Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1911-07-20
$4,000 NEEDED TO
HARVEST WESTERN
CANADA'S CROP
Will Take 10000 Alto
gether to Take Care
of Yield Of Prairie
Provinces.

One hundred and sixty-two thousand
farm hands will be required this year
to harvest the grain crops of Mani
toba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. OF
this number the local help will pro-
vide about 10000, which will leave
about $4,000 extra farm hands. There
Is, therefore, great demand for this
class of laborers in all parts of West
ern Canada. In order to meet the re-
uuirements it has been arranged to
grant very low railway rates from all
boundary points reached by Canadian
railways. In order to secure these
rates it will be necessary for you to
call on one of the following authorized
agents of, the Canadian government:
M. V. McInnes, 176 Jefferson Avenue,
Detroit, Michigan; c. A. Laurier, Mar
Quette, Michigan; ]. S. Crawford,
Syracuse, N. Y; Thos. Hetherington,
Room 202, 73 fremont Street, Boston.
Mass; H. NJ Williams, Alb Gardner
Bldg Toledo, Ohio; Geo. Arid 2l6
Notwithstanding, Indianapolis,
Indiana; c. ]. BrouGhton, Room Az
Merchants Loan & Trust Bldg, Chi
cago, H.; Geo. A. Hall, End Floor, l2d
Second Street, Milwaukee, Wis; E.
r. Holmes, 315 Jackson Street, St
Paul. Mimi; Chas. Pilling, Clifford
Block, Grand Forks, ~ D.; j. M. Mac
Lachlan, Box 1877, Watertown, S. D.;
w. V. Bennett Room 4, Bee Bldgr
Omaha, Neb; w. H. Rogers, 125 West
9th Street, Kansas City, Mo-. Benz
Davies, Room 6, Dunn Block, Greai
Falls, Montana; ]. B. Carbonneau, Jr,
PIT Main Street, Biddeford, Me-; j. N
Grieve, Auditorium Building, Spokane
Wash.
This will give to intending harvest
laborers a splendid opportunity to lool
over the magnificent wheat fields OF
Western Canada and will give them
the best evidence that can be secured
of the splendid character of that coun
try from the farmers standpoint
There will be at least 100000, 0GG-
bushels of wheat harvested within the
area of the three provinces above
named this year and 1t is expected
that the yield will run from Is to rs
bushels per acre. Many farmers, this
year, will net as a result of their
labors, as much as So to $40 per acre
and many Of them will deposit as
profits as much as $4,000 to $4,000.
The wide publicity that has been
given to the excellent crop that is be
ing raised in central Alberta and
southern Alberta, central Saskatche
wan and southern Saskatchewan, and
also In Manitoba, will increase the
price Of lands In these three provinces
from SO to S. per acre and the man
who was fortunate enough 90 secure
lunds at from $12 to $40 per acre will
have reason for qualification that he
exercised sufficient forethought to in.
vest, while the man who was fortu'
nate enough to secure homestead OF
100 acres free E.ll -alsc lave a greater
reason to fee! pleased.
Notwithstanding the great addition
90 the acreage this year over last and
Jne large crop that will be ready for
harvest there is no reason to become
alarmed that the harvest will not be
reaped successfully. There will be
great demand for these low rates dur
ing the next couple of months be
sure to make your application to any
of the agents above mentioned that
may be in your territory at as early
a date as possible. Harvesting will
commence about the 25th of July and
continue for five or six weeks, when
threshing will begin and there will be
plenty of work until November.