The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1903-04-24
NEVER SAW SUCH LARGE YIELDS.
The Climate IL Healthy--Ths Winters
Are Pleasant In Western Canada.

Writing from Stirling. liberia. 20
one OF tho agents representing the
Canadian Government free homestead
lands. Mr.. NJ. Pickrell. formerly OF
BeechwOod. KY. says OF Western Can
ada:
In the first place we will say that
the summer season Is just lovely In.
] deed. As To the winter. we'll. We never
experienced finer weather than we are
now enjoying. We have just returned
from Northern Alberta. and will say
that We found the weather 10 be very
mild. the air dry. fresh and invigorat.
ing Considering everything we can
say that the winters here are most
pleasant. healthy and enjoyable 10
what they are iu the States. Here IL
gets cold and continues so till sprlng
there are no disagrccablc winds. In
South Alberta IL is some warmer--two
10 four inches OF snow may fall and
IA n few hours n Chinook wind comes
along. cooperating the entire snow.
leaving terra TRINA perfectly dry. In
fact. We did not believe this part until
we came aud saw for ourselves and
we now know what we herein write
| To be- just rs We write a. There has
not been day this winter that could
not work out doors. Farmers here are
calculating ON starting the pillow the
tlrst of March.
AS 20 farm wages. We would not
advise "A man TO come here with the
expectation OF living by his days
work. but all who de- want n home |
advise TO have nerve enough 10 get up
and come. for there never has been.
and may never be again. such n grand
opportunity tor "A man to get home
almost free.
AS 90 the crops. I have been In the
fields before harvest. saw the grass
pat up and the grain harvested. and
never SAW such large yields. saw
oats near Edmonton over six feet tall
that yielded so bushels per acre. and
talked 90 a farmer near ST. Albert who
had q field year before last that aver.
aged % bushels per acre and weighed
a. pounds to the bushel. An other
crops would run in proportiou-as TO
POTATOES and vegetables. the turnout
WAS enormous I have such reports
as the above from all sections that
nave visited and that has been every
community between the Edmonton dis
trict aud Ray muud Ia the lsethbridge
district
As Ia stock raising. | would ad.
wise a man 20 locate In this place, or
I tst A lint 10
mixed farming would say 80 mp
farther uurth. say near l.acombc. We
taskiwin or Edmonton, where IL is not
| quito So dry and where there IS some
b timber tu hc had viii say that no
where have ! ever seen better oppor.
/ tunity for man, whether he has
money or not. To obtain a home No
where can be- found more productive
soil better water and better gov.
erued country than Western Canada
affords Inducements TO the home
seeker are uucNcclIcd. met two men
near pOruka on the &. AZ T.. r. r..
who borrowed the money 90 pay for
their homestead. and IN four years
those two mon sold their farms-one
n man near Wctaskiwin who landed
here with p cents six years ago. He
is now worth $4,000 The advantages
for ranching are excellent. In fact.
do not believe this section can be
beat. Markets are good. as 20 living
a family can 1.-Two as cheap here as
they can in the States The average
L.. All 81.
} year was 20 bushels per acre. wheat
averaged 30. barley 40. and the beet
crop was good In consequence OF
the successful cultivation Of the beet
a large beet sugar factory Is being
erected az Raymond. seven miles from
b here
In conclusion ] will say that y. W
/ +. from Manitoba 10 n long distance
north Of Edmonton produces most won.
/ derful crops lakes and rivers abound
with fish. and game is plentiful And
/ that this Is unquesiionably the coun.
| try for a man to come To n he desires
! to better his condition In life. would
advise the prospective settler to look
. over the Lethhridge. Lacombe. Wetas-
kiwin and Edmonton districts before
/ locating.
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 to- any agent az the Cana.
dian Government. whose name appears
elsewhere In this paper