Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-09-08


drop as low as 10. A safe average for
sample is exceptionally fine. excepting
in few cases where It has been wrin
killed. by extreme heat
The northern section of Alberta has
been naturally anxious to impress the
world with the fact that It has not
suffered from drought, and this is quite
true. Wheat crops run from 20 to 80
bushels to an acre, but in a report
such as this 1t is really only possible
to deal with the province as a whole
and while the estimate may seem very
low to the people Of Alberta, 1t is fair
to the province throughout.
When the very light rainfall and +,
other eccentricities of the past season
are taken into account, it seems moth
ing short of a miracle that the Cana.
dian West should have produced 102
million bushels of wheat, which is
less than IS million bushels short OF
the crop Of 1909. 1t is for the West
generally a paying crop and perhaps
the best advertisement the country
has ever had, as 1t shows that no mat.
ter how dry the year. with thorough
tillage, good seed and proper methods
of conserving the moisture, a crop can
always be produced.
AS some evidence Of the feeling OF
the farmers, are submitted letters
written by farmers but few days
ago, and they offer the best proof that
can be given.
Maidstone, Sask., Aug. 4, 10.
l came to Maidstone from Menomi-
nee, Wis, four years ago, with my
parents and two brothers. We all To-
Gated homesteads at that time and
now have our patents. The soil is a
rich black loan as good as l have ever
seen. We have had good crops each
year and in 1909 they were exceeding
ly good. Wheat yielding from % to 40
bushels per acre and oats from 40 to
80. We are well pleased with the-
country and do not care to return to
our native state. l certainly believe
that Saskatchewan is just the place
for hustler to get a start and make
himself home. Wages here for farm
labor range from $35 to $45 per
month. Lee Dow.
SHSAut AlBCl I'd, July W. lOlUs
l am a native of Texas, the largest
and one Of the very best states of the
Union. have been here three years
and have not one desire to return to
the States to live. There is no place
l know of that offers such splendid
inducements for capital, brain and
Drawn. l would like to say to all who
are not satisfied where you are. make
a trip to Western Canada; If you do
not like 1t you will feel we'll repaid
for your trip. Take this from one
who's on the ground. We enjoy splen-
did government, laws, school, railway
facilities, health. and last, but not
least, an ideal climate, and this from
a Texan. o. L. Pughs.
James Normur of Porter, Wisconsin,
after visiting Dauphin, Manitoba,
says: II have been in Wisconsin %
years, coming out from Norway. Never
have seen better land and the crops
in East Dauphin are better than /
have ever seen, especially the oats.
There is more straw and it has heaV-
Ter heads than ours in Wisconsin.
'"This is Just the kind of land we
are looking for. We are all used to
mixed farming and the land we have
seen is finely adapted to that sort of
work. Cattle, hogs, horses and grain
will be my products, and for the live
stock, prospects could not be better.
have never seen such cattle as are
raised here on the wild prairie grasses
and the vetch that stands three or
four feet high in the groves and on
the open prairie.
Sir WlIfred Laurier Talks to Amer
leans.
Sir Wilfred Laurier, Premier of
Canada, is now making a tour OF
Western Canada and in the course of
his tour he has visited many OF the
districts in which Americans have set
tied. He expresses himself as highly
pleased with them. At Craig, Sas-
katchewan, the American settlers
Joined with the others in an address
of welcome. In replying Sir Wilfred
said in part:
81 understand that many of you
have come from the great Republic
to the south of us-a land which Is
akin to us by blood and tradition.
hope that in coming from free coun-
try you realize that you come also to
another free country, and that al.
though you came from a republic you
have come TO what is a crowned
democracy. The King, our sovereign,
has perhaps not SO many powers as
the President of the United States,
but whether we are on the one side
Of the line or the other, we are all
brothers by blood, by kinship, by ties
of relationship, In coming here as
you have come and becoming natural
lied citizens of this country no one de-
sires you to forget the land Of your
ancestors. It would be a poor man
who would not always have in his
heart a fond affection for the land
which he came from. The two greatest