise that portion of Western Canada
east of the British Columbia boundary.
has kept Canada to the front with a
prominence that is merited.
The grain crop of the three prov
inces has now been harvested, and SUI
ficient of ii has been threshed so mat
It is no longer a matter OF estimate as
to the returns. 1t is safe TO say that
the entire yield OF wheat will be up
wards of %275,000.0o0 bushels. mi the
average yield we'll over IS bushels per
acre. In proportion TO the aggregate
this is perhaps the largest yield ever
known on the continent
Most of this wheat will grade NO. l
northern. and better. and with pres
ent prices the condition of the farm
or Is to be envied. Many individual
yields are reported. and verified, and
they are almost beyond belief, out
they 60 to show that under the care
ful system of agriculture that pro
duced these yields Western Canada
would have far exceeded a S0o,00o.oOo
production of wheat in 1915 had the
system been universal.
1t was not in one or two districts
that big yields have been made known
The reports come from all parts OF
the $4,000 square miles OF territory in
which the growing Of wheat is car
ried on.
MIR. Elmir Seller. a farmer south ct
Strassburg. Sask.. has harvested o,i6'
bushels No. l hard wheat from lou
acres
Jas. A. Benner. near D%aysland. Al
berta, says his wheat went over Az
bushels to the acre. with an all round
crop of So bushels to the acre.
J. n. Wagner, near the same place.
also lays claim TO yer 40 bushels OF
Wneat per acre.
A Norwegian farmer, named S. A.
Tofthagen. not far from Daysland.
had % acres of wheat which gave a
yield of A. bushels 10 the acre.
Well. then, neal G%leichen, Alberta.
D. H. Engle of Humboldt. Iowa. WINS
a quarter section of land. This land
wa rented so that Mr.. Engle should
receive one-third of the crop, and this
gave him s612.65, his net rental for
the crop. and there was only so acres
in crop.
Scores of reports give yields fully
as large as those given above A
large field of spring wheat near Leth.
bridge averaged So bushels. another 81
and a third Sc bushels per acre. On
the Jail farm at Lethbridge % acres
of Marquis wheat yielded 60 bushels to
the acre and weighed g. pounds to the
bushel A test lot Of one acre of Mar.
quis wheat when threshed yielded 80
bushels and a 80 acre field averaged
60 l-3 bushels. This farm had 200
acres under crop to Marquis wheat
and it is expected the average from
the whole will exceed so bushels.
In all portions of Saskatchewan and
Manitoba. as we'll. remarkable yields
are reported. many large fields show
ing averages Of from 40 to 55 bushels
per acre.
When the story Of this years thresh-
ing is completed some extraordinary
Yields will be heard OF. One farmer
west of Unity, Saskatchewan, threshed
5000 bushels of No. ] northern from
200 acres and such instances will not
be isolated.
Considerable OF the wheat grown In
Western Canada is finding its way to
the markets OF the United States. not
w%ithstanding the duty OF ten cents
e bushel. The miller in the United
States finds Western Canadian wheat
necessary for the blending OF the high
class -four that is demanded by some
millers. Already nearly a hundred
thousand bushels OF the 1915 crop has
found its way to the Minneapolis. Du-
Iuth. St. Louis and other markets.
1t was rot in wheat alone that there
were extraordinary yields. A farmer
living south of Wadena, Sask.. har-
vested 900 bushels of oats from ten
acres. s. A. Tofthagen of Daysland
before referred to had oats which
welded 10 bushels to the acre, while
OF ]. y. Wagner went 80 bush
els to the acre.
As is pointed out by a Toronto pa
per Canada's great good fortune and
splepdid service as the Granary Of the
are revealed in the record
harvest from her rich fields OF wheat
and other grains. The foundation OF
its prosperity is solid and enduring.
While mines may be exhausted and
lumber may disappear through i'm
management. agriculture IL
a perpetual source OF wealth. increas-
ing from year to year by the stimulus
of individual industry and personal In.
terest. A wheat harvest Of 3~36,250,OO0
bushels from 10000, 900 acres, an av-
erage yield of 26 bushels to the acre.
The substantial nature OF this growth
in production is shown by the fact
that the harvest returns are u per
cent greater than the average for the
past FIVE years.
The same satisfactory and highly
important success has been attained
in other grain crops. The aggregate
Weld OF oats is 4S1 OBS, 500 bushels
from the II, 6 900 acres under crop.
or this yield 305. 6s0.000 bushels are
the three Prairie Provinces.