Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-09-19
A GLOWING REPORT.
AN INDIANA MAN COMPARES
WESTERN CANADA WITH THE
UNITED STATES.
What Mr.. Frank Fisher, a Prom
inent Dunkard, Has to Say After "a
Trip Through lanada.

The Department of the Interior at
ottawa has Just received from Mr.. T..
L. Holmes, the agent of the govern
ment stationed at Indianapolis, Ind,
the following letter. which requires no
comment. IL is only necessary TO state
that Mr.. Il. Fisher, the writer of the
letter, is one of the most prominent OF
the DunSards and a man upon whose
word the utmost reliance can be plac-
Ell. His home is at Mexico, Ind, and
he will be pleased to substantlate verbs
ally or in any other way all that he
says in his letter
Anyone desiring information apply TO
nearest Canadian agent, whose ad-
dresses are here given:
NJ. " McInnes, 2 Avenue Theater
block, Detroit. Mich.
James Grieve, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.
] s. Crawford, 214 w. Ninth street,
Kansas City, No.
Benjamin Davies, 1914 East Third
street, st. Paul, Mimi
T. o. Curiie room II, b. Galatians
block, 203 Grand avenue, Milwaukee,
Wis.
G. ]. Broughton, 927 Monadnock
building, Chicago, Ill.
W. " Bennett, S01 New York Life
building, Omaha, Neb.
W. H. Rogers, WATERFOWL. S. ID.
n. Bartholomew, 3o6 Fifth street,
Des Mones, Iowa.
j. H. NJ. Parker, $50 Chamber of
Commerce, Duluth, MINI.
E. L. Holmes, room 6, Big -Four build
ing, Indianapolis, Ind.
Joseph Young, 511a State street, Co
lumbus, Ohio.
To Ny Many Friends: l am pleased
to make a report to you of the pleasant
visit my wife and ! had in Western
Canada.
We visited the territories of Alberta,
Assiniboia, and Saskatchewan, and
found them far surprising our imagina-
ton, but little did expect to find such
rich, loamy soil, so much of it, and so
uniform in its level prairie lay. | do
think the soil of Canada as rule
equals If not excels the finest prairie
farm lands of Indiana. These lands
are immense in their richness, and
when once the sod is rotted and pull
verified, it is as pliable and as easily
cultivated as Indiana sandy soil.
Western Canada, from my point OF
view, offers as fine opportunities for
mixed farming as any place in my
knowledge. The long, sunshiny days.
together with the rich soil, produce
very fine wheat. oats, barley, fax and
other cereal products. There is scarce
ly any attempt to raise corn. except
early varieties for table use. The sea-
son is too short to depend upon matnr-
ing field corn. From the standpoint OF
getting this land ready for the plow. l
must say that l never saw such a vast
extent. practically. all ready, so all that
one has to do is to hitch up the plow
and go to work This is not the case
with all the Canadian land, however;
some Of 1t has quite bit of timber,
much of it may be called brush land,
and some of it has lovely forest groves.
dotted here and there, thereby covering
hundred and sixty acres.
/ have no doubt but that this country
excels as a grazing or ranching coun-
try. because they have such rich grass,
having an abundance of rain to keep il
fresh. They also have plenty of water
streams. and as a rule water may be
reached at a depth of from twenty TO
forty feet From this you see there
can be plenty of hay mOwn for winter
feeding, and have had reliable farm
ers to tell me that their stock will feed
on hay alone. aud he ready for mark ct
in the spring. Upon inquirng about
the expense of raising steer, farmer
replied that be did not consider II
would cost any more than 81 or SO TO
develop 3-year-old steer.
/ truly think Canada offers fine
opening for a young man or man
who is renting land in Indiana. One
hundred and sixty acres of good black
land will cost you only SO at the time
you enter it, and by blowing and cul
tivating five acres each year for three
voare oivas Won ono hundred and eiytv