The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1920-10-01
LAND or PLENTY"
Western Canada a Country of
Marvellous Fertility.
Literally Hundreds Of Miles Of Wcn-
derful Gram Fields Delight the Eye
Yields van Run Well over a
Billion Dollars.

A trip through the wheat fields of
Western Canada may lack the inspira-
ton, such as one may find working in-
sidiously through his being as he
traverses the mountain areas OF
Canada, rich in the variety Of color
and depth of shades that they cast,
wonderful in their magnitude. their
grandeur, y%r~tful, even although the
streams That flow from their sides
come down with a swish and a swash
creating q noise that makes ones ear
drums bcat their last beat. Then as
we rest beside the lakes in the clouds
and see the calm and peace which
they enjoy in the midst Of nesting
hills, we wonder If there's another
world. Care has vanished; all we
want is t. dwell upon the scene. But
L was ~ We intention 10 speak OF
7i"u";@. .'rr, rcariu@ torrents,
!, 'ri! ard res haunts.
r l;!,y! 2iCdl e '"' of the
,ther khu Of inspirations hat is
aroused 9~ one %travcrscs Western
Canada immense plains, gridironed
With railroads and splendid highways,
along whose borders and away back
are to be- seen the most wonderful
grain fields. The crops Of wheat. oats,
barley, fax. and corn-yes, corn-have
lust beer harvested. the threshing ma
chimes are busy, the elevators are
ready-tlo thirty and forty thousand
bushel elevators, with three, four, and
i've and more at nearly every station
along the thousand miles of railway
that serve this immense new area OF
agricultural land. There is not n more
Inspiring sight than these grain fields.
they lead one TO pause and reflect,
get onc into Il mental arithmetic
strain, and the mind wanders as it
gathers the great length of figures that
represents the Western Canada grain
crop of 1920. A pencil and paper
are needed, for the value will u into
and over a billion dollars. At least,
hat is what those who profess TO keep
themselves posted as to values
believe.
The wheat crop alone( will run over
950,000.0OO bushels, and if you figure
his at $3.50 per buShel, the price it is
selling at as we write, there you have
800, OOO, 600 alone. Then there is the
Oat crop, with n yield of one hcSitates
TO say the quantities in bushels, for
he threSherS are reporting yields or
10 and 120 bushels per acre, where
but so and 90 bushels were expected,
nut their value, apart from that of
barley and rye and flax, will carry
is over the billion dollar mark.
or course all this meanS-but we
mad almost forgotten to speak of the
attle and horses, the sheep and the
digs. the dairy ana many other farm
products, the increase and production
If which this year will bring in many
more million dollars-all this means
hat there will be a rush of buyers 10
Western Canada this fan, during the
winter, and ext spring.
A certain amount Of satisfaction is
derived by those 'back home here"
whose friends are writing them in
lOrsing the statements that are ap-
bearing i'm the press Of wheat yields or
hirty, forty, and fifty bushels to the
acre; of oats yielding anywhere from
sixty to 100 bushels per acre. Dis
-rictS have not been specially favored.
Travel anywhere, eight hundred miles
last and west, four hundred miles
oorth and south and II is the same
story. splendid yields, good acreage,
excellent prices, easy marketing, hut
IabOr q little Observation-Disclosures.