The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-05-07
NEVER SAW SUCH LARGE
YIELDS.
Inc Climate Is Healthy-The VIM
fsrs Are Pleasant In Western
Canada.

Writing from Stirling, Alberta, to
one of the agents representing the
Canadian Government Free Home
stead Lands, Mr.. NJ. Pickreu. for
merly of Beechwood, Kentucky, saws
of Western Canada:
I'm the first place we will say that
the summer season is just lovely in
deed. As to the winter, well we never
experienced finer weather than we
are now enjoying. We have Just re-
turned from Northern Alberta and
Will say that we found the weather
to be very mild, the air dry, fresh
and invigorating. Considering every
thing we can say that the winters
mere are most pleasant, healthy and
enjoyable to what they are in the
States. Here it gets cold and con-
tinues so till Spring-there are no
dlsagreeable winds. In South Alberta
1t Is some warmer-two to four
inches of snow may fall and in
few hours a Chinook wind come
along. cooperating the entire snow,
leaving terra-tirma perfectly dry, in
TACT, we did not believe this part
until we came and saw for ourselves
and we now know what we herein
write to be just as we write it.
There has not been day this winter
that | could not work out doors.
Farmers here are calculating on
starting the plough the first of
March.
AS TN farm, ,voras ,ro ,,,o,,Il 49,.
ADVISE man to come here with the
expectation of living by his days
work, but all who do want a home
advise to have nerve enough to get
up sand come for there never has
been, and may never be again, such
grand opportunity for a man to
get a home almost free.
AS to the crops. | have been in
the fields before harvest, saw the
grass put up and the grain harvested,
and | never saw such large yields.
l saw oats near Edmonton over six
feet tall that yielded 80 bushels per
acre, and | talked to a farmer near
st. Albert who had field year be-
fore last that averaged 10 bushels
per acre, and weighed 43 pounds to
the bushel. All other crops would
run in proportiOn-as to potatoes and
vegetables, the turnout was enOr-
nous. have such reports as the
above from all sections that | have
visited, and that has been every com
munlty between the Edmonton dis.
trict and Raymond in the Lethbridye
district
AS to stock raising. l would advise
man to locate in this place, or any
place, in South Alberta. but for mixed
farming, | would say go up farther
north. say near Lacombe, WetasItiwin
or Edmonton. where it is not quite
so dry and where there is some tim.
Der to be had. l will say that no.
where have | ever seen a better op-
portunity for man, whether he has
money or not. to obtain home
Nowhere can be found a more pro-
ductive soil, better water and bet
ter governed country than Western
Canada affords. Inducements to the
homeseeker are unsxcelled. | met
two men near Ponoka on the G.. &;
f. 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. | met a man near Wetaskiwin
who landed here with 25 cents six
| years ago. He is now worth $4,000.
| The advantages for ranching are ex-
| cellent, in fact | 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
| 70 bushels. per acre; wheat averaged
| 35, barley 40, and the beet crop was
| good. In consequence of the success
| full cultivation of the beet, a large
| beet sugar factory is being erected
| at Raymond, seven miles from here
I'm conclusion. / will say that n.
w. L. from Manitoba to long dis
lance north of Edmonton produces
| most wonderful crops. Lakes and
| rivers abound with fish. and game is
| plentiful. And that this is unuucs-
| tionably the country for a man to
come to if he desires to better his
| condition in life. l would advise the
prospective settler to look over the
Lethbridge, Lacombe, Wetaskiwin
and Edmonton districts before locat
| ing.
Il will locate in the Edmonton dis
| trict next Fall and several families
from the States will locate with me
In the meantime, | will receive my
mail here and will be pleased to give
the interested all the information de-
sired
For information as to Railway
Rates, etc. apply 30 any agent of
the Canadian Government whose
names appear elsewhere in this pa
per.
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