Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1911-06-29
WESTERN CANADA'S
GOOD CROP
PROSPECTS
YIELDS OF WHEAT WILL LIKELY
BE 25 TO 80 BUSHELS
PER ACRE.

In an interview with MIR. w. ]. |
White. who has charge of the Cana
dian government immigration offices
in the United States, and who has re-
Gently made an extended trip through |
the provinces of Manitoba, Saskatche /
wan and Alberta in Western Canada. !
He said that every point he visited |
he was met with the one report, uni. /
versa.ly good crops of wheat, oats |!
and barley There will This year be /
much Increased acreage over last |
year May farmers, who lad but |
one hl,ndIed acres last year, have in |
creased their cultivated and seeded
acreage as much rs fifty per cent |
With tie prospects as they are al
present. this will mean from ST. TO
SID additional wealth 10 each, lie
saw many large fields running from
500 10 1000 acres in extent and it ai- 4
peared TO him that there WIS not 40
acre uf this but Woaid yield aroia "
TO - or 80 Bushels OF #Heat per acre
while the ca prospects might safely
be estimated at from - 10 70 bushels
per acre. in al parts Of the wes5
whether it be Manitoba, Saskatche
wan or Alberta. north and soQCh, east
and. west, and in the districts where
last year there was partial failure
oil crops, the condition uf al gram IS
universally good and claimed by most
Of the farmers TO be trela one TO two
weeks in advance OF any Year for tic
past ten or twelve years. ii does not
= -f,A Ia lt
the ground that was properly seeded
that would not produce
There are those throughout western
Canada who predict that there VIII be
20o,ooo,oG0 bushels OF wheat raised
there this year and if the present
favorable conditions continue, there
does not seem any reason Why these
propAesies should not come true.
There is yet a possibility OF not
winds reducing the quantity in some
parts, but with the strongly rooted
crops and the suficiency ol precipita-
ton that the country has already
been favored with. this probability is
reduced to a minimum.
The prices oil farm lands at the
present limo are holding steady and
lands can probably still be purchased
at the price sat tins spring, ranging
from $50 to $50 per acre, bat with 9
harvested crop, such as is expected,
there is 10 reason why these same
lands should not be worth from SO
to So per acre, with an almost abso-
lllte assurance that by next spring
there Will still be a further advance
in prices.
Mi. White says that those lands are
as cheap at today's figures with the
country proven worth as they We're
a few years ago at hall the price
when the general public had but a
vague idea of the producing quality
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
unable to purchase. preferring to
homestead, are directing their atten-
ton to the park acres lying in the
northerly part of the central dis.
tricts. 1t has been found that while
these are somewhat more difficult to
bring under the subjugation OF the
pillow, the soil is fully as productive
us in the districts farther south. They
aJx ,t.ey hot
open prairie areas do not possess;
that there is ON these lands an open
acreage of from fifty to seventy pei
cent OF the whole and the balance i:
made UP of groves of poplar OF TAI
size, which offer shelter for cattle
while the grasses are OF splendid
strength and plentiful, bringing abo9
more active stage OF mixed farming
than can be carried on in the more
open districts 70 the south.
The emigration for the past yeal
has been the greatest in the history
OF Canada and it is keeping up il
record shape The larger number o
those, who win &c this year will b.
those why will buy lands nearer thu
line OF railways, prefelring to pay ;
little higher price for good locatio.
than to sc back from the line OF rail
ways some 40 or so miles TO home
stead.
Mr.. White has visited the differen
agencies throughout the United State
and he round that the correspondence
at the various Offices has largely il
creased. the number of callers i
greater than ever
Any enc desiring information re
garding western Canada should appl
at once to The Canadian Government
Agent nearest him for {. copy OF th
Last Pest West"
BETWEEN TWO FIRES.