Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1906-12-06
THE FARMER IN WESTERN CAN.
ADA.
The Quality of No. I Hard Wheat
Cannot he beaten.

HC uNb1
Cannot BE Beaten.
The Canadian West in the past five
or ten years has given a vet bach to the
theory that large cities are the back
mono of q country and G nations best
asset. Here we have Il 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
a population exceeding l0,OOo. The
places with a population over 900 can
be counted upon the fingers of n
hand. and yet the prosperity that pre-
wallis 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 tho $4,000 people who In
habit Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Al
berta have one on to the farm, n
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 IN e%yeopcncr to many who
previously had given little thought TO
the subject. Ninety million bushels OF
~AHat at 20 cents per bushel-SSS.OOO,-
OuO; &c, 600 bushels Of oats at 30
cents per bushel- 100000; 17.O0O.-
GOO bushels of barley at 10 cents per
bus,el-S6.S0O.OOO makes u total OF
So, Goo. 900. This is altogether outside
the root products; dairy produce. and
the returns from the cattle trade; the
beet sugar Industry and h various
other b%y-products of mixed farming.
When such returns are o%btainable
from the soil it Is n0t to Ike 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 the husbandman.
With tho 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 tx the theme that Mr.. ]. ]. Hill,
the veteran railroad builder in 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 * long
identified with the development of the
West. there are few men better quail
fed thar he to express an opinion upon
it. 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 It
comes to measuring up results, the Ca
madam appears to have somewhat the
better Of it. 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 $40 to
$50 an acre and up, whereas equally
good soil may be purchased in Canada
for SO to SIS per acre, within easy
reach OF a shipping point, and much
Of this Is available for free homestead
ing. The quality Of the Canadian No. !
hard wheat cannot be beaten, and the
returns to the acre are several bushels
better than on this side of the line
The soil and climate of that country
being peculiarly adapted to wheat
growing.
The fact is evidently appreciated BY
!. the large number of American farmers
who have in the past two or three
years settled in the Canadian West. The
agents of the Canadian government
whose address may be found else
= where. advise us that for the fisca
year 1904-5, the records show that 43,
543 Americans settled in Canada, an
in 1866 the number reached 81 9f
From all Of which it appears that a
: present there is a good thing In farm
y ing in Western Canada, and that tn
= American farmer is not slow to avai
re himself of it.
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