The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-16

more than i5o, ,ooo. .oeo acres. It is more than three times as large as. your state of New York. Altogether we have now 17s. .000. 900 acres in the northwest which have been surveyed, but not yet taken up; and three-fourths of this is wheat land The wheat belt Is tract about 1000 miles wide. In the eastern part farms the trees of which are worth about $40 per acre. This Is also wheat land when cleared"
 What is the wheat output of the western country now?'
 Last year 1t was 65,o0o.eo bushels. Twelve years ago 1t was practically nothing"
 Miss Canada to Feed John Bull. What are its .possibilities?"
 we shall feed the world" said the Canadian Commissioner. Uncle Sam has boasted of feeding John, Bull with a spoon, but the day will come when his daughter. Miss Canada, will do that for him. Ineed, his fat stomach is already filled with our wheat, flour and cheese. believe that we shall feed Uncle Sam as well. Your wheat lands play out after a time. Good hard wheat cannot by raised by fertilizers and intensive cultivation, so that the hard wheat country tends to so to the new lands. Moreover. you will grow in population through your immense mineral and manufacturing resources to such an ex- tend that you will not be able to raise your own food. You have so,ooo,o 900 people. By any by you will have Soo,- 000,000. Then we will feed you"
 A Nation of Farmers.
 we are a nation of farmers" con- tinued the Canadian commissioner. :. That is our business which we expect to develop just as you are doing your manufacturing. At present there are many large farms. but also many small ones. About S7 per cent. of the farm CTS of Canada own their own farms. This Is especially so with the French is done on a large scale. The land is broken up with gang blows. The threshing is done, by threshing. gangs who go with their immense machines from farm to farm. Ten thousand Americans came into Canada last year to help us harvest our wheat crop.
 New Elevators Everywhere.
 The harvests are too big to be put into barns, and great elevators have been built at the railway stations, so that the wheat goes direct from the thresher to the elevator without a long haul We have now more than 1000 0lcV6tOES WeeL OI Ldik6 Cup6TlOT, WHICH wild hold over 40,000.00o bushels of wheat at one time. We have one elevator at Ft. William, on Lake Superior, which has a capacity of 8,2o0,000 bushels. We are building more elevators right along and more railroads. I tell you, you people do not realize what is going on in the Canadian northwest. We have an empire there which Is growing faster in population and wealth than any other part of the world. We have some millions of square miles of the best land on earth. It is a black loam, very deep and very rich"
 How Wheat is Raised in Canada.
 But, Mir Hutchinson" said I, '1f these lands are so good, why have they not been taken up before?"
 For several reasons. There were no railroads until lately We did not know what we had. We thought these lands too far north for wheat. Some of the best of them are 1000 miles nearer the north pole than this city of St. Louis. We also thought the seasons would be too short to plant and har-