The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1911-06-29
WESTERN CANADA'S
GOOD CROP
PROSPECTS
YIELDS OF WHEAT WILL LIKELY
BE IS TO 30 BUSHELS
PER ACRE.


Gently made an extended trip through
the provinces Of Manitoba, Saskatche-
wan and Alberta in Western Canada.
lie said that every point he visited
he Was met with the one report, ami.
rorsUly good crops OF wheat. oats
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.
Wit the prospects as they are at
present, this will mean from $l2 10
SIS additional wealth to each lie
saw 4uuy large fields running from
300 500 900 acres in extent and II ap-
pear.I to him that there was not an
acre NJ this but would yield from -
to e. mo- 30 bushels of wheat per acre,
VIII" The oat prospects might safely
be mated at from 40 to 70 bushels
per acre. In all parts Of tho Vest,
why..rr il be Manitoba, Saskatche-
wan uT Alberta. north and south, east
aud west, ana in the districts where
las, Year there was partial failure
Of crops the condition OF all grain 10
univ, ally good and claimed by most
OF a.. farmers to bo from one to Two
wee. In advance OF any year for tho
pas .pu or twelve ycHIs il does not
seem that there was a single loot OF
the ground that was properly seeded
thai would not produce
There are those throughout western
Canada VINO predict that thcre Will be
200 1000 bushels OF wheat raised
thcl. this year, and ii tine prcseu,
favorable conditions continue, there
does lot seem any reason why these
prup.uslas should not como true.
Thcl is yet a possibility OF hot
wiuu reducing the quantity in some
part bat with the strongly rooted
crup aud the suMC,oucy @, prucipita.
tion 'ual the Country has already
been favored with. this probability Is
reduced to a minimum.
Il prices OF farm lands ut the
present time ara holding steady ANA
land AN probably stlll be purchased
AT t.u pri," set this spring, ranging
from $40 to $50 per acre but with "a
har ,.tod crop, such ass Is expected,
there IS no reason why these same
lands should NOS be worth from $50
to S. per acre, with an almost absu
late a.aurancr that los ucNt sprius
there AIlI s,li b.. "a further advance
IN prices
Mir White says chat these lands are
as cheap at todays figures with the
couutrya proven worth as they were
u few years ago at half the price
when tho general public had but Il
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 4 largo number OF acres
ur 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, prelerring to
homestead, are directing their utten
ton to the park acres lying in the
nUrtherly part of the central dis
u.cts 1t has been found that while
these are somewhat more difficult to
bring under the subiugation Of the
plow, 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 ffty TO seventy per
lcl; OF the whole and the balance b.
made up OF groves OF poplar OF fair
size, which uiIcr shelter for cattle,
While the grasscs are of splendid
.rrngth and plentiful. bringing about
d more active stage OF mixed farming
.In can be- carried on in the moro
open districts To tho south.
The emigration for the past year
ha been the greatest in the history
a.. Canada and u is Keeping up In
record shape The larger number of
those. who viii 90 this year will be
those who will buy lands nearer the
ua Of railways profcrriug 10 pas a
little higher price for good location
than to 20 back from the line Of rail
ways Some 40 or 30 miles to home.
stead.
Mr. White has visited the different
agencies throughout the United States
and he found that the correspondence
40 the various Offices has largely in
creased. the number Of callers Is
greater than ever.
my one desiring information re-.
gardlng western Canada should apply
/ at once to the Canadian Government
Agent nearest him for a copy Of the
Last Best West"
The Only Way Out.
: pltpr tho MILL nh