The Carlisle independent., 1909-12-23
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.


 sources go to show that the total yield of 1909 will be far above that of any other year.
 It is estimated that 00,000,000 will this year go into the pockets of the Western farmers from wheat alone, another s60,0O0,0 900 from oats | and barley, while returns from other crops and from stock will add $40, 1 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 it's 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:
 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
 
 that there is on the north young country and young nation that is looking forward, as it well may, to great national future. They have 100000 people, but the country is still hardly scratched
 Jas. J. Hill speaking before the Canadian Club of Winnipeg a few days ago said:
 T go back for 53 years, when I came West from Canada. At that time Canada had no North West. A young boy or mar who desired to carve his own way had to cross the line, and to-day 1t 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 1 thousand dollars each, and they will
 
 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"
 It is evident from the welcome given American settlers in Canada that the Canadian people appreciate them. Writing from Southern Alberta ,.nn AY,oa fav
 We 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 fel- lows was caught on reservation with bottle on him, and it cost him $50. Che 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 o'clock. Why? Because it is the law, and it's the same with every other law. There isn't a bad man in the whole district, and a woman can come home from town to the farm at midnight if she wants to, alone. That's Canada's idea how to run frontier; they have cer tainly taught us lot
 "On the eiother hand, we are running their farms for them better than any o,aer class of farmers. 1 guess i can say this without boasting, and the Canadians appreciate us. We turn out to celebrate Dominion Day; they are glad to have us help to farm the 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 to say about the country
 My wife and 1 have done well enough since we came from the States; we can live anyway. We came in the spring of 1901 with the first carload of settlers effects unloaded in these parts and built the first shanty between Sas- katoon and Lumsden. We brought with our car of settlers effects the sum of $500 in cash, to-day we are worth S40,000. We proved up one of the finest farms in Western Canada and bought 320 acres at s3 per acre. We took good crops off the land for four years, at the end of which we had SS000 worth of improvements in the way of buildings, etc. and had planted three acres of trees Two years ago we got such good offer that we sold our land at S45 per acre. From the above you will see that we have not done badly since our ar rival"
 Prof. Thomas Shaw of SS. Paul, Min ! nesota, with number of other well | known editors of American farm jour l nals, toured Western Canada recently, | and in an interview at Winnipeg said | in part:-
 With regard to the settlement of the West I should say that it is only well begun. I have estimated that in Manitoba one-tenth of the land has been broken, in Saskatchewan one thirtieih and in Alberta, one-hundred | and seventy-ffth. I am satisfied that in all fhree nrOvincaS grain cap bo