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pat,s - ihc three provinces. aud mos,
Of these max" most interesting read.
Ing The letter sah written BY 4 Kali.
t~cubuuurr. whose ~pUatOhlce address
~ Regina. Saskatchewan.
"a few years ago" he says. Il took
up a homestead for myself and also
n for my son. Tho half section
which we " ~ between Rculcau and
Drlnk"ater. adjoining the Moosejaw
creek. and ~ "A low. level aud heavy
land. Last year We put in 100 acres OF
wheat which went % bushels TO the
acre. Every bushel Of II was No. l.
That means the best wheat that can
be raised on caTth-worth 80 cents a
bushel at the nearest elevators. We
also thrcshed 5000 bushels OF first
class oats out OF leo acres. Eighty
acres vas fall blowing AND YIELDED
NINETY BUSHELS TO THE ACRE.
We got SO cents a bushel clear. All
Il grain was cut In the last week OF
the month of August. We will make
more money out of our crops this year
than last. For myself, | feel com.
PEELED TO say that Western Canada
crops canno be checked, even by un
usual conditions"
An itemized account shows a single
years earnings of this settler and his
o to be as follows:
| =. DUu bushels OF wheat nj 30 cents
a buShel ...... ". 2oO
5000 bushels of oats at SO cents
q bushel ...... 4,110
Total ,O2O
1t will be seen by the above that
this mans oat crop was worth twice
as much as his wheat crop. While
the provinces of western Canada will
for all time to come be the worlds
greatest wheat growing regions, oats
are running the former grain a close
race for supremacy. The soil and eli.
matte conditions in Manitoba, Sas.
katchewan and Alberta are particular
ly favorable to the production of oats,
and this grain, like the wheat, runs a
far greater crop to the acre than in
ever the best grain producing states
Of the union. Ninety bushels to the
acre is not an unusual yield. whole
homesteads frequently running this
average. And this is not the only adj
vantage Western Canada oats have
over those of the United States, for in
weight they run between forty and
fifty pounds to the bushel, while No.
1 wheat goes to sixty-two pounds to
the bushel. In fact, so heavy Is
Canadian grain of all kinds, and espe-
cially the wheat, that throughout the
west one will see cars with great
p%lacards upon them, which read:
"This car is not to be filled to ca
pacity with Alberta wheat"
When I made my first trip through
the Canadian West a few years ago I
found thousands of settlers living in
rude shacks, tent shelters and homes
of logs and clay. Today n will find
these old homes" scattered from
Manitoba to the Rockies, but they are
no longer used by human tenants.
Modern homes have taken their place
for it has come to be a common say.
ing in these great grain regions that,
"The first year a settler is in the land
he earns a living; the second he has
money enough to build himself a mod
ern home and barns; the third he is
independent" And as extreme as this
statement may seem to those hun
dreds Of thousands of American farm.
ers who strive for a meager existence
1t Is absolutely true. l am an Ameri'
can. as patriotic, l believe, as most OF
our people-but ven at that I cannot
but wish that these people, whose
lives are such an endless and unhappy
grind. might know of the new life that
is awaiting them in this last great
west--this land of greater hope
where the farmer is king, and where
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