The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1906-12-06
THE FARMER m WESTERN
CANADA.
Tho Quality Of No. 1 Hard Wheat
Cannot Be Beaten.

-9@p I'VE Ntat9 WVtt00l
Cannot Be Beaten.
The Canadian West In the past Ave
o. ten years has given a set back to
che theory that large cities are the
backbone Of a country and a nations
best asset. Here we have a country
where no city exceeds 10O, 900, 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 ex-
ceeding $4,000. The places with a
population over 5000 can be counted
upon the fingers Of one hand, and yet
the prosperity that prevails is some
thing unprecedented in the history OF
oil countries past or present.
The reason for this marvellous
prosperity is not hard to seek. The
large majority Of the $4,000 people
who inhabit Manitoba, Saskatchewan
and Alberta. have gone on to the farm,
and have betaken themselves to the
task of not only feeding and clothing
themselves. but of raising food for
others less happily circumstanced. 4
The crop of 1906, although not alb
normal, is an e~ye-opener to many who
previously had given little thought to
the subject. Ninety million bushels OF
wheat at 20 cents per bushel--$63, 000.-
600; 10000 900 bushels OF oats at 80
cents per bushel--$22, 500, 900; 10000
600 bushels Of barley at 40 cents per
bushei-$6. 800, 900; makes a total OF
1872. SOC, 900. This Is altogether outside
the root 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 It is not to be wondered
at that many are leaving the longest
cd districts Of the eayst, to take upon
themselves the life of the prairie farm
and the labor OF the housbandman.
With the construction of additional
railroads new avenues, for agriculture
oil 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
gofhdAuh dp hIC AGW COuuLIH.
This Is the theme that Mr.. J. J. 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 80 long Identified with the devel-
opment OF the West. there are few
better qualified than he to ex-
press an opinion upon 1t. Take care
o { The country, says he, and the cities
Will take care OF themselves.
The farmers of the Western States
and the Canadian West, are more
prosperous than ever before, and
when 1t m to measuring up re-
suits. the Canadian appears to have
the better of 1t. His land
cheaper in fact, the government
to give free homesteads to
settlers, and the returns per acre are
heavier when the crop Is harvested.
Farming land In the Western States
from $50 to $3.50 an acre and up.
equally good soil may be pur-
In Canada for IS to SIS per
lcre, within easy reach of a shipping
,oint. and much of this Is available
or free demonstrating. The quality Of
he Canadian No. / hard wheat cam
lot be beaten. and the returns to the
lcre are several bushels better than
IN this side OF the line; the soil and
of that country being peculiar
y adapted to wheat growing.
The fact Is evidently appreciated
W the large number OF American
who have In the past two or
.hree years settled In the Canadian
Vest. The agents Of the Canadian
whose address will be
ound elsewhere, advise US that fer
he fiscal year 1904-5, the records
,how that 43.543 Americans settled In
and In 1865 the number
57.796. From all Of which, IL
that at present, there Is q
good thing in farming In Western
and that the American farm
,r is not slow to avail himself Of 1t.