Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1908-11-12
EXCELLENT WEATHER
AND MAGNIFICENT CROPS
REPORTS FROM WESTERN CAN.
ADA ARE VERY ENCOURAGING.


ADA ARE VERY ENCOURAGING.
A correspondent writes the Winni-
peg (Man) Free Press: THE Pinch
er Creek district, (Southern AL
berta), the original home of fall
wheat, where it has been grown with
out failure, dry seasons and wet, for
about % years, is eXcelling itself this
year. The yield and quality are both
phenomenal, as has been the weather
for its harvesting. Forty bushels is a
common yield, and many fields go up
to 90, 60 and over, and most of it No.
1 Northern. Even last year, which was
less favorable, similar yields were in
some cases obtained but owing to the
season the quality was not so good. 1t
is probably safe TO say that the aver
age yield from the Old Mans River to
the boundary will be AZ or IS bushels
per acre, and mostly No. 1 Northern.
One man has just made a net profit
from his crop of $685. per acre. Or
little less than the selling price of
land. Land here is too cheap at pres
ent. when crop or two will pay for
it, and failure almost unknown. Nor
other crops do well, also stock and
dalrylng, and there is a large market
at the doors in the mining towns I'D
the Crows Nest Pass, and in British Co
iumbia, for the abundant hay of the
district, and poultry, pork and gar
den truck. Coal is near and cheaD
Jim Hill has an eye on its advan-
ta&es, and has invested here. and is
bringing the Great Northern Railroad
soon, when other lines Will follow"
The wheat, oat and barley crop in
other parts of Western Canada show
splendid yields and will make the
farmers of that country land many of
them are Americans) rich. The Cana.
dian Government Agent for this dis
trict advises US that he will be pleased
to give information to all who desire
it about the new land regulations by
which settler may now secure 100
acres in addition to his 100 home
stead acres, at $500 an acre. and also
how to reach these lands into which
railways are being extended 1t might
be interesting to read what is said Of
that country by the Editor of the
Marshall (Minnl News MESSENGER.
who made trip through portions of it
in July. 1908. Passing through more
than three thousand miles Of Western
Canada's agricultural lands. touring
the northern and southern farming
belts Of, the Provinces Of Manitoba.
Saskatchewan and Alberta, with nu.
merOus drives through the great grain
fields, we were made to realize not
only the magnifceuce of the crops. but
the magnitude, in measures. of the
vast territory opening, and to be
opened to farming immigration There
are hundreds of thousands OF farmers
there, and millions of acres under Gull
uvatiOn, but there is room for mil
lions more, and other millions of acre
age available. We could see in Western
Canada in soil, product, topography Or
climate, little that is different from
Minnesota, and with meeting at
every point many business men and
farmers who went there from this
state, it was difficult to realize one
was beyond the boundary of the
country"
Might Be.
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81 know it, and he has been per-
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Maybe that's why he is tickled."-
Houston Post.
Smokers have to call for Lewis Single
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Lewis Factory, Peoria, Ill.
A farmer naturally wants the earth
in his business, for without 1t he
couldn't do a thing