The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-16

vest. We have now learned how to work. We break up the ground in the summer or fall, and seed the wheat crop In the following spring. Perhaps we may raise . crop of flax first. The next spring, as soon as the snow has gone and while the ground Is still frossn. 1t may be for several inches. we run the seeder over the fields and cover the grain with the dirt on the surface. There may be only one inch of soil froxen, but the first hot days bring the wheat up by magic. It comes with cy- clonic swiftness. and 10! the whole country Is a sheet of green. I have known of three wheat crops being planted in three successive years with out blowing, although we do not advise that. The frost keeps thawing out for weeks and gives moisture to the fresh young wheat.
 The Flour Mills of the Northwest.
 Tell me something about the yield per acre."
 Tt Is better than yours by a great deal. Our average for ten years has been twenty-one bushels per acre. The United States rarely shows an average of more than fourteen"
 What do our American exporters think of the prospectr'
 4ACy aOh AhC ASs Aho kAtihS6ROAAS millers have been establishing mills to grind Canadian wheat for export. The wheat is shipped there in bond to the seacoast. They do this on the ground that the Canadian hard wheat sent to Europe is used there to mix with the European wheat in making flour simi- lar to the American and Is thus hurting your export flour trade"
 But why do you not ship flour to Europe?"
 we do. We have large mills at Win nipeg and at Montreal"
 winnipeg in 1904.
 What kind of . place Is winnipegT
 Tt is the Chicago of Canada, and the metropolis of the new wheat country. It is the gateway to the Northwest. and 1t grows as fast as our grain fields. It has now 7o,o0o people, and 1t built more than $5.o0o.00o worth of new buildings last year. It has electric lights and railways. boulevards and all modern improvements. It will always be the great city of that part of our country"
 What other big towns have your
 The most of our towns out there are small. but they grow rapidly. Calgary has now 10000 and Edmonston, which is way up at the terminus of the rail- road in Alberta, has 15,000. Only a year, or so ago it had 1.50o. Our big cities are now in the east Montreal is the largest, with 325, ,000, and Toronto is next. with perhaps 100000 less. We are, however, just on the edge of a development.
 The Canada of the Future.
 "Yes, MT. Hutchinson, but have you not been on the edge a long time? What are your population and area?
 Our area is bigger than the whole United States, and our population is now about 6.0oo,0oo. We have grown slowly, but the elements of our na- tional makeup are better than yours. We are largely Anglo-Saxon, with a mixture of French, who are thrifty and easily governed. You have a large ern Europe which is not so good. Many of your big cities are full of 1t. Take Buaffalo, for instance, just across the border. Half of It's city officials and policemen are Skis. and they have a large population of Skis"
 What do you mean by SkisT'
 T mean Poles and Russians and peo- pie from southeastern Europe. They are not the kind of an immigration we are counting, nor do they make up any large element of our people. We want Anglo -Saxons, Germans and Scandina- vians, and we are getting them very rapidly. James J. Hill. one of your great railroad men, says he believes that within fifty years Canada will easily support several times that number"
 Not for Annexation.
 How about Canada becoming a part of the United States?"
 That will never come" said the Canadian commissioner. "Our people don't want it. We are satisfied with our