The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-08-12
$4,000 NEEDED TO
HARVEST WESTERN
CANADA'S CROP
VIII Take 10000 Alto.
gether to Take Care
OF Yield of Prairie
Provinces.

Onc nunureu ana slxty-tWO thousand
szrm hands will be required this year
TO harvest the grain crops of Mani
Sobz, Saskatchewan and Alberta. o.
CHS number tbs local help will pro
eide about 10000. which will leave
about $4,000 extra farm hands. There
Us. therefore. a great demand for this
class OF laborers in all parts of West.
srn Canada In order to meet the re-
lnirements It has been arranged to
grant very low railway rates from all
boundary points reached by Canadian
railways. In order TO secure these
rates 1t Will be necessary for you to
czu ON one Of the following authorized
agents of the Canadian government:
M " McInnes, 176 Jefferson Avenue.
Detroit, Michigan; c. A. Laurier, Mar
<suette, Michigan; j. S. Crawford.
Syracuse. N. y; Thos Hetherington,
Room 2o2, 70 fremont Street, Boston.
Mass; III. M. Williams, Alb Gardner
Bldg, Toledo, Ohio; Geo. Arid. PIG
Traction-Terminal Bldg, Indianapolis,
Indiana; G. ]. Broughton, Room 412
Merchants Loan & Trust Bldg, Chi
caSO. Ill; Geo. A. Hall, End Floor. 125
SECOND Street, Milwaukee, Wis; K.
t. Holmes, 315 Jackson Street, st.
Panl. Mimi; Chas. Pilling, Clifford
Block. Grand Forks, NJ D.; ]. NJ. Mac
Iachlan. Box 1917. Waterfowl, S. d.;
W. w. Bennett, Room 4, Bee Bldg.
Omaha. Neb.; w. HI. Rogers, 125 West |
9th Street. Kansas City, Mo-; Benz. |
Davies, Room s. Dunn Block, Great
Fails. Montana; J. b. Carbonneau, Jr..
III Main Street. Biddeford, Me-; j. N.
Grteve. Auditorium Building. Spokane.
Wash.
THIS VIII give to intending harvest
iaborers a splendid opportunity to look
over the magnificent wheat fields of
Western Canada and win give them
the best evidence that can be secured
OF the splendid character of that coun.
try from the farmers standpoint
Inere VIII be at least 200. 600. 900
bushels OF wheat harvested within the
area oil the three provinces above
named this year and It is expected
mat the yield will run from Is to %
bushels per acre. Many farmers, this
year. will net, as a result of their
abors, as much as So to $40 per acre
md many OF them will deposit as
,rofits as much as $4,000 to 100000
The wide publicity that has been
siven to the excellent crop that is be-
ng raised In central Alberta and
'outhern Alberta, central Saskatcbe-
van and southern Saskatchewan. and
liso in Manitoba, will increase the
nice OF lands In these three provinces
rom % to IS per acre and the man
gho was fortunate enough to secure
ands at from $12 to $50 per acre will
ave reason for qualification that he
zercised sufficient forethought to in
est. while the man who was forth.
ate enough to secure homestead of
30 acres free WIN also have a greater
eason to feel pleased.
Notwithstanding the great addition
The acreage this year over last and
lie large crop that will be ready for
arvesf there Is no reason to become I
armed that the harvest will not be G
'aped successfully. There will be a t
eat demand for these low rates dur. @
& fhe next couple of months; be Z
re to mako your application to any Il
the agents above mentioned that t
ny be IN your territory at as early e
date as possible. Harvesting will
mmence about the 18th of July and o
ntinue Tor five or six weeks, when Il
reshing will begin and there will be G.
snty OF work until November. q
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