The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-04-24
NEVER SAW SUCH LARGE YIELDS.
The Climate Is Healthy-The Winters
Are Pleasant in Western Canada.

The Climate Is Healthy-The Winters
Are Pleasant in Western Canada.
Writing from Stirling, Alberta, to
one of the agents representing the
Canadian Government free homestead
lands, Mr.. M. Pickrell, formerly OF
KY, says of Western Can.
ada:
I'm the first place we will say that
the summer seaso is just lovely in
deed. AS to the winter, well, we never
experienced finer weather than we are
now enjoying. We have jus. returned
from Northern Alberta, and will say
that we found the weather to be very
mild, the air dry, fresh and invigorat-
ing. Conside. ing everything We can
say that the winters here are most
what they are in the States. Here it
gets cold ard continues SO till spring
there are no disagreeable winds. In
South Alberta it is some warmer-two
to four inches of To- may fall and
In a few hours a Chinook wind comes
uIOAS, SFdpOi dliiS IAC ViitIiS
leaving terra irma perfectly dry; in
fact, we did not believe this part until
we came and saw for ourselves n
we now know what we herein W. te
to be just as we write it. There has
not been a day this winter that | could
not work out doors. Farmers here are
calculating on starting the pillow the
first of March.
LAS to farm wages, we would not
advise a man to come here with the
expectation of living by his days
work, but all who do want a homo l
advise to have nerve enough to get up
and come, for there never has been,
and may never be again. such q grand
opportunity for a man to get a homo
almost free.
las to the crops, l have been in the
fields before harvest, saw the grass
put up and the grain harvested, and l
never saw such large yields. saw
oats ear Edmonton over six feet tall
that yielded so bushels per acre, and I
talked to a farmer lear ST. Albert who
had a field year before last that aver
aged 40 bushels per acre and weighed
Is pounds to the bushel. All other
crops would run in proportion-as to
potatoes and vegetables, the turnout
was enormous. have such reports
as the above from all sections that I
have visited, and that has been every
community between the Edmonton dis
trict and Raymond, in the Lethbridge
district.
LAS to stock raising, 1 would ad-
wise a man to locate in this place, or
any place, In South Alberta, but for
mixed farming l would say go up
farther north, say near Lacombe. We
taskiwin or Edmonton, where il is not
quite 81 dry and where there is some
timber to be had. l will say that no
where have ever een a better oppor-
tunity for a man. whether he has
money or not, to obtain a home. No
where can be found a more productive
soil. better water and a better gov.
erned country than Western Canada
affords. Inducements to the home
seeker are u~nexcelled. I met two men
near Ponoka on the C. & e. R. R.,
who borrowed the money to pay for
their homestead, and in four years
those two men sold their farms-one
for $500, the other for $4,000. l met
q man near Wetaskiwin who landed
here with Is cents six years ago. He
is now worth $4,000. The advantages
for ranching are excellent. In fact, I
do not believe this section can be
beat. Markets are good; as to living.
a family can live as cheap here as
they can In the States. The average
yield of oats in this neighborhoOd last
year was 20 bushels per acre; wheat
averaged 35, barley 40, and tho beet
crop was good. In consequence Of
the successful cultivation Of the beet
. large beet sugar factory is being
erected at Raymond, seven miles from
here.
I'm conclusion I will say that N. W.
+. from Manitoba to q long distance
north OF Edmonton produces most won
derful crops. Lakes and rivers abound
with fish, and game is plentiful. And
that this Is unquestionably the coun.
try for a man to come to II he desires
to better his condition in life. would
advise the prospective settler to look
owe the Lethbridge, Lacombe, Wetas-
kiwin and Edmonton districts before
locating.
II will locate in the Edmonton dis.
trict next fall and several families
from the States will locate with me.
In the meantime l will receive my
nail here and will be pleased to give
the interested all the information do
sired"
For information as to railway rates.
etc, apply to- any agent of the Cana
dian Government, whose name appears
elsewhere in this paper.
His Time.
Mrs. Jollyman-Jchn, you don't
seem to be in a hurry to get to the
office this morning"
MIR. Jollyman-No, and I'm not
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