Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-10-15
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which has not yet been opened up 90
settlement Athabascu contains more
than l50OO0,0OO acres II Us more than
three times as large as your state Of
New York. Altogether we have now
li3,0OlO0l Qcres lu the northwest, which
have been surveyed. but nos sci taken
mp; and three-fourths OF this iH wheat
land The wheat belt is tract about
1000 miles long ana 400 milos wiue. In
the eastern part of Canada there are
vast pulp wood farms The trees of
which are worth about $40 per acre.
This Is also wheat land when cleared
what rs the wheat output OF the
| western country noW9'
Last year It was Gj.0O00OO bushels.
Twelve years ago It was practically
nothing
MISS CANADA TO FEED JOHN
BULL.
what are the posslbnIues?'
1--WE shall feed the world said the
Canadian commissioner Uncle Sam
has boosted Of feeding John Bull with
O spoon, but the day viii come when hls
daughter Miss Canada VIII DO that f1r
him Indeed his fat stomach rs al.
ready filled with out wheat, hour and
cheese. / believe that we shall feed
Uncle Sam as well, Your wheat lands
play out after time Good hard wheat
cannot be raised by fertilizers and in-
tenslye cultivation so that the hard
wheat country tends to go 10 the new
lands Moreover, you viii grow ln
population through your immense mini
eral and manufacturing resources To-
such an extent that you win not be able
TO raise your own food You have &c.
100000 people by and by you will have
SOOOOO,OO0 Then we viii feed you
A NATION OF FARMERS.
we are a nation Of farmers. contIn-
ued the Canadian commissioners "That
Is our business which we expect TO de-
velop just ms you are doing your manu- |
featuring At present there are many
large farms but also many small ones. !
About 81 per cent Of the farmers of |
Canada own their own farms This rs |
especially so with the French OF the |
northeast hi the west farming is done |
on a large scale. The land Is broken |
up with gang plows The threshIng Is
done by tmeshing gangs who 20 with |
their immense machines from farm TO
farm. Ten thousand Americans came
into Canada last year 10 help us har-
vest our wheat crop,
NEW ELEVATORS EVERYWHERE
"Thc horvests are too big to put into
barns, and great elevators have been
built at the railway stations, so that
the wheat goes direct from the thresh-
er TO the elevator without a long haul
We have now more than 700 elevators
west Of Lake Superior, which will hold
over 100000 600 bushels OF wheat at one
time. We have one elevator at Fort
William, on Lake Superior, which has
a capacity Of 100000 bushels. We are
building more elevators right along and |
more railroads. ] tell you, you people
do not realize what Is going on In the
Canadian northwest, We have an EN-.
pire there which is growing faster In
population and wealth than any other
part Of the world. We have some mil
lions OF square miles Of the best land on
The earth. 1t Is a black loan. very
deep. and very rich"
HOW WHEAT Is RAISED IN
CANADA
But Mr. Hutchinson" said ]. III
hese lands are so good why have they
lot been taken up before?'
For several reasons. There were no
until lately. We did not know
what we had. We thought these lands
90 far north for wheat Some Of the
)est Of them are 1000 miles nearer the
forth pole than this city Of ST. Louis.
We also thought the seasons would be
90 short 10 plant and harvest We
ave now learned how 10 work We |
freak up the ground in the summer or