The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-17
Shall roll a human sea-"

The first low work of waves where
soon
Shall roll a human sea-"
1t looks very like as if for Western
Canada the hour of destiny had struck.
The Americans are going over there.
They were, like the Hebrew children,
on the edge of the promised land, they
sent parties to investigate before they
went over and the reports have all
been most favorable. No physical
cause or impeachment separated them
from the Canadian land, nothing ex-
cept statutory boundary line, alto
gether imaginary.
The Canadian people have been in
wiling attention to their country for a
long time but few listened to the call.
In the book of Genesis it is recorded
that the Lord said unto ADram: Get
thee out of thy country unto a land
that 1 will show thee So Abram de-
parted and Lot with him. And Lot
had HockS and herds. And the land
was not able to bear them that they
might dwell together, for their sub
stance was great. And there was strife
between the herdmen. And Abram
said unto Lot: Let there be no strife
between me and thee, and between my
herdmen and thy herdmen, for we be
brethren. Is not the whole land before
thee?"
And the Western Canadian has been
repeating to his American brethren the
injunction uttered 1000 years ago: rs
not the whole land before thee?" At
last the American has heard the call,
and numerously too, since lands on the
American side have gone in many To-
calities beyond the reach of men of
moderate means.
Reports of the country above the 49th
parallel are uniformly so favorable
that thousands have already gone there
to live. The conditions of settlement
are so good, the old time difficulties
of pioneering so completely removed,
and the most attractive regions are
made so accessible by railways already
built and to be built, that it is only
reasonable to believe that there will.
be a movement to that country, sure
in the next decade or two to carry the
center of population of the Canadian
Dominion to the end of Lake Superior.
Manitoba is growing with leaps and
bounds, and ASSiniboia, Saskatchewan
and Alberta, are feeling the pulse of
a new and vigorous life. The expert
mental stage in the settlement of these
territories has long been proved.
The attention of T he Globe has
been called to the remarkable results
OF many years of experience in the
growing of grain at the experiment
farm at Indian Head Assiniboia, of
which Angus MacKay is superintend-
ent. In a recent report Mr.. MacKay
gives the following as the result of his
experiments with small grain in 1901:
Bushels.
Wheat-Highest yield per acre. 81
= average OF twelve varieties ......... 63
Oats-H1ghest yield per acre .......147
Average Of twelve varieties 132
Barley-Two-rowed highest yield... 81
Average, six varieties ............... so
Barley-Six-rowed, highest yield 80. 68
Average Of six varieties .......... GA
These averages lead the Dominion
and 1t is doubtful if any part of the
continent can make an equal showing
The Assiniboia and Saskatchewan dis
tricts seem peculiarly adapted to the
raising of wheat and other small
grains. Corn does not fully mature
as to the grain, but Mr.. MacKay grows
last year from six varieties tested,
showed stalks from 127 to 1873 inches
nigh, and yield of from "a to rs tons
to the acre for fodder
1t is piece of the Indian Head coun-
try, just north of 1t, that the Sas-.
katchewan Valley Land Co., of st.
Paul, has over million acres of land,
lying along the Regina and Prince Al
bert railway, and on both sides of the
Saskatchewan river, a Mississippi of
the north. The center of the COM
panys land is the town of Davidson,
changed. from Finsbury, by the rail-
way company, in honor of the president
or the company, whose office, on Jack
son street opposite the Merchants no.
tel, In this city, is becoming a center
for land seekers and persons DESTROYS
OF learning of this northern land of
promise, so old and yet so new. The
advertisement of the company appears
on another page of this issue, and we
ask careful peruSal