Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1901-10-09

fertile to produce thirty and forty
bushels of wheat to the acre from less
than bushel of seed; where the gov
eminent gives everyone desiring it a
free homestead of 16O 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 paw
for the land upon which it is grown, it
is wicked waste of time to cultivate
the fence corners"
Before l had acquired this informa-
ton l was on one farm where a road
way cut off small corner Of land from
the remainder of a field of wheat.
There was, should say, nearly an acre
in this little plat of neglected ground,
and L asked the owner of the farm why
1t had not been put under cultivation
"To undertake to plow 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 16o acres of as good land as
this upon which have this year grown
more than 80 bushels of wheat to the
acre, and 1 can buy that land of the
railroad for 81 an acre. 1t would axe
as much time to pillow that small piece,
in 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 valuable
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, l 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 soon learns that tits
wholesale methods that paw best there.
and for this reason it is Western Cana
Ga 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, bl rne
western Canadian farmers are among
the heaviest buyers of this class of ag-
ricuitural 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 1t will bring him adequate returns
upon his investment, and that his gov
eminent will not put burden of taxes
upon it. As sample of what is posi-
ole with the progressive farmers in
western Canada let me cite the case of
one living near White Plains, in Mani
toba, Mr.. Winslow by mar. During
the past season this one man had 200
acres of land planted in wheat. and bar-
| vested $500 bushels He makes farm
ing on these fertile lands immensely
prohtabl by going about it in whole
sale way.
DO not, however, imagine that it is
only the wholesale methods that nav
well In Western Canada. saw men
who owned only the 160 acres of land
the government had given them as a
homestead who claimed to be making
better ivings 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