The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-10-14
"LAND OF PLENTY"
Western Canada a Country OF
Marvellous Fertility.
Literally Hundreds of Miles Of Won
derful Grain Fields Delight the Eye
Yields Will 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 ne
trayerses the mountain areas OF
Canada, rich In the variety of color
and depth of shades that they cast,
wonderful In their magnitude, their
grandeur, restful, even although the
streams that flow from their sides
come down with swish and swash
creating noise that makes ones ear
drums beat 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 to dwell upon the scene. But
It was not the intention to speak OF
mountain scenery, roaring torrents,
placid lakes, and restful haunts.
Rather, we were about to speak Of the
other kind of inspiration that IS
aroused as one traverses Western
Canadas immense plains, gridironed
with railroads and splendid highways,
along whose borders and away back
are to be seen the most wonderful
grainefields. The crops of wheat, oats,
barley, fax, and corn--yes, corn--have
| Just been harvested, the threshing ma
chimes are busy, the elevators are
ready-the thirty and forty thousand
bushel elevators, with three, four, and
five and more at nearly every station
along the thousand miles Of railway
| that serve this immense new area OF
agricultural land. There is not more
| inspiring sight than these grain fields.
They lead one to pause and reflect,
| get one into mental arithmetic
! strain, and the mind wanders as IL
| 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 run into
| and over a billion dollars. At least,
that is what those who profess to keep
themselves posted as to values
believe.
The wheat crop alone will run over
250,OO0,OOO bushels, and If you figure
this at $3.50 per bushel, the price it is
selling at as we write, there you have
S7OO,OOOOO0 alone. Then there is the
oat crop, with yield of one hesitates
to say the quantities in bushels, fol
the threshers are reporting yields OF
ITO and 120 bushels per acre, where
bat so and 80 bushels were expected
but their value, apart from that OF
barley and rye and fax, will carry
us over the billion dollar mark.
OF course all this means-but we
had almost forgotten to speak OF The
cattle and horses, the sheep and the
pigs, the dairy and many other farm
products, the increase and production
OF which this year will bring in many
more million dollars-all this mean:
that there will be rush Of buyers *
Western Canada this fall, during the
winter, and next spring.
A certain amount of satisfaction is
derived by those "back home here,
whose friends are writing them in
dorsing the statements that are ap
pearing in the press of wheat yields OF
thirty, forty, and fifty bushels to the
acre; of oats yielding anywhere from
sixty to 120 bushels per acre. Dis
tricts have not been specially favored
Travel anywhere, eight hundred miles
east and west, four hundred miles
north and south, and it is the same
story, splendid yields, good acreage
excellent prices, easy marketing, but
tabor little scaIce.-Advertisem