The Forrest City times., 1908-09-04

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 N0s So feTy many wears aso the major i.y e people .a tee United States iaaghed'as the grediction that the day Fzs coming when Western Canada would far outscrip this country in t1e raislas of grlin-when. in other words. t would become the great eTe3d-basket Of the world. During the past three or four years the enormous production Of grain in the Dominion | Hes. has thinned the ranks of those who doubted the destiny of Canadas vast grain growing regions: the crops ot this .ear will dispel the doubts of the remaining few. From Winnipeg westward 10 the foothills of Alberta. over 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 10 fifteen bushels of wheat 10 the acre, and who are finding that their product is also outelassed 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 small per cantaoa oP tba u1,v,r,t tOr,a ,,,i1I.J.,.,- of acres of grain land are under eulti- vation. notwithstanding the fact that tens of thousands of homesteads were taken mp 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 than 125,000000 bushels of wheat. 100. .000- 900 bushels of oats and 25,O00.o00 bushels of barley. II has been a for tune making year" for thousands of American farmers who two or three years ago owned hardly more than the clothes upon their backs. and whose bumper crops from their homesteads will yield them this season anywhere from Sl,500 to s, 800 each. more money than many of them have seen at one time in all their lives.
 Very recently I passed through the western provinces from Winnipeg 10 Calgary, and in the words of fellow passenger, who was astonished hv what he saw from the car windows in Manitoba, we were, metaphorically speaking. in a land of milk and honey. The country was one great sweep of ripening grain. In fact, so enormous was the crop. that at the time there were grave doubts as to the possibility of GETTING ENOUGH BINDER TWINE TO SUPPLY THE DEMAND. A situation like this has never before been known in the agri- cultural history of any country.
 Before l made my first trip through
 he Dominion west I doubted very much the stories that had heard of this so-called grain wonderland" across the border. I believed. as un- numbered thousands of others be- lieved. that the stories were circulated mostly to induce immigration. I quick ly found that l was wrong. As one Alberta farmer said to me few weeks ago, If the whole truth were told about this country l don't sur. pose you could find one American in ten who would believe it"
 This year the prospects of the wheat crop of Saskatchewan, Mani toba and Alberta are an average of over TWENTY-FIVE BUSHELS TO THE ACRE, and that this grain is far superior to that raised in the 1 states is proved by our own govern ment statistics. which show that l American millers are importing mil lions of bushels of B Canadian hard" | to mix with the home product in order that THIS HOME PRODUCT MAY l BE RAISED TO THE REQUIRED STANDARD. Il is a peculiar fact that while the Dominion Government is anxious for it's western provi- ees to fill up with the very best of immi- grants. there has been no blatant or sensational advertising of those lands. For this reason it is probable that not one American farmer out of fifty 1 knows that Canada wheat now holds the worlds record of value-that, in other words, it is the best wheat on | earth. and that more of it is grown ] to the acre than anywhere else in the 1 world.
 brief study of climatic conditions. and those things which go to make a climate. will show that the farther one travels northward from the Mon. l tana border the milder the climate be- comes-up to certain point In l other words. the climate at Edmonton. i Alberta, is far better than that of 1 Denver, 1,500 miles south. and while thousands of cattle and sheep are dy- ing because of the severity of the winters in Wyoming. Montana and other western states. the cattle sheep and horses of Alberta CRAZE ON THE RANGES ALL WINTER WITH ABSOLUTELY No SHELTER. This is all largely because sea-eurrents and air-eurrents have to do with the ma