The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-13
CANADIAN CROP
IS A LATE ONE
FARMERS WILL BE ON THE RACK
FOR WEEKS TO COME.
Wheat In Western Districts Good for
an Average of Twenty Bushels If
1t Natures In Good Shape-Eyi.
dence of the American Invasion
Everywhere Seen.
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal
Regina, N. w. T., Aug. 13.-'What
do the crops look like UP your way?"
is the question everybody asks these
days In this part of the Canadian
west, and nearly everybody answers,
They are fine-wheat rs to 35 BUSH
els to the acre, but over on the other
line they won't get more than Is
bushels"
Weighing the testimony everywhere
given and testing it with personal OBJ
servations, the conclusion is reached
that western Canada is good this v~~~
for crop somewhat better than the
average-and that Is 20 bushels of
wheat to the acre-barring one dam
ger. The crop is late-later in west
ern Manitoba and eastern Assiniboia
than it is in the western part and far
up the Prince Albert branch of the
Canadian Pacific in Saskatchewan. In
consequence there Is mucn s4Ae1r.
praying. A big crop means much to
the Canadian west. 1t is just COM
ing into fame as country Of mag
nificent possibilities in wheat-grow-
ing. 1t desires to clinch it's title to
fame while all the grain world is
looking at it. Moreover, thousands
Of new settlers have put in their first
crop this year. A poor crop would be
cruel disappointment to them and
would set back the progress Of the
regions where they have settled.
But if the $4,000 farmers of this
new country get 100000 or sO,00O,-
900 bushels of wheat this year, a
smile that can't be removed will be
noticeable from Winnipeg to Edmon-
ton and from Prince Albert to Portal
Labor In Great Demand.
Between farm work work in the
growing towns and on the long lines
of new railway that are reaching out
over these endless prairies, there Is
great demand here for willing
hands. On the new railway men are
getting SO day or $50 a month and
board. Domestic help is scarce-o1
the helpmeet as we'll as the plain beef
variety. An intelligence office ir
Regina has an advertisement that re.
calls that time in the early days OF
Canada when the king Of France
sent shipload of damsels to become
the wives of the pioneers of New
| France. This is what this modern
purveyor Of wives to the lords Of the
| prairies says:
Am making arrangements diree
with England for female help. II
about a month expect to be able tt
| fill all orders. Here Is chance o.
your life If you want help or wife
Can You keep one with comfort? L
not, don't come to me-"
Thus will the American invasion
| be checkmated. The farmers sol
| from Yankee land who goes fortune
| hunting on these fat lands Is to wee
a rosy-cheeked damsel from old Eng
| land.
There are some strange contrast
! to English, American or Canadial
| girls among some Of the worthy i'm
migrants who are already pourin
into the land of the maple leaf from
the four, quarters of the globe. Mos
Of the Galician and German-Russia
women here are hays before they ar
80, but occasionally there is a brigh
exception. Men looked around in won
/ der In the streets Of Regina the othe
day as a young peasant woman strod
| by, clad in the simple old-country cos
tune. Every inch Of six feet, ther
was such a spirit Of confident strengt
and health, united to erect carriag'
dauntless eye and perfect symmetr
Of figure, in this open-faced youn
woman that one could not but thin
what strong race must be the poi
terity of such a woman In a fire
country.