Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1911-06-30
WESTERN CANADA'S
GOOD CROP
PROSPECTS
rms OF WHEAT WILL LIKELY
BE rs TO 80 BUSHELS
PER ACRE.

s;on government immigration OmceS
= the limited States, end WAC has re-
ntIv made an extended trip through
~ PROVINCES of Manitoba, Saskatche-
an and Alberta in Western Canada.
Ua esid that every point he visited
10 was met with the one report, uni
rersaIly good crops of wheat. oats
~ harley There will this year be
much increased acreage over last
vear Many farmers, who had but
one hundred acres last year, have in
oroased their cultivated and seeded
acreage as much as fifty per cent.
with the prospects as they are at
present. this viii mean from $12 to
s,s additional wealth to each. He
saw many large fields running from
900 to 1000 acres In extent and it APP
neared TO him that there was not an
acre of this but would yield from 20
10 Ok or 30 bushels of wheat per acre.
while the oat prospects might safely
ha estimated at from 40 to 20 bushels
ner acre. In all parts of the wesLs
whether it be Manitoba, Saskatche-
wan or Alberta, north and south, east
and west, and in the districts wheT
last year there was 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
& 20OOO0,000 bushels of wheat raised
there this year, and if the present
favorable conditions continue, there
does not seem any reason why these
d prophesies should not come true.
There is yet 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 a
harvested crop, such as is expected,
there is no reason why these same
lands should not be worth from 500
to SIS per acre, with an almost .abso
lnte assurance that by next spring
there will still be a further advance
In prices.
Mr. White says that these LANDS are
as cheap at today's figures with the
eonntry's proven worth as they were
few years ago at half the price
when the general public had hnt "a
vague idea of the producing quality
Of western Canada lands.
The land agents at the different
W 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
searcer day by day and those who are
unable to purchase, preferring to
homestead, are directing their atten-
northerly part of the central dis
tricts. 1t has been found that while
these are somewhat more diff1cult to
prlng under the ssubjugation of the
plows the soil is fully as productive
as IN the districts farther south. They
possess the advantage that the more
open prairie areas do not possess;
mat there is on these lands an open
acreage of from fifty to seventy per
gent OF the whole and the balance is
made up of groves of poplar of fair
flze, which offer shelter for cattle,
while the grasses are of splendid
fuength and plentiful, bringing about
more active stage of mixed farming
nan can be carried on in the more
ppen districts to the south.
Inc emigration for the past year
as been the greatest in the history
Canada and it is keeping up in
ecord shape. The larger number OF
nose, who will go this year will be
nose who will buy lands nearer the
ne OF railways, preferring to pay
tie higher price for good location
Aah 10 go back from the line of rail
ays some 40 or so miles to home
stead
MI White has visited the different
eehcies Throughout the United States
Ia ne found that the correspondence
the various Offices has largely in
eased, the number of callers is
eater than ever.
any one desiring information re-
prong western Canada should apply
once to the Canadian Government
eht nearest him for copy of the
-ast Best West"
The Proper Way.
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