The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1916-02-24
THE EVIDENCE
IN THE CASE
Results Following Settlement,
Show That Conditions in West.
ern Canada Are Highly
Satisfactory.

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Until a few years ago Mr.. por
Lohmann lived at Effingham. In ~.
thought he would better his condisoS
in n new country. where he worn
have wider scope for his farming on
erations. IL would not seem essentis,
to refer to Mr.. Lohmann. at this ma
ticular time, as of German blood hr.
for the fact that so many false state
ments have gone out as to i'll trea,
ment OF Germans in Canada
Writing from Willmont, Sask.. m.
der date of January 80, 1916. Mr.. Lob.
mann says:
we are perfectly satisfied in this
country, and doing we'll up here.
II bought half section of land and
took up n homestead, my three sons
also took homesteads, two OF them
buying each 16O acres of land as We'll
/ sold my homestead, and and one Of
my sons own a threshing outfit.
The crop this year was good: the
oats went so to 80 bushels per acre
and wheat went 40 tc 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, 5. D., says: 81 am we'll pleased
with the country. The climate is bet.
ter than l ever thought 1t. could be
so far north; ideal climate for stock
have some colts and cattle that have
not been inside of stable in four
years. l consider this a fine country
for mixed farming. | know of farm.
ers around here who had 40 bushels
IF barley to the acre and So bushels
OF oats to the acre"
Jacob Goetz Of Piapot, Sask.. had AZ
acres Of wheat from which he got
1900 bushels, and got an average OF
SO 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 90 bushels per acre; oats about 50
bushels on an average. One hundred
bushels of potatoes were grown on
quarter of an acre of land; twelve DO
tatoes weighed 80 pounds. His horses
run out all winter, and come In fat
He raised excellent corn. and fa'.
tened hogs on it. He concludes {
interesting letter by saying: 'TherV
are schools in every district. Thd
people here are most all hustlers and
are fast pushing to the front. When
| first came up here on almost every
half section stood a little l2x14 shack
now almost everyone has real modern
houses and barns"
Some Southern Alberta Yields 10,
1915:
l. II. Hooker, 81 acres, $3.50 bushels
Marquis wheat No. l. 81 pounds per
bushel.
/. l. Lee. 40 acres. stubble. soc
bushels; 40 acres summer fallow. 2.
$50 bushels.
Peter Brandon, 164 acres. 1851 bush
els Marquis wheat.
r. Marandi. lS5 acres, 1920 bushels
GA pounds per bushel.
l. McReynolds, 40 acres, 1875. stub
ble
Ole christpferson, so acres. 2.e4j
bushels.
Arufhus Gavett, 155 acres wheat. G.
642 bushels; 80 acres oats, 1000 bush
els.
Robert Mathews. 46 acres wheat
2,Ol6 bushels. machine measure.
ID. Dunbar, 100 acres wheat g2I
bushels.
Ingauld Hoppy. so acres wheat. 2.
500 bushels, all stubblo.
Louis Kragt, so acres wheat, 4.OOt
bushels.
W. ]. Pate, 2t acres wheat, sst
bushels.
w. Roeniche. $50 acres wheat. S S3l
bushels so of this stubble.
J. c. McKinnon, so acres wheat. 2.
$50 bushels.
Gordon swinehart, 80 acres wheat
LAO bushels.
Albert Hanson. 50 acres wheat 2 7sc
bushels.
Elmer Hamm, 10 acres wheat 6. 15s
bushels; 80 acres oats. 6.55O bushels
John Larson, so acres wheat ooo
bushels; 30 acres oats, 1000 bushels
John Hecklin, 81 acres, 1884 buah.
els. 'D
VIM Hecklin. 100 acres. 1876. stub.
bic and breaking.
o. Salisbury. so acres Marouis
wheat. 1000 bushels On breaking -Ad.
yertisemeut.