Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-02-26
PROSPERITY IN CANADA.
The Farmer in western canae

The Farmer in Western Canada
Achieves Wonderful Success.
One of the first things that the man
who wishes to change his residence ell
deavors to find out is where he can go
and succeed 1t need be 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 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 thousands
who had already gone to Canada. He
had twenty-five years experience in
Minnesota, in buying grain, including
flax; but in all his experience he never
saw a district so we'll suited to the
growth of fax as Western Canada.
The financial results of Mr. Mears' OPP
erations in q single season are as fol-
lows: Wheat. 5000 bushels l hard at
57lac, Sl,7S50o: 2.63O bushels North
ern at bic, S1,457.20: oats, 175O bush
els at 35c. S612.50; speltz, 154 bushels
at T5c, S115.50; flax 324 bushels at
50. S62S. Total, S4,59S 30. A return OF
more than $4,000 from little over $50
acres, an average of S1S 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
these-arguments expressible and dem
onstrable in dollars and cents-that the
steady northward movement Of An1erl-
can farmers is due. Mr.. Mears Is set
tied near Arcola, ASA.
A number of Americans who have
chosen Western Canada MS home had
the idea that 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 rs prevent the linga-
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, MINI; 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,
y. D., and Great Falls, Mont, and the
suggestion is made that by addressing
any of these, who are the authorized
agents of the Government, 1t 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, dairylag,
ranching and grain-raising. and also
supply Information as to freight and
passenger rates. etc.