The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1901-09-18
A GLOWING REPORT.


OTTAWA has lust received from Mr.. ID.
II. Holmes, the Agent of the Govern.
ment stationed at Indianapolis, In.
diana, the following letter which re.
uuires no comment. 1t is only Bneces-
eary to state that MIR. F. Fisher the
writer of the letter. s one Of the most
prominent of the Dunkards and =
man upon whose word the utmost re-
iiance can be placed His home is at
Mexico, Indiana, and he will be
pleased to substantiate verbally or
in any other way all that he says In
his letter.
Anyone desiring information should
apply 90 nearest Canadian Agent,
whose addresses are given: M. V. Nc.
Innes, Avenue Theatre Block, De.
troit, Michigan; James Grieve, Sault
Ste Marie. Michigan; j. S. Crawford.
21f w. Ninth street, Kansas City.
Mo-; Benjamin Davies. 154M East
Third street. st. Paul. Mimi; 7. o..
Currie. Room IL. II. Callahan's Block
203 Grand avenue, Milwaukee, Wis;
G. J. Broughton, .927 Monadnock
Building, Chicago. ILL.,; w. II. Ben
nett. 9o1 New York Life Building
Omaha, Neb.; n. Bartholomew, 306
II illu street, ltN MOlutS, luMu,
II. NJ. Parker, $50 Chamber OF Com
merce, Duluth, Mimi; E. t. Holmes,
Room @, Big Four Building, Indian
apolis, Ind; Joseph Young, 51i9 State
street, Columbus, Ohio.
To My Many Friends:
l am pleased to make a report to
you of the pleasant visit my wife and
i had in Western Canada.
We visited the territories of Alberta.
Assiniboia and Saskatchewan, and
found them far surprising our imag-
ination. but little did l expect to find
such rich. loamy soil, so much OF 1t,
and so uniform in its level prairie lay.
/ do think the soil of Canada as n
rule equals. ii not oXcells. the finest
prairie farm lands of Indiana. These
lands are immense in their richness,
and when once the sod ia rotted and
pulverized, IL is as plinble and as
easily cultivated as Indiana candy
soil.
Western Canada, from my point of
view, offers as fine opportunities for
mixed farming MS 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
season Is too short to depend upon
maturing field corn. From the stand-
point of getting this land ready for
the plow, 1 must say that l never saw
such vast extent, practically ell
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 Cana
dian land, however; some OF it 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 hugdred
and sixty acres.
have no doubt but that this coun-
try excels as a grazing or ranchirs;
country, because they have such rich
grass. having and abundance of rain
to keep 1t fresh. They also have
plenty of water streams, and as rule
water may be reached at depth CT
from twenty to forty feet. From
this you see there can be plenty Of
hay mown for winter feeding, and
have had reliable farmers to tell
that their stock will feed on hay
alone, and be ready for market in the
spring. Upon inquiring about the
expense of raising n steer, n farmer
replied that he did not consider 1t
would cost any more than $500 or
5000 to develop three-year-Old steer.
/ truly think Canada offers fine
opening for a young man or a man
who Is renting land in Indiana. One
hundred and sixty acres OF good black
land will cost you only $1,000 $4,000
at the time you enter it, aLO oy plow-
ing and cultivating five acres each
year for three years, gives you one
hundred and sixty acres of good land
for $1,000. This land can be bought
from the railroad companies, private
corporations or the Government fo-
$500 to $4.00 per acre.
From a financial standpoint, be-
lieve that for series of years (ive) a
young man can make $1,000 in Canada,
whereas he would only make $1.00
here, and feel sure that spent more
money to get my eighty-acre farm in
White County, Indiana, cultivated,
than 1t would cost me to cultivate
eight hundred acres In Canada. This
may seem strong view to take Of
the matter, but when You take into
luc
fencing and the expensive breaking in
OF the stumps, and then compare the
expense to that of land needing only
the breaking, you will conclude that
1t Is not such a wild or exaggerated
statement as you might at first think.
1 enjoyed the balmy, breezy atmos-
phere, which was bracing and refresh
ing, and the cool nights which made
1t SO pleasant for sleep.
On making inquiries regarding the
winters In this country, learned that
the people never suffer from the cold,
as the weather is dry and invigorat-
ing, and In a great many places farm
ers and herders allow their stock to
run outside the year round.
One great advantage to the settlers
in Western Canada Is the free cream
cries established by the Government,
and run exclusively In the interest of
the farmer
visited Thomas Daley. a farmer
near Edmonton, Alberta, who showed
me oats he had raised, some Of which
took the first prize ut the Paris Ex-
In no