The Forrest City times., 1910-09-09


 dividual crops which will run as high as f5 bushels on acres of 500 and 1000 acres. but there are others which will drop as low as 15 A safe average for winter wheat will be 19 bushels. The sample is exceptionally fine. excepting in few cases where it has been wrin- kled by extreme heat
 The northern section of Alberta has been naturally anxious to impress the world with the fact that 1t has not suffered from drought, and this is quite srue. Wheat crops run from 20 to 30 bushels to an acre. but in & report such as this it 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, 1t seems noth- Ing short of miracle that the Cana dian West should have produced 102 million bushels of wheat. which is jess than IS million bushels short of the crop Of 1909. It Is for the West generally 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 ullage. good seed and proper methods of conserving the moisture. crop can always be produced.
 As some evidence of the feeling of the farmers, are submitted letters written by farmers but a few days ago. and they offer the best proof that can be given.
 Maidstone. Sask.. Aug. 1, 10.
 l came to Maidstone from Menomi- nee. Wis, four years ago, with my parents and two brothers. We all lo- cated homesteads at that time and now have our patents The soil is & rich black loam as good as I 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 10 to S0- We are well pleased with the country and do not care to return to l that Saskatchewan Is just the place for a hustler to get start and make himself home. Wages here for farm labor range from s35 10 si5 per month Lee Dow
 Toield. Alberta, July 10, 1910. 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 know of that offers such splendid 1 Inducements for capital brain and brawn. would like to say to all who are not satisfied where you are. make trip to Western Canada; If you do not like It you will feel well repaid Tor 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 le1an. O. L. Pughs.
 James Normur of Porter, Wisconsin, after visiting Dauphin, Manitoba. says: T have been in Wisconsin 25 years. coming out from Norway. Never have l seen better land and the crops in East Dauphin are better than I have ever seen, especially the oats There Is more straw and 1t has heav- fer 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. l have never seen such cattle as are raised here on the wild prairie grasses and the vctrN that stands three or four feet nleh in the groves and on the open prairie.
 Sir Wlfred 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 distrs.ts In which Americans have set, tleo He expresses himself as highly plea.>l 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
 T 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. I 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 90 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