Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 12, 1929, Winnipeg, Manitoba Manitoba free Winnipeg monday August 12, 1929, o Zewiey Lucky strike then West to milk River uniform. Bow Island s crop is now partly harvested and is one of the prettiest sights with the cleanest and most Golden Straw imaginable while the yields not As heavy As last year continued from Page 1.1 Austin Sidney 3. Roa it and North and West on the Sunshine Trail to Lethbridge and from Leth Bridge South and West to Cardston by Way of Magrath. Across the Foothills to puncher Creek and Lundbe Wjk and Back to Lethbridge by Macleod. At the outset can safely say that the South country covered m the above route is especially favored. No sooner is one out of Medicine hat than an indication is Given of what is to follow. Will probably average j bushels or better of Teal All fifteen top Grade Grain South of sow Island South of Bow Island All crops later and a few not. As heavy. About fifteen bushels South of Foremost Are some i. Re tolls la v in i. A. Xiao la still Light and Short and Many j clean Long strayed and Well headed 1 them very weedy. Near Melbourne wheat greets one at the first Field 0 jew Unn once Atkaln worked North Ancl it a not heavy and thick it air mediately found crops better should Leid Well. Passin ouch they could not be character Gons heavier growth is or ?-5 Klafter ctlr.? through t of conditions from Fil some ver the Sand Hills Douglas into y Good Fields Brero i Oats. Is to 25. And average except Barley. 1 on acid eve cow be Cut within the week. Lej coup ook v rape s of the uniformity is gone with a rips Field on one Side of Road and one or two weeks later on the other but should they All mature Good yields should be experienced Over the Twenty Odd Miles to Foremost. Some Fields of wheat Between these places will doubt less make As High As thirty bushels or better but they Are much in the minority. There May be some it outta As to their but my Opin Ion is that there is no reason to sup Pear and As one progresses the wheat pose that they will not do so average becomes heavier and More yields looked for around Foremost Are Gons Many g seven per growth is met with and Fields Are already in Stook or have been those in Stook indicate yields varying from fight to f Etc in bushels or More and weeds Are poor and Short. Taking proc Tierny non existent. West to in would say. Wheat May j Bow taif and. Heavier a _ i i e of incl t in. Fair shape though oat crops Are correspondingly As Good As wheat they being usually thin and in even and often very late but with the occasional stretch of country where the stands Are reasonably full of Promise. Acres from Lethbridge to Cardston Ona can see some excellent crops especially in the irrigated Sec Tion about Raymond and West from there. The fault with the irrigated crops that can rightly be called such o thirty do audio us is that they Are almost invariably late. And of course Many l Many of them being very Green and and a few tens. But i several weeks away from Harvest. Fields fifteen and a it m ready to Harvest but on the other hand Many of them have already been Cut or show a Gen eral ripeness Over the Fields. Sugar beet and Alfalfa in common with the rest of the Southern Section this province Good at present a Aln to Lucky Oulu Elx we strike Many Fields Are to be found some Early and now being taken out while others Are still very Yre ii and three weeks from Harvest Iong yellow Straw is characteristic of the Ripe Fields topped by Heads longed heavy to Lethbridge wheat Fields Straw topped by Heads forecast paying yields to milk River and on Heavin Many of thirty bushels o. Taken on the whole it is a goad crop and one which is clean of weeds and easily handled and , should Grade High. The Only fit in we Point .1 f n Irir of 1161 Cis Reser bran Ilon to Broadview. Brandon to Alexander crops j is eat and Barley As the Oats is reaches of the River. Jtj to the up of the Valley crops of the were poor but a lot of Load Hay has been put up though possibly not so much As usual the ends from the North lip of the the 15 Miles or so to wheat land Are a tragedy As not one Good Rottas seen along the Road travelled. So Good Many Fields have been Down. Wheatland South to Brad improve a Little and Kenton Farmed Dis til Back across the Valley of Oak Lake crops in this Section of the Valley better than were crossed Lur j ser East but were hardly so Good As i atjonet0the Highway to Virden the Good and the poor crops were about flt fifty. In this stretch 30 to 3o per cent of the wheat and Barley Are Cut and while the Heads of the leaves did tip the Butts when lifted Thev lust did it and no More. In the 83 Miles covered Between Brandon and Al Den there Are crops of wheat May run 15 to 20. Of course a num Ber of the Fields seen would to More. But alas Many Fields that will run o to 7 Virden to Elkhorn found Prett uht crops All the Way with a Small e percentage Cut. Prom Elkhorn went 25 Miles North to Mcauley without much change in condition except tha. The country is More broken and crops not so continuous. South of Mcauley and West to Wel ten a number of Fields of very Good Rye partially Cut. Prom Welwyn South and West to Kirkella and along the Highway to Broadview. Collier s farm fair. Near Welwyn visited Collier s farms and found him with very fair crops indeed and with a Nice Nock of sheep grazing contentedly on Sweet Clover pasture and his Herd of. Angus cattle Thrifty As usual. Prom Welwyn to Broadview the country is much broken by sloughs and Bluffs but nevertheless there is a lot of crop but from Kirkella into Broadview it is very uneven and like All the rest seen in the two Days has come in too soon for it to have filled Percival and Broadview there Are quite a few Fields of Rye. These Are thinner and Shorter in Straw and in head than those South and East of Welwyn. On the whole there Are More unfinished crops from bran Don to Broadview than Winnipeg to Brandon and As there have recent local showers this gives Indi cation of filling out considerably on the additional moisture. Made 370 Miles in the two clays a pretty Good indication that Many Miles of crop carry their condition so plainly in View it is not necessary to inspect them More closely. In All the run from Winnipeg to Broadview there is a tremendous amount of land cultivated ready for next Spring. Much of it of course the regular but a very considerable about of land that seeded last Spring and reckoned in the acreage seeded. By r. M. Scott assistant agricultural editor Manitoba free press. Lethbridge aug. 11. Since filing Medicine hat Friday night the route taken has been South and West from that Point through seven per sons Bow Island. Foremost Sci the to special glasses Complete no extra charge for examination lenses ground according to test in single vision White lenses. Wonderful selection of frames. My records show thou Sands of people whom i have fitted with glasses so satisfied they bring or refer their friends to me. My experience and knowledge is Youe guarantee Krypton is Tore invisible bifocal glasses far and near including sex ill nation and Frame i fill prescriptions at same Price bldg. Phona 22 786 Portage Ayr. At floor ment is the fact that a lot of be Ween milk River and Lethbridge Are going of be late and anything May happen them in the next three weeks. in cred i s yields of All grains will without doubt covered be harvested from Lethbridge to card Luc the feed situation seems to Puj Well with the warm weather now fave Oring it. Alfalfa a Good crop in common with other growth and Oats Are the Best that we have seen so far. This year. There is so Little variation Over this Section that it can readily be handled As a , with the exception of the earliness mentioned in the dryland crop Section. From Cardston to Pincher and West to Luu Breck and Back to Lethbridge by Macleod things Are generally earlier taut there Are also Many late crops and Many Are now apprehensive that Frost May again catch them before Harvest. While this is possible the damage Here would not be anything compared to j that which would result Between Leth Bridge and Cardston. Yields Over the Pincher Creek District and Between there and Cardston should be High also. All wheat is clean and of Good length Aud the few Fields Cut Stook up exceedingly Well for this year. About Pincher station find at Cowley All crops Are much earlier than South. Field and consequently it does not Jow. Of there which holds True also for the the method has been so effective that Section from Macleod to Lethbridge. In no soil Drifting is in evidence Over fact Many Fields have been Cut in the i whole Section that a jew years ago was last Section named and Many will be ready Early this week providing the Combine is not used. Wheat is uniformly Good right from Lundbaek to Lethbridge and the surprising thing to the observer is the general absence of i weeds or foreign matter a any of the crops. What there is there is wheat about desolate for thai very reason. Winners married in Garden contest held at Dugald due Ald. Man. Aug. It the annual Garden Competition spoil beads sorted by the Springfield agricultural mention should to made Here of the society resulted in the following method employed by the Macleod District Farmer to avoid soil Drifting on his Fields. Alternate narrow strips of wheat and fallow Fields Are left the length Wise measurement being visual Bons winning a c. Goulb 2. A. Mcivor 3, r. Edmonds 4, j. Smith 5, j. Lowndes 6, f. Pearson. Or. Whitman of the agricultural College was the judge. By North and. South across the pre c mailing winds. 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