REPORT OF TEE DIRECTOR 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



Taylor Bros., 7 miles north of Macleod, had a large field of winter wkeat which 

 was all cut and in stook by August 15. He started cutting August 4. 



Mr. J. McISTaught, 12 miles from Macleod, had 250 acres of wheat, some of which 

 was winter, but most of it was spring wheat. 



Mr. Miller, of this district had 50 acres of winter wheat estimated to give 30 

 bushels per acre. 



In the Willow Creek district, 10 miles north of Macleod, Thompson Bros, had over 

 400 acres of spring wheat, Eed Fife, which was then being threshed and was expected 

 to give 25 busliels per acre. 



Mr. Lee Evans, 3 miles east of Macleod, had 140 acres under winter wheat, mostly 

 Turkey Red, with £ome Golden Chaff, which was cut during the first week in August, 

 and was expected to give 25 bushels to the acre. 



Mr. Peter Rohlig, Macleod, had 6 acres of winter wheat, Turkey Eed, saifl to have 

 yielded him 56 bushels per acre. 



Mr. J. Robert, Macleod, is said to have threshed 500 bushels of good winter wheat, 

 from 10 acres. 



Mr. Hayter, of this district, had 200 acres of winter wheat, which is said to have 

 given him an average of 33 bushels per acre. 



Mr. Peter Roberts, 9 miles south of Macleod, had six acres of Turkey Eed, which 

 gave him 300 bushels of fine wheat. 



LETHBRroGE TO CARDSTON. 



From Macleod we went to Lethbridge and visited some farms in that neighbour- 

 hood. 



Richard G. Watkin had 40 acres of spring wheat, Red Fife, which was just about 

 ready for cutting and looked very promising, this would probably give him from 30 

 to 35 bushels per acre. 



Seven miles from Lethbridge Mr. C. Magrath had 100 acres of Turkey Red. This 

 was sown in August, 1904, and at the time of our visit had been threshed and sold. 

 The yield was 17 bushels per acre. A sample of this wheat was procured, it was very 

 fine and plump and weighed 64 pounds per bushel. This field was on high land, and 

 in this locality the weather was unusually dry and the crop had suffered from drought, 

 which had reduced the yield. 



Nine miles from Lethbridge, also on high land, was a very large field said to con- 

 tain two thousand acres, which seemed to be well prepared. This belonged to Silver 

 and Carman, and at that time was nearly all sown, one seeder only was working at 

 one end of the field to finish it. The ploughing in this case was done in the ordinary 

 way. 



Nearly adjoining this was another large field said to contain 500 acres also pre- 

 pared for winter wheat. This had been broken by a steam plough and seemed to be 

 worked up very evenly. 



In travelling over the country from Lethbridge to Cardston by rail many fields 

 of winter wheat were seen, but there was not much opportunity of visiting individual 

 farms. 



Mr. T. J. Smellie, of Raymond, came from Idaho one and a half years ago. He had 

 this year 1,300 acres of winter wheat, all Turkey Red, which averaged about 15 bushels 

 per acre. He had expected a larger yield but the very dry weather which preceded 

 harvest there had cut the crop short. He expected to finish seeding 1,000 acres during 

 September. Mr. Smellie grows principally winter wheat, and inclines to the opinion 

 that the Odessa is more profitable than the Turkey Red. 



Mr. W. L. Thompson had about 1,700 acres in the Spring Coulee district, chiefly 

 Turkey Red, with some Odessa. Mr. Thompson's wheat was cut and threshed and is 

 said to have averaged from 15 to 20 bushels per acre. We were informed that there 



