Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-09-07
BIG CROPS IN
WESTERN CANADA
Good Yields of Wheat. Splendid
Production of Pork. Beef,
Mutton and Wool.

the latest reports give an asSur-
.nca of good grain crops throughout
go Of western Canada, where the
abeat. oats and barley are now being
harvested. about ten days earlier than
Last wear. Manitoba, Saskatchewan
end Alberta are al "doing their bit"
q noble way towards furnishing
food for the allies
While the total yield OF wheat viii
rot be as heavy as IN 1915, there
ere indications that II viii be an aver
eca crop in most OF the districts.
letter received at the ST. Paul office
~ the Canadian Government, from a
GARNER near Della. Alberta, says har-
vost In that district is one month
earlier than last year. His wheat crop
e estimated ar 80 bushels per acre.
vhile some Of his neighborS VIII have
more. The average in the district will
ha about 30 bushels per acre. Now.
with the price Of wheat in the neigh
borbood Of 50 per bushel. 1t is safe to
sav that there viii be very few farm
ars but will be able TO bank from for
n 70 fifty dollars p acre after pay
ing all expenses O. seeding. harvest
Ing and threshing. as well as taxes.
The price Of land IN this district is
from SIS to $50 per acre. What may
be said Of this district viii apply TO
almost any other in Manitoba, Sas-
kstchewan 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 Of
years. and If they are as successful in
the future as in the past they viii
have 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.
ard hogs are easy 10 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 10 remain so for q long time.
A few days since a farmer from
Daysland. Alberta. shipped a carload
Of hogs 10 the ST. Paul market. and
got q higher price than was ever be
fore paid on that market. Two mil
lion three hundred and seveuty-seven
thousand two hundred and fifty dol
lars vas received ar Winnipeg for
Western hogs during the first six
months OF this year. 1S1.5T5 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 i'm
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-
Tidve properties that go to the devel-
opment Of both branches. The stories
tnat 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
anc 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.
Al sale at Edmonton 10000 pounds
We're sold at even better prices than
those paid at Calgary. The total clip
this season viii probably approximate
TWO million pounds. Many reports
are TO hand showing from six to eight
pounds per fleece. So carloads were
sent to the Toronto market alone
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