Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-03-12
PROSPERITY IN CANADA.
The Farmer In Western Canada
Achieves Wonderful Success.

One of the first things that the
man who wishes to change his resi-
1ence endeavors to find out is where
ne may go and succeed. 1t need be a
matter of little doubt or indecision
low- During thepast four or five years
The development of Western Canada
has been so rapid, and the conditions
If life there so widely known, that up
wards of 100000 Americans have
taken up their homes there, and the
experience of these people is that
they are 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 SIM
pier, the yield of grain greater, and
the profits more satisfactory. Ranch
ing is carried on with lots of success.
Mixed farming is always profitable,
while the results in grain-raising are
as certain as splendid soil, excellent
climate and lots of sunlight can give.
The Yields of - but nothing is as
satisfactory as the experience of
the farmer 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 thou
sands who had already gone to Can
ada. He had twenty-five years ex-
sperience in Minnesota, in buying
grain, including fax. But in all his
experience he never saw a district
so well suited to the growth of flax
as Western Canada. The financial
results of Mr.. Mears' operations in
n single season are as follows: Wheat,
5000 bushels, 1 hard at 57hc, 81, 7S5.00
1850 bushels, l Northern at sac, ST.
457 20; oats, 1850 bushels, at 35c,
S612.5O. Speltz, 1874 bushels at 75c
$115.5O. Flax, 1924 bushels, at So, $62S
Total, $4,59s.2 0.-A return of more
than $4,000 from a little over 25(
acres, an average of SIS per acre
is surely testimony sufficiently strong
to satisfy the most incredulous as tt
the money to be made out of the
soil of the Canadian West. 1t is tC
facts like these--arguments express
ible and demonstrable in dollars and
cents, that the steady northwar re
movement of American farmers is
due. Mr.. Mears is settled near Ar
cola, ASA.
A number of Americans who have
chosen Western Canada as a home
had the idea that a man enjoyed less
freedom in Canada, but they sooI
found their mistake, and say the laws
of Canada are the most liberal in the
world, and such as prevent the liti
CATION which breeds so much bad
feeling between people in the United
States and costs them so dear ir
lawyers fees.
The Government has established
Agencies at St. Paul, Mimi; Omaha
Neb.; Kansas City, Mo-; Chicago. H.;
Indianapolis, Ind; Milwaukee, Wis;
Wausau, Wis; Detroit, Sault Ste
Marie, and Marquette, Mich; To-
ledo, Ohio; Watertown, S. Dakota;
Grand Forks, N. Dakota; and Great
Falls, Montana; and the sugges-
ton is made that by addressing
any of these, who are the author.
lied agents of the Government, it
will be to the advantage of the
retder, who will be given the full
est and most authentic information
regarding the results of mixed farm,
ing, dairying, ranchirg and grain.
raising, and also supply information
as to freight and passenger rates,
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