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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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).
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Urn. II. A. Allm, lifiul of tho Iowa
Invest!
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.