The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1908-09-04
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,ast grain growing regions tho crops
Of this year Siii dispci the doubts Of tho
remaining iow. From winnipeg
westward 10 tho foothills Of Alberta,
over a coun'ry nearly n thousand
miles la width. the grain production
this ycnr Will DO something to almost
Htaggor tho belief Of those hundreds
Of thousands Of American farmers
whose average yield IL no, more than
from ten 10 nftcen bushels " wheat
10 the acre. and who are finding that
their product Is also o~utclassed In
quality by that OF their northern
n%elghbors.
Tho enormous grain crop OF this
year I'm the Canadian West may truth
fully be said TO be the production OF
"a few pioneers Only n small per.
centagc OF the u~nnumbercd millions
OF acres OF grain land are under cult.
walton. Notwithstanding the fact that
tens Of thousands OF homcsteads were
taken up last year. And yet when
all the figures are In. IL will be found
that the settlers OF the western prai.
ries have raised this year more than
125, 600, 900 bushels OF wheat, 100, 000,-
900 bushels OF oats and %, 000, 900
bushels Of barley. 1t has been n 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 1900 to $4,000 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 to
Calgary, and in the words of n fellow
passenger, who was astonished by
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 ripenlng 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 / made my first trip through
the Dominion west | doubted very
much the stories that had heard of
his so-called grain wonderland
across the border. | believed, as I'M
numbered thousands of others be-
iieved, that the stories were circulated
mostly to induce immigration. l quick.
ly found that I was wrong. AS one
Alberta farmer said to me a few
weeks ago, "If the whole truth were
told about this country I don't sup
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
states is proved by our w govern
ment statistics, which show that
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
BE RAISED TO THE REQUIRED
STANDARD. 1t is a peculiar fact that
while the Dominion Government is
anxious for its western provinces tC
fill up with the very best Of immi
grants, there has been no blatant OF
sensational advertising Of those lands
For this reason 1t Is probable that not
one American farmer out Of fifty
knows that Canada wheat nov holds
the worlds record Of value-that, IN
other words, 1t Is the best wheat or
earth, and that more of 1t is grown
to the acre than anywhere else in the
world.
A brief study of climatic conditions
and those things which go to make
q climate, will show that the farther
one travels northward from the Mon
tana border the milder the climate be
comes-up to a certain point. II
other words, the climate at Edmonton
Alberta, is far better than that o
Denver, 1900 miles south; and while
thousands of cattle and sheep are dy
ing because of the severity of thu