Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-10-02

fertile to produce thirty and forty
bushels of wheat to the acre from less
than a bushel of seed; where the gov
eminent gives everyone desiring it a
free homestead of 100 acres of this
land, and where more may be bought
at from So to SIS per acre; where one
years crop will much more than pay
for the land upon which it is grown, it
is a wicked waste of time to cultivate
the fence corners"
Before 1 had acquired this informa-
ton 1 was on one farm where road
way cut off a small corner of land from
the remainder of a field of wheat.
There was, 1 should say, nearly an acre
in this little plat of neglected ground,
and [ asked the owner of the farm why
it had not been put under cultivation.
''To undertake to pillow that little
three-cornered strip of land would
take far more time than the land is
worth, giving both the present market
value. To add it to the remainder of
the field would necessitate a longer
way around from the main road to the
house. Lying just across the road
there is 100 acres of as good land as
this upon which 1 have this year grown
more than 80 bushels of wheat to the
acre, and I can buy that land of the
railroad for 81 an acre. It would take
as much time to pillow that small piece,
III its present shape, as it would to
pillow two acres of the land across the
road, and so would be what we in this
country consider a waste of valuabl
time"
Straight burrows and long ones is
the blowing rule in Western Canada,
and the gang pillow is the favorite meth
Cd of turning the soil. The Western
Canada farmer, found, cultivates his
land upon wholesale methods No
matter where he may come from, no
matter what the methods in vogue in
his native place may nave been, the
farmer in Canada soonlearns that it is
| wholesale methods that pay best there,
and for this reason it is Western Cana
da that is the home of every improved
agricultural machine that tends to
! the speedy handling of great harvests
or the production OF them. These ma
chimes are not always the product of
Western Canadian inventors, but the
| Western Canadian farmers are among
the heaviest buyers of this class of ag-
ricultural machinery in the world.
The Canadian farmer never becomes
land poor as does the farmer in the
States. When he buys land he knows
that it will bring him adequate returns
upon his investment, and that his gov
eminent will not put a burden of taxes
upon it. As a sample of what is posi-
BILE with the progressive farmers in
Western Canada let me cite the case of
| one living near White Plains, in Mani
toba, Mr.. Winslow by name. During
the past season this one man had 2,7O0
acres of land planted in wheat, and har-
vested 81, 500 bushels. He makes farm
| ing on these fertile lands immensely
profitable by going about it in whole
sale way.
Do not, however, imagine that it is
only the wholesale methods that pay
well in Western Canada. I saw men
who owned only the 100 acres of land
the government had given them as
homestead who claimed to be making
better livings for themselves and their
families and saving more money than
they had ever been able to do in the
/ States on the same amount of land
Practically every one of these compare
lively small farmers whom met, as
sured me that it was their ambition to