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Show WESTERN CANADA'S WHEAT CROP. The surplus wheat crop of western Canada, upon which the cost of Uncle Sam's loaf nowadays depends, has been reported to the Chicago Chi-cago Board of Trade at a round 105-000,000 bushels, which is somewhat some-what below the yield of last year. The crop estimates divide the wheat as follows: Manitoba, 28,066,616 bushels; Saskatchewan, 65,-250,000; 65,-250,000; Alberta spring 5,370,014, winter 1,955,784. The oat crop for the three provinces i3 placed at 108,301,000 bushels; barley, 7,130,770 bushelsi and flax, 7,729,150 bushels. Saskatchewan suffered less from drouth in proportion to tho area under cultivation than the other provinces. Wliliam Pearson of Winnipeg, known as "Lost Mountain Parsons" from having colonized col-onized the rich valley in Saskatchewan of that name, gives the acreage acre-age in wheat at 4,642,000. The average yield for the province will be about fifteen and a half bushels, making allowance for hail and late frosts. The Canadian Northern railway reports Bhow that oats in Saskatchewan Sas-katchewan have suffered more than wheat. In Alberta conditons are sharply divided into north and south. The south has suffered severely se-verely from drouth, and here are located the largest areas of both spring and winter wheat. Hon. W. R. Motherwell. Minister of Agriculture of Saskatchewan, Saskatche-wan, estimates the wheat acreage at 4,500,000 in round numbers, although al-though the actual area under that grain is slightly larger. He discards dis-cards 500,000 acres as unfit to be considered in a crop calculation on account of damage through various causes. -For the'remaining 4,000,-000 4,000,-000 acres he places the average yield at fifteen bushels, and it is in this manner that he arrives at a total of .60,000-000 bushels. |