The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-07-02
CORN PLANTING Is
OVER
THAT CANADIAN TRIP SHOULD
NOW BE TAKEN.

If you had intended going to Can
ada for the purpose of purchasing
land on which to establish a home and
accompanying some land company,
whose holdings you proposed to look
over or to go up on your own account
to select one hundred and sixty acres
OF land free, you should delay no
longer. Complaining is over, your
wheat crop is well ahead, and you
have few weeks time before you are
required in the fields again. Now
make your intended trip. Reports
at hand show that the crop prospects
IN Canada were never better than
they are today. The cool weather has
not affected the crop, but if anything,
1t has been a benefit. There has been
plenty of moisture and those who
have had their land properly prepared
look upon this year as likely to be one
of the best they have had. A great
many are going up this season who
expect to pay two or three dollars an
acre more than they were asked to
pay last year. Others who wish to
homestead are prepared to go farther
from the line of railway than would
have been necessary last year. Still
it is worth it. So it will be with you
Next year lands will be higher-priced
and homesteads less accessible. There
is wonderful tide of immigration to
Central Canada now. It is expected
that one hundred and fifty thousand
new settlers from the United States
will be numbered by the end of the
present year, an increase of fifty per
cent over last year. In addition to
this there will be upwards of one
hundred thousand from the old coun-
try, which does not include those
who may come from the northern
countries of the Continent. These all
| intend to settle upon the land. The
reader does not require an answer to
the questions, why do they do it?"
why are they going there in such
large numbers" Western Canada is
no longer an experiment. The fact
that one hundred and fifty million
bushels Of wheat were raised there
| last year as against ninety-fve mil
lions the year previous, shows that
the tiller of the soil in Central Canada
is making money and it is safe to say
that he is making more money than
can be made anywhere else on the
Continent in the growing of grains.
He gets good prices, he has sure and
a heavy crop, he enjoys splendid rail
way privileges, and he has also the
advantages of schools and churches
and such other social life as may be
found anywhere. 1t is difficult to say
what district is the best. Some are
preferred to others because there are
friends already established. The
Grand Trunk Pacific, on its way
across the Continent, is opening up
splendid tract of land, which is being
taken up rapidly. The other railways
the Canadian Pacific and Canadian
Northern are extending branch lines
| into parts inaccessible a couple of
years ago. With a perfect network
of railways covering a large area of
| the agricultural lands it is not diff
cult to secure a location. Any agent
of the Canadian Government will be
| pleased to render you assistance by
advice and suggestion, and a good
| plan is to write or call upon him.
The Government has located these
agents at convenient points through
| out the States, and their Offices are
well equipped with a full supply OF
maps and literature.