The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-09-07
BIG CROPS IN
WESTERN CANADA.
Good Yields Of Wheat, Splendid
Production of Pork, Beet,
Mutton and Wool.


ance of good grain crops thrsagb1nt
most OF Western Canada, where the
wheat. oats and barley are now teing
harvested, about ten days eariier thAn
last year. Manitoba, SxskataAeEen
aud Alberta are all doing their IT.
I'm a noble way towards frsxfshing
food for the allies.
While the total yield Of wheae will
not be as heavy rs In 1916. nSre
are indications that IL will be - Gxer-
age crop In most Of the dfR61EtS.
A letter received at the st. Pa0 Qice
Of the Canadian Government. frspA
farmer near Della, Alberta. says mr.
vest in that district Is one nasa3A
earlier than last year. His wheas 0Sp
is estimated at 80 bushels per acre.
while some of his neighbors win kage
more. The average in the district u2Ai
be about 80 bushels per acre. New,
with the price of wheat in the aeigh-
borhood of 50 per bushel. 1t Is safe to
say that there will be very few form
ers but will be able to bank from for
ty to fifty dollars per acre after pay
ing all expenses of seeding, harvest
ing and threshing, as well as taxes.
The price of land In this district is
from $25 to $50 per acre. What nay
be said of this district will apply to
almost any other in Manitoba, SAs-
katchewan or Alberta. Many farmers
have gone to Western Canada frem
tka VITA In ha OF Ar
four years. who having purchased
lands. had the pleasure of completing
the payments before they were dHe.
They have made the money eat Of
their crops during the past ceupie ef
years. and II they are as successful In
the future as i'm the past they wiH
have put themselves and their families
beyond all possibility OF lack Of
money for the rest OF their lives. 1t
is not only in wheat that the farmers
Of Western Canada are making money.
Their hogs have brought them wealth.
and hogs are easy to raise there--sar-
ley is plentiful and grass abundant.
and the climate just the kind that
hogs glory in. The price is good aad
likely to remain so for long time.
A few days since n farmer from
Daysland, Alberta. shipped q carload
of hogs to the st. Paul market, and
got higher price than was ever be-
fore paid on that market. Two mil
lion three hundred and seventy-seyen
thousand two hundred and fifty del
lars was received at Winnipeg fer
Western hogs during the first SIX
months Of this year. 1856 hogs
were sold at an average price Of SIS
per cwt.. and had an average weight
Of 200 pounds each. The raising Of
hogs Is a profitable and continually
growing industry OF Western Canada,
and this class Of stock Is raised as
economically here as anywhere on the
North American continent. There Is
practically no hog disease. and in-
mense quantities Of food can be pro-
duced cheaply.
1t has been told for years that the
grasses Of Western Canada supply to
both beef and milk producers the nu-
trltive properties that go to the devel-
opment of both branches. The stories
that are now being published by
dairymen and beef cattle men verify
all the predictions that have ever been
made regarding the country's i'm
pOrtance In the raising Of both beef
and dairy cattle. The sheep industry
Is developing rapidly. At a sale at
Calgary ISL 53 pounds of wool were
disposed Of at sixty cents pound.
At sale at Edmonton 10000 pounds
were sold at even better prices than
those paid at Calgary. The total clip
this season will probably approximate
two million pounds. Many reports
are to hand showing from six to eight
pounds per fleece. 81 carloads were
sent to the Toronto market alone
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