The Prescott daily news., 1910-07-02
CORN PLANTING IS
 OVER
THAT CANADIAN TRIP SHOULD
 NOW BE TAKEN.

IT you had intended going to Can. ada for the purpose of purchasins 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 10 select one hundred and sixty acres or land free, you should delay no longer. Corn planting is over. your wheat crop is we'll ahead, and yu, nave few weeks time before you are required in the fields again. Now make your intended trip. Reports at hand show that the crop prospects ln canada were never better than they are today. The cool weather has not affected the crop, but if anything It has been 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 or 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 1t 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-five mill 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 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. It Is difficult to say what district Is the best. Some arc preferred to others because there arc friends already established. The Grand Trunk Pacific, on It's way across the Continent, is opening up a 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 large area of the agricultural lands 1t is not difH- cult to secure 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 arc we'll equipped with full supply of mans and literature.