The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-03-13
PROSPERITY IN CANADA
The Farmer in Western Canada

The Farmer in Western Canada
Achieves Wonderful Success.
One of the first things that the man
who wishes to change his residence ell
deavors to find out is where he can go
and succeed. 1t need be a matter of
little doubt or %iEdecision how. Dur
ing the past four or five years the de-
velopment OF Western Canada has
been SO rapid, and the conditions of
life there SO widely known, that up
wards of 100000 Americans have taken
up their homes there, and the expert
ence of these people is. that they arc
thoroughly satisfied with their choice
of home.
The methods of farming there are
similar to those adopted in the United
States, but the operations are simpler,
the yield OF grain greater. and the
profits nor satisfactory. Ranching
is carried on with lots Of success. Mix
ed farming is always profitable, while
the results in grain-raising are as GER
tain as splendid soil, excellent climate
and lots of sunlight can give.
The yields of-but nothing is as sat
isfactory Is the experience of the farm
er himself, and extracts are selected
from one.
A good intelligent farmer named
Mears-John Mears, to be exact-left
Cavalier County, North Dakota, two
years ago, and followed the thousands
who had already gone to Canada. He
had twenty-five years experience in
Minnesota, in buying grain, including
fax; but in all his experience he never
saw a district SO well suited to the
growth of fax as Western Canala.
The financial results of Mr.. Mears' op-
erations in q single season are as fol-
lows: Wheat, 5000 bushels 1 hard at
size, Il. 7S5.00: $3.50 bushels l North
ern at 54c, $1,457.2O; oats, 1,750 bush
els at 35c. $612.5O; speltz, 14 bushels
at 75c, $115.50; fax. 1924 bushels at
50, $62S. Total, $4,59S.2O. A return of
more than $4,000 from a little over $50
acres, an average. of $18 per acre, is
surely testimony sufficiently strong to
money to be made u Of the soil of the
Canadian West. 1t is to facts like
these-arguments expressible and dem
Onstrable In dollars and cents-that the
steady northward movement of Amcri-
can farmers is due. Mr.. Mears is set
tied near Arcola, ASA.
A AAAO Va 0A4O ANdAS VIII Ud We
chosen Western Canada as q home lad
the idea that q man enjoyed less free
dom in Canada, but they soon found
their mistake. and say the laws CT
Canada are the most liberal in the
world, and such as prevent the .litiga-
ton which breeds sc much bad feeling
between people in the United States
and costs them so dear in lawyers
fees.
The Government has established
agencies at St. Paul. Mimi; Omaha.
Neb.; Kansas City, Mo-; Chicago. ILL.,;
indianapolis. Ind; Milwaukee, Wis;
Wa1lsau, Wis; Detroit. Sau1t Ste.
Marie ard Marquette. Mich; Toledo.
Ohio, Watertown, s. D.: Grand Forks,
n. H., and Great Falls. Mont. and the
suggestion is made that BY addressing
any OF these, who are the authorized
agents of the Government, it will be-
to the advantage of the reader, who
will be given the fullest and most au-
thentic Information regarding the re-
suits OF mixed farming. dairy1ng,
ranching and grain-raising. and also
supply Information as to freight and
passenger rates. etc. -