Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-01-10
BRITISH WHEAT YIELDS

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Wales in>fs17 was a few bushels short of so. 900, 900.
according to the latest estimates. This is about $780,
200 bushels more than the yield for 1916. The average
yield per acre for 1917 was 1858 bushels, and in 1915
$3.50. Both of these figures are somewhat below those
for the ten year average. The lower yields are explained
by the fact that during the war the entire business of
farming has been carried on under much greater d,,h-
eulties than usual, and it has not been possible to main
4tain the soil in as high a condition of fertility as in nor
NAL times. The Ieturns are, therefore, considered very
satisfactory on the whole. What would we think of a
Estate average of around 30 bushels of wheat per acre
Tin North Dakota. where soil and climatic conditions are
far better for wheat production than they are in Eng
land?
It is interesting to compare the wheat production
OF England and Wales with that of the banner wheat
producing state of our union. North Dakota. The area
Of the two divisions is approximately 50 per cent Of that
sof our own state. Their wheat production Is 50 to 70
per cent Of our own average. In other words, II England
and Wales were as large as North Dakota they would
produce substantially the same quantity Of wheat, Yet
England is not considered an agricultural country. 1t
is a country Of congested population. 1t is the COM
mercial clearing house of the world. Millions Of its
enterprises. And yet the inhabitants Of this little speck
on the globe are able to raise on their total area pro-
b poruonately nearly as much wheat as is raised in North
Dakota, a purely agricultural state, where wheat grow
Ing has been the principal industry and where it has
1T times come dangerously near Being the sole industry
#of the state. They do it, not by planting many acres
but by raising 80 bushels on each acre that they do
plant
England has not always raised 80 bushels OF wheat
per acre. She has had her period Of wastefulnes. and
ahe has paid for it. Her farmers skinned the surface
u and depleted the soil fertility until 1t one tins the wheat
production OF the island had dropped to eight bushels
per acre. 1t dawned on the people that his did not pay.
5TEIdnrent methods we're adopted. 1t has taken 4 long
time, some 200 years, to repair the dasnage; but the
work appears to havs been pretty effectively done. We
have = better chance here. Will We make use Of It Is
effectively as our friends across the ocean have dohe5
The United States is shipping large numbers of
farm tractors to France So interested il our govern
sanaenf In this work that space has been given for many
Sof These machines on army transports, other tonnage
mot heins available. The grain and other food preduc-
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