Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-01-13
4 COUNTRY WHOSE
SOIL SPELLS WHEAT
And Out of Whose Farms
Thousands Are Grow
ing Rich
What President Taft and Others
Think About Canada
Another Fat Year for the Ca.
madam West

Our Canadian neighbors to the north
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
otner year.
1t is estimated that $100,000,000 will
this year go into the pockets of the
western farmers from wheat alone, an
other $60,000,00O from oats and barley,
while returns from other crops and
from stock will add 100000 more.
Is it any wonder then that the farm
ers 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 possibiIi-
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:
I'VE 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
shoulders all the progress there is in
the world. We have not been con-
scious that there is on the north a
young country and a 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"
James J. Hill, speaking before the
Canadian Club of Winnipeg a few days
ago, said:
L go back for SO years, when l
came west from Canada. At that time
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,
doing the best he can do, in ten, fif-
teen or twenty years
1t is evident from the welcome given
American settlers in Canada that the
Canadian people appreciate them.
Writing from Southern Alberta re-
Gently, 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 law
against taking liquor into the Indian
reservation. One of our fellows was
caught on a reservation with a bottle
on him, and it 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 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 a frontier; they have GER
tainly taught us lot.
On the other hand, we are running
their farms for them better than any
other class of farmers. I guess I can
say this without boasting, and the
Canadians appreciate us. We turn
out to celebrate Dsninion Day; they
are glad to have us help to farm the