FARM CROPS OF CANADA IN 1901 13 



Mr. E. 0, Miller, of Moosejaw, had forty acres, and raised 1,800 bushels, an aver- 

 age of forty-five bushels. Mr. Keil, of Lumsden, Assiniboia, had 100 acres, and got 

 5,000 bushels, an average of fifty bushels per acre. 



Hon. Mr. Perley, of Woolesley, had 7,600 bushels from 200 acres, an average of 

 thirty-eight bushels, but in Mr. Perley's case only a part of the land was summer- 

 fallowed, and he did not keep the grain separate. On the summer-fallowed land he 

 would have no doubt in the neighbourhood of forty-five bushels, and on the other land 

 a less proportion. 



By Mr. Davis : 



Q. This Moosejaw wheat is the best grain j'ou have here ? 



A. The Moosejaw crops have turned out very well. 



I have received a number of other samples, but these shown j-ou are all I was able 

 to get ready this morning. 



Mr. Joseph Gibson, of Indian Head, threshed 22,000 bushels of wheat from 500 

 acres, part summer-fallow, part breaking and back-setting, an average of forty-four 

 bushels an acre. 



Mr. T. Livingstone, of Indian Head, had 9,000 bushels from 180 acres, an average 

 of fifty bushels per acre. 



Mr. George Lang, of Indian Head, had 3,760 bushels of wheat from eighty acres, 

 an average of forty-seven bushels per acre. 



J. Strong, of Eocanville, had 4,500 bushels from 100 acres, an average of forty- 

 five bushels per acre. 



L. Keil, of Lumsden, had 5,000 bushels from 100 acres, an average of fifty bushels 

 per acre. That sample we have here. 



A. Kindred, of Mofiat, had 3,375 bushels from seventy-five acres, an average of 

 forty-five bushels per acre. 



Mr. C. E. Cullum, of Eegina, had 1,880 bushels from forty acres, an average of 

 forty-seven bushels. 



E. Alexander, of Eegina, had 2,117 bushels from forty-nine acres, an average of 

 forty-three bushels per acre. 



H, Donett, of Moosejaw, had 600 bushels from twelve acres, an average of fifty 

 bushels per acre. 



John Eanatt, of Moosejaw, had 1,880 bushels from forty acres, an average of 

 forty-seven bushels per acre. 



J. K. Pearce, of Eegina, threshed 810 bushels from 15 acres, an average of 54 

 bushels per acre. 



These are all wheat crops, and I think all Eed Fife, grjwn on summer-fallowed 

 land, and go to show the fine crops which the farmers of that district can grow with 

 the best system of farming. 



George Hyde, of Grenfell, had 705 bushels from fifteen acres, an average of forty- 

 seven bushels per acre. 



By Mr. Henderson : 



Q. I notice that nearly all of your reports are from the Territories. How Jo 

 these averages compare with the land in Manitoba, such as the Portage plains, which 

 have been cultivated for many years ? 



A. The Dominion covers a large area, and you can only take one part at a time. I 

 was going to come to that before the committee when I got through with the Terri- 

 tories. My object in bringing these details before the committee was. to show that 

 the large crops were not confined to the Experimental Earm at Indian Head, but that 

 the benefits which the farm conferred were influencing the whole country around, and 

 in some instances the farmers have had larger crops than those grown at the Indian 

 Head Experimental Farm. 



