Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-09-03

Author of american Farmers Build
ing a New Nation in the NORTH
"canada-The Land of Greater
Hope"-"The Invasion of Canada by
American Farmers"-"A Thousand
Miles on Horseback Across the Do
minion Provinces" ETC., Etc.
Notso very many years ago the major
fly of people in the United States
laughed at the prediction that the day
was coming when Western Canada
would far outstrip this country in
the raising of grain-when, in other
words, it would become the great
bread-basket of the world. During the
iast three OF four years the enormous
production of grain in the Dominion
West has thinned the ranks of those
vast grain growing regions; the crops
of this year will dispel the doubts of the
remaining few. From Winnipeg
westward to the foothills of Alberta,
over a country nearly a thousand
miles in width, the grain production
this year will be something to almost
stagger the belief Of those hundreds
of thousands of American farmers
whose average yield is not more than
from ten to fifteen bushels of wheat
to the acre, and who are finding that
their product is also outclassed in
quality by that of their northern
neighbors.
The enormous grain crop of this
year in the Canadian West may truth
fully be said to be the production OF
"a few pioneers" Only a small per
centage of the u~nnumbered millions
of acres of grain land are under cult
walton, Notwithstanding the fact that
tens Of thousands of homesteads were
taken up last year. And yet when
all the figures are in, it will be found
that the settlers of the western prai
ries have raised this year more thar
1885, 900, 900 bushels Of wheat, 100,O 900,
600 bushels of oats and 25,000,0 0(
bushels of barley. 1t has been a for
tune making year" for thousands O
American farmers who two or three
years ago owned hardly more than the
clothes upon their backs, and whose
bumper crops from their homestead
will yield them this season anywhere
from $1,500 to So, 500 each, more none.
than many of them have see at ont
time in all their lives.
Very recently I passed through thu
western provinces from Winnipeg tt
Calgary, and in the words of a fellow
passenger, who was astonished b.
what he saw from the car windows il
Manitoba, we were, metaphoricall.
speaking, in a land of milk AM
honey" The country was n grea
sweep Of ripening grain. In fact, 81
enormous was the crop, that at tn
time there were grave doubts as t
the possibility of GETTING ENOUGH
BINDER TWINE TO SUPPLY TIKI
DEMAND. A situation like this ha
never before been known in the agr
cultural history Of any country.
Before I made my first trip throug
the Dominion west | doubted yer
much the stories that | had heard c
this so-called grain wonderland
across the border. | believed, as III
numbered thousands of others b.
lieved, that the stories were circulate
mostly to induce immigration. | quicl
ly found that | was wrong. AS on
Alberta farmer said to me a fe
weeks ago, IF the whole truth wei
told about this country | don't su.
pose you could find one American
ten who would believe it."
This year the prospects of tn
wheat crop of Saskatchewan, Man
toba and Alberta are an average (
owe TWENTY-FIVE BUSHELS T
THE ACRE, and that this grain
far superior to that raised in tt
states is proved by our W COVER,
ment statistics, which show tn;
American millers are importing m
lions of bushels of B Canadian hare
to mix with the home product in ord
that THIS HOME PRODUCT MA
BE RAISED TO THE REQUIRE
STANDARD. 1t is a peculiar fact TIL
while the Dominion Government
anxious for its western provinces
fill up with the very best of INN
grants, there has been no blatant
sensational advertising of those land
For this reason it is probable that n
one American farmer out of fiji
knows that Canada wheat now hol'
the worlds record of value-that,
other words, it is the best wheat
earth, and that more of 1t is grow
to the acre than anywhere else in Il
world.
A brief study of climatic condition
and those things which go to mai
a climate, will show that the farth
one travels northward from the Mo
tana border the milder the climate |
comes-up to a certain point.
other words, the climate at EdmontC
Alberta. is far better than that
Denver, 1900 miles south; and VIII
thousands of cattle and sheep are {
ing because of the severity Of t
winters in Wyoming, Montana a
other western states, the cattle, she
and horses of Alberta CRAZE {
THE RANGES ALL WINTER WIT
ABSOLUTELY NO SHELTER. I'll
is all largely because sea-currents a
air.currents have to do with the n
king OF the climate of temperate
gions. For instance, why is it II
California possesses such a beautl
climate, with no winter at all, VIII
the New England states on a paral
with it have practically six mont
of winter out Of twelve?
It is because of that great swe