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mission should like to call the Brook.
deld physician in consultation"
Permission echoed the man. indig-
nantly. IL told her knew she ought
to have a good doctor. but she was
afraid you'd be offended IL she did"
THE FARMER nv WESTERN CAN
ADA.
The Quality of No. I Hard wheat
Cannot he Beaten.
The CANADIAN West In the past five
or ten years has given set back to the
theory that large cities are the back.
bone of country and nations best
asset. Here we have a country where
no city exceeds 100000, and where only
one comes within easy distance of that
figure, according to the census just
taken and where no other city reaches
population exceeding $4,000. The
places with population over 5000 can
be counted upon the fingers of one
hand, and yet the prosperity that pre-
walls Is something unprecedented in
the history of all countries past or
present.
The reason for this marvellous pros
perity Is not hard to seek. The large
majority Of the $4,000 people who in
habit Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Al
berta have gone on 10 the farm, and
have betaken themselves to the task Of
not only feeding and clothing them
selves. but of raising food for others
less happily circumstanced.
The crop of 1906, although not alb
normal Is an eye-opener to many who
previously had given little thought to
the subject. Ninety million bushels of
wheat at 20 cents per bushel-$63. 000,-
900; 100000 bushels of oats ut 30
cents per bushel-S22, SOC, 600; 17.o00,-
900 bushels OF barley at 40 cents per
busheI s6,S00.000; makes total of
500, 100000. This Is altogether outside
the roet products; dairy produce. and
the returns from the cattle trade; the
beet sugar industry and the various
other by-products Of mixed farming.
When such returns are obtainable
from the soil 1t Is not to be wondered
at that many are leaving the congested
districts Of the east, to take upon
themselves the life of the prairie farm
and the labor of tine husbandman.
With the construction of additional
railroads, new avenues for agricultural
enterprise are opening up. and i'm
proved opportunities are offered to the
settler who understands prairie farm
ing, and Is willing to do his part in
building up the new country.
This h the theme that Mr.. J.,J. Hill,
the veteran railroad builder i'm the
West, has laid before the people In a
series Of addresses which he has given
at various points during the past few
months, and, having been for 50 long
identified with the development Of the
West, there are few men better quail
fed than he to express an opinion upon
1t. Take care of the country, says he,
and the cities will take care of them
selves.
The farmers of the Western States
and the Canadian West are more pros
porous than ever before, and when II
comes to measuring up results, the Ca
madam appears to have somewhat the
better of II. His land is cheaper, in
fact, the government continues TO give
free homesteads TO settlers, and the re-
turns per acre are heavier when the
crop Is harvested. Farming land In
the Western States runs from $50 10
$50 an acre and up, whereas equally
good soil may be purchased in Canada
for So to SIS per acre, within easy
reach of shipping point, and much
II this h available for free homestead
ing. The quality of the Canadian No. 1
hard wheat cannot be beaten, and the
returns to the acre are several bushels
better than on this side OF the line.
rhe son and climate OF that country
BEING peculiarly adapted to wheat
growing.
The fact Is evidently appreciated by
he large number OF American farmers
Who have in the past two or three
ears settled In the Canadian West. The
gents OF the Canadian government.
vhose address may be found else
yhere. advise US that for the fiscal
ear 19o4-5, the records show that A.
'3 Americans settled in Canada, and
n 1866 the number reached 57.706.
from all OF which il appears that at
resent there Is good thing In farm
nc In Western Canada. and that the
.ihetican farmer Is not SLOW to avail
lfhseif of II.