The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1901-10-10

fertile to produce thirty and forty
bushels Of wheat to the acre from less
than . bushel Of seed; where the gov.
ernment gives everyone desiring 1t .
free homestead Of 1e0 acres Of this
land, and where more may be bought
at from % to - per acre; where one
years crop will much more than pay
for the land upon which IL 10 grown, It
Is = wicked waste Of time to cultivate
the "fence corners"
Before ! had acquired this informa.
way cut on small corner ofland from
the remainder Of Aeld Of wheat.
There was, 1 should say, nearly an acre
In this little plat of neglected ground,
snd I asked the owner Of the farm why
II 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 10
worth. giving both the present market
value. To add It to the remainder Of
the field would necessitate . longer
way around from the main road TO the
house. Lying just across the road
| there is 100 acres of Is good land as
this upon which have this year grown
more than 30 bushels Of wheat to the
acre, and can buy that land Of the
railroad for - an acre. II would take
rs much time to plow that small piece.
In its present shape, As IL would to
plow two acres OF the land across the
road, and SO would be what We In this
country consider . waste Of valuable
time"
Straight burrows and long ones 10
the plowing rule In Western Canada,
and the gang plow 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 soon learns that II 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
q. .se 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 az.
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 II will bring him adequate returns
upon his investment, and that his gov
ernment will not put burden Of taxes
upon II. As sample Of what 10 posi-.
bic with the progressive farmers In
Western Canada let me cite the case Of
one living near White Plains, in Mani
toba, a Mr.. Winslow by name. During
the past season this one man had 2,700
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 II In whole
sale way.
Do not, however. imagine that Il Is
only the wholesale methods that pay
well In Western Canada. I saw men
who owned only the feo acres Of land
the government had given them as q
homestead who claimed to be making
batter livings for themnelves and their
families and saving more money than
they had ever been able TO do In ths
States on the same amount Of land.
Practically every one Of these compare
lively small farmers whom I met a.
sursd me that II wss their ambition 70