THE FULTON COUNTY NEWS, McCONNELLSBURGj PA. Of WESTERN CANADA LEADS AS WHEAT In This Department Our Readers In Fulton County and EI I sown ore May journey Around the Aor!d Alth the Camera on tho Trail of History INlaUlne: Happenings. 342,000,000 Bushels Wheat in News 1915; In 1916 Many Farm ers Paid for Their Land Out of Their Crop. That Western Cunndn Is Indeed THIS MAY BE THE - X - f v . . ' ' . :': !. : 1 ':' , , iX,, ' -, t " . ' - - J . 1 ' i " J n ; Jb ! ' ,J S 7 - ATLftS.- -T r. -yjf JjL ' . V ' Tills In tho GiTimiri rrnlst-r VlnWn. Inking m tniiny nierclmnt hIiIjis In the ENTRY IN Two ring-ten in drivers of tho Northwest, W. Aurenson mill Stun Chrlstlnnson of Klverton, who will enter tenuis In the "Wlnnlpeg-to-St. Paul Derby," niul u truck dog team. The Wlnnlpeg to St. Paul nice la to bo ono of the biggest features of the Outdoor Sports carnival nt St. Paul, Minn. The distance Is 5)0 miles. rnnvc unRQP cnnnwQ nPAn MA5TFR I t i ft r I " V v f I5 "v tt s-Xh i V4 Colonel Cody's horse, his favorite mount for many yeaV, being led In " tho great funeral cortege lti Denver. Tho white horse whs tin object of Krcat Interest to the thousands who lined tho thorougWares through which the procession passed. DEWEY DEATH MASK AND ITS MAKER ,'K'.iril.M'W'y,lJiJl'Mli.P.l' M i5 - J T,ls death ninsk of Admiral George Dewey, shown In the hands of Its Kiaker, U. 8. J. Dunbar, Is the forty-ninth made by Mr. Dunbar. RAIDER OF SOUTH ATLANTIC COMMERCE. wliicli Is lii'llcvod ! iminy to lie the South Atlantic, oilier reports Buy the WINNIPEG-TO-ST. PAUL -ft lp i & ) w h 1 ? k f ? 3 x I ' M 4 J OillllNlillHIIIllilllhlilirMMnilililllllHIIililiti'l vessel Unit luis been niptnrliiB liml riitiier is tiio ruinous Jioewe, DERBY designed new quarters II. A. Macncal, designer of the new -5-cent piece that has Just been put In circulation by the government. Dyeing Poodles the Latest The latest P. roadway fad Is the dyed poodle. Society llrst took up the Idea and now It Is being ndopted by the up-to-date chorus girls. Three front-row girls thrilled Proadwny the other af ternoon when they alighted from a taxi In front of the Hotel Astor, each with n Mimll dog In her arm. One was pink, another was blue, and the third green. The passers-by needed no signal from the door tenders to call attention to tho arrivals. Tho party spoke for Itself. Tho dogs were orlg- Innlly white French poodles. It Is understood that the dyed-ln-the-wool dog proposition Isn't con lined to any color. They are synchronizing varia tions In tho color schemes. Green ears, n pink tall with blue horizontal stripes Is n possibility. In ono of the big department stores recently we observed two women, ono with an orange-colored poodle and tho other tho color of the turquoise blue of the skies, with a delicate tint of pink on the underbody. With the coining of Eustcr It Is expecter that the fad will havo a big Impetus. New York Times. Dumb Animals. The manager of Kldem's great me- nagcrlt lmd Induced all tho crowd to become patrons, except one Individ mil who stood gazing up at bliu with mouth agape. "Klght this way. sir, If you wish to see some doer stalking," shouted the animal king. "No fear, lad," came the reply. was In yesterday and nouo of 'em said a bloomln' word." SCENES DURING lr.l1..inr....nrrT iriiwfffiiTaimrirrinffyT niniii n lHr"''';: Almve Is .slmwii (lie r:iUsnii lieiil'ln' llir liml) of Alinil'iil I lew ey from Die eupllol III Wn.-lillitoii to Al'llllUtoli cemetery, l'.elow, Ailmli'iil l)evey's liiiineilinte escort Is seen tlhiilni,' tin- ciiiss.ni with tho Ainerkim The niliKIn nlilcers of tho uuvy tire ilescemlln),' Hie cnpltol steps. In tho center of the picture, in urest the uiineru, lire Admirals l::iilt;er (left) uinl Fletch r (with hlnck luiistnche). SOON TO Urn. II. A. Allm, lifiul of tho Iowa Invest! A specially posed pliolograpli or limine. Front row, right to left toml f foM Am - Fh w 1- ""'Vmt - "".r gift's rjorf j3 f5. H v"' IJ V v t w. . '"grjj-i "'U-..wM'y.'. yy --yff--'w.vw.w".-.,.v.v'&, v . . jf laiWiiiiinindlltfiiiY'i ivi----'- yvli'itf'"hVTrittWnT-T'ilWili" " -j- . - -..v-. ..xv. ... . of Tennessee, ltobert h. Henry, chairman of the rules committee; Philip J. Campbell or Kansas ami mine i.. en root of Wisconsin. Hear row, right to left II. D. Foster of Illinois, Pyron P. Harrison of Mississippi, William S. Uenuett of New York and lUiruett M. Chlperlleld of Illinois. ACCUSER OF HARRY THAW Frederick Gump, Jr., Kansas City high school boy, on whose charges a war rant for the nrrest of Harry Thaw of Pittsburgh was Issued. Thaw Is now In Philadelphia recovering from self lulllcted wounds. site , j THE FUNERAL OF ADMIRAL DEWEY LEAVE THE MEXICAN brlt'mio on tho Mr xlcuu burJor, ami bis the committee investigating ino - leak ' t lmiKes, inuue in tin- Ne i.ik (l.s Sherman I.. Whipple, the counsel; J.C. k'nmrlll of KeiUucky. l lnls Garrett QUEER CHURCH ON This French priest Is rector of the front. The church Is built In n firing from enemy nltuck by bags tllM with .A BORDER Ciimmaml In n inuIral ilrlll. THE SOMME FRONT quaintest sort of church on the .Soiniue trench near Combles and Is protected earth. It Is comparatively bombproof. 1 Mistress of Wheat" to the extent that Its 1015 crop exceeded, acre for acre, the production of uuy country on this continent Is a striking fuel proved by the following figures: In lDir the Dominion of Cannda pro duced a"0.(XiO,00U bushels of wheat, which represented nn average yield of 21) bushels to the acre. The United States produced l.OUOTi.OUU bushels, yield of 17 bushels per acre. The only erlous competitors In wheat produc tion in South America wcro Argentine, with 178.1,tHW bushels, or less than Yi bushels per acre, and Chile, with lO.OW.OOO bushels or 13 bushels per ere. The three Western Canadian prairie provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta produced between them 84U,OtK),000 bushels out of the total Ca nadian :17U,MI0.(KI0 bushels. It will bo aeon, therefore, that, outside of the United States, Western Canada pro duced considerably more than the com bined production of North and South America. Canada Is of course a new settled country, and the fact that the crop of the United States was practl- , rally three times ns much Is no dis couragement. The United States has at present more than twelve times tho population of Cutiadu In approximately the same urea. To Illustrate further the greater pro ductiveness of Western Canadian land, we submit the following figures, show ing the 11)I." yields per acre In the three provinces of Western Canada and In tho states which In that year produced the greatest quantity of wheat. The figures arc taken from the U. 8. depurtnient of agriculture's an nual reisirt and from the figures of tho Dominion census bureau : P.ushels per acre 11)15 All Canada 20 Western Cunndn only 20 1-5 Province of Manitoba .2S 4-5 Provlnco of Saskatchewan 2S 1-2 Province of Alberta A! 4-5 United States, all 17 Montana 201-2 Washington ,...2.-) 1-5 Wisconsin . .. Ohio , Iowa , Illinois Pennsylvania Nebraska North Dakota Indiana South Dakota 22 3-4 20 2-5 10 4-5 10 , 1S1-2 IS 2-5 IS 1-0 , 1715 171-10 Minnesota 17 Texas 151-2 Virginia 13 4-5 4 Kansas 12 1-2 Missouri H3-1I) Oklahoma 1135 In 1010 the crop was not as heavy, but the yields In many districts were very Inrge. So large. Indeed, was the acreage under cultivation In 1015 that the resulting crop proved too large to be Oil threshed the same fall. It over loaded railroads, and made marketing Blow. A less amount of fall plowing was done than would have been done In n less heavy year, because the aver age farmer was too busy with his threshing. All theso conditions nec essarily reacted upon tho ncrengo needed In tho spring of 1010. Add to this that labor last year, owing to the treat number of Canadians who have enlisted, was scarce and high priced, and ono factor In the decreased yield smaller acreage under crop was evi dent. Another factor Is thnt this year Western Canada has experienced, In common with the entire North Ameri can continent, conditions that tuve been less favorable to the production of big crops. Tho conditions have re sulted In smaller yield per acre and reduced grade of grain In certain local ities. The average yield of wheat In the three western provinces Is estimated by tho government at about 111 bushels per acre, outs 43 bushels, and hurley 27 bushels. The fiuanclnt value of their crops to Western Canadian farmers has been greater this year than ever before. Owing to tho high prices of grnln that are prevailing, returns havo been re ceived that ore extremely profitable. With wheat standing nt the present time nt over $1.00 per bushel nt the Great Lakes, a wheat crop at present figures would pay the farmer, even supposing he had only tho average of 10 bushela per ncre, over $30.00 per acre. A largo number ore receiving $50.00 per acre some have received $75.00, and a few even more than thut' This prlco, of course, Is not nil profit : it represents tho gross return, and the cost of operation must be deducted. But It does not, even nt the highest fig ures, cost more than 03 cents to ralso a bushel of wheat In Western Cunndn. bo that the protlt can be figured accord ingly. It must be emphasized that tho ncre which produces n $30.00 crop costs In tho first case, probably less thou that. In the United States tho snmo class of land would cost In many dis tricts from $100 to $200 per acre, ond even then a return of $30.00 would be considered extremely satisfactory. In Western Canada the best class of ag ricultural land, capnblo of producing crops thnt In slzo compare with any country In tho world except, perhups, aonio European countries, can be ob tained at, on the average, from $20 to $30 per ncre, with Irrigated lands some what higher. It Is no exaggeration whatever to say that a number of Western Canadian farmers have pnld for their land entirely from tho pro ceeds of last year's crop, and this In cludes men who last year began for the first time, Advertisement. Not an Occasion for Praise. In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because It I our duty. St Augustluo. Tho whole unlverso Is nothing but a trnco of the divine rooduess. Dunte.
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