The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1908-02-21
VOLUMES MIGHT BE WRITTEN
Of the Success That Awaits the Farm
er in Western Canada.

The story Of wheat farming In Wes-
tern Canada (that portion of Canada
lying north OF Dakota and Montana)
has been frequently told, but 1t will
stand a lot of telling, and still retain
Its touch of interest. During the year
just closed 277,376 persons made their
homes in Canada as compared with
215,912 for the year 1906, an increase
of 61,464. Those from the United
States numbered 56,551. A writer in
Industry" recently said: To-day the
Dominion of Canada is witnessing
"mightier movement of population
than ever stimulated Biblical writ
"er to pen a chapter of Scripture"
The same writer says: From he Rhine
land the Rhone river Valleys; from
"the port cities of Germany and the
farms of the Fatherland, from the
peasant soil of russia; and ont from
"the grimy Lancashire and over-popu-
lated Yorkshire, the discontinued
land ambitious Of every cline are
seeking to take advantage of the
opportunities afforded by the fertile
soil and eXhilarating climate OF the
Empire of the North"
Continuing the same writer says:
while a million human beings throng
''the shores of the United States every
''year, the smaller number arriving in
Canada come with a more wellde-
fined purpose" The question has
been asked why do these people come
! TO Canada? The available land be
tween the Mississippi and the Pacific
has been exhausted, and the farmers
within that territory find that their
sons have to seek newer climes. Cana
da offers one hundred and sixty acres
of land free to each. This land yields
from 90 to 40 bushels of wheat to the
acre. In Southern Alberta, the winter
wheat belt OF Canada, as high as 60
bushels per acre have been harvested.
Less yields than the one mentioned
have netted the farmer as. much as
s35 per acre. There are no words that
tell the tale so effectively as those OF
the farmer himself, the man who has
ploughed the fields, sowed the grain,
and with folded hands rests while
nature. bounteous in that country, in
less than three months, placed at his
disposal hundreds of acres of ripened
grain, now waiting the arrival of the
reaper, and therefore we reproduce
the following letter.
Any agent of the Canadian govern
ment will be pleased to give informa'
ton regarding the district mentioned
or any of any other that may be de-
sired.
E. T. Holmes, Esq,
Canadian Government Agent,
st. Paul, MINI.
Dear Sir
In 1905 l located on claim about
30 miles from the town of Wadena
on the Canadian Northern Railroad
have lived on my claim most OF the
time since. / consider this TO be one
of the best districts in the country
for grain growing. In 1906 wheat
averaged from 80 to 81 bushels pei
acre on some of my neighbors' farms
within 4 miles of my claim. Oats &c
from Is to 100 bushels. 1t is also
good country for stock. Where ] an
there is plenty of fuel. Homestead
nearly all taken the settlement beini
: largely Germans, and Americans, al
well-to-do. / left Wadena in Febru
airy, 1907, returning April 20, so tina
!. | missed part of the winter, which tn
| old settlers tell me was one of tn
) worst they ever saw, but there wa
!, no suffering, as the people are prett
= we'll fixed, and there are no blizzard
in that country, at least there neve
!. has been known to be one. Wild Ian
: sells at from $40 to SIS; closer t
town 1t is higher.
In the summer we have all sort
70 of wild fruits very plentiful, and
: never saw better vegetables. and gam
8 is so plentiful a man need not starv
8 for want of something to eat Plent
J, of good water too. You need ne
1 hesitate to recommend this distric
but the homesteads are nearly a
: taken, most of the homesteaders al
;, living right On their claims.
: (Signed), FRANK MORREY,
y Remington, Sasl
As He Understood II.
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