The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-02-27
PROSPERITY IN CANADA.
The Farmer In Western Canada
Achieves Wonderful Success.

The Farmer In Western Canada
Achieves Wonderful Success.
One of the first things that the mar
who wishes to change his residence IL
deavors to find out is where he can go
and succeed. 1t need be a matter Of
little doubt or indecision now. 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 100, 900 Americans have taken
up their homes there, and the expert
ence Of these people is that they are
thoroughly satisfied with their choice
of home.
The methods of farming there ire
similar to those adopted in the United
States, but the operations are simpler,
the yield Of grain greater, and the
profits more satisfactory. Ranching
Is carried on with lots Of success. Mix
ed farming is always profitable, while
the results in gra~in-raising are as GER
tain as splendid soil, excellent climate
and lots Of sunlight can give. Il
The yields of-but nothing is as sat
isfactory as 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 thousa nds
who had already gone to Canada. He
had twenty-five years experience III
Minnesota, in buying grain, including
flax; but in all his experience he neye,
saw a district so well suited to the
growth Of fax as Western Canada
The financial results of Mr.. Mears' op
erations in a single season are as fol
lows: Wheat, 1900 bushels 1 hard a
57hc, $1,7S5.00; 2,630 bushels ! North
ern at SAC, $1,457.2O; oats, 1,75O bush
els at 35c, $812.50; speltz, 154 bushels
at 75c, $115.50; fax, 324 bushels a
50, $62S. Total, $4,59S.2O. A return o
more than 1850 from a little ver 25(
acres, an average of SIS per acre, II
surely testimony sufficiently strong t.
satisfy the most i%ncredulous as to th'
money to be made out Of the soil Of tn
Canadian West. 1t is to facts Xix
these-arguments expressible and dem
onstrable in dollars and cents-that tn
steady northward movement Of Amerl
can farmers Is due. Mr.. Mears Is set
tied near Arcola, ASA.
A number of Americans who hav'
chosen Western Canada us a home hat
the idea that a man enjoyed less free
dom in Canada, but they soon foun,
their mistake, and say the laws Q
Canada are the most liberal in tn
world, and such as prevent the litiga
ton which breeds so much bad feeling
between people in the United State
and costs them so dear in lawyers
fees.
The Government has establishc
agencies at St. Paul, Mimi; Omaha
Neb.; Kansas City, Mo-; Chicago, i'll.
indianapolis, Ind: Milwaukee, Wis
Wausau, Wis; Detroit. Sault ST.
Marie and Marquette, Mich; Toledo
Ohio; Watertown, s. ID; Grand Forks
N. D., and Great Falls, Mont. and tn
suggestion is made that by addressin
any Of these, who are the authorize
agents of the Government, 1t will b
to the advantage of the reader, VIII
will be given the fullest and most at
thentic information regarding the II
suits Of mixed farming, dairyils
ranching and gr~ain-raising, and ais
supply information as to freight an
] passenger rates. etc.