Canada west : 350,000,000 bushels wheat in 1915 : Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta . inary cultivationaveraged 50 bushels of wheat per acre. Another farmer threshed from 160 acres 9,467 bushelsof wheat, an average of 59 bushels per acre. On a stubbled-in field,an average of 30 bushels per acre was the return from a 400-acre field. Afarmer with 900 acres had an average of 40 bushels of wheat, another had42 bushels of wheat and 84 bushels of oats. A thresher here says the lowesthe threshed in 1915 was 37 bushels per acre. Plncher Creek.—A claim is made that a 100-acre field of spring wheatproduce
Canada west : 350,000,000 bushels wheat in 1915 : Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta . inary cultivationaveraged 50 bushels of wheat per acre. Another farmer threshed from 160 acres 9,467 bushelsof wheat, an average of 59 bushels per acre. On a stubbled-in field,an average of 30 bushels per acre was the return from a 400-acre field. Afarmer with 900 acres had an average of 40 bushels of wheat, another had42 bushels of wheat and 84 bushels of oats. A thresher here says the lowesthe threshed in 1915 was 37 bushels per acre. Plncher Creek.—A claim is made that a 100-acre field of spring wheatproduced bushels and another field of 200 acres yielded bushels. On one farm wheat went slightly better than 60 bushels per acre; one 35-acre plot of oats made a record of 120 bushels. TAXATION IN CANADA The Additional War Revenuerequired in Canada is raised byincrease in Customs tariff, taxationof banks, loan companies, a taxon railway and steamship tickets,telegrams, postal matter, patentmedicines and proprietary articles,AND NOT ONE CENT OF WARTAX is levied on Barley is one of the best paying crops in Western Canada. It is largely grown for feed, takingthe place of corn as a fattening product. Sterling.—A farmer here says he had bushels of wheat from 500acres. This crop was sold early for ff 16,400, a gross return of * per acre. Magrath.—Eleven thousand bushels of oats from a 100-acre field isreported. The farmer who grew these has taken a total of $70 per acre fromhis land in two years. Bert Ackeberg had 66 bushels wheat per acre. Three Hills.—A field of Marquis wheat by actual weight and measurementyielded 63 bushels 40 pounds per acre. Milk Kiver. Alberta.—Twenty acres here yielded an average of 62Hbushels of wheat to the acre. This land had formerly had a crop of peas andwas in a high state of cultivation. From a volunteer crop a field of 100 acres yielded2,300 bushels of wheat, an average of 23 bushels peracre. Wheat sown on cultivat
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