The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-02-26
PROSPERITY IN CANADA

The Farmer in Western Canada
Achieves Wonderful Success.
One of the first things that the man
who wishes to change his residence en-
deavors to find out is where he can go
and succeed. 1t need be a matter of
little doubt or indecision now. Dun
ing the past four or five years the de-
yelopment 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 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 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 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 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 ads
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 Cana:la.
The financial results of Mr.. Mears' Op-
eratiOns in a single season are as fol-
lows: Wheat. 5000 bushels l hard at
5712c, $1,7S5.OO: 2.63O bushels l North
ern at sic, $1,457.2O; oats, 1.750 BUSH
els at 35c. $612.5O: speltz, 154 bushels
at 15c, $115.5O: fax, .324 bushels at
81, $62S. Total, $4,59S.2O. A return OF
more than $4,5OO from little over 2aO
acres, an average of $1S per acre. is
surely testimony sufficiently strong to
satisfy the most incredulOus as to the
money to be made out Of the soil Of the
Canadian West. 1t Is to facts like
expressible and dem-
onstrable in dollars and cents-that the
steady northward movement of Ameri-
can farmers Is due. Mr.. Mears Is set
tied near ArcOlc, ASA. =.
A number of Americans who have
chosen Western Canada as home Lad
the idea that a 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 SO 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;
Wausau, Wis; Detroit, Sault Ste
Marie and Marquette. Mich: Toledo.
Ohio; WatertOwn. s. D.; Grand Forks,
N. r.. 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, dairyl;lg.
rapching and grain-raising, and also
supply information us to freight and
passenger rates. etc.