Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-09-13
Bis CROPS IN
WESTERN CANADA
Good Yields Of Wheat, Splendid
Production Of Pork, Beef,
Mutton and Wool.

1ue latest Reports give an aSSur-
ancs Of good grain crops throughout
most Of Western Canada, where the
wheat. oats and barley are now being
harvested. about ten days earlier than
last year. Manitoba. Saskatchewan
and Alberta are all "doing their bit"
In q noble way towards furnishing
food for the allies.
While the total yield Of wheat will
not be as heavy as In 1915, there
r indications that 1t will be an AVER
age crop In most Of the districts.
A letter received ut the st. Paul Office
Of the Canadian Government, from a
farmer near Della, Alberta. says har-
vest In that district Is one month
earlier than last year. His wheat crop
Is estimated at IS bushels per acre.
while some Of bis neighbors will have
more. The average in the district viii
be about 80 bushels per acre. NoSas
with the price Of wheat in the neigh.
borhood Of 81 per bushel, It Is safe to
say that there will be very few farm
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 may
be said of this district will apply to
almost any other in Manitoba. Sas-
katchewan or Alberta. Many farmers
have gone to Western Canada from
the United States In the past three or
four years, who having purchased
lands, had the pleasure of completing
the payments before they were due.
They have made the money out Of
their crops during the past couple IF
years, and If they are as successful in
the future as in the past they will
put themselves and their families
beyond all possibility Of lack Of
money for the rest of their lives. II
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 thcre~-bar-
ley Is plentiful and grass abundant,
and the climate just the kind that
hogs glory In. The price IS good and
likely to remain so for q long time.
A few days since a farmer from
Alberta, shipped a carload
Of hogs TO the st. Paul market, an!
got Il higher price than was ever be.
fore paid on that market. Fno nil.
lion three hundred and seyenty-sevcn
thousand two hundred and fifty dol
lars was received at Winnipeg for
Western hogs during the first six
months Of this year. 1S1.515 hogs
sold at an average price Of SO
per cwt.. and had an average weight
Of 200 pounds each. The raising If
hogs is n profitable and continually
growing industry of Western Canada.
md this class Of stock Is raised as
economically here as anywhere on the
American continent. There Is
practically no hog disease, and i'm
duced cheaply.
1t has been told for years that the
grasses Of Western Canada supply TO
both beef and milk producers the nu-
properties that go to the deyel-
Of both branches. The stories
are now being published by
lairymen and beef cattle men verify
NIL the predictions that have ever been
made regarding the country's i'm.
portnnce in the raising of both beef
and dairy cattle. The sheep industry
developing rapidly. At a sale at
Calgary 151.453 pounds of wool were
disposed Of ut sixty cents a pound.
At a sale Mt Edmonton 10000 pounds
we're sold ut even better prices than
hose paid at Calgary. The total clip
his season will probably approximate
two million pounds. Many reports
ire to hand showing from six to eight
per fleece. IS carloads were
sent to the Toronto market alone
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