Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1911-06-30
WESTERN CANADA'S
GOOD CROP
PROSPECTS
YIELDS OF WHEAT WILL LIKELY
BE rs TO 80 BUSHELS
PER ACRE.

5;oo Government immigration Offices
i - tho limited States, and who has re-
aort1v made an extended trip through
tho provinces of Manitoba, Saskatche-
NON and Alberta in Western Canada
10 said that every point he visited
bo was met with the one report, uni
1,oreal1v good crops of wheat, oats
and harley. There will this year be
much increased acreage over last
wear Many farmers, who had but
ona hundred acres last year, have in
oroaead their cultivated and seeded
acreage as much as fifty per cent.
with the prospects as they are at
nrasent this will mean from $12 to
e15 additional wealth to each. He
saw many large fields running from
400 to l 900 acres in extent and it ap-
noarad to him that there was not an
acra of this but would yield from 20
IN Ok or 30 bushels of wheat per acre,
while the oat prospects might safely
he estimated at from 40 to 70 bushels
ner acre. In all parts of the west,
Tyhather it be Manitoba, Saskatche-
wan or Alberta, north and south, east
and west. and in the districts wher
last year there was a partial failure
of crops. the condition of all grain is
universally good and claimed by most
of the farmers to be from one to two
weeks in advance of any year for the
mast ten or twelve years. 1t does not
seem that there was single foot of
the ground that was properly seeded
that would not produce.
There are those throughout western
Canada who predict that there will be
200. 100000 bushels of wheat raised
there this year, and if the present
favorable conditions continue, there
does not seem any reason why these
prophesies should not come true.
There is yet a possibility OF hot
winds reducing the quantity in some
parts. but with the strongly rooted
crops and the sufficiency of precipita-
ton that the country has already
been favored with, this probability is
reduced to a minimum.
The prices of farm lands at the
present time are holding steady and
lands can probably still be purchased
at the price set this spring, ranging
from SIS to $40 per acre, but with
& harvested crop, such as is expected,
there is no reason why these same
lands should not be worth from $40
to $25 per acre, with an almost abso-
. lutte assurance that by next spring
there will still be a further advance
] in prices.
Mr.. White says that these lands are
as cheap at todays figures with the
4 country's proven worth as they were
a few years ago at half the price
4 when the general public had but a
vague idea of the producing quality
g OF western Canada lands.
The land agents at the different
towns along the line of railway are
very active. A large number of acres
are turned over weekly to buyers
from the different states in the south,
where lands that produce no better
are sold at from $3.50 to 5000 per
acre.
The homestead lands are becoming
scarcer day by day and those who are
q unable to purchase, preferring to
q homestead, are directing their atten-
3 ton to the park acres lying in the
i nOrtherly part of the central dis
8 triCts 1t has been found that while
4 these are somewhat more difficult to
bring under the subjugation of the
s. pillow, the soil is fully as productive
as in the districts farther south. They
s possess the advantage that the more
s open prairie areas do not possess;
q that there is on these lands an open
s acreage of from fifty to seventy per
8 cent of the whole and the balance is
8 made up of groves of poplar of fair
size, which offer shelter for cattle.
s while the grasses are OF splendid
3 strength and plentiful, bringing about
more active stage of mixed farming
j than can be carried on in the more
open districts to the south
The emigration for the past year
] has been the greatest in the history
Of Canada and it is keeping up in
record shape. The larger number OF
those, who will go this year will be
those who will buy lands nearer the
line of railways, preferring to pay
little higher price for good location
S than to go back from the line of rail
s ways some 40 or so miles to home
stead.
8 Mr.. White has visited the different
agencies throughout the United States
and he found that the correspondence
at the various Offices has largely in
creased, the number of callers is
8 greater than ever.
Any one desiring information re-
garding western Canada should apply
at once to the Canadian Government
Agent nearest him for copy OF the
d Last Best West"
The Proper Way.