The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1917-09-14
BIG CROPS IN
WESTERN CANADA
Good Yields of Wheat, Splendid
Production of Pork, Beef,
Mutton and Wool.

Liz lHIeSI 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
farmer near Della, Alberta, says har-
vest in that district is one month
earlier than last year. His wheat crop
Is estimated at 80 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 81 per bushel, 1t 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 $50 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 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 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-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
ion three hundred and seventy-seven
thousand two hundred and fifty dol.
ars was received at Winnipeg for
Western hogs during the first six
he. Of 10,
we're sold at an average price Of SIS
Der cwt., and had an average weight
If 200 pounds each. The raising OF
hogs Is a profitable and continually
rowing industry of Western Canada,
md this class of stock is raised as
here as anywhere on the
North American continent. There Is
practically no hog disease, and i'm
nense quantities Of food can be, pro-
luced cheaply.
1t has been told for years that the
rasses of Western Canada supply to
10Th beef and milk producers the nu-
ritive properties that go to the devel-
pment of both branches. The stories
hat are now being published by
dlTyHcll uuu peel Cdttleuleu fcilly
II the predictions that have ever been
made regarding the country's i'm
ortance In the raising of both beef
nd dairy cattle The sheep industry
J developing rapidly. At sale at
,algary 49, 53 pounds of wool were
isposed Of at sixty cents pound.
t q sale at Edmonton 10000 pounds
,ere sold at even better prices than
hose paid at Calgary. The total clip
MS season will probably approximate
wo million pounds. Many reports
re to hand showing from six to eight
ounds per fleece. 35 carloads were
ent to the Toronto market alone
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