Williams news., 1917-09-27
BIG CROPS IN
 WESTERN CANADA
Good Yields of Wheat, Splendid Production of Pork, Beef,
 Mutton and Wool.

The latest reports give an assur- ance 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 a noble way towards furnishing food for the allies.
 While the total yield of wheat will not be as heavy as in 1915, there are indications that it will be an aver age crop in most of the districts. A letter received at 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 35 bushels per acre, while some of his neighbors will have more. The average in the district will be about 30 bushels per acre. Now, with the price of wheat in the neigh borhood of $2 per bushel, 1t is safe to say that there will be very few farm CTS 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 Cat of their crops during the past couple of years. and If they are as successful in the future as in the past they will have put themselves and their families beyond all possibility of lack o1 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 there-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 long time.
 A few days since a farmer from Daysland, Alberta, shipped a 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-seven thousand two hundred and fifty dol lars was received at Winnipeg for Western hogs during the first six months of this year. 1s1,575 hogs were sold at an average price of S15 per cwt., and had an average weight of POO 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 i'm mense quantities of food can be pro duced cheaply.
 It has been told for years that the grasses of Western Canada supply to both beef and milk producers the nu- tritive 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 im- portance in the raising of both beef and dairy cattle. The sheep industry Is developing rapidly. At a sale at Calgary 151. .453 pounds of wool were disposed of at sixty cents a pound. At sale at Edmonton 6O,OO0 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. 35 carloads were sent to the Toronto market alone.- Advertisement