Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1901-03-27
FARMING IN WESTERN CANADA
The Great Natural Fertility Of the Soil
in Manitoba, Assiniboia, Sas.
katchewan and Alberta.
What Has Been Done ~ Premier
Gteenway, Himself q Leading
Farmer.

Hon. Thomas Greenway, premier
of the Province of Manitoba, one OF
the foremost farmers OF western
Canada, writes an excellent article 10
the press, from which the following
extracts are made:
The writer came to Manitoba from
Ontario in the autumn of 1878, and
has ever since been engaged in ag-
ricultural pursuits. From the day,
nearly % years ago, when he select
ed his homestead, he has had un-
bounded faith in the country as q
place where farming can be success
fully carried on, if pursued upon
proper lines. There is large num-
Der in this Province who should rath-
er be called ''wheat-growers" than
farmers. On account of the facil
tiles, natural advantages, and there
fore cheapness with which wheat can
be grown, no doubt many have done
exceedingly we'll by raising wheat
only; still, it is far from ideal farm
ing. Not only will such course, il
persisted in, have the effect of caus-
ing the land to run out, as has been
the same plan in the wheat-produc-
ing prairie States to the south of US,
but it is far from being the most
profitable course to adopt.
This fact is already being demon
strated in Manitoba. Let the farms
in this " estern country be managed
upon the lines which we're successful
in the Eastern Provinces, and much
more can be done here in a given
time than was ever done in the East.
The proba bilitie .of failure are prac-
tically nil. Upon the farm there
should be found horses, cattle, sheep
hogs and poultry, according to the
ability of the farmer-with respect
to his means and the extent of his
holding. The wanton waste which
has hitherto been practiced by many
farmers, that of burning vast guam.
titles of excellent fodder after
threshing is done, should cease; it
should all be used upon the farm
! and converted into the old, sensible
kind of fertilizer manure, and after
wards be returned to the soil, so
that what has been taken from it
by the crop may be restored. AL.
though admitting that the great nat
ural fertility of the soil in Manitoba
and the success that has attended the
growing of wheat for years upon the
same land have tendency to make
| such course as the one mentioned
tempting, yet, if continued, wheat
| growing upon the same land year
after year is undoubtedly mistake.
The writer knows of no country that
offers advantages so great to the ag-
riculturist as does Manitoba. The
vraious branches of farming can be
carried on successfully, as twenty
two years of practical operations and
observations of what others are do
ing have proven. To those desiring
to make new homes for themselves,
the low price of some of the best
lands in the world (although rapidly
advancing in price this Year, offer
still great opportunities. To all such
the invitation is cordially given to
''Come and See." There need be no
poor people here. There is land for
all who choose to come, land upon
which happy homes can be estab-
1ished, and from which ample re-
sources can be gathered against old
age. All that man needs to achieve
competence in this domain is COM
nonsense and indus ~. With these
| qualifications he is bound to succeed.
For information regarding free
homestead lands, apply to any agent
of the government whose ADVERTISE
ment appears elsewhere in these col
umNS