=Gladstone, Man.=, reports that the wheat crop of 1913 exceeded all
expectations; 30 bushels per acre was the general yield. The grade was
never better. One farmer had 400 acres in wheat, which weighed 66 pounds
to the bushel.
=Portage Plains, Man.=, showed some remarkable yields. Noah Elgert had
61 bushels of wheat per acre; the government farm, 61 bushels; Geo. E.
Stacey, 54; T. J. Hall, John Ross and D. W. McCuaig, 50; W. Richardson,
51; M. Owens, 61-1/2; Anderson and Turnbull, 60; J. Lloyd, 48-1/2; Jas.
Bell and Robt. Brown, 48; R. S. Tully, 52; J. Wishart, 49-1/4; Philip
Page, 47; J. Stewart, 45; J. W. Brown, 30; Chester Johnson, 44; E. H.
Muir, 42; L. A. Bradley, 43; W. Boddy, 40; Albert Davis, 43; E.
McLenaghen, 37. After farming the same land for forty years, J. Wishart
secured a crop of 49-1/2 bushels to the acre, the best he ever had. Mr.
Bradley's yield was on land plowed this spring.
=Marquette, Man.=, September 21. Splendid weather has enabled the farmers
of this section to make good progress with the cutting and harvesting of
this season's crop. Wheat is averaging 20 bushels to the acre, with
barley 45 and oats going 70. There has been no damage of any
description.
=Binscarth, Man.=, says good reports are coming from the machines of high
yields and good sample. The elevators are busy shipping cars every day.
=Dauphin, Man.=, September 13. Threshing is general. The grain is in good
shape and the weather is ideal. The samples are best ever grown here,
grading No. 1 Northern. The returns are larger than expected in nearly
every case. E. B. Armstrong's wheat went 34 bushels to the acre; others,
25 to 27.
=Balmoral.=--John Simpson says: "Very prosperous has been our first year's
farming in Canada. Shipped two carloads of wheat that graded No. 1
Northern and sold for eighty-five cents. Weather for the last two weeks
was perfect--no snow and just enough frost to keep the roads from
getting muddy."
=Brandon.=--Hard wheats have long been the choice product of Manitoba
soil, but nothing more significant is required to announce a new
industry in the Province than that Glencarnock Victor, a
Manitoba-finished steer, owned by Mr. J. D. McGregor, was last year
grand champion of America, and his half-brother from the same stables,
won like honours this year. Neither had ever been fed any corn, but
fattened on prairie hay, alfalfa, and barley.