The Green Forest tribune., 1911-06-30
WESTERN CANADA'S GOOD CROP
 PROSPECTS
YIELDS OF WHEAT WILL LIKELY BE 25 TO 30 BUSHELS
 PER ACRE.

In an interview with MT. W. J. l 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 versally good cropH of wheat, oats and barley There will this year be a much increased acreage over last year. Many farmers, who had but one hundred acres last year, have in- creased their cultivated and seeded acreage as much as fifty per cent. With the prospects as they are at present, this will mean from SIP to $15 additional wealth to each. He saw many large fields running from 800 to l 1000 acres in extent and it ap- peared to him that there was not an acre of this but would yield from 20 to 20 or 30 bushels of wheat per acre, while the oat prospects might safely be estimated at from 40 to 70 bushels per acre. In all parts of the west, whether it be Manitoba, Sashatche- wan or Alberta, north and south, east and west, and in the districts where 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 past ten or twelve years. It does not si of the ground that was properly seeded that would not produce.
 There are those throughout western Canada who predict that there will be 00,000,000 bushels of wheat raised there this year, and if the present favorable conditions continue, there does not seem any reason why these prophecies 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 sufnciency of precipita- tion 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 cap probably still be purchased at the price set this spring, ranging from $15 to $20 per acre, but with harvested crop seeA as is expected, there is no reason why these same lands should not be worth from $20 to $25 per acre, with an almost abso- lute assurance that by next spring there will still be a further advance in prices.
 MT. White says that these lands gre as cheap at today's figures with the country's proven worth as they were a few years ago at half 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 $150 to $200 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- tiou to the park acres lying in the northerly part of the central dis tricts. It has been found that while these aie somewhat more difficult to bring under the subjugation of the blow, 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; that there is on these lands an open acreage of from fifty to seventy per cent of the whole and the balance is made up of groves of poplar of fair size, which offer shelter for cattle, while the grasses are of splendid strength and plentiful, bringing about more active stage of mixed farming 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 Humber of those, who will go this year will be those who will buy lands nearer the 1 liuS Ol etil way piSASA iISo 'C PeN5 N l little higher price for good location than to go back from the line of rail ways some 40 or 50 miles to home stead
 Mir. 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 greater than ever.
 Any one desiring information re- garding western Canada should apply at once to the Canadian Government Agent nearest him for a copy Of the Last Best West"