Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-11-06
NEW DISTRICTS AND NEW RAIL-
WAYS.
Western nnadn AHords Better Con-
difinnA .hnn Ever for settlement.

"estern On NADIA NOrds Better Com
ditions than Ever for settlement.
To the Editor-Sir Doubtless many
of your readers will be pleased to have
some word from the grain fields Of
Western Canada, where such a large
number of Americans have made their
home during the past few years. 1t is
pleasing to be able to report that gen
orally the wheat yield has been good !;
it will average about twenty bushels
to the acre. There will be many cases
where the yield will 60 thirty-tive
bushels to the acre, and others where
fifty bushels to the acre has been re-
corded. The oat and barley crop has
been splendid. The prices of all grains
will bring to the farmers a magnit-
cent return for their labors. An in
stance has been brought to my notice
Of n farmer in the Pincher Creek
(Southern Alberta) district, where
winter wheat is grown, who made a
net profit of $l9.55 an acre, or little
less thar the selling price of his land.
Thirty, forty and fifty bushels yields
are recorded there. The beauty about
the lands in Western Canada is that
they are so well adapted to g%rain-rais-
ing. while the luXuriant grasses that
grow everywhere in abundance makes
tie best possible feed for fattening
cattle or for those used for dairying
purposes.
The new homestead regulations
which went into force September,
1908. attracted thousands of new set
tiers. 1t is now possible to secure 16O
acres in addition to the 100 acres as a
free grant, by paying SIS an acre for
it. Particulars as to how to do this
and as to the railway rates can be Sc
cured from the Canadian Government
agents.
THE development throughout West
ern Canada during the next ten years
will probably exceed that of any other
country in the worlds history" is not
the statement of an optimistic Cana
dian from the banks of the Saskatche-
New York, ex-Secretary of the United
States Treasury, under the late Presi-
dent Mckinley and President Roose-
welt, and considered one of the ablest
financiers of the United States. Our
railway companies sold a good deal Of
their land 1t from three to five dollars
an acre. and now the owners are sell
ing the same land at from fifty to
seventy-five dollars, and buying more
up in Canada at from ten to fifteen
The editor of the Monticello (Iowa)
Express made q trip through Western
Canada last August, and was greatly
impressed. He says: lone cannot
cross Western Canada to the moul-
tains without being impressed with its
immensely of territory and its future
prospects. Where l expected to find
frontier villages there were substan-
tally built cities and towns with ev-
cry modern convenience. 1t was for
merly supposed that the climate was
too severe for it to be thought of as
an agricultural country, but its wheat.
raising possibilities have been amply
tested. We drew from Ontario many
of our best farmers and most progress
sive citizens. Now the Americans are
emigrating in greater numbers to West
ern Canada. Seventy-five per cent Of
the settlers in that good country To-
Gated southeast Of Moose Jaw and Re
gina are Americans. Canada is well
pleased with them n is ready to
welcome thousands more"