Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-12-24
COUNTRY WHOSE SOIL SPELLS
WHEAT AND OUT OF WHOSE
FARMS THOUSANDS ARE
GROWING RICH.
WHAT PRESIDENT TAFT AND
OTHERS THINK OF CANADA.
Another Fat Year for the Canadian
West.


are again rejoicing over an abundant
harvest, and reports from reliable
sources go to show that the total yield
of 1909 will be far above that of any
other year.
1t is estimated that 100000
will this year go into the pockets of
the Western farmers from wheat
alone, another s6O,0OOO00 from oats
and barley, while returns from other
crops and from stock will add $4O,-
100000 more. Is 1t any wonder then
that the farmers of the Canadian
West are happy?
Thousands Of American farmers
have settled in the above mentioned
provinces during the past year; men
who know the West and its possibili-
ties, and who also know perhaps bet
ter than any other people, the best
methods for profitable farming.
President Taft said recently in
speaking of Canada:
1--WE have been going ahead so rap
Idly in our own country that our heads
have been somewhat swelled with the
Idea that we are carrying on our shoul-
ders all the progress there is in the
world. We have not been conscious
that there is on the north a young
country and young nation that is
looking forward, as it we'll may, to a
great national future. They have
100000 people, but the country Is
still hardly scratched"
Jas. ]. Hill speaking before the
Canadian Club of Winnipeg few days
ago said:
81 go back for So years, when
Canada had no Northwest. A young
boy or man who desired to carve his
own way had to cross the line, and
to-day it may surprise you-one out
Of every five children born in Canada
lives in the United States. Now you
are playing the return match, and the
Northwest is getting people from the
United States very rapidly. We
brought 100 land-seekers, mainly from
Iowa and Southern Minnesota, last
night out of st. Paul, going to the
| Northwest. Now, these people have
all the way from five, ten to twenty
thousand dollars each, and they will
make as much progress on the land in
one year as any one man coming from
the Continent of Europe can make, do
ing the best he can, in ten, fifteen, or
twenty years."
1t is evident from the welcome
given American settlers in Canada
that the Canadian people appreciate
them. Writing from Southern Alberta
recently an American farmer says:-
I'VE are giving them some new
Ideas about being good farmers, and
they are giving us some new ideas
about being good citizens. They have
a law against taking liquor into the
Indian Reservation. One of our fell
lows was caught on reservation with
q bottle on him, and 1t cost him $50.
One of the Canadian Mounted Police
found him, and let me tell you, they
find everyone who tries to go up
against the laws of the country.
"On Saturday night, every bar-room
is closed, at exactly Z o'clock. Why?
Because 1t is the law, and it's the
same with every other law. There
isn't bad man in the whole district
and a woman can come home from
town to the farm at midnight II she
wants to, alone. That's Canada's idea
how to run frontier; they have GER
tainly taught us lot.
"On the other hand, we are running
their farms for them better than ans
other class of farmers. guess
can say this without boasting, and the
Canadians appreciate us, We turI
out to celebrate Dominion Day; the.
are glad to have us help to farm thu
country; they know how to govern
we know how to work"
Another farmer, from Minnesota
who settled in Central Saskatchewan
some years ago, has the following t.
say about the country
"My wife and have done well enougl
since we came from the States; we cal
live anyway. We came in the spring o
1901 with the first carload of settlers
effects unloaded in these parts an,
built the first shanty between Sas
katoon and Lumsden. We brough
with our car of settlers effects tn
sum of $500 in cash, to-day we ar
worth $4,000. We proved up on
of the finest farms in Western Canad
and bought 800 acres at So per acre
We took good crops off the land TO
four years, at the end of which W
had $4,000 worth of improvements 4
the way of buildings, ETC., and ha
planted three acres of trees. Tw
years ago we got such n good offe
that we sold our land at $45 per acre
From the above you will see that W
have not done badly since our al
rival"
Prof Thomas Shaw of st. Paul, Mir
nesota, with a number of other we
known editors of American farm joul
nails, toured Western Canada recent,
and in an interview at Winnipeg sal
In part:-
with regard to the settlement {
the West l should say that 1t is onl
wall hepun I have estimated that 4