Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-03-17
AGRICULTURE IN wesTepn
CANADA.
aus urain Fields Ranching Lands
Dairyin2 Resources

Dairyiug Resources
Ihe editor of the Wisconsin .or;o,,,
tuflst, who was one of a party of adi,
TORS OF agricultural papers took a trir
through Canada during the past
spring, writes to his paper in the fol.
lowing strain:
Inc reason of his visiting Canada
was to satisfy himself that the renorts
coming TO his paper regarding the won.
derful resources of that country were
accurate. In view of the wonderful
settlement that was going ON tbaro
many from this country crossing the
line III search of permanent homes and
III view of what he had heard in no
gard TO conditions of soil, water. eli
mate, topography, fuel, grasses rain
Iall, markets, etc, and also the iut,u-
ence which these have had on tha
present and future of agriculture he
deemed it necessary to make an ex-
tended trip through all of the above
territory. tss.
In speaking of the Province of Man.
itOba, he says:
lie province of Manitoba COM
prises within its limits the far famad
grain-growing valleys of the Assini.
boine and Red Rivers. Although call.
ed the Prairie Province of Canada
Manitoba has large areas of forests
numerous rivers and vast water OK.
pansions.
The soil is a rich, deep mould. or
loan, resting on deep clay sub-soil
1T IS well adapted to wheat growing.
giving bountiful yield of the finest
quality, known the world over as No.
L hard wheat During the past ten
years the growth of wheat and other
grains has steadily increased. until
now the production, by $4,000 farm
ers, reaches over 100,O00,0OO bushels.
OF the 23,0OO,000 arabic acres in Mani
toba, probably not one-half of it is
occupied. Cultivated grasses yield
about two tons per acre, and native
grasses a ton and half. AVS ...
There can be no question but that
dairying will become great industry
throughout the Northwest, and espe-
cially cheese making, as the climate
is favorable and similar to that of On !
tario.
Crops grown are wheat, barley,
oats, flax, rye, peas, corn for fodder,
bronze, potatoes roots etc. The soil is
very fertile and moisture ample. The
climate is good and the growing sea
son. while not quite so long as in Wis
consin, natures crops as the sun shines
much longer, rising about 4 o'clock
and shines until about 8 at night. One
can easily read a newspaper at 10 |
p. N. The long days make growth fast
and push crops 10 maturity ahead of
frost.
'sThe ranching. the wheat growing
and the mixed farming belts all cross
over Assiniboia. The yield and the
quality of wheat raised along the main 4
line of the Canadian Pacific Railway,
at such places as Indian Head and it's
allied districts, have become famous
Its possibilities are shown by the aver
ages of tests made at the experimental
farm in 1902, when eleven varieties
T. e. Z
of the most suitable wheat, sown on
April 10, werf cut in $50 days, and
yielded 4,314 pounds of straw and 43
bushels and pounds of grain per
acre Its mixed farming area is ex-
cellent, its range cattle, horses and
sheep are the equals of any seen in
the Northwest. and its treeless portion
is undertake with coal. The town of 4
Medicine Hat is heated and illuminat
ed with natural gas. There are alum /
dant deposits of brick, pottery and fire
clays."
Agents of the Canadian Government
will be pleased to mail an Atlas to
any one interested and also all other
information regarding railway rates,
etc.